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  • A Hopkins Professor Says America’s Descent Into Authoritarianism May Have Started With Policing in Blue Cities. If That’s True, We’re in Big Trouble

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  • In a 1994 interview, Mr. [John] Ehrlichman said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:

    “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

    https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

  • the eternal september and its consequences

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  • You can never go back, but we sure made some great memories.

    https://16colo.rs/ (ANSI/ASCII/text art gallery/archive)

  • Oh Noes!!

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  • I understand now!

    As a cardinal, he was fine.

    But when a cardinal becomes Pope, he dies and also goes woke.

    Now, we can remember his name.

    His name... Is Robert Prevost.

    His name is Robert Prevost!

  • New Pope just dropped

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  • Would god still love you if He were a worm?

  • If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight?

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  • Human beings are not proscriptive. A "gay" "man" is a human being with biological characteristics typical of human males, who acts in a manner society describes as masculine, and who feels attraction towards similar sexes and genders of people.

    If that person is forced into sex with a person they don't feel desire for, I dunno, that's some kind of thought-experiment rape. If a "gay" "man" has sex with a "lesbian" "woman" and it's consensual for both of them then they are both, by a descriptive measure of what acts have occurred, bisexual people, who have just engaged in heterosexual coitus.

    That's assuming that both of them have engaged in homosexual acts before of course. By the nature of this thought experiment, they both could be people who self-describe as such without actually having done it.

    They are free to consider themselves whatever they want, because self-descriptions of people are always based more on aspirations and desires than facts. Lots of billionaires consider themselves good humanitarians, and lots of straight people have suppressed homosexual desires. People are complex, contradictory, and our language falls behind in accurately describing reality.

  • There it is, that funny feeling.

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  • Cute though

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  • I got fired from a programming job because I wrote code for maybe 30 minutes a day, but spent all my other time going from desk to desk helping other devs find problems and get unstuck. It was maybe the most productive I've ever been on a job.

    That day, I learned a valuable lesson: do an hour of work a day (or week), then sit at your desk pretending to work while parceling out the stuff you did. Never help anyone. My career has been much more successful since.

  • Aborted Virtual Machine

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  • Ooh, I'd been looking at wasmer but wasmtime looks easier and more appropriate. Thanks for the suggestion!

    Also wow, a D programmer in the wild! I used to really like that language before I got into Rust (my beloved).

  • Aborted Virtual Machine

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  • Literally have a dozen other tabs open about how to embed a WASM engine into my Rust game. At least I'm not (currently, at this time, right now) writing my own language or trying to embed a prolog engine.

  • The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color

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  • Objects don't "have" colors either, if we're being pedantic. They reflect/absorb/transmit/emit different combinations of wavelengths. So "pink" objects just reflect some wavelengths that we classify as in the range of "red" and "blue". Color is an interaction between emission, detection, and the brain's interpretation.

    Its not even a unique trick. The ears combine various wavelengths of air vibrations to create sound, with combinations of pure waves merging into distinct timbres (sometimes called "tonal color").

  • Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux

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  • From the GitHub: 

     
            Now playable (previously worked with Proton Experimental):
        Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
        Black Ink
        Factorio
        Ignited Entry
        Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
        MySims Kingdom
        No Man's Sky in VR mode (regressed after a game update)
        Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
        Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
        Soul Interface
        THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH
        VIDEO GAME (924310)
        Willful
        X Rebirth VR Edition
    Fixed / improved video playback in:
        Agony Unrated
        All-Star Fruit Racing
        Audiosurf
        Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
        Gal*Gun 2
        Greedfall
        Indigo Park: Chapter 1
        Omensight
        SOULCALIBUR VI
        TELEFORUM
        Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh
        Zero Escape: The Nonary Games


  

     
            Reinstated hack from Proton 7 that helped with SpellForce: Platinum Edition, NieR: Automata, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and DARK SOULS III crashing with monitors exposing too many possible resolutions.
    Improved performance in Dirt Rally 2.0.
    Fixed Final Fantasy XVI demo displaying driver warning on launch.
    Fixed Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced launcher hang and the game crashing on launch as well as not being possible to uninstall it via Steam.
    Fixed XCOM 2 erroring out when trying to connect to my2K.
    Fixed network issues in Hunt: Showdown 1896 after a game update.
    Fixed Rivals of Aether II, Stalker 2, The Axis Unseen, Beyond Handwell, Marvel Rivals, The Finals, Creatures of Ava crashing with Intel GPUs.
    Added support for game mods that load via custom dinput8.dll.
    Fixed input not working with Studio System : Guardian Angel.
    Fixed cursor not working in the menu of Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy (1999).
    Fixed Deviator crashing with AMD GPUs shortly after launching.
    Fixed Warhammer: Vermintide 2 showing prerequisite installer on every launch.
    Re-enabled nvapi for Neverwinter, Star Trek Online and Champions Online.
    Fixed full screen mode in The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis.
    Improved situation with audio crackling in Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Steam Deck.
    Improved reliability of Proton Prefix creation.
    Fixed Supermarket Together not detecting DLC on some systems.
    Fixed extras video playback in Shadow Warrior 2.
    Fixed VR mode in Evochron Legacy SE.
    Fixed non-Steam Battle.net installations.
    Fixed Sea of Thieves Xbox login window not working.
    Fixed graphics scaling in Master Magistrate.
    Fixed interface elements in Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two showing as solid green color.
    Included initial work on speech synthesis - requires manual installation of Proton Voice Files (steam://install/3086180), confirmed to work with The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
    Fixed video playback in Twisted Sails.
    Improved video playback in Max: The Curse of Brotherhood.
    Added hack to allow Steam Overlay to function with EAC EOS games.
    Fixed CPU topology override issues on machines with more than 32 logical cores.
    Fixed Proton sometimes creating an empty window when running via XWayland.
    Fixed Marvel Rivals displaying OS/drivers out of date warning.
    Fixed desync issue with 60FPS AVPro videos in VRChat.
    Fixed intermittent freezing in Spirit Hunter: NG.
    Fixed The Finals crashing after a recent game update.
    Improved Ubisoft Connect behavior when switching between Proton versions.
    Improved video playback in Locoland on NVIDIA GPUs.
    Improved video playback in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
    Fixed Tiny Cauldron freezing when selecting some resolutions.
    Fixed various crashes affecting Final Fantasy XIV launcher.
    Fixed broken account creation in Final Fantasy XIV.
    Fixed Nioh: Complete Edition hanging on a black screen when skipping videos.
    Fixed Killsquad freezing on character selection screen.
    Fixed Dread X Collection 3 Bete Grise minigame.
    Fixed video playback in ATRI - My Dear Moments-.
    Fixed Dark and Darker not being playable after a game update.
    Updated libvkd3d-shader to vkd3d-1.15-179-g21e08955d3c3.
    Updated dxvk to v2.6.1.
    Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.9.0.
    Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.14.1-153-ga7159b80e165.
    Updated wine-mono to 9.4.0.
    Updated Xalia to 0.4.5 and enabled it for The TakeOver, Floppy Heroes, Whiskered Away, Himno, Survirus, The Adventure of Ninomae Ina'nis.
    Rebased Wine on top of wine-10.0.
    Added Steamworks SDK 1.62 support.

  • Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy

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  • Yeah, you can just use Google's VM, Google's renderer, Google's sponsored image library, write it in Google's language, and you can probably borrow some of the WebGL code from the Servo project.

    Obviously the problem is so trivial when you're just bolting together premade components that the fairies delivered to you. Good thing none of those components are hard to write, hard to integrate, or written with corporate interests in mind.

    Hey where's your snap-together browser project? It's so easy, all this free code just laying around.

    Oh or were you arguing that I said you had to write everything from scratch? Because I didn't say that. I also didn't say that you needed all those things for communication, kind of the exact opposite. What exactly was the point of your "well acktshually" comment?

  • Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy

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  • The modern internet, driven by corporate mandates, is rather complex. A browser needs to (at least):

    • transmit and receive several protocols, usually HTTP/IP (ipv4, ipv6, http2, SSL/tsl for security, sometimes also ftp, gopher, torrents, etc)
    • parse HTML documents and render them correctly to screen
    • parse user input to forms
    • parse CSS, correctly apply and cascade all the rules to the HTML element
    • include a full, performant VM to run ECMAScript in, manipulate the rendered document tree according to those scripts
    • include APIs required by ECMAScript covering the DOM, windowing, network requests, screen readers and other accessibility options
    • render and work on at least 3 major desktop OS flavors and 2 mobile ones, across countless versions
    • play media: images, audio, and video
    • DRM handling for media
    • Handle rendering of text in any world language

    And that's just the tip of the iceberg! I've come around to the idea that the modern internet is actually, to be technical here, totally fucked. Big Tech is going to keep pushing users deeper into walled proprietary gardens. They've already made the open internet so complex and heavy that it requires a multimillion dollar company (dependent on Google's allowance or massive ad dollars) to create a browser for it.

    I think the only solution is to throw it all away and start over. Twitter and reddit aren't being "saved" by the "resistance" users. The concept of free and open exchange of ideas on the net is being saved by new protocols and services that are built to resist corporate ownership, like Gemini and the Fediverse.

    It's going to be hard weening off the flashy, ad driven Web, but its the only way. Go download Lagrange and start browsing Gemini space. If you weren't around for the 90s era of GameFAQs and the mostly-text web driven by individual writers and hosts, then here's your chance to go back to a better way of doing things.

    We can't "fix" an internet that's owned by Big Tech, we need new spaces owned by the people using them.

  • Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight - Ars Technica

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  • Further, "Whether another user actually downloaded the content that Meta made available" through torrenting "is irrelevant," the authors alleged. "Meta 'reproduced' the works as soon as it made them available to other peers."

    A "peer" in bittorrent is someone else who is downloading the same file as you. This is opposed to a "seeder" which is also a peer but is only sending data, no longer receiving.

    You don't have to finish the file to share it though, that's a major part of bittorrent. Each peer shares parts of the files that they've partially downloaded already. So Meta didn't need to finish and share the whole file to have technically shared some parts of copyrighted works. Unless they just had uploading completely disabled, but they still "reproduced" those works by vectorizing them into an LLM. If Gemini can reproduce a copyrighted work "from memory" then that still counts.

    Now, to be clear, fuck Meta but also fuck this argument. By the same logic, almost any computer on the internet is guilty of copyright infringement. Proxy servers, VPNs, basically any compute that routed those packets temporarily had (or still has for caches, logs, etc) copies of that protected data.

    I don't think copyrights and open global networks are compatible concepts in the long run. I wonder which the ruling class will destroy first? (Spoilers, how "open" is the internet anymore?)

  • Indeed

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  • Yeah, I just took a phone screenshot off Instagram, which is where he hosts the comic. So it picked up some UI crud. I hate IG, no way to download photos to your phone, among many other flaws.

  • Indeed

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  • Without pointless censorship: (did you know you can fucking cuss all goddamn day on Lemmy?)

    How i feel about self-censorship to appease corporate social media:

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  • I'm happy to unveil that ive fully moved off FF and onto various forks of it.

    Can you imagine how great software would be if we had UBI? No one would need advertising money to stay viable, and every developer could just make whatever they wanted or what felt important to them.

  • We can do better

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  • I just don't find hexbear as a whole to be that objectionable. They defederated from everyone for a while during their whole DNS debacle, and I missed them! It's a very active instance that posts a lot of news and memes.

    And if we're basing this on which instances have more annoying users, well I have a lot more users from discuss.tchncs.de blocked than hexbear. Not to call them out either, but I think it's... intolerant to act like a whole instance is poison because their standards and rules allow for types of people I don't want to interact with. Obviously stuff like CSAM or Nazi shit is a red line, but if some users having objectionable politics is grounds for ostracizing an instance, how has lemmy.world survived this long?

  • Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?

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  • Physically Based Rendering (the freely available book) won its authors a special Academy award in 2014. That book is still the teaching standard for ray tracing so far as I know. In the intro, they discuss Pixar adding ray tracing (based on pbrt) to their RenderMan software in the early 2000s.

    A Bugs Life and TS2 could have benefit from some of that, but I'd guess Monsters Inc was the first full outing for it, and certainly by Nemo they must have been doing mostly ray tracing.