🟪🟩 Silicon Graphics - SGI once reigned supreme in the realm of the most powerful graphics workstations and servers.
💸 In the museum, we preserve many of these systems, which when new could cost more than $10,000 and even $100,000, along with some of their high-end monitors and peripherals:
5x Indigo2
2x Iris Indigo
2x Indy
1x Personal Iris
1x Octane2
1x Octane
3x 19" + 1x 17" CRT
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #sgi #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing
Von Amnesty bis Seawatch: Breite Front gegen Überwachungspaket der Ampel
netzpolitik.org/2024/von-amnes…
There are no laws limiting how bright a satellite can be ...
... but wow, there really ought to be: gizmodo.com/texas-startup-keep…
[wlog] New raw thumbnailer
The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.
I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.
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This was one of those rejections where they're like, "If this is a bug fix, we can accept it for now, but you need to fix this in your next update."
We replied, "Yes, please approve, we'll fix it." 36 hours later, they approved, but we still need to deal with this.
I submitted an update with our permission prompts in iambic pentameter. It was approved.
(We won't release it. I just had to know.)
The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference
mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-de…
This is good
My favourite talk from this year’s #id24 is How to consider non-native English speakers in UX. They talk about some really good things that also apply for cognitive accessibility and these things are so easy to overlook if you don’t carefully consider the impact language can have on understanding
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A massive success for the first conference, the governing board meeting in person, and an MSC written in real time. What a week in Matrix!!
I am brimming with pride, gratitude, and joy after the 1st annual Matrix Conference. So much to say!
Grateful to punctuate a great week sharing a lovely time at
Café Botanico, a delightful garden-to-table restaurant hidden in the heart of Neukölln, with some of my colleagues at the Matrix.org Foundation. Thanks for being amazing, team 💖
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr, @travisr@mstdn.ca, @matthew@mastodon.matrix.org, @amandine@mastodon.matrix.org
Left-wing coalition wins French elections so King Macron forms right-wing government.
Such democracy.
(In case you needed yet another reminder that fucking neoliberals will always choose fascism over social justice when they feel their wallets are threatened.)
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Contra the “humans are a virus” discourse that’s popular among eco-fascists and, unfortunately, a sizable segment of the left that likes to imagine other people (but never them) are The Problem, humans have a long history of sustainably and often *beneficially* interacting with their environments.
“Even 12,000 y ago, nearly three quarters of Earth’s land was inhabited and therefore shaped by human societies, including more than 95% of temperate and 90% of tropical woodlands. Lands now characterized as ‘natural,’ ‘intact,’ and ‘wild’ generally exhibit long histories of use, as do protected areas and Indigenous lands, and current global patterns of vertebrate species richness and key biodiversity areas are more strongly associated with past patterns of land use than with present ones in regional landscapes now characterized as natural.”
In other words, much of the wilderness we imagine as pristine reservoirs of biodiversity is in reality the product of human effort.
The Amazon River basin is covered with rain forest that many people mistake for a primordial sort of natural reserve, lightly peopled and untouched until recent deforestation.
On the contrary, we now know that the Amazon was once densely peopled as archeologists continue to discover the remains of city after sprawling city. The Amazon forest we see today is the remains of what was once a vast garden, cultivated to supply food to those cities.
Indigenous land use was once so pervasive and intensive that the forest’s soils, normally fairly poor, are pockmarked with patches of terra preta de Índio—“black earth of the Indians”—which are particularly fertile and self-sustaining soils produced by human activity.
Boosting this again to add that if you don't know about Deniz Camp already, you should get acquainted with his work. I'm gonna be tracking everything he writes him forward after being blown away by this and his work on Ultimates.
Cum Ex - eine der größten Banken- und Finanz-Betrugsreihen der letzten Jahrzehnte.
Aber was soll‘s?
„Nächste Woche soll ein Gesetz im Bundestag verabschiedet werden, das es Banken ermöglicht, quasi legal Beweise zu vernichten, die ihre Beteiligung an CumCum-Geschäften belegen könnten.“
Anne Brorhilker von @Finanzwende ruft zum Widerstand auf.
Unterzeichnen könnt ihr hier: weact.campact.de/petitions/cum…
people are told that equinox is the start of autumn and yet can't understand why it starts to feel like autumn weeks before. but if you go by the old calendars, equinox isn't the start: it's when autumn really comes into itself and is entirely its own season.
it used to be, in celtic countries but also elsewhere, that the quarter days — equinoxes and solstices — marked the mid points of the seasons, whereas the cross-quarter days marked their beginnings. the cross-quarter days are at the beginning of february, may, august, and november, and correspond to the modern/christian groundhog's day/candlemas, may day, lammas, and hallowe'en/all saints'.
but just like solstices and equinoxes, the cross-quarter days are specific astronomical points in the year and technically fall sometime during the first week of the month in question.
so northern hemisphere spring is born in february, when the wind begins to change and the air feels different sometimes. summer in may, when the world has truly come to life. autumn in august, when the wind changes again, and winter in november when the world begins to sleep.
this is why winter and summer solstice are traditionally known as midwinter and midsummer. and in china, this time of year is when the mid-autumn festival occurs.
so if the dates of the seasons have never really made sense to you, maybe this is why?
whatever you do, have a blessed and beautiful equinox. may we all find balance today, and rest in the darkness to come.
Zase nevolit nikoho, taky není řešení .
MArtin
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Luís Correia
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •every time I see a speaker badge, I always wonder 'where's the bass' :)
Enjoy