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Greetings fans of DOS networking! I'm working on bug fixes for mTCP. If you have a bug report or a feature request now would be a great time to let me know. Send it by email or ping me here.
So far I've done a lot of "code golfing" (making things smaller and faster). Telnet will have SIXEL graphics enabled and a few bug fixes. TCP has a flow control improvement to help with the occasional stall. And there are a few other small fixes so far too.
Sir Terry Pratchett.
It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.
You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.
Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.
There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.
I'm currently making my way through the audio books of the Watch series (currently nearing the end of "Thud!") and am once more reminded of what an amazing author and human being Sir Terry was.
My running (tongue in cheek) theory is that him leaving us broke reality, explaining all the madness of the past decade.
I have the very same theory!
Terry dying unanchored us from the Discworld and that started the madness
@foosel Not ashamed to say that those audio books, especially those performed by Stephen Briggs, kept me sane & hopeful during difficult times nearly all by themselves.
I regularly use ~. but had never bothered to memorize the others. Neat!
did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too
“The LLM generated what was described, not what was needed.”
blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-ll…
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:Hōrōshi バガボンド (Vagabond Research)
This is gold:
In the 1980 Turing Award lecture Tony Hoare said: “There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Eurovision Song Contest (YouTube)
GateMate Personal Computer
A personal computer inspired by the IBM PC, built on the Olimex GateMate A1-EVB FPGA board. Text-mode interface, RISC-V CPU, custom BIOS, and a DOS-like operating system.
(And the project is working on a mainframe, too!)
GateMate Personal Computer: collection of HDL (hardware description for FPGA) modules, software (BIOS, DOS) and documentation.GitLab
@valhalla
Certo!
Ricordo che il classico augurio a chi fa teatro deriva dall'epoca in cui a teatro si andava in carrozza, e ciò che lesciavano i cavalli sotto al portico davanti al teatro non erano esattamente polveri sottili. E più ce n'era più gente era arrivata.
"You don’t have to if you don’t want to."
scottsmitelli.com/articles/you…
<- perhaps the single most eloquent essay against LLM-bot development I've seen. Very long, very worth it.
"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969.Scott Smitelli
@jtnystrom Fair enough. You do you.
There are legitimate use cases, such as automated translation -- but IMHO very very few of them.
Il video del posizionamento del nuovo ponte sull'Arno a Firenze, in timelapse
https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/timelapse-nuovo-ponte-arno-firenze/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
Sarà lungo circa 180 metri e collegherà Bellariva e il parco dell’AnconellaIl Post
The Death of Curiosity
medium.com/@cupofcat/the-death…
How nine forces spent sixty years hollowing out the soul of software engineering — and why blaming AI misses the point.
The ability to make complex distinctions with high accuracy after ingesting a sufficient amount of training data is a signature feature of machine learning algorithms. But humans also have this ability, even if they are not always consciously aware of it. One of my favorite illustrations of this is the learned ability to determine (qualitatively) the temperature of water from its sound, which almost all of us have acquired purely through training data: youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_4dDvcZe…
We even have the learned ability to accurately predict the next word in a sentence, even when we do not understand the semantic content of the sentence itself. Some (rather frustrated) examples of this occur in the later stages of the classic "Who's on first?" sketch: youtube.com/watch?v=r9t097tbeT…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
"We even have the learned ability to accurately predict the next word in a sentence, even when we do not understand the semantic content of the sentence itself."
yes, and I dont think its a good thing for humans, as this is the main reason why people still try to make sense of content that's not well defined(poor rigor), even though they think they're doing meaningful work for the field. Take philosophy, for example. Those "big questions"(do I exist...) lack proper meaning for deduction
Thx for sharing both.
I hadn't heard the Abbot-Costello joke; it must have been an inspiration to this classic:
youtube.com/watch?v=2_HIFKlcQx…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.nvie.com
This is what internet was made for
(@JoeAtkinsons sur Instagram)
RE: livellosegreto.it/@vonblubba/1…
Iron sky 1 e iron sky 2 sono dei capolavori. il regista era arrivato alcolicamente malconcio alla prima. può solo promettere bene.
E poi c'è fascisti su marte, altro pezzo di storia del cinema.
Rosso pianeta bolscevico e traditor...ilcineocchio.it/news/iron-sky-…
Comunisti su Marte: nasce Deep Red, nuova trilogia dei produttori di Iron Sky - Il Cineocchio
I produttori di Iron Sky lanciano Deep Red, trilogia sci-fi sui comunisti su Marte: trama, budget e uscita del nuovo progetto satiricoIl Cineocchio
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It
openculture.com/2025/09/the-ca…
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… Sagan lays out what he calls his “baloney detection kit.” This assembled metaphorical box of tools for diagnosing fraudulent arguments & constructing reasoned ones involves 9 principles…
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Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Dunque, bella gente fediversica e mastodontica, mi ricordo benissimo di aver ricevuto diverse richieste, nel tempo, riguardanti la ricerca storica, ultima delle quali quella di @valhalla relativamente ai passaporti tra le varie "regioni" (semplifico) d'Italia ai tempi dell'unificazione.
Purtroppo, però, non ricordo l'ordine, né l'argomento, né il richiedente 😅
Quindi facciamo così: se avete #CuriositàStoriche scrivetemi qui sotto, così con ordine farò il possibile per rispondervi.
deploying solar panels over farms increases crop yields by up to 18% by preventing them from getting scorched, meaning huge solar power plants can be built with no harm to natural landscapes
pv-magazine.com/2025/11/19/fra…
Data from agrivoltaic canopy trials in France, developed by energy producer TSE and the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), indicate measurable temperature, water-balance, and yield effects that reinf…pv magazine International
Nel 2025 in Madagascar i giovani della generazione Z hanno fatto cadere il regime. La colonna sonora delle proteste sono stati i brani di denuncia dei gruppi heavy metal e underground. Reportage dall’isola.
Nel 2025 in Madagascar i giovani della generazione Z hanno fatto cadere il regime. La colonna sonora delle proteste sono stati i brani di denuncia dei gruppi heavy metal e underground. Reportage dall’isola LeggiJean-Philippe Rémy (Internazionale)
FALSO
La Cassazione ha ammesso la richiesta di referendum da parte del Comitato che a gennaio ha raggiunto le firme necessarie e formulato il nuovo quesito (che si differenzia dal precedente solo perché indica le disposizioni costituzionali).
Ciò avrebbe eventualmente richiesto che si spostasse la data del referendum di due o tre settimane. Invece il Governo ha confermato la data già fissata.
Nessuno voleva boicottare nulla. Queste continue fake news si ritorceranno contro chi ne sta abusando
TIL that SSDs can lose data if left unplugged for long periods of time (only required to hold data up to 1 year), unlike HDDs which as long as the material holds it can take years.
Edit: added link: slashgear.com/1893447/dont-lea…
SSDs may be faster and have fewer moving parts than hard drives, but one thing they're not good at is data preservation. Here's why and what you can do.Joseph Chidi (SlashGear)
“Welcome to the first Long Links of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.” tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
This time out, featuring lots of books, cryptography, and open-source clothing.
Please, I beg, if you're posting about a new release of the cool thing you made, include a small description of what it is and what it does.
It's hard to boost "libencarbulator turbo++ 2.8a release is now available! Now supports configuring reticulation of splines" in a vacuum, and I want nothing more than to boost the cool thing you made
Many worthy causes crowdfunding now, but this one's dear to my heart: collective action by Florentine workers to turn an old car factory into a worker-owned solar panel factory
insorgiamo.org/crowdfunding-20…
The goal is to prevent mass-layoffs since factory was going to shut down, & I've been supporting them through years of amazing teamwork of unions, eco-activists, & Italy's classic anarchist movement
Their pay portal is endearingly glitchy like many grassroots orgs so be patient, it does work!
I speculate you're a fan of #BobsRedMill.
bobsredmill.com/employee-owned
At Bob's Red Mill, our mission is Inspiring Joy with Wholesome Foods. Explore baking flours, whole grains and more.Brilliance Northwest LLC
Nation (novel) - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)@giflian
I have a copy, I haven't managed to read it yet
@nonehitwonder
I remember reading the tweet, and just sobbing my heart out
The Guards! Guards! understand books:
"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
@Emmacox
Absolutely!
I also love it when I hear something random and suddenly realise about something from Discworld
I need to read the entire Discworld series again, again. 🤗
@chloeraccoon
Hahahahaha!
@frankwalter
An entirely reasonable response to current circumstances!
@FaithfullJohn
But how wonderful to be able to read them all for the first time!
I am thinking a lot about your toot. His books helped me through my darkest times being unable to work and feeling depressed.
I think the witches learned me the most. Like being (or feeling) alone doesn't mean you're automatically unhappy. I cried two times reading his books. Both when a witch died...
Where the wizards reminded me of the clumsy way my work and medics tried to help me.
Carrot taught me I don't need to be the boss to make a difference, and sometimes it's better not to.
Nobby taught me to explore my interests.
I cried when I read the last book, I knew there wouldn't be another one
#GNUTerryPratchett