i have to say that I love https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html
and I used their recommendations on free fonts and changed them on my eink reader (boox) and I'm really enjoying reading. i also changed them in libre office writer and wow, what a change. I almost want to claim that I'm better motivated in writing.
saying "I was wrong" in meetings: boring. puts the blame on you.
"I hallucinated": modern. shows you're using the latest tech. it's not your fault you're wrong.
I've just stumbled on this project, and it looks incredible!
I've never heard of "Snapshot GNSS", but conceptually, you just "listen" to the signal, and record it... then deal with the processing later (potentially off-device). No need for a full fix, no almanac, etc...
Wake times measured in milliseconds(!)
> Needs only 12 ms of signal reception for a fix
CSCW and HCI people will spend years trying to design a digital collaborative system for finding consensus, evaluating analog rankings, representing shifting opinions over time, etc., but I just watched someone do fluid, iterative voting by moving rectangles around on a powerpoint slide and it worked perfectly first try with no explanation. So maybe we already have all the software we need and that On The Turing Completeness of Powerpoint just didn't go far enough.
Fun fact: Just like microcontrollers, the fuse bits in desktop CPUs can occasionally get loose, causing single-bit flips. This is likely responsible for many strange CPUIDs in the wild, some reported cases include "GenuineIotel" CPUs [1] and a "Intel Core i4" CPU. [2] #electronics
[1] https://twitter.com/InstLatX64/status/1101230794364862464
[2] https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13t4y127TX
New blog post: The craftsperson and the scientist https://gfsc.studio/blog/2024/craftsperson-and-scientist/
We analysed two ways of working we've identified through our collaborative practice
More than ever, we need networking protocols which are resilient, privacy preserving, bandwidth conserving, able to run on low-spec hardware, and not quite as preoccupied with being the global network for everyone ever.
We’re delighted to present Willow, a new family of peer-to-peer protocols that cater to just that niche. https://willowprotocol.org is a guide to those protocols, with full specifications, ~50 hand-drawn diagrams, illustrations, and comics, and much more besides.
Our thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this project!
somehow only found out about the forum for @malleablesys and it's everything I want when it comes to incredibly obscure and niche tech wandering 🥹 as though half of my browser tabs somehow found their way to a forum
“Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains.
The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.” Via Dr Steve Campbell from the other place
He later references https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex
https://twitter.com/historian_steve/status/1745920780624711886?s=46&t=4TnCHrl_NkgPDLmdROH8hA
Embrace being a weirdo who insist on talking about a very specific range of topics where any attempt to branch out into Not Those Topics will inevitably circle back to those topics, and this is just how it's gonna be
In recent weeks, we've seen a wave of AI-generated images of white, blonde families presented by neo-fascist online accounts as models of a desirable future. As disgusting as this is, it seems no coincidence that AI is being used for reactionary propaganda. Generative AI is structurally conservative, even nostalgic. Everything it produces is based on interpolating existing data. In a way, it’s a backward prediction: It makes plausible guesses on what could have been, based on images from the past. And unsurprisingly, these images are heavily biased in terms of the lack of representation of ethnic diversity, gender stereotypes and Western middle class aesthetic values. But while this is true for all AI models, different companies seem to deal with these biases in very different ways.
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#PlatformRealism #ImageGeneration
What if Community Notes worked on top of Hypothesis?
Community curated annotations for any URL.
Could it work?
One of my favorite things right now is Drumeo’s video series of drummers trying to create a drum part for a song they’ve never heard in a genre they don’t usually play. For example, here’s an older jazz/big band musician improvising drums for a Rob Zombie tune after one listen through a drumless version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eO8Wy5a6t0&list=PLThYwnIoLwyWiF5RgHPzOzYNdqQw1-tep&index=13
We don't want to get people too excited, but wouldn't it be cool if we released a new version soon? And it was like, over two years of work better
I love itch.io as a platform, and I can understand if they need to serve ads when people download stuff for free, but this is not okay -- they are serving what's most likely a type of malware in an ad that's designed to trick people who are trying to download the project. I honestly don't think I can stay on the platform if they keep doing this -- I don't want to put people who download my projects at risk.
