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going to fawn over Standard Ebooks site standardebooks.org for a minute here
So aside from providing beautiful ebooks of public domain books, the site is blazing fast serving pages for so many books, and it's all static pages:
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Then look on a page for a book. There's a render of a book with the cover, the books at like an angle and if you hover over it the book floats a little.
Turn off javascript and the pic still renders and floats a little. If you right click and say open pic in new tab just the unaltered cover comes up.
Which means all the magic to take the cover and turn into a render of a book with a floating animation is all done in CSS.
And even better, go to a typical book. Typical thickness in that render. Then go to a big book, like The History and Decline of the Roman Empire.
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Look at that chonk of a book in the rendering. So each book rendering is rendered the relative thickness of the book. Just such a cool detail.
edit: Oh, and go to the feeds for books:
There's OPDS (the catalog feed format), and RSS and Atom. Normally, you make the mistake of going to a feed URL in your browser instead of a specific program to read feeds, and you're punished with horrible XML.
But click on any feed link here and it's the nice looking HTML like the rest of the site. Is the server determining dynamically if a browser is reading the feed or a different program? But wait, isn't the site static?
That's right, all those feeds are also good looking HTML. Just brilliant work.
AI and the American Smile
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How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.
Turns out that LLM summaries are actually useful.
Not for *summarizing* text -- they're horrible for that. They're weighted statistical models and by their very nature they'll drop the least common or most unusual bits of things. Y'know, the parts of a message that are actually important.
No, where they're great is as a writing check. If an LLM summary of your work is accurate that indicates what you wrote doesn't really have much interesting information in it and maybe you should try harder.
Flow looks amazing :)
made in #blender
#b3d
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youtu.be/BdqxF79LPgY?si=-UOaDjβ¦
Flow looks stunningly immersive.Joe Foley (Creative Bloq)
In una precedente news vi avevamo parlato della scoperta, orbita e visibilitΓ della cometa Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3). Dopo il difficile periodo di visibilitΓ mattutina avuto durante il passaggiβ¦Asteroidi e dintorni
There π is π no π such π thing π as π a π secure π backdoor.
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China reportedly hacked the wiretap systems required by U.S. internet providers under a 1994 U.S. wiretapping law.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
FREAKING FINALLY
"Buttons are back, baby!! This piece has been 15 years in the making, more or less."
@mimsical in the WSJ on the resurgance of physical buttons for interfaces.
"Fundamentally, the problem with touch-based interfaces is that they arenβt touch-based at all, because they need us to look when using them."
Materiality and embodiment ftw.
[gift link, courtesy of the author]
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Allora, che dite, ci vediamo oggi?
#aspassonellastoria #storia #mappe #catastoteresiano #archivioiniziative #gep
It is a truth universally acknowledged that for greater social media engagement, one should share pictures of cats.
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βIβm going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually Iβm going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.β
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#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-gβ¦
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Yesterday was an important anniversary that supporters of #Russia (Soviet Union) do not like to remember:
September 17, 1939 was the day when the Soviets enthusiastically joined the Second World War, on the side of their ally - Nazi Germany.
That's why in Russia they don't like to talk about the Second World War, which they helped start.They prefer to talk about the Patriotic War, that is, the events after they were betrayed and attacked by their former ally.
#USSR #Germany #WW2 #WWII #Poland
Haiku R1/beta5 has been released
Ancient Babylonian map of the world: A 2,900-year-old clay tablet revealed
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/woβ¦
World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world withTOI World Desk (Times Of India)
"Prima di poter vedere questa ricetta, accetta i cookie nostri e di SETTECENTOSESSANTACINQUE nostri collaboratori."
Uhm no, forse settecento sono un po' troppi, e comunque volevo vedere come fare gli spatzle, non i biscotti.
Grazie lo stesso giallozafferano, ma cortesemente vaffanculo
This article fundamentally changed how I look at weird inauthentic smiles, especially on people not steeped in American culture.
AI and the American Smile medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-β¦
I just boosted this but a bunch of my followers don't see boosts and this post from the esteemed @robpike is *important*.
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This is how it's done.
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that ro...commandcenter.blogspot.com
Also, I've been reading up on the history of the first digital computers (ENIAC, etc.). It sure seems like females had a big impact, although little credit. And yet there's Adm Hopper, who was a leader from nearly the beginning, and had great influence on the field. In her NSA lecture, she mentioned that she hired young people and told them to "try it!" instead of waiting for approval.
Why she's not more central to the history is a mystery. But a great role model.
On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling 216,000 gaming dice onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta in what could be the biggest unintentional dice roll everβ¦Mike Fahey (Kotaku)
Recent movies and TV.
The Final Programme (1973): By the director of Dr. Phibes based on a Michael Moorcock book that I never read. WTF did I just watch? It's like Captain Kronos meets Zardoz. I am baffled that this came to be. Zeta One (1969): Again,...
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Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode
For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I canβt thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of todayβs release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows.
In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that βFirefish is coming backβ, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly.
Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life.
Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and Iβve started thinking that I canβt manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps.
I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but thatβs not guaranteed.
firefish.dev and info.firefish.dev will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status.
Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version 20240206/1.0.5-rc and migrate to another *key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain.
Downgrade instructions: firefish.dev/firefish/firefishβ¦
Thanks,
naskya
A fun, new, open way to experience social mediaGitLab
reminds me of a MAXQ DSP I read about described as "opcode-less"
Every part of the chip would do something every clock cycle, so the "instructions" were nothing but a set of operands for all the units
Seems like quite a rare design now -- probably because scheduling, pipelining, and speculative execution have beaten it in total throughput
Amazing how silicon design has changed
These days the internet is filled with so called "money gurus" showing off their wealth on social media and trying to teach you how to become rich
But one major issue with that is..
WHY would they wanna do that. IF they are rich from forex trading or whatever, why in the world would they wanna spread the word
They are making money on people who buy their "courses" to become rich, not from trading
Please, don't fall for this bs!
You are worth so much more 
One of the most exciting aspects of the new Bus Pirate is how easy it is to create add-on modules -- which the community have started calling "planks" to go along with the Pirate theme.
Which planks would you like to see developed?
hackaday.com/2024/08/29/walkinβ¦
The Bus Pirate multi-tool has held a place of honor in many a hardware hackerβs toolbox for years, and the latest generation of the gadget powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 offers sigβ¦Hackaday
