FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I teach at a very academically rigorous school. But, there are a few things this school does that might surprise people:

1. Many teachers teach a wide range of grade levels. So you could have a teacher who *could* teach Linear Algebra teaching you in 4th grade math.

2. The school makes time for creative math and CS in addition to the regular class. So I get to work with students without pressure to get them past any particular test or goal posts.

I pushed out a minor CSS/HTML fix to the death generator. It's now got a dark mode! It inherits it from your browser, so if your browser is set to dark mode (or your OS is, and your browser is respecting that), you'll get a darkmode Death Generator.

https://deathgenerator.com/

Are systemd-timers running just enable/disable on other timers turing-complete?

#RikerGoogling

Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

a tragedy in two screenshots

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strxfrm

Why is it that the feeling of 'no, I'm not going to sleep just closing my eyes for a bit' feels so good?

Chicken acquired.

#webcanids #comics #webcomics #furry #foxes #fox #redfox

It's well hidden, but the relay system is the centralised part.

The posts you see come from the AppView. The AppView gets its data from the Relay. The Relay gets its stuff rom the PDSes. So you always go through the relay. No direct connection from AppView to PDS. Yes, they promise that in future you might be able to run your won relay. But right now and since its inception, Bluesky rund the only relay system you can connect to. I call that centralised.

#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Window's phone

France, 2012

#Photography #Photo #Picture #Pic #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

stop calling it "AI" when it's a large learning model.

yes, it's artificial, but LLMs are *provably* not intelligent.

yeah i did the numbers for real now. if i exclude one specific impulse purchase that i'm likely to sell off, a maxed-out m1 macbook air literally would've cost me more than twice the price of my entire music gear collection combined. i know which spending choice i'm happier with

losing my mind at the mandatory IT corporate training which has a table for how long it takes to crack passwords of a certain length — to drive home that every additional character is an order of magnitude in cracking complexity — but they helpfully provide sample passwords that are abc, abcd, abcde, abcdef…, which is self-defeating the message to a truly impressive degree

breaking development from the eggheads down in R&D