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E comunque gli skiantos sono degli zii fuori di testa ❤️❤️❤️
#Skiantos #arci #arcibellezza #live #livemusic
The Mastodon accounts of some projects that preserve, modernize, and reimagine classic operating systems and system software environments:
9Front (Plan 9)
@9front@mastodon.sdf.org (unofficial)
@9front@brands.town (unofficial)
FreeDOS (MS-DOS)
@freedosproject
Haiku (BeOS)
@haiku
Medley Interlisp (Interlisp-D)
@interlisp
Inside a combustion chamber, temperature fluctuations can cause sound waves that also disrupt the flow, in turn. This is called a thermoacoustic instability. In this video, researchers explore this process by watching how flames move down a tube. The flame fronts begin in an even curve that flattens out and then develops waves like those on a vibrating pool. Those waves grow bigger and bigger until the flame goes completely turbulent. Visually, it’s mesmerizing. Mathematically, it’s a lovely example of parametric resonance, where the flame’s instability is fed by system’s natural harmonics. (Video and image credit: J. Delfin et al.; research credit: J. Delfin et al. 1, 2)
#2024gofm #combustion #combustionInstability #flame #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #instability #parametricResonance #physics #resonance #science #thermoacousticInstability #turbulence
Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen
theregister.com/2025/02/19/del…
The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus
<- by me on @theregister
@gbschenkel
This...
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mango…
... And this?
github.com/benjamimgois/goverl…
...?
I am sorry but I've never heard of them before. What is an overlay? It doesn't explain.
GOverlay is an opensource project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays. - benjamimgois/goverlayGitHub
Dev'essere in collaborazione con il ministero della coerenza.
EDIT/disclaimer: la foto non è mia, unica altra corrispondenza che ho trovato è un post su reddit.com/r/italia. Per quanto ne so potrebbe benissimo essere un buontempone che ha pensato bene di stampare un foglio e appiccicarlo su un pallet a caso.
Che non arrivino le bufale anche qui 😅✌️
Tonight's movie is available on the Internet Archive, commerical free:
archive.org/details/the-gorgon
Enjoy! And throw a few bucks their way if you can.
In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.Internet Archive
Today, February 12, is loyal beagle Gromit's birthday. Happy birthday, Gromit! (The Wrong Trousers, 1993)
#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #Gromit #TheWrongTrousers #WallaceAndGromit #StopMotion #Claymation
@dacig
It's important to remember we're going about 30km/s along with the Earth in order to stay in orbit (or else we would already be falling into the Sun).
To hit the Sun, you have to go all the way to zero, or 30 km/s ΔV. To escape you need to increase to 30√2 km/s -- or about 13km/s extra. Less than half as much!
OpenAGPS is a project to create a open-source assisted-GNSS service, compatible with existing GNSS systems.openagps.net
Interesting experience... I have not done a Friendica only presentation for some time. During the recent years it was mostly introductions to the Fediverse or more topic orientated talks / workshops. First iteration of the slides for the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM (Saturday 15:30 to 16h) is done 🚀
There are definitely many real-world issues and problems where we could benefit from significantly more quantitative (and mathematical) analysis and thinking than we do currently. But, at the same time, there are certain dimensions of our modern society where we overcorrected for this, and allowed quantitative reasoning to dominate at the expense of other important modes of thought, or to be deployed in a highly imbalanced fashion.
As anyone who has encountered a word problem in their high school math classes knows, the first step in quantitative reasoning is to assign numerically precise metrics as proxies for one's goals, parameters, and variables. Most of our wants and needs are quite qualitative in nature: happiness, comfort, security, companionship, and the like. But these are too fuzzy to be optimized and analyzed by the mathematics of quantitative reasoning. Which, to oversimplify things, leaves us with basically two options: either use more qualitative modes of thinking, such as "gut feelings", emotional responses, or drawing on past experiences of similar situations, accepting any cognitive biases that result from doing so; or to create quantitative proxies for these goals, and then optimize those proxies in a more dispassionate (and hopefully more objective) fashion. (1/5)
The ongoing process of "enshittification" in corporations and other institutions can also be viewed through this lens. Companies (and other complex organizations) have gained access to increasingly sophisticated metrics to measure their user activity, and now have the technology to optimize those metrics for their own benefit (in the near-term, at least). Initially, this sort of optimization can add value for both the provider and consumer of the service; but the majority of their customer base are not playing the optimization "game", and many would have initially signed up for an experience that was more qualitative and less optimized, and containing more of the intangible benefits that even the most advanced metrics fail to capture.
So, are metrics good or bad for individuals and communities? It is a very complex question. In some areas, we are under-using metrics; in others, we are over-using them; and in yet other areas, they are being deployed in too imbalanced a fashion to be beneficial in the long term. Perhaps what we need is more of a discussion of meta-goals and meta-metrics: not just how to pursue a goal or to optimize a metric, but to try to analyze (both qualitatively and quantitatively) how similar or distinct these two objectives actually are, and to locate a stable balance between them that can be broadly accepted within the community in question. (5/5)
@KStahl Very interesting discussion! Thanks for sharing.
I don't think companies act against their interest when sacrificing consumer satisfaction, though. I think that these companies have realized they can offer the least satisfying product possible that maximizes their gains by reducing satisfaction that is cost-inducing (e.g., improving product quality) and monetizing satisfaction that is not (e.g,. choosing your airplane seat). This strategy appears to be economically viable, unfortunately, and there's a whole system in play to protect it and show it as optimal (mostly by erasing losses of "irrational" i.e., qualitatively defined goods like comfort).
In principle, an efficient and liquid market does provide precisely this dimension reduction (and is one of the key distinctions between an economic system and a physical system). If one possesses a multidimensional vector of various goods and services, then by trading in such a market, one can exchange this vector for other vectors. If one makes the (sometimes justifiable) assumption that the efficient frontier of such exchanges forms a differentiable hypersurface around one's current state vector, then the normal to that hypersurface naturally determines the "price" of each good, and one can then measure (marginal) increase or decrease in one's effective wealth (modulo this efficient market) by the one-dimensional metric of taking the dot product with this state vector.
But for goods that are illiquid or only available in inefficient markets in which arbitrage opportunities exist, then this dimension reduction is no longer available, and price becomes a much more complicated notion (for instance, there can be non-trivial spreads between bid and ask prices). In particular, problems can arise when some goods are priced in a liquid fashion, but others (e.g., environmental goods such as clean air and water) are not; then optimizing value using market prices can lead to one sacrificing illiquid goods for liquid ones in a non-beneficial fashion.
@SylviaFysica - on a vaguely related note, I'm enjoying some ideas in Will Storr's book "Status Games", which posits that after satisfying some basic needs we're primarily motivatived by the search for status, which he loosely divides into:
• Dominance games: Status is imposed by force or fear.
• Virtue games: Status is awarded for moral behaviour and adherence to group norms.
• Success/competence games: Status is given for skill, talent, or achievement.
I think he'd claim the quest for money is, once basic needs are satisfied, largely a proxy for status - so, maybe some sort of mixture of a success game (money as a way of demonstrating success) and dominance game (money as a means to achieving dominance).
As with all pop psychology/sociology, there's lots of criticize about this, but I think a lot of economics could use a bit more attention to the underlying psychological/sociological aspects. More here:
decentred.co.uk/status-and-vir…
Will Storr's book The Status Game , explores the role of status in human behaviour and society. It examines the universal nature of status games, the differentRob Watson (Decentered Media)
@SylviaFysica
I recently learned about the fallacy of the average pilot, which somehow eluded my awareness until then!
Collapsing complex multidimensional systems into single dimensional metrics is almost certainly always a bad idea. The representational volume of defined ranges over the space will occupy an exponentially smaller volume of the total space as the dimensionality of the space grows linearly. It follows that the inverse is true: a single metric can capture only an exponentially vanishing proportion of the total variance of the system as the dimensionality grows linearly.
mastodon.gamedev.place/@demofo…
As time goes on, i am more and more convinced i am neurodirevergent, but it's unclear in what way. (My wife is an educational psychologist and agrees with this). Then again, i think just like the "there's no average pilot" story (https://www.Gamedev Mastodon
Hey there! A friend of mine built this, care to take a look?:
Show HN: Acorn, a theorem prover with built-in AI
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Reminds me of a quote:
"Given the opportunity, gamers will optimize the fun out of your game."
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, professor! Another banger post, as usual.
Tre settimane fa dormiva sul pavimento di cemento di una cella iraniana, sapendo di poterci rimanere mesi o anni. Ora è libera e a Kyiv e ha già pubblicato la migliore intervista a #Zelensky che abbia letto o visto in tre anni su un media italiano, che ə compagnə della mozione #colpadellaNato farebbero bene a leggersi invece di farsi indottrinare dalle troll farm paranaziste russe su Telegram.
#CeciliaSala #Ucraina #Russia #Putin #Nato #Merkel
ilfoglio.it/esteri/2025/01/25/…
unpaywalled: bin.disroot.org/?6fe881aa473e8…
[EDIT]Qui il video integrale dell'intervista, sottotitolata in italiano: youtube.com/watch?v=8X3_rAXSXu…
Il presidente ucraino ci parla delle sue speranze sulla presidenza americana, ci spiega cosa vuol dire “non commettere più gli errori del passato” e fa l’elenco di tutto ciò che è necessario per un accordo.Il Foglio
YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/23/you…
Tech YouTuber f4mi discovered her videos were being scraped by bots for ChatGPT-generated spam videos with robotic voices and repeating stock footage with a mangled version of her content. So she d…Pivot to AI
If you can't be bothered to use a CW (Content Warning) for #USpol, or for #Trump, #MAGA, #fascists, then please take the briefest second and use a hashtag. I mean, it is literally just one extra character.
At a minimum, please use #uspol as a hashtag for US stuff.
Please use real names for the people you have issues with- Dolt45, 45/47, Orange Julius, Tangerine Toddler, etc... nobody is going to be able to filter those out. Some people are either going to be materially harmed by this person, their administration, and/or their followers- or they have been. Or they don't live in the US and really don't want to see this right now.
So, use names people can filter against, and please consider that some people have had enough USian trauma for today.
Winner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval InstituteWinner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval InstituteNotorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy.www.press.jhu.edu
In the first book systematically to give evidence of co…Goodreads
If history remembers Lucrezia Borgia at all, it is as a…Goodreads
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.Ada Palmer
“AI slop” doesn’t cover it. It’s more like “I stepped in a pile of hot AI poop again.” Literally, if you look closer at the illustration.
I was searching for “fire heat radiation.” When a slightly promising article started going over the same basics of conduction, convection, and radiation for the third time, I got suspicious and looked closer at the illustrations. “Hot poop” indeed.
Brought to you by firecarry dot com, “A Trusted Source for Fire Education” 🤡
![Drawing of a pot with steam rising out of it. An incongruously large spoon or ladle hovers over the pot, and two unexplained arrows point horizontally to either side just above the pot. Below the pot is a legend saying “Heat conducion [sic]”, to its left “Drect concact”, and to its right “Hot poop.”](https://social.gl-como.it/photo/preview/640/3596203 "Drawing of a pot with steam rising out of it. An incongruously large spoon or ladle hovers over the pot, and two unexplained arrows point horizontally to either side just above the pot. Below the pot is a legend saying “Heat conducion [sic]”, to its left “Drect concact”, and to its right “Hot poop.”")
Didn’t expect this to be the cause of every problem, huhlabyrinth.zone
Hey! Confy 0.8.0 has been released!
In this release :
Updated screenshots on official home page:
confy.kirgroup.net/
and in your nearest appstream-enabled appstore!
I would like to thank everyone who helped with code, tickets, distro packaging and general moral support :)
If you want to contribute, jump in the dev mailing list at lists.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy-de… or open a ticket at todo.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/confy
(and you don't even need to create an account on sourcehut, just send an email to ~fabrixxm/confy-dev (a) lists.sr.ht or ~fabrixxm/confy (a) todo.sr.ht )
Navigate conference schedules, mark favourite talks, get reminded when talks are coming up. Works offline, ready for mobilekirgroup.net
«Claudia de Breij: This cartoon by Ann Telnaes was rejected by the Washington Post, the newspaper purchased by Jeff Bezos.
The creator has resigned because she believes that free press is a prerequisite for democracy. What if we spread this cartoon _en masse_ today?»
mastodon.nl/@SandraDeHaan/1137…
Attached: 1 image Claudia de Breij: Deze cartoon van Ann Telnaes werd geweigerd door de Washington Post, de krant die gekocht is door Jeff Bezos. De maker heeft ontslag genomen omdat ze vindt dat vrije pers een voorwaarde is voor de democratie.Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub
@ArnimRanthoron Um. I think you are misinterpreting the image, both misreading what is shown and also missing important details.
* The "big man" is a depiction of Donald Trump. His obesity is exaggerated.
* The size reflects power and status (of being president elect), and not that it's a statue, I think.
* Trump is depicted with tiny hands.
* Mickey is _genuflecting_ not dead.
* The figures offering moneybags are paying tribute.
* Two of them are recognisably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The other _may_ be Tim Cook.
* There is another figure not offering tribute, the one with lipstick; it may be J D Vance or Matt Gaetz. (I am not American and don't pay that much attention to its political figures.)
* Mickey is not the only figure in colour; Bezos' jacket is blue.
Page-per-day calendar generator for Remarkable tablet - osresearch/pdfcalGitHub
Page-per-day calendar generator for Remarkable tablet - osresearch/pdfcalGitHub
Scientists managed to film how a black hole absorbs matter.
#quantum #physics #blackhole #actuallyautistic
"This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.
"I am so tired."
pod.geraspora.de/posts/1734216…
Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...Geraspora*
