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sofia

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huge #nerd and cool-ass #bitch. #vegan #transhumanist, lefty market #anarchist, moral realist and friend of #entropy.

does #graphics and #language and #math and software (mostly #js) sometimes, speaks #english, #german and neglegable amounts of #lojban.

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sofia, to ArtificialIntelligence
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thinking about designing my own again. don't expect something to come from it, but seeing other computer projects inspires me.

one thing that excites me most is the idea of having a self-organizing mesh network for connecting components. that doesn't seem like that extreme of an overhead computationally, but i wonder how far you can push it.

it seems like every peripheral protocol has some sort of controller, so i guess i'd just have a little router in each and call it a node.

sofia,
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having separate nodes for CPU(s) and RAM seems hard to imagine so i won't. but having multiple semi-independent compute-nodes would be pretty cool.

i think their controller would need to feed them their boot code to get started, which would probably come from a storage node marked as bootable.

maybe you can have multiple boot channels, set on the storage and compute node by dip switches, so you can run more than one OSs in the system 🤔.

sofia,
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thinking about it, i constantly come to questions of "authority" or "priority" and it feels strange.

it seems computers just assume something to be a "primary" input and output and "trust" it.

obviously, there is no reason to assume that machines and societies should be alike. maybe more like polar opposites.

but also so many flaws of the internet (DNS, etc) seem to derive from assuming it's fine to just have an authority for everyone.

sofia,
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another design consideration would be minimizing the need for drivers. i feel like most devices are can be sorted in a handful of categories:

  • storage (file systems?)
  • stream of pixels (continous (cam, display) or on demand (scanner, printer))
  • audio-like stream
  • relative and absolute vectors (mouse, sticks, dials, pens, touch)
  • bits (buttons, lights)
  • network
  • other computer (GPU or whatever)
    i think their node just should manage the devices and expose them at those levels.
sofia,
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on modern operating systems, hardware is buried under opaque layers of bullshit and not exposed to the user at all. if you're lucky you have a driver and they are opaquely exposed to programs and "work".

i would like a sort of virtual switchboard where i can just route IO however i like. programs can just expose their IO as virtual nodes, and other programs can be put in between for any sort of translation/processing.

lain, to random
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finally some good beef cofe

sofia,
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@lain okay, so obviously: what?

but also, it's probably not but "biooengineered beef protein isolate" sounds a bit like it could be cultured meat or something.

vegan carnivore diet, when?

rechelon, to random
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Adorable Long Beach FNB interview that's very 1995. https://archive.org/details/interview-with-camille-from-long-beach-food-not-bombs

sofia,
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@rechelon wow, i didn't know Food Not Bombs was that old, i heard of it in the 0Xs and i thought the name referred to the iraq war 😅.

i wasn't even vegetarian back then (but also i was 7 or 8 👶, and i must have been around 9 when i started vegetarianism). feels pretty ahead of the time, i certainly haven't heard people talk about the meat industry destroying the environment back then…

sofia, to random
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so, there is this this space filling curve called a Gosper curve, which got some neat property like forming a fractal island that can tile the plane.

however, the best part of it is that it's also called a flowsnake 😃.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve

evan, (edited ) to random
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How often do you use virtual desktops on your computer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

sofia,
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@evan ah, i missed it, but i made a similar poll about a week ago 😅:

https://chaos.social/@sofia/112008401147496028

grillchen, to random
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going to eat borgar.

:neofox_nom_burger:

sofia,
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@grillchen ate pidser today, might borgar later 😋.

lain, to random
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sofia,
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@lain that caption truely makes it perfect. XD

kaia, to random
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was kann man nur gegen diesen Fachkräftemangel tun? :fox_googly:

sofia,
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@lain @grillchen @kaia naja einwanderer sind nicht mehr "schuld" and der hohen nachfrage als nicht-auswanderer…

es die knappheit scheint vor allem an restriktiven gesetzen zu liegen die den neubau und dem vollen ausnutzen bestehender wohnungen entgegenstehen…

kaia, to random
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if your dad has a wikipedia article, there's a higher chance of you getting one as well! :blobcatscience:

sofia,
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@grillchen @kaia if that was my biological dad, i'd return him to get my money back 😛.

sofia, to random
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imagine you have a chessboard and on the first you place one grain of rice on the first tile, and then you place twice as many grains on the next tile than on the previous.

you may think this is easy to imagine, but even on the second tile there is already more than twice as much rice than has ever been grown on the entire sun 🤯.

Emily, to random German
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Wenigstens bin ich seit halb raus aus der Notaufnahme

sofia,
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@Emily gute besserung!

sofia, to random
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open source people, please stop with that "digital sovereignty" shit already.

sofia, to rust
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okay, that looks pretty awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmW_RbTyj8c

grillchen, to random
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sofia,
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@grillchen @Johann150 h

sofia, to random German
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@ordnung ich vermute das problem ist bekannt; aber in letzter zeit kommt es oft (zb jetzt) dazu das wie website total überlasted scheint und nichts läd, aber wenn ich sie im incognito mode öffne funtioniert scheinbar alles normal?

wisst ihr was da lost ist? ich dachte, es hat vielleicht mit updates oder spamwellen zu tun. aber das erklärt nicht, warum es uneingeloggt funktioniert 🤔.

sofia,
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@ordnung jetzt ist es nicht mehr. zur zeit des abschickens schon, ich habe aber auch zwischendurch meinen rechner neu gestartet…

es passiert sowohl auf meinem windows laptop mit Chrome Carary und dem linix desktop mit Chromium.

mir ist gerade eingefallen, dass es an ServiceWorkers liegen könnte. das nächste mal wenn bei mir sowas passiert versuch ich mal die zu stoppen und berichte von den resultaten.

sofia,
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@ordnung alles klar :)

sofia,
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@ordnung hier ist die fehlermeldung. ich versuch jetzt mal den ServiceWorker abzubrechen…

sofia,
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@ordnung okay, es ist der scheinbar der ServiceWorker der kaputt ist. wenn ich "Bypass for network" aktiviere funktioniert alles. "Update on reload" (was glaube ich soviel wie neustart on reload heist?) funktioniert hingegen nicht…

alle tabs schließen und wieder öffnen ist halt keine gute lösung, weil ich so meinen scroll-progress und aungefangene posts verliere…

ich kann zum replizieren nichts genaueres beschreiben, außer das es oft kommt wenn ma aus nem längeren standby aufwacht…

lain, to random
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apparently taylor swift's ~1 billion dollar fortune is equivalent to around 90 minutes of spending of the federal government.

sofia,
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@lain with my numbers (from Q3 2023 according to wikipedia, and assuming a flat billion for Tailor Swift) i came to less then an hour, actually…

sofia, to random
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imagine you're just doing your thing, making pastries, and suddenly a tall man in a black suit with sunglasses shows up behind you, and then you're like "oh shit, it's an anti-caking agent 😰".

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