xantronix

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by xantronix 10mo ago
I have been waiting for quite some time for some sort of reckoning with our glut for compute resources, but for years I had optimistically assumed this would be due to physical constraints rather than artificial socioeconomic ones. Now is
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by xantronix 10mo ago
This is performance art and certain members of the audience are the punchline; I genuinely cannot conceive of any other meaning or purpose for this.
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by xantronix 10mo ago
I think the crucial difference here is that literally anybody can write without taking on years of training or a tremendous financial burden.
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by xantronix 10mo ago
It's very unfortunate that, in the current moment, AI is the spear tip of one of the largest consolidations of power, at the combined annex of capital and political wealth, in recent history.
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by xantronix 10mo ago
I will grant you that, however, it does not take much reading-between-the-lines to understand that Rob is referring to the economic conditions and corporations that exist which allow people to develop things like AI Village.
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by xantronix 11mo ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's correct. Just whipped this up, using the WGS-84 datum. (use-modules (geo vincenty)) (let walk ((p '(0 0 180)) (i 0)) (cond ((= i 3) (display p) (ne
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by xantronix 11mo ago
The URL you see in that fourth screenshot in the Imgur post is from using `git clone` on the the same URL, which was issued on GitHub.
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by xantronix 11mo ago
This sentiment seems short-sighted and to express an unqualified value judgement. Furthermore, this seems like a presupposition that once a popular language is implemented, new idioms and features are not implemented from elsewhere as ecos
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by xantronix 1y ago
Related to the initial poor performance of Electron on macOS Tahoe? https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311
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by xantronix 1y ago
openssl s_client -connect host:port
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by xantronix 1y ago
Humans are not this quick to be gratifyingly sycophantic, as your posts (note that I am careful not to say "you") in nearly every comment reply on this post. I sincerely must ask you, what are you getting out of all this? If it
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by xantronix 1y ago
Indeed, I probably could have made it more clear I was referring to the situation in Gtk 2, but I figured it was implicit given that, of Gtk 1 and Gtk 2, only the latter renders text in client-side pixmaps/pixbufs.
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by xantronix 1y ago
I'm aware. The X server is the thing the user sits and operates. I've written quite a bit of Xlib code in my day.
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by xantronix 1y ago
You actually hit the nail on the head; pixbuf/pixmap font rendering on the client side rather than X server side text rendering.
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by xantronix 1y ago
Security practices aside, ICEBlock is worse than activism theater; it allows bad actors to intimidate communities with false reports, as it lacks any methods to validate reports and verify users, and was developed without collaboration with
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by xantronix 1y ago
Would not surprise me. Although it looks like F-Droid is hosted with Hetzner, I have encountered more than one failure to rotate certificates on account of Linode API changes, requiring manual update of the Python Linode API client to reso
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by xantronix 1y ago
Apple doesn't do a lot of baremetal development from scratch that I'm aware of. The Lightning to HDMI dongle bootstraps an XNU kernel with an AirPlay decoder into 256MB RAM, for instance.
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by xantronix 1y ago
As an artist, I do not dread AI's artistic capabilities from a philosophical standpoint because its apparent "humanity" is a distilled average entirely divorced from the contexts in which its stolen art inputs are provided.
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by xantronix 1y ago
Jesus fucking Christ. I am so sorry to his friends, family and colleagues at Shadowcat. I don't know that I or so many other people in and around the Perl community would have the life experiences we had without being "voluntold&
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by xantronix 1y ago
It's enough that I consider peacing out. Not out of life, mind, but out to the woods on a permanent basis. I want zero proximity to the cynicism that runs rampant through the industry because it's so much more difficult to disce
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by xantronix 2y ago
Thank you! I appreciate the vital feedback.
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by xantronix 2y ago
Hi there! Author here. I don't really have anything to say, other than, I am very happy to see the love. Thank you.
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by xantronix 5y ago
My apologies. I simply glossed over the Mac bit. :( Just having a hard time.
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by xantronix 5y ago
What you are looking for is this: https://www.amigaforever.com/
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by xantronix 11y ago
Author here. I'm honestly pleasantly surprised you assumed I was in fact a multitudinous entity. In some aspects I am, but in actual practice I am but one corporeal form containing what I believe to be one brain. Having said that, I
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by xantronix 11y ago
Wow. So I popped in the first seven paragraphs of the text of Wizard People, Dear Reader: http://www.erikkennedy.com/wizardpeopledearreaders.html ...And out popped a bloody good summary I couldn't have written better
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by xantronix 11y ago
I tried my hand, dear Frondo. I tried. http://tanzer.io/
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by xantronix 11y ago
Tcl's pretty mindbendingly cool. Don't ever let anybody convince you otherwise. It may not do all the things on earth you'd want it to do, but by Lady Circe the things it does offer are solid as a bank vault made of Volvos.
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Closing the Loop(doglet.ca)
3 points by xantronix 12y ago|0 comments
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by xantronix 12y ago
Gleðileg jól! To get a jumpstart on my New Year's resolution, time to air some grievances (with myself)! 1. Dammit Xan, when are you going to finish up those unit tests for tänzer? You're holdin up the actual 0.1 release! 2. I can

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