FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

In a major win for transgender people in Japan, the country's high court has struck down a law requiring sterilization for gender change. #japan #unseenjapan #ujpost #news
https://unseen-japan.com/japan-transgender-sterilization-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-transgender-sterilization-law

FINE FINE I’LL GO FLIP THE DAMN CARD

IT HAS BEEN 0️⃣ DAYS SINCE PHYSICS DOOMED US ALL AGAIN https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/hackers-can-force-ios-and-macos-browsers-to-divulge-passwords-and-a-whole-lot-more/

xkcd is getting really specific

My new favorite thing I've encountered on Wikipedia- the notice to discourage everyone from adding their cat pictures to the cat article, at risk of being immediately reverted

Looking at a scan of an old Apple II disk drive manual and I think some of you will enjoy this illustration

How cool is that?! A new, so far unknown version of Stunts (a.k.a. 4D Sports Driving) for MS-DOS was just uploaded to archive.org. These 5.25" disks are dated from December of 1990 and the binary files are actually quite different compared to the later version.

https://archive.org/details/4-d-sports-driving-v-1.1-1990-mindscape-international-ltd.-kfx-360k

I just love this community! 😃

#RetroGaming #MSDOS #Stunts #Racing

Is your partner a numeric programmer? Know the signs! Check their texts:

• BDSM — basis-vectors, doubles, singles and (transformation) matrices
• DILDO — double in, long double out
• FUCK — fixed-point unsigned clustering of k-means
• SLUT — signed/single-precision look-up table
• SEXTOY — sign extension OY (Finnish optimising compiler vendor)

progress on my level art/modeling tool!

got box selection down for all selection modes, and the basic manipulators of translate/rotate/scale

The winners of this year's "Small World" micro-photo competition are out. I'm especially intrigued by this astonishing shot: a struck match, caught at the exact moment of ignition.
(It ended up in second place, go figure.) #science #photography
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition

food prices are unreal nowadays!!

Just one more...

it's also an interesting exercise because concepts like like “place of honour”, “highly esteemed deed … commemorated”, “system of messages”, “powerful culture” are fairly complicated. glossing is required!

is there a project to translate the WIPP messages (http://wipp.info/ ; “this place is not a place of honor” etc) into every language. if not, it must be started. my gf just remarked to me that these should be the new sample texts for translation, instead of the Lord's Prayer

Now you've encoded whatever social biases exist in your source instances and broadcast them out at scale.

Also now a person on instance A can be severed from a person on instance B with _no human decisions or notifications_ happening for the admin of A or the admin of B.

Without circular dependency and source contamination prevention it may not be with any human decisions in anyone engaged in the list itself, depending on how things are set up.

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One of the core fundamental failures of consensus #blocklists is the lack of definitive signal in the source list.

Instances get added to an instance's list because:

* They are CSAM
* They had a bad interaction with the moderator
* Because there was a moderation disagreement
* Because they are shutting down
* Because they have a different policy toward CW or adult content
* Because someone _else_ blocked them who a moderator trusted
* Because someone else blocked them and everyone's busy

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To celebrate 🎃 spooky season, I shall pronounce "SQL" as "skull" 💀.

🥺 Do join me! #sql #hacktoberfest

#godot built-in parallax occlusion mapping + temporal anti-aliasing looks way too good
yes, there's only a single quad per material

materials from @ambientcg