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jbzfn, 27 days ago to rust

⚙️ Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
➥ @phoronix

「 As outlined on the Servo blog, Servo has picked up various new features like object tags with image data URLs, "ex" units within CSS, and more. Servo can now support non-autoplay HTML5 video tags as long as the page provides its own controls 」

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2

#Servo #WebEngine #Rust #Opensource

jbzfn, 27 days ago to random

"Latte capitalism"

jbzfn, 27 days ago to Nintendo

🦾 The Story of R.O.B. the Robot
➥ Gaming Historian

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2FuHErzhVE

#Nintendo #Robots #NES #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 27 days ago to gamedev

🐍 Programming Retro Games in Python | 80s Usborne Computer Coding Book
➥ Kari

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kdM9wyglnw

#Gamedev #Python #BBCMicro #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 27 days ago to ai

🧠 The Babelian Tower Of AI Alignment
➥ NOEMA

「 A more imminent threat, he told the Times, is the one posed by American AI giants to cultures around the globe. “These models are producing content and shaping our cultural understanding of the world,” Mensch said. “And as it turns out, the values of France and the values of the United States differ in subtle but important ways.” 」

https://www.noemamag.com/the-babelian-tower-of-ai-alignment/

#ai #agi #tescreal

jbzfn, 27 days ago to random

🧑‍💻 FreeBee - AT&T 3B1 / 7300 UNIX PC emulator
➥ @philpem

「 lFreeBee is an emulator for the AT&T 3B1. It's a work-in-progress, but currently works well enough to boot the operating system and to compile programs with the standard C compiler 」

https://github.com/philpem/freebee

#FreeBee #Emulator #UNIX

jbzfn, 28 days ago to retrocomputing

⚡Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm

「 Arm may be set up for a good decade long run in the datacenter, at the edge, and in our client devices, but watch out for RISC-V. Ten years from now, we might be writing the same story all over again, with one more historical ring wave added. In fact, it is hard to imagine any other alternative on the horizon 」

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/22/arm-is-the-new-risc-unix-risc-v-is-the-new-arm/

#Arm #RISC #RISCV #Unix #Datacenter #Retrocomputing

jbzfn, 29 days ago to fediBots

"Undead Internet Theory"

「 The prevalence of bot traffic was observed across all sectors, with Gaming (57.2%) witnessing the most significant proportion of bad bot traffic. Simultaneously, Retail (24.4%), Travel (20.7%), and Financial Services (15.7%) experienced the highest volume of bot attacks 」

https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/half-of-online-traffic-in-2024-generated-by-bots-report-finds

#Bots #Spam #Cybersecurity

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Nintendo

:blobsweats: Garry’s Mod faces deluge of Nintendo-related DMCA takedown notices
― @engadget

「 Facepunch Studios has announced on Steam that it's removing 20 years' worth of Nintendo-related workshop items for its sandbox game Garry's Mod to comply with the Japanese company's demands 」

https://www.engadget.com/garrys-mod-faces-deluge-of-nintendo-related-dmca-takedown-notices-123027589.html

#Nintendo #DMCA #Gamedev #Mods #GarrysMod

jbzfn, 1 month ago to retrogaming

⚔️ Sega is turning Golden Axe into an animated series
➥ @theverge

「 Comedy Central has ordered 10 episodes of Golden Axe, an animated show based on the fantasy beat ’em up sidescroller games. Deadline writes that it will be both “hilarious and loving” in its adaptation of the game 」

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133419/sega-golden-axe-tv-series-comedy-central

#Sega #GoldenAxe #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 1 month ago to opensource

💰 Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd
➥ @phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Fund-PHP-GNOME

#Opensource #Funding #GNOME #PHP #systemd

jbzfn, 1 month ago to FunctionalProgramming

「 CakeML is a functional programming language and an ecosystem of proofs and tools built around the language. The ecosystem includes a proven-correct compiler that can bootstrap itself 」

https://cakeml.org

#CakeML #FunctionalProgramming #PLT #CompSci

jbzfn, 1 month ago to random

Balaclava commando cop arresting another dangerous philosophy teacher.

This is how military regimes worked in South America, trained by the USA and Israel in "counter insurrectionist" warfare.

Down here there's an extreme dislike against this violence, to the point that some colleges are forbidden to allow cops and other security forces from entering a campus.

We know what happens after state security forces start beating students.

#freepalestine

jbzfn, 1 month ago to windows

:clippy: Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.

「 Others may prefer the privacy of having local accounts, where all their data stays on their personal devices. The point, though, is that it's your choice, and once you make that choice you shouldn't be hounded to use your Microsoft account anymore 」

https://mashable.com/article/windows-10-microsoft-account-shut-off-notifications

#Windows #Privacy #Antipattern

jbzfn, 1 month ago to linux

:welp: Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers
—Ars Technica

「 "The beauty of our concept is that you don't even need to safety-qualify Linux itself," said Moritz Neukirchner, a senior director at Elektrobit overseeing SDVs. Instead, an external safety monitor runs in a hypervisor, intercepting and validating kernel actions 」

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/linux-is-now-an-option-for-safety-minded-software-defined-vehicle-developers/

#Linux #SDV #EVs #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to random

「 California, which gets over a quarter of its electricity from solar, is generating more power than it knows what to do with. On sunny days, there's now so much solar energy being supplied that electricity prices can dip into the negative, The Washington Post reports — a preview of the economic and infrastructural problems that renewables will have to navigate 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/california-solar-electricity-prices-negative

#SolarPower #Renewables #ElectricalGrid

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Nintendo

💰 Modder packs an entire Nintendo Wii into a box the size of a pack of cards
—Ars Technica

「 One mod in this storied genre that caught our eye this week is the "Short Stack," a scale model of the Nintendo Wii that packs the 2006 console's internal hardware into a 3D-printed enclosure roughly the size of a deck of playing cards 」

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/modder-packs-an-entire-nintendo-wii-into-a-box-the-size-of-a-pack-of-cards/

#Nintendo #Wii #Modding #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 1 month ago to VintageOSes

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/

#CPM #Retrocomputing #ComputingHistory #OS

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Amd

🦾 AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"
—Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-2024

#AMD #Linux #Opensource

jbzfn, 1 month ago to opensource

I can't accept that this is where we're now, but at least you can learn a lot about opensource, community, bureaucracy, funding, boardroom drama, conflict of interests and bigtech shills just by reading this.

tl;dr: :AAAAAA:

http://pirsquared.org/blog/numfocus-concerns.html

#numfocus #opensource #science #research #bigtech #ai

nivrig, 1 month ago to random

I'm going in. I have alcohol.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23137904/

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Astro

🌋 Io: New image of a lake of fire, signs of permanent volcanism
—Ars Technica

「 By combining the imaging power of lots of smaller telescopes scattered across a plateau, ALMA is able to spot regional differences in the presence of specific elements in Io's atmosphere, as well as identify different isotopes of those elements 」

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/io-new-image-of-a-lake-of-fire-signs-of-permanent-volcanism/

#Io #Jupiter #Volcanism #Juno #ALMA #Astrodon

jbzfn, 1 month ago to science

☢️ What John von Neumann really did at Los Alamos
—3 Quarks Daily

「 Johnny von Neumann was the multifaceted intellectual diamond of the 20th century. He contributed so many seminal ideas to so many fields so quickly that it would be impossible for any one person to summarize, let alone understand them. He may have been the last universalist in mathematics, having almost complete command of both pure and applied mathematics 」

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/10/what-john-von-neumann-really-did-at-los-alamos.html

#VonNeumann #Science #CompSci #AtomicBomb

jbzfn, 1 month ago to Kia

😹 It'll be cosmically hilarious if a Kia car ends up putting the final nail on Tesla

「 The timing of the sighting is particularly significant given recent news that Tesla may have canned its plans for a $25,000 mass-market “Model 2” vehicle. Elon Musk reportedly mothballed the affordable EV in favor of going all in on the company’s plans for a fully autonomous robotaxi 」

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135116/kia-ev2-ev-affordable-cheap-electric-tesla-model-2

#EVs #Kia #Tesla

jbzfn, 1 month ago to linux

🗓️ Wayland, where are we in 2024? Any good for being the default?
—dedoimedo.com

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2024.html

#Wayland #Xorg #Linux #Opensource