Jayjader

Interesting read, but boy does this journalist have a ... different read on things than I do.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we're nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win.

IMO it's the exact opposite; we talk about this because we want the best protocol to win, this time, while knowing full well that usually it doesn't.

Of course search was broken because all OSS social tools must have one glaring lack of functionality.

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be "broken" (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”.

I doubt that trump supporters cheering on the USA throwing their weight around like the world's bully-in-chief would be receptive to such a message.

I can't tell if I'm just too deep in the fedi-culture weeds, or if the article really is confidently ignorant.

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

top-tier sneer from The Register

Creator Dan Walsh noted that since Garfield doesn't actually respond to Jon, but only thinks, all of Jon's conversations are in his head anyway.

They aren't fediverse-first, and they're French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info.

So, it's definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don't think we're at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations' website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren't browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.

Flashy and pretty, but as a UI I find it places too much visual emphasis on form over function / style over substance. The biggest example I can give us that I don't think the bright neon blue left border on posts should be so much more eye-catching than the post titles. If I were to change things, I would probably try to find a dimmer shade of blue for them, and/or add some additional decoration to post titles so that they more clearly are the first thing my eyes are drawn to when scanning the page.

Your last paragraph reminds me of the following series of YouTube videos that goes over how to build a "correct" fluid simulation, starting at the quantum mechanical level (iirc): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMoTR49uj6ld32zLVWmcGXaW7w2ey7Vh4.

Multiple scales of complexity and interaction, that's way too computationally intensive to just directly stimulate how reality works, and so each scale has to be carefully "averaged out", in a sense, to end up with a simulation that is cheap enough to run yet still behaves realistically and reproduces as many nuances as possible.

You can use me after free() all you want, babe

Yeah, go big or go home with this kind of stuff. Give me some Linux kernel source code, maybe even some well-known RFC!

Si les spoilers ne font pas peur, voici une lettre « ouverte » écrite par les auteurs aux fans après la fin de la série, discutant justement de comment celle-ci se termine : https://www.hiracdelest.com/database/articles/kaa_response-full.htm

Voici la majorité du contenu, sans les spoils explicites :

Dear Animorphs Readers:
Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story. [...] That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That there was no happy celebration. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.
Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don't end happily. Not ever. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Always people die in wars. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones.
That's what happens, so that's what I wrote. [...] That doesn't by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it's a start.
Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war.
I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war.
So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? [...] Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.
If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers.
K.A. Applegate

Merci!

Des epub peuvent se trouver assez facilement en ligne, et il me semble que le couple d'auteurs a plus ou moins dit qu'ils s'en fichent que les gens les téléchargent. Ils ont d'ailleurs fait un AMA sur Reddit il y a un certain nombre d'années! Attention, certaines questions et réponses de cet AMA spoilent très explicitement la fin de la série.

La plupart des fans s'accordent à dire qu'une relecture peut sauter une bonne dizaine/quizaine des livres du milieu, environ un sur deux à partir du numéro 23. Pour tenir le rythme de parution tous les x mois les auteurs ont fini par faire appel à des prète-plume, et ça se sent - les récits restent funs mais sont assez semblables schématiquement et souvent font peu pour avancer la trame de livre en livre. D'après wikipédia, les auteurs originels ont écrit les 22 premiers de la série, et les 2 derniers. De souvenir, à partir de la quarantaine ça recommence à s'inscrire dans une trame globale - et surtout beaucoup la faire progresser au sein de chaque livre.

Mention spéciale aux 4 hors-série suivants (titres anglais) : The Andalite Chronicles, The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, Visser, The Ellimist Chronicles. Ils font tous office de prologue à la série et expliquent/explorent comment l'univers au plus large s'est « mis en place », en prenant la perspective de différents personnages non-humains. Le dernier (Ellimist) a été de loin un des livres qui m'ont le plus marqué de toute ma vie.

Il y a aussi une adaptation en BD qui a commencé en 2020! Pour l'instant les 6 premiers livres sont adaptables, chacun en un tome de bd.

J'ai lu tout la série. C'était assez chouette pour de la littérature jeunesse mais très sombre et frôlant le gore; une bande d'ados qui se retrouvent propulsés dans une lutte guérilla contre des aliens sous forme de limaces qui rentrent par l'oreille pour envelopper les cerveau de quelqu'un et les contrôler comme une marionnette. Un alien mourant ennemi des limaces donne aux ados le pouvoir d'absorber l'ADN de n'importe quel être vivant pour ensuite se transformer («morpher», d'où le nom) en une copie conforme de cet être à volonté. Seule limite: au-delà de 2h, impossible de retrouver son corps d'origine.

Les ~54 livres de la série couvrent ~2 années de lutte désespérée durant lesquelles les gamins voient de plus en plus de personnes de leur entourage tomber sous le contrôle des limaces, deviennent de plus en plus traumatisés par leurs piètres missions d'espionnage et sabotage qu'iels tentent de mener tout en maintenant leur façade de lycéens insouciants. Certains font des cauchemars à répétition, d'autres se rendent compte avec inquiétude qu'ils adorent le combat mortel, d'autres encore tentent désespérément d'établir des limites morales à ne pas franchir, tandis que l'invasion alien progresse lentement mais sûrement sur terre.

Je ne fais que survoler très vite car sinon j'écrirai un pavé, mais il y a pleins d'aspects à mentionner en plus. Les séquences où les ados doivent se confronter à la « mentalité instinctive » et la morphologie de l'espèce en laquelle ils se morphent sont très fun, se rapprochant de documentaires nature à la première personne. Les séquences de morphing durant lesquelles leurs corps se changent de façon assez incontrôlée virent souvent dans du body horror, et les combats contre des êtres sous contrôle des limaces sont saignants et moribonds - membres tranchés, gorges déchirées, intestins répandus au sol. Le processus de morph restaure les. Orps à leur état « d'origine », donc les auteurs ne se retiennent pas sur les conséquences des affrontements physiques. Les limaces ont conquis d'autres espèces avant de débarquer sur terre, du coup nos protagonistes se retrouvent assez souvent à se battre contre un mélange d'humains et d'humanoïdes. À partir du ~6e tome, de mémoire, la bande d'ados humains se retrouvent rejoints par un ado alien, un cadet d'un navire de guerre spatiale échoué sur terre qu'ils planquent dans des bois voisinant le champ aux parents d'une de la bande. Son espèce n'ayant pas de bouche et donc ne connaissant pas le goût, il adore morpher un humain pour goûter des choses insolites comme les pains aux raisins et les mégots de cigarettes, ainsi que de s'émerveiller de la sensation de parler à l'oral.

Les récits sont très ancrés dans un quotidien états-unien des années 80-90 - pas de smartphone, pas d'internet, beaucoup de références aux bornes d'arcades et Xena, Warrior Princess. J'ignore à quel point c'est appréciable aujourd'hui pour un adulte français qui découvre. En tant que gamin queer à l'âme tendre, en tout cas, le thème de « n'importe quel autre être humain peut à tout moment se révéler comme une vil ennemi de l'humanité » avait fait mouche sur mon propre vécu. Peut-être que des parallèles avec la Résistance durant l'occupation nazie peuvent se ressentir. Bien qu'écrit de façon abordable pour des 10-12 ans, la série ne prend pas le lecteur pour un simplet incapable d'émotions complexes ; au contraire c'est une des œuvres qui m'avait fait beaucoup réfléchir sur la complexité de la morale à un si jeune âge.

Ces couvertures sont dérivées de l'autorisation en série télé - qui n'a pas fait long feu, vu les coûts des effets spéciaux à l'époque.

Kite on a cable seems to require less specialized manufacturing than enormous fan blades on a very tall pole. There's no fire risk from the blades spinning too fast when no power is needed.

I suppose this introduced the risk of cables getting tangled. I also wonder how high the kite needs to get to reach a layer of ever present wind and avoid needing a human to come spool it back in.

Yup! YAML is defined as a "strict superset" of JSON (or at least, it was the last time I checked).

It's a lot like markdown and HTML; when you want to write something deeply structured and somewhat complex you can always drop back/down to the format with explicit closing delimiters and it just works™.

Quinces are not that edible when raw. Best cooked as veg alongside meat, or jellied into gummies, in my experience.

Now you're thinking with ~~portals~~ primes!

From what I've heard, Mein Kampf is similarly drivel. Don't know if that's comforting or even more depressing...

Wow, how disappointing. The LARB published two pieces on Dune back when Villeneuve's first movie came out that, imo, absolutely nailed relating Dune to current events: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heresies-of-dune/, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/race-consciousness-fascism-and-frank-herberts-dune/.

Now I kind of want to save an offline copy of these articles in case the website goes down.

It's a shame that the CCP is seemingly repeating the same error as our "western" scientific body. I've been hearing about the problems with the over focus on number of published papers in academia for over a decade now, chief asking them the "replication crisis". Are they just interested in beating "us" at our own game, even when said game is detrimental to the players involved? Seems very short sighted and slightly ignorant.

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Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

Sorry, can't do scarves.

uhn 🥺

ultra casual

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