quixoticgeek

futurebird, 2 hours ago to random

The decisions and policy that have the most profound impacts on the greatest number of human lives often aren't the ones talked about most often in political discourse.

What is the biggest difference between life in this era and say... European feudalism?

I would argue it's near universal literacy. And along with simply having access to the written word, the highest percentage of a population armed with some scraps of what you might call a "liberal arts education"

The ability to self-teach.

attie, 17 hours ago to random

This is utterly wild... am I a little smooth-brained, or is this totally unrealistic?

• 200 Mbps compressed to under 1 Mbps
• Realtime, i.e: ~1ms latency or better
• Encode and transmit in <10mW (yes, including radio)
• Lossless
• High-entropy input

... if you succeed, just email them your solution - no mention of any reward or Nobel Prize nomination.

https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

GossiTheDog, 17 hours ago to random

"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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girlonthenet, 4 hours ago to london

Don't forget that tomorrow from 10:00-15:00, a bunch of roads around central #London are all closed off to cars, so if you want to go for a lovely ride along the Thames and past St Paul's and all that, it's a great day to do it: https://www.ridelondon.co.uk/our-rides/ridelondon-freecycle

sue, 3 hours ago to random

Who would have guessed Damien Hirst is full of shit 🤡

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/22/damien-hirst-artworks-painted-years-later-currency-artist

girlonthenet, 2 hours ago to random

Lol yeah, that's right motherfucker. My house, my rules, shut the fuck up.

robf, 1 hour ago to Hastings

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-school-group-tourism-b2551093.html

Sally-Ann Hart, MP for #Hastings and Rye, wants travel restrictions for EU students changed after a collapse in school groups who stayed in the town while on English-language courses.

Sally-Ann Hart voted for #brexit.

#EU

cstross, 3 hours ago to random

Reminder that this is the same Thames Water who just proposed a 91% increase in standing charges to customers over the next 5 years so that they can repair their shit-spewing network (while still paying the same level of dividends to their shareholders that they paid while allowing their network to decay to the point where this is a problem): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/thames-water-vomiting-bug-cryptosporidium?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

18+ clacksee, 1 hour ago to UKpolitics

I don’t know why, but I’m actually really worried the #Tories are going to win again. If they do, they’ll probably lose their majority. But it’s still a terrifying thought.

40 days is a gazillion years in politics.

#UKPolitics #GeneralElection

Schitts Creek Party GIF by CBC Every party has a pooper

kim, 2 hours ago to random

Shout out to everyone who's ever met an MSR XKG and knows that of course you can use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster...

kate, 2 hours ago to random

Tidying up my cable connection makes me think… How does one start a communal cable library? ​:Blobhaj_Thinking:​

kate, 3 hours ago to random

I believe this cable is gonna surprise me in the future, just when I need an IEC C13 power cable the most ​:Blobhaj_Knife:​

RantyHighwayman, 3 hours ago to random

No, you can't carry three packs of laminate flooring, underlay, spacers and three hacksaw blades by cycle.

#CarryShitOlympics #Quaxing

OtherRyn, 4 hours ago to random

Today I found out that, as someone that had not previously been on the electoral rolls before moving out of the UK, I can now register to vote as an Overseas British Citizen. THIS IS A CHANGE IN POLICY

I just gotta find the paperwork that proves my last address.

If you're in my same boat (moved before getting on the electoral rolls due to age or circumstance)... https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/who-can-vote/other-registration-options/voting-if-you-live-overseas is where you can register.

Deadline is 18 June to get registered on the electoral rolls.

#ukvoting #overseasvoting

th, 5 hours ago to random

Take the DMI Pool Data bus to Read Error

TomSullivan, 15 hours ago to random

#NYT front page from May 24, 2020, four years ago.

Brandi_Buchman, 17 hours ago to random

“There’s going to be violence if he’s convicted but it doesn’t matter because once we start making prosecutorial decisions based on those collateral consequences, we’re done. Then the criminal justice system no longer operates,” Kirschner told me today.

This and much more inside:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-trump-docket-the-collateral-consequences-of-a-trump-conviction-must-not-supersede-justice-expert-prosecutor-says/

mjg59, 13 hours ago to random

One of Apple's design choices around hardware-backed keys stored in the secure enclave is that they can only be used by the app that generated them - so a key generated by (eg) Chrome for WebAuthn purposes can't be used by (eg) Safari. We have a command-line tool for obtaining auth tokens from Okta that has to handle MFA, so the past few weeks have involved me figuring out enough of Okta's MFA enrollment flow to add support to it so users can use TouchID to auth from the CLI.

cyberlyra, 11 hours ago to random

Zomg they just went ahead and ingested McSweeneys, the Onion, and all the Reddit shitposts…. Hold my beer, Google “A.I.” 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Adam_Cadmon1, 15 hours ago to random

Please for the love of Democracy, please stop calling that Appeal to Heaven flag a Christian Nationalist flag.

It's an insurrectionist flag.

jwz, 17 hours ago to random

Any time someone uses "compute" as a noun, please substitute "fossil fuels".

Also smack them.

JMacfie, 13 hours ago to UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/michael-gove-to-stand-down-at-general-election

That sound? It's the patter of tiny rat feet on the hawsers as they flee from the good ship Tory.....

Their lack of courage is exceeded only by their lack of any kind of morality. They've reduced the UK to a rotting hulk. And now they'll all get six months' severance pay at our expense while they find cosy directorships to settle into.

#UKPolitics #

Quinnypig, 17 hours ago to random

If you put needless mandatory text fields in forms, you’re wasting my time. I’ll waste yours right back with my usual placeholder text, “[ object Promise ]”.

GossiTheDog, 3 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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GossiTheDog, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

Like @Quinnypig, I’d love if Google went on the record about what happened with this one.

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

Tl;dr is an entire org got wiped, and they’re trying to suggest it’s some kind of Google Cloud issue as the cause.