jbzfn

jbzfn, 17 days ago to opensource

🧑‍💻 NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11
➥ @phoronix

「 The bad news is that to have applications running we require access to a larger open source ecosystem, and that ecosystem has a lot of churn and is easily distracted by shiny new squirrels. The process of upstreaming stuff to X.Org is an ongoing process, but it's likely we'll run into things that will never be suitable for upstream 」

#netbsd #bsd #xorg #opensource

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-State-Of-X11-2024

jbzfn, 17 days ago to microsoft

🤡 At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down

「 For many critics of Microsoft, the events of the past nine months are the logical conclusion of a company that has ridden the wave of market dominance for decades and ignored years of warnings that its product security and practices failed to meet the most basic standards.

“In a healthy marketplace, these would be fireable offenses,” 」

#microsoft #azure #outlook #databreach #ransomware #infosec

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-security-debt-crashing-down/714685

jbzfn, 18 days ago to physics

「 Einstein's "model of gravity has been essential for everything from theorizing the Big Bang to photographing black holes," said lead author and Waterloo mathematical physics graduate Robin Wen in a statement about the research. "But when we try to understand gravity on a cosmic scale, at the scale of galaxy clusters and beyond, we encounter apparent inconsistencies with the predictions of general relativity." 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/physicists-glitch-universe

#physics #space #einstein #cosmology

jbzfn, 18 days ago to random

"flummoxed"

#caturday

jbzfn, 19 days ago to Nintendo

ᐅ How games were made on the Nintendo DS
➥ MVG

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZs3sUM5Y

#nintendo #nintendods #retrogaming #gamedev #retrodevelopment

jbzfn, 19 days ago to linux

OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support
➥ @phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.4-Released

#openzfs #linux #opensource

jbzfn, 19 days ago to tesla

I don't wanna absolve Tesla and Musk for these accidents, but a lot of these Tesla owners were Darwin Award nominees from the start.

You can't fix stupid.

#tesla #musk

jbzfn, 19 days ago to rust

🦀 Announcing Rust 1.78.0 | Rust Blog

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/02/Rust-1.78.0.html

#rust #rustlang

jbzfn, 20 days ago to NixOS

❄️ Is NixOS The Best Gaming Distro | Linux Gaming Setup
➥ Vimjoyer

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qlfm3MEbqYA

#NixOS #Gaming #LinuxGaming

jbzfn, 21 days ago to TeslaMotors

🤑 Tesla Sucked Up Federal Funding for Supercharger Network Before Firing Whole Department | @futurism

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-federal-funding-supercharger-network

#Musk #Tesla #Fraud #EVs

jbzfn, 21 days ago to unity

Somehow they manage to hire someone even worse than the previous two.

"The company will release its first quarter 2024 financial results on May 9."

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/unity-appoints-former-ea-and-zynga-executive-as-its-new-ceo/

#Unity #Gamedev

jbzfn, 21 days ago to ai

©️ Artists Sue Google Over Its AI Image Generator
➥ @futurism

「 Filed in the Northern District of California, the suit brought by photographer Jingna Zhang and illustrators Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink takes Google to task for alleged copyright infringement after using datasets that include their works and those of "billions" of other people 」

https://futurism.com/the-byte/artists-sue-google-image-generator

#ai #aitheft #art #copyright

jbzfn, 21 days ago to fediverse

🌐 FOSS ACADEMIC | Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/30/DecentralizedNoncentralized.html

#decentralization #fediverse #bluesky

jbzfn, 22 days ago to random

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Prabhakar Raghavan the Wise?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

jbzfn, 23 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, 23 days ago to random

"Latte capitalism"

jbzfn, 23 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, 23 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, 23 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, 23 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, 24 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, 25 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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, 26 days 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