Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
Off on holiday for a week so won’t be anything on @gamingonlinux next week.
See you on the other side 👋
An #AnalogPhoto from my trip to #Japan in 2025.
Location: #Higashiosaka ward, #Osaka
The #film is expired #Kodak #Vision2 250D, camera: #NikonF65, lens: #Nikkor AF-S #35mm f/1.8G
#photo #photography #FilmPhotography
#autumn #city #outdoors
#street #StreetPhotography
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Leopard Panthera pardus
Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering range—from su…Palm Oil Detectives
Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
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What if AI Just… Stopped?
#OurModernTimes #AI #Internet #ComingFinancialCrash #Scammers #Grifters #Thieves #SuperVillains #HumanitysLoss
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Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?
The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoalHugh Kinsella Cunningham (The Guardian)
Algae has a yum 'umami' flavour and a superb nutrient profile, especially for #vegans. It doesn't cause #deforestation either! Replacing #palmoil with #algae makes sense for rainforests #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #Together4Forests
Half Asleep Chris is my top favourite YouTube subscription! This "Cats vs Dominoes" episode is promotional of his new book. Just remember that it's a book for kids published by an educational publisher! But let me say, the sounds of everything falling in turn throughout the house is very ASMR!
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( Hailstone function in Rejoice )<br><br>n^7 @Hailstone<br> .#[url=https://social.nouveau.community/tags/n]n[/url] .\n<br><br> done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br><br> @Parity <br> [a^2 Parity]/n^2<br> even [odd n]/[even n]<br> @Parity.A->N [n Parity.A->N]/a<br><br> [Even]/even [Odd]/odd<br><br> @Even ( n = n/2 )<br> [a Even]/n^2<br> @Even.A->N [n Even.A->N]/a<br> Hailstone<br><br> @Odd ( n = 3n + 1 )<br> [a^3 Odd]/n a<br> @Odd.A->N [n Odd.A->N]/a<br> Hailstone<br><br>@Halt<br>(cc @neauoire)
done [n^2 continue]/[n^2 done]<br>[Halt]/done []/continue<br>refactoring that to just
done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br>feels like a holdover from Factran just dropped way in my brain. I am so used to every condition needing a dual countercondition I just reflexively wrote ever rule in pairs (including my math operations).
Implemented a little program to print the binary value of a number:
n^92
[.1 B0]/n^128 .0 @B0
[.1 B1]/n^64 .0 @B1
[.1 B2]/n^32 .0 @B2
[.1 B3]/n^16 .0 @B3
.\s
[.1 B4]/n^8 .0 @B4
[.1 B5]/n^4 .0 @B5
[.1 B6]/n^2 .0 @B6
[.1 B7]/n .0 @B7
I've been thinking about some stuff, maybe you have come across this before or have some insight.
But I was thinking of allowing negative(signed) amounts.
So like n^-4 n^4 would yield 1/1, or identity [].
I'm not really sure if it's a good idea or not, but it's something that's like RIGHT THERE, I feel like it might go to fun places, has a way to indicate the "lack of something".
Just thought I'd share that idea with you, not sure if will implement or not, seems maybe more of a curiosity. I don't know how this will impact matching X)
From the perspective of counter machines, signed counters can work. But it breaks down pretty badly if you allow it in Fractran's encoding scheme.
It means allowing fractions in the bag (2-1 = 1/2), it also opens a can worms around what [...]/x^-1 means. When I was messing with recipe books, I quickly found I needed <0, =0, and >0.
>= as your comparison operator can handle a case stock Fractran cannot: 0 items in the bag. It's pretty easy to do something like [...]/x^0 when x^0 is not compressed to the same "location" (in this case 1) as y^0.
I think until I have a clearer idea of what a negative count match "means", I'm not going to push further, but have you come across something that works that way with counter machines I could use to try this idea? Or do they always have all the different comparison operators to handle that sort of things?
I was just looking if petri nets and that sort of stuff had ways to handle the lack-of-something and there isn't much written about that.
not f(x) and h(x). This is why for my check on the hailstone function I phrased it like this:done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br>I have to construct a token representing a choice, the destroy it to represent its negation. With a "not" in Fractran, I could have written:
[Halt]/n^0<br>However, due to Fractran's encoding, this is the same as
[Halt]. *^0is always True.
This is also true of Petri nets. They are all about tokens flowing through a system. It creates a contradiction in the model if a transition can assert you "don't have any tokens".
How can you have a token representing the lack of tokens?
@atax1a yup, and that kinda lead me down the rabbit hole of Type-4 grammars (which there seems to be exactly one citation for so). @june had built a little bit-oriented stack machine. And it could only make decision on 1 as 0 wasn't "in the language". However, I discovered you could expand the language using an encoding scheme such as 1 -> 10 and 0 -> 01.
Basically, you always have to encode unmatchable information into the system by expanding your symbol set.
2^0 = 3^0 = 5^0 = ... = 1 and then everything implodes.
okay thanks for all this, it makes it all pretty clear, I don't need negative exponents, too much noise to an otherwise OISC 😀
I've been implementing a tropical arithmetic evaluator and I had to make a GDC() implementation and it looks so cute
wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/rejoicerep…
0 is doable with only >=, but negatives are a clusterfuck that introduced special cases and 2 or 3 way logic. Open topics for anyone looking to extend Rejoice.
RE: social.treehouse.systems/@danc…
April 1st is over.
However, we really do want to port Haiku to the RK356x.
In fact, there is progress on porting Haiku to arm64 and it seems to be making good progress: discuss.haiku-os.org/t/arm64-p…
We have NO PLANS to deprecate our ALARM-based Linux distro. 🙂
Arm64 port for Haiku
Hi there, I have start to work on an arm64 port for Haiku and the end goal is full RPI5 support. It will be interesting to see how far we can go.So far I got a minimal arm64 desktop image working in qemu: A screenshot from qemu.Haiku Community
We want to port Haiku to the RK356x platform 🙂It's a long term plan but once Haiku port for RK356x is done and ready, we'll:
- Deprecating our ALARM-based Linux distro in favor of Haiku.
- All new PineTab2 will ship with Haiku instead of traditional ALARM-based Linux distro.
- Existing users will still remain on ALARM, however there'll not be any updates (user will receive "there is nothing to do" when they tried to update it)
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry and invention, its famous football club, and its vibrant nightlife. Many people who walk the busy streets of the Toon, are unfamiliar with its dark side: real life witch trials, public execution and dissection, and of course, the vampire rabbit.
Unlike the former two very dark tales from Newcastle, the Vampire Rabbit is of a lighter order. More of an interesting conversation piece for those who seek it out or come across it by accident...
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Haunted Palace Blog
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry, its football club, and its vibrant nightlife.Lenora (The Haunted Palace Blog)
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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this t…Palm Oil Detectives
Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereigntyLela Nargi (The Guardian)
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shouldn't
shouldn't the metric one be the smaller one?
it's the one that uses si prefixes correctly and the bigger one has weird factors between ranges o.o
They’ve became one of the most important social safety nets in the world’s oldest nation.
Upworthy
How Japan’s Yakult Ladies support an aging population — Upworthy
How a fleet of women delivering tiny probiotic drinks became one of the most important social safety nets in the world’s oldest nation.Kat Hong (Upworthy)
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These are our Aussie animals seeing themselves in a mirror!
I wouldn't be surprised if the magpies did recognise that they were looking at themselves. The two that come up to the mirror near the end of the video are mother and adolescent child.
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So much energy, right over our homes, that can be harvested, used, stored.
Gale winds over the UK right now.
earth.nullschool.net/#2026/04/…
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours.earth.nullschool.net
Like solar, wind is also broadly distributed. I'm still awaiting an effective home wind turbine. Even at 0.1 kWh production it would make a difference at home, in addition to reducing pressure on the grid and its associated infrastructure costs.
"My friend Malcolm told me a story about pronghorns recently, the North American creatures sometimes confused with antelopes. They can run at speeds of nearly sixty miles an hour, much, much faster than any of their existing predators. Some biologists think they're still outrunning the dangerous species that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, specifically the cheetahs that existed on this continent. And then Malcolm asked what each of us is still outrunning and whether we can tell when our predator has been extinct for ten thousand years."
— Rebecca Solnit: The Faraway Nearby, pp. 231-231
For a while now I've been wanting a generic notation to explain various things on my wiki(tropical arithmetic, multisets, other programming languages, ternary logic, primes, etc..) and I found a PL design I really enjoy writing.
It lands in a weird place, I feel like it might be the only concatenative language without a stack? As far as I know anyways.
I took a day to implement it, and shoved it into a little interactive playground. I have yet to populate the examples.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice
wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/rejoicerep…
Brutalist #EasterBunny
Edit: Located in the Pupuhuhta ('Bunny Swidden') neighbourhood of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Thank you @splonk
for the identification.
when a cable is first invented: the high definition media interface cable is an interface cable for all your high definition media needs 😀
ten years later, inevitably: this fool really thought their HDMI 2.0 18gbps cable could display 10 bit HDR 60Hz 4K video with ALLM VRR and eARC without using 4:2:2 chroma subsampling 😂
Let's protect it.
Free Android softsynth, I ran out of spoons with this one and want to concentrate on making Resonance as good as it can be instead so: orllewin.uk/programs/android/r… Makes good weird noises, can be nice and tame, or filthy. It uses PureData for the audio engine, I'll upload the code somewhere soon.
Scott Jenson
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed?
4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
Eugen Rochko
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •Scott Jenson
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron That is a personal choice and one which I totally respect. But I do think Mastodon should be big enough, and open enough, to allow an "AI community" to form, even thrive.
Too many people in my replies don't seem to agree with that.
James Bogosian
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •@Gargron I just came back to my Mastodon account and one of the first things I see is people who have an interest in something being compared to puppy-killers by the "head" of Mastodon.
<turns it back off again>
Eugen Rochko
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Matt Wilcox
in reply to Scott Jenson • • •@Gargron It already allows that. The culture simply isn’t permissive of it. But that has nothing to do with the technology.
Mastodon is a system which attracts certain audiences because of its values and choices. Those are different to other systems. That’s perfectly fine. That’s good.
We don’t need to seek an audience with the same make up as other services. We need to work on systems that have the values we care about. Nothing more.
Scott Jenson
in reply to Matt Wilcox • • •@mattwilcox @Gargron But that is a slippery slope. I realize this might seem contentious but I believe it's is exactly the same mechanism that chased away black twitter in 2022. If we celebrate our culture, to the point that we are happy we are excluding others, it can cut both ways.
"Being inclusive" is like being "ethical" it only matters when things get hard.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron As a general observation, I think asking for "civility" is often the equivalent of a "code smell":
Sure, there are cases where it may be appropriate in the current context. However, I suspect that more often than not, it's a sign that one is brushing aside some oppression-related complaint (often from a position of relative power in the situation).
I think it's a good idea to always pause before writing about "civility", and let the matter bounce around in one's head for a while.
Matt Wilcox
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