“Cold fusion is a myth!”

“Well, it mythically makes my mythical car go mythically fast, thude!”

“You didn’t build that contraption off the hyper net, tell me you didn’t”

“I did! Runs on water!”

“It doesn’t, Mendeleevium so-called catalyst in the alleged fusion impeller is fissioning to provide the energy. It’ll work for about a week until the lead buildup blocks the neutrons. Or your shielding gets too hot.”

“Haha, I built the unshielded version to save weight.”

“Oh you utter cantaloupe. Come on, I’m taking you to the ER. My car. We’ll have to bury yours, and if you’re very lucky you won’t be in it.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

There was an article in #Wired, investigated and written by #TaylorLorenz (@taylorlorenz) about a kind of disturbing dark web of money funding some content creators who lean into democratic messaging. It has sent some people on the blueosphere apoplectic, and I fail to understand why they are attacking the messenger, rather than the ethics of an organization where the first rule of Chorus is that you’re not allowed to talk about #Chorus.

Look, I will be the first to agree that the Dems have lost the thread, and their connection to the people. Trying to fix that would be good. Trying to fix it by silencing leftists, and running the same dark money nonsense as the bad guys is not good. In fact, I put it to you that it is unethical and bad. And taking your anger about being lied to out on the person who exposed the deception is just self defeating.

Archive link to the Wired article for those without a sub.
archive.ph/YdYrL

Is "Bob" your Savior? You bet your ass!

SubGenius.com/

More hacking action at the #FreeBSD #Hackathon here in Oslo! Bugs are found, and then more "bugs" are found.

Having Level 3 support in our offices is something we could certainly get used to! ;-D

There's been documentation work, installer work, chasing down pf issues, trying to add architecture number 58 and 59 to #NetBSD (the #486DLC and #NexGen 5x86), discussions about FreeBSD pkgbase, preparing of release notes, and much else.

After a long day, restitution is again offered in the form of #Retrogaming, #beer and food. Today seems to be #MonkeyIsland day.

Basmati Blues (2017) might be the anti-capitalism movie everybody should watch.

It's cheesy, and starts with a white saviour feel, but develops into a "if the people work together they can accomplish anything" beautiful story.

I haven't blogged in a while. Mostly because my last post was about AI and I wanted to write a followup but found the whole AI discourse so extremely exhausting.

So anyways, back to the world of little hacks with this post about booting #NetBSD from a GPT wedge, the hard way:

bentsukun.ch/posts/netbsd-wedg…

Confusion on the streets today. A group of flag waving racists, but then also a group of anti fascists telling them to go home to the suburbs.

Ain't no red flag like someone carrying an Australian flag. Pretty sad to realise this is where we've come to as a nation. We are not doing great.

#AusPol #Melbourne

As I am working on the newest Knight George demo version, I don't have a lot of flashy new stuff to show...

So just have this extract of the game's first dungeon! Reptiles attack you, and you need to get a hang of the Catacable to jump those pits!

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

I have a weird behaviour of #ffmpeg on #NetBSD: when transcoding a video (either from an existing video or from still frames, doesn't matter) with #x264, everything is fine. But when I encode with #x265, the ffmpeg process sets itself to niceness 20. I can trace the system calls, and it does indeed call setpriority with x265, and not with x264, but I cannot find it in the source code.

This happens with both ffmpeg5 and ffmpeg7 on NetBSD, but not on Ubuntu. I haven't yet tested anything else.

Normally I wouldn't mind if a CPU-hungry encoder runs "nice", but I would like to decide that for myself, and in my current setup, the CPU clock modulation daemon ignores nice processes and so doesn't raise the frequency, and so my encoding runs slow. And non-superusers cannot lower the niceness.

Another weird NetBSD problem. Please help or boost.

Chris Pratt has defended RFK Jr. on the basis of his being a member of his wife's family.

Brother, if my family member was a vaccine denier for this long, I would not be feigning ignorance regarding it.

New post: akselmo.dev/posts/netsurf-on-r…

#reMarkable #Netsurf #Linux

Sensitive content Clicca per aprire/chiudere

I Am Friend of Medium (FOM). Here is my today's story.

I Manifest Money, I Love Money

medium.com/no-time/i-manifest-…

#365DaysofWriting #AYearofWriting #earlymorningsongsorpoems #everyone #blog #write #blogging #writing #medium @blogging @writers @writingcooperative @medium

please boost!!!

hey there! it's me, vanta rainbow black, fedi's favorite trans punk catgirl instance admin

at my best friend's suggestion i'm gonna be trying things a bit differently from now on. instead of asking for help with groceries and such weekly and always having gaps i'm gonna start crowdfunding for the entire month at once. this will provide me more peace of mind and stability and make things easier i think

TOTAL: $1500
groceries: $600
medical weed: $400
bills: $115
general life expenses: $385

do you enjoy the work i've done organizing a mass-defederation of meta's threads with FediPact? are you hype in the pipe for the fedi memoir whose 52k word rough draft i recently finished? do you like the rad cybersyndicate instances i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my community movie nights? my posting generally? or just wanna give someone in need a nice helping hand?

well i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!!

venmo: venmo.com/vantablack420

paypal: paypal.me/v33b33

cashapp: https://cash.app/$vantablack420

liberapay: liberapay.com/v4nt4bl4ck

ko-fi: ko-fi.com/vantablack420

GFM: gofund.me/aa09f716

patreon (monthly): patreon.com/vantablack

throne: throne.com/vantablack

#MutualAid #TransCrowdFund

Payez vb avec PayPal.Me

Rendez-vous sur PayPal.Me/v33b33 et saisissez le montant. C'est signé PayPal, donc c'est simple et sécurisé. Vous n'avez pas de compte PayPal ? Pas de problème.

^PayPal.Me

Next federal takeover: Chicago. The Trump administration is asking the nearby naval base for help carrying out the president’s massive deportation campaign.

“These operations are similar to what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Same DHS team." trib.al/Zubq0Iz

trib.al/5t7MlzP

Trump Pulls In Navy for His Next Takeover of Blue City

The Department of Homeland Security reached out to a naval base near Chicago for help with ICE operations.

^{The New Republic}

Trump administration cut funding to shooting prevention programs in Minnesota weeks before school shooting | The Independent

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

Trump administration cut funding to shooting prevention programs in Minnesota weeks before school shooting

In Minnesota, $800,000 in federal grants to local agencies, including the state Department of Public Safety and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, were cut last month, undermining efforts to prevent mass violence

^{Erin Keller (The Independent)}

Finally on the second bus ... What a ball up

They complained about the protests a couple weeks ago ... This running thing had screwed up public transport

And my travel

Hugz & xXx

Adventure starting

Slight interruption, from a customer that wanted to talk about work and a job ... On a Sunday ... FFS

On a bus to catch another bus

Hugz & xXx

Oh word some big film fandom Weibo account posted about the Indonesia protests too

Edit:
weibo.com/6392708119/520516884…

#tootSEA #indonesia