I didn't realize how rare it is to have a female all orange cat
scientificamerican.com/article…
Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studiesGayoung Lee (Scientific American)
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Automatic Treat Dispenser Makes Kitty Work For It
hackaday.com/2025/05/14/2025-p…
Treat dispensers are old hat around here, but what if kitty doesn’t need the extra calories — and actually needs to drop some pounds? [MethodicalMaker] decided to link the treat dispens…Hackaday
Oof. On the nose here by @firstdogonthemoon
(Click through to the link to read the full cartoon.)
Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.
E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?
Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?
Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:
(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy
e la query generata è:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;
Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).
A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.
Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.
Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:
cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json
Today I will be joining Matt Venn's open source silicon stream and we are going to talk about Greyhound, my latest chip with RISC-V core and embedded FPGA taped out on IHP SG13G2.
🎥 Link to the stream: youtube.com/watch?v=S0drZqEwSN…
Looking forward to your questions!
#OpenSource #ASIC #FPGA
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-moser_asic-fpga-opensource-activity-7317451171571322880-42tJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADBBa0IBN2...YouTube
SoundCloud has updated their Terms of Use and now state that you agree, anything you upload can be used to train AI models.
Please spread the word on this.
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything
notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-k…
A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports
Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time.…
#theregister #IT
go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…
: Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed'Connor Jones (The Register)
Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.alex.party
I get a lot of emails from people wanting help with math and physics, ranging from students needing advice to completely deranged crackpots. Lately I'm getting more and more crackpots who say they developed their theories with the help of AI.
It gets worse. Check out this article by Miles Klee:
rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…
Strange things are happening when people take ChatGPT too seriously! I don't think humanity is ready for AI, even the primitive sort we have today.
Thanks to @peter for this screenshot from the article.
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPTMiles Klee (Rolling Stone)
As a grumpy old git -- it says so on my socks, it must be true -- I appreciate a properly grumpy website. Grumpy.website really is.
@Fabrix.xm qualcuno sa che serpente sia?
(la foto è stata scattata nel norditalia, attorno agli 850 m s.l.m.)
@Fabrix.xm somebody elsewhere suggested en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_s…
(a juvenile one, probably, since it was only ~25 cm long)
@Fabrix.xm qualcuno da altre parti suggerisce it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronell…
(probabilmente giovinetto, visto che era lungo sì e no 25 cm)
The response to the predicted crash of the AI sector often is that "every crash leaves something useful behind" and that this time it will be models. I do not think that is the case.
AI models age like milk and the infrastructures left behind won't be ones that I see as helpful for democratic societies.
tante.cc/2025/04/15/these-are-…
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much se…tante (Smashing Frames)
"Dear A.I., please make an image without a single elephant in it."
"Roger that, images with elephants in 'em, coming right up!"
"Well, it's nice that we're at least burning the planet for something that works really well and does useful things."
#AI
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#Math is really overrated, says #Batman!
smbc-comics.com/comic/battrian…
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Battriangulationwww.smbc-comics.com
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
(Old Vintage Computing Research, Tuesday, April 1, 2025)
oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/th…
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...oldvcr.blogspot.com
WHAT—
... "They point to how security researchers hated Visual Basic 6 binaries due to the complexity of reverse engineering the software, the presence of a Lua obfuscation layer in the 2012 Flame malware, and the Grip virus, which contained a Brainfuck interpreter coded in Assembly to generate its keycodes, as examples."
It can only be a matter of time until malware authors stumble across CLC-INTERCAL. And then we'll ALL be sorry!
theregister.com/2025/03/29/mal…
: Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detectionThomas Claburn (The Register)
My brain has just been hacked reading up on Intercal:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
Ive got James Brown's "please, please dont go" looping in my head.
...I darent wonder how many pleases it would take for someody to hand over their cryptowallet?
fwiw, you may find this Makefile interesting:
git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/1q20…
Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".
After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.
But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".
@fenruspdx He actually had the gall to write back to me and, after some sanctimonious bullshit about keeping publicly available data available, offered: "If you can have both visibility and control about any bot coming to your domain, and the option to set sensitive end points,
wouldn't that be something worth exploring?"
So yes, you were right. They are selling protection schemes as a side gig.
"Is that free as in beer, or free as in freedom?"
"It's free as in use-after."