sofia

NanoRaptor, 5 months ago to random

2023 was the year my beloved Set of 2 Shaped Objects came to me, and was later joined by Curved Object. I am thankful for their discovery, and they have brought me so much joy this year.

A photo of an Arch and a Wave shaped object on a desk. The arch is an inoffensive beige colour, smooth with some slight texture. The wave is a composite stone material, mostly white, also inoffensive with a pleasing wave shape on the top. Both are slightly behind an also inoffensively beige computer.
A photo of an Arch, Wave and Curved shaped objects on a shelf. The arch is an inoffensive beige colour, smooth with some slight texture. The wave is a composite stone material, mostly white, also inoffensive with a pleasing wave shape on the top. Curved object looks like a hollow tube in the shape of the letter S on its side, and appears to be hollow. It is an inoffensive almost beige green colour.
A photo of an Arch and a Wave shaped object in a kitchen. The arch is an inoffensive beige colour, smooth with some slight texture. The wave is a composite stone material, mostly white, also inoffensive with a pleasing wave shape on the top. They are behind some frankly offensively coloured doughnuts in pink, green, yellow and chocolate covered in CMYK sprinkles.

ngons, 5 months ago to random

Octagon with leaf like holes when tiling compass and tack shapes #TilingTuesday #fractal #geometry #mathart #mathsart

sofia, 2 months ago to random

imagine Friedrich Nietzsche was a anthropomorphic animal and he buys a table:

furnietzschure

sofia, 5 months ago to random

nowadays most people seem to recognize that civilian deaths are generally worse than military ones. but most seem to not draw the conclusion: to turn people into soldiers is a horrible crime.

acegikmo, 4 months ago to random

I still don't know how to use mastodon, I feel like I'm only here to share my stuff and read replies, and less so any kind of discovery of following and engaging with other people's stuff

it seems like there's only a chronological feed of those you follow (which I usually don't like because it skews to the most active people), and a generic feed for your instance (pretty much useless), but no algorithmic discovery thing?

sofia, 1 year ago to random

waps :3

source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gemeine_Goldwespe.jpg CC BY-SA

(i was looking though Wikimedia's picture of the year canditates and they're pretty cool: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/R2/Gallery )

#wasp #photo

sofia, 5 months ago to Economics

btw, i really recommend @KevinCarson1 's The Myth of the Private Sector:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-the-myth-of-the-private-sector

audio part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jbkVMzO1Bg
audio part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2GaGws-5BA

#anarchy #public #private #organisation #economics #counterEconomics

sofia, 2 months ago to random

security pro tip: eliminate the possibility of state actors by solving the underlying socioeconomic problems that allow states to act 🏴.

#anarchy

sofia, 6 months ago to random

dieser mut!
diese kraft!
sie ist nie
abgeschlafft!
(das ist die, die alles schafft 😎!)

sofia, 4 months ago to random

people: "bezel"
my brain: 🥨

#tfw germanophone

sofia, 11 months ago to random

debt first search
vs
bread first search

sofia, 10 months ago to programming

does any #programmingLanguage have something like partial evaluation based on named parameters? so like #currying, but you can add the parameters in any order, and get a function back that that evaluates the still missing parameters?
it seems pretty handy to me…

here is an example for how i think this could work in #JS:

sofia, 9 months ago to random

oh btw, what is that bullshit on the #web, where you open the URL of an image (and it served an image from there before) and suddenly it gives you a webpage? it's like the server knows exactly when i visit the adress directly. how do they do that, and how can i stop it?

sofia, 10 months ago to random

who else got super hyped about this #multiTouch demo ~15 years ago?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDVZAQQ2zIo

it's so sad how little UIs have changed, even with multi-touch hardware being fairly ubiquitous nowadays. i think part of the problem has got to be that UI programming still kinda sucks, at least from what i've seen…

sofia, 6 months ago to random

rate my streaming setup.

sofia, 9 months ago to bluesky

are people now actually using this #Bluesky thing? do they at least have federation working?

i'm baffled how willing people are to jump straight onto the next centralized, proprietary bandwagon, like "oh! maybe this won't be used against me this time!".

like, of course it will! the purpose of centralization and monopoly is power and exploitation. i guess people just think it's normal to be at the mercy of monopolists when it comes to (social) software…

sofia, 5 months ago to random

it's interesting to see how some anarcho-communists treat Elinor #Ostrom's work on #commons management. it seems for them, resricting access to ressources is suddenly obviously the right thing to do, and everything else is just a vicious strawman.

yet, restricting access to ressources unless you give/do something for it is this awful thing and completely unnecessary.

i wonder how they may justify this…

#ancom #anarchy

sofia, 1 year ago to random

remember: when you sleep and you see pictures, those pictures are a COLLAGE of OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK. you STOLE their work and they starve because of you.

yours truly,
Concerned Citizens Against Imagination and "Not Copyright Cops"™

sofia, 3 months ago to random

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

sofia, 10 months ago to ai

i love how much the current wave of #AI fucks with the cultural tropes we had about computer intelligence. instead of cold, rigid, logical planners, they are moody lumps of intuitions, who respond differently when you ask nicely, have trouble staying on topic, and may just make up stuff that "sounds about right".

i think many false expectations are because we can't quite imagine computers doing things like that.

they still can't make good jokes tho 😅.

#LLM

sofia, 4 months ago to random

little reminder: phone numbers are a terrible way to identify/authenticate people.

• not everyone has a damn phone, and they suck anyway.
• cellular networks are insecure. not just because of bad crypto (that might have improved for all i know), but because telcos can intercept/impersonate you and that's not even considered a design flaw.
• they aren't even memorable. if you want to identify people with a random jumble of symbols, you might as well use a public key.

sofia, 3 months ago to rust

okay, that looks pretty awesome:

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

#Vello #vectorGraphics #Rust #WebGPU #talk

hermlon, 4 months ago to random

w-why is she collared @kaia mastodon.social/

sofia, 13 days ago to MandelaEffect

"imitation is stealing 🤡!!!" #copyright #monopoly

mcfly, 1 month ago to TikTok German

#TikTok has to be sold becuase its under influence of a foreign government.

Do the americans realize that that's the same for the rest of the world with their stuff and better does not make the round?

Nearly every other social media company is under the influence of the US government and their hairy shitty laws.