a message, and part of a system of messages
This started off life as a thread on Mastodon, about Google s upcoming decision to restrict all software installation to be beholden to Google Play s chain-of-custody developer identification process. For whatever it s worth, my opinions here were mostly born from my experience with pre-signed-webextensions Firefox way back when, where before 57 people could install arbitrary addons [ ]
By weight: Two parts peeled ginger, and Two parts green onion, both roughly cut. Two parts peeled garlic and One part whole red Thai birds eye chilies. all in a glass jar with a loose lid. Add a generous tablespoon of cumin and coriander seed, then make a five or six percent brine [ ]
I had the aging-computer-toucher s blessing-slash-curse of introducing my son to the Yin and Yang of Windows Problem Solving this week, with the emergence of an absolutely relentless nvwgf2umx.dll crash in the Unity engine he s using for homework. The Yin is this: you have to buckle down and carefully read the error messages and logs first, [ ]
Ted Chiang recently wrote that: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well. Just as it is vastly easier to generate a realistic video of an astronaut in orbit around Alpha Centauri than it [ ]
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: A vast and jagged temple Stands in the desert. Near it, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered placard lies, whose angles, And jagged prose and words in long dead language, Tell that its builder well those dangers read Which yet survive, radiant of these [ ]
A few days ago, over on Mastodon I asked if there were existing tools that can provide warnings about whether or not a video might be seizure-inducing. My (naive, racked with engineers disease) brain assumed that you could probably pull something plausible about this straight out of the video stream, if you were dealing with [ ]
Jimmy Wales once said that the biggest reason Nupedia the predecessor to Wikipedia you ve never heard of failed was insisting on control instead of trust. The very earliest mistake was the assumption that you needed this rigorous top-down process of control. By once I mean he said that a little over 90 days [ ]
This is fun. I was into the cheese banter with some friends over on Mastodon as one does and I came up with a clever phrase that I thought would make a clever joke. At least I thought it was novel; I sometimes wonder if I m the first person to come up with [ ]
Mesh networking and LoRaWAN Long Range, Wide Area Networking is an interesting, relatively recent distributed networking layer that seems to be attracting people interested in cooperative antidependency, inexpensive resiliarchism and larval stage tinkercomms. You know: the usual people. That crowd. If commodity hardware, docs on the ragged edge between incompleteness and ambiguity and [ ]