All my cool friends have posted pictures of their hotel rooms that have HTTP status codes, but I’ve never been as lucky - I’ve never stayed in a room with a meaningful number. Until yesterday that is! And now.. er… ok, yeah, that’s just great 🙈
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Paul Grenfell
@evilpaul_atebit@icosahedron.website
mastodon 4.6.8Demoscener, veteran game-developer, trying to live in the boundary between art and code. English but living in Espoo, Finland.
Currently working on "Lo-Res Shaders: The Game", a game where you write shaders like it's 1983. http://superfunlaserclub.com/
Wishlist it here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3142820/LoRes_Shaders_The_Game/
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New survey says that "Finns trust the US about as much as they do Russia, China"
This latest round of NHS cost cutting has been brutal…
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Dell desktop computer. i7/8GB/discrete GPU. I'll rip the HD out but otherwise it's got everything you need. It's over 10 years old but it'll be good for a spare home server or maybe someone you know would benefit from a "my first Linux" project ;)
Sony Hi-Fi. Haven't tested thoroughly but the CD player at least works and I'll admit I was surprised that it sounds pretty good.
I'm in Dorchester, UK (probably until next week). If you can pick up, it's yours - these things really should not go to the rubbish tip, and I'm not sure the charity shops are gonna be that bothered. DM me if you're interested.
A remake of Brazil, except instead of the printer misprinting the arrest warrant, it’s AI giving the wrong name. The ending is “good catch! That was the wrong name I gave you! Let me give you the right one”
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@yannseznec Early doors - Monday to Wednesday.
There's an article on the BBC about WhatsApp rolling out usernames and it includes the quote:
"WhatsApp does not use the content of private chats for advertising. Those are protected by end-to-end-encryption, meaning the firm cannot read the contents of messages."
I see this language used a lot.
So.. am I being dumb.. or is this a little white lie? Sure, end-to-end encryption means that Meta (or whoever) can't read messages in flight or at rest on their servers, but.. everyone in a chat's messages are clearly unencrypted in your devices memory at least partially at some point.
Now, Meta would be stupid to give the game away by directly targeting ads at you based on your chats, or to send that data to their servers through a side channel (and no doubt some infosec people would have spotted that) but.. I mean.. they can still analyse the chats on the device, right?
So.. am I stupid, or is this quote misguided/misleading?
WhatsApp is "free"... so we are the product after all.
Booked one of the small two person cabins to go up to Tampere with my kid today, but OMG those family cabins (with Richard Scarry on the wall!) are so cute 🥰
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@jonikorpi Ice, or low level-of-detail water? 🤔
I know I have a soft spot for mixers, especially ones that are meant to be played, and I know I’m pretty happy with my current main mixer.. but this new Teenage Engineering thing is very very close to the retail therapy insta-buy I could do with right now…
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@yannseznec Was not expecting that on a Friday. 5 stars.
@mrsbeanbag ESLint is still (AFAIK) heavily used by JS/TS projects and it's mature and it's pretty damn good. I expect a lot of projects are probably even using it without really realising. Hmmm... I wonder where the LLMs got their rules from? 🤔
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@breaque
"I'd describe her music as three radios simultaneously tuned to 80s/90s/00s retro pop channels, placed next to a TV set blaring a teen drama. Not for everybody..."
Well that piqued my interest. I'm about an hour into this now and.. yeah.. this is a warm fuzzy late summer evening in the 00s while on some sort of a buzz <3
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@aldroid@mastodon.social TBF, we don’t know how big your hand is
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@tattlemuss@mastodon.gamedev.place Haha.. I was going to draw exactly that next but I didn’t quite know how to do it and then I overthought it and panicked
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@breaque Awesome. I grabbed the mp3 from the drive. Thanks!
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If the link works for you.. you'll want:
1 - Accept essential cookies
2 - Click "watch"
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3 - Turn on subtitles
For me, this seems to autodetect that I want English subtitles :)
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@breaque Is that available anywhere other than Soundcloud?
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@breaque For hosting.. of course it depends what you're after and what an arm and a leg is worth on the current market. S3 is the obvious starting point for static hosting and is cheap as chips (but costs your soul), so then I always recommend https://uberspace.de/en/
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@feff Kohina? ISTR it *used* to have charts.
https://kohina.com/
Exhibition of graf from around the world at Helsinki airport. I was most amused by “10 foot” (a London writer) popping up on the Lisbon collage.
No context spam email..
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@pcy@icosahedron.website Interesting.. thanks.
They wouldn't even have to do *much* analysis for it to be useful. Given the scale at which they operate, even "brand X was mentioned 10% more today in chats in small geographic region Y" would be incredibly valuable information to the right (or wrong.. I guess) people.
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@tiraniddo@infosec.exchange @pcy@icosahedron.website That's the interesting thing for me about the quote - it's never Meta that says it, only journalists. I wonder where they get it from, though? Is it just "accepted wisdom"? Of course Meta will never say "well.. actually.. that's not quite true" but I wish some journalists would at least question it instead of blindly repeating it