John Romero and I had a delightful hour-long chat about preserving video game history with Kelsey Lewin & Ben Hanson on Minnmax. You can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=-2WJ0nqiLn…
We covered topics ranging from Game Informer magazine's recent shutdown & deletion of its website by its corporate parent, to Prince of Persia source code, assembly language programming, and why we should all support @internetarchive.
"Aujourd'hui, gravir l'Everest avec de l'oxygène, c'est comme faire le Tour de France avec un vélo électrique." 😄
#PascalTournaire
[attribué aussi au meilleur alpiniste français en activité #BenjaminVédrines]
Un alpiniste dont j'ai oublié le nom disait récemment que faire un sommet avec oxygène est équivalent à une ascension sans oxygène 2000 m plus bas.
[EDIT : Mike Horn parle du même ordre de grandeur]
Je pense que c'était une estimation de sa part, mais ça serait intéressant d'avoir un réel calcul scientifique pour se rendre compte de « la valeur » de cette aide/dopage.
Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, Eric Topol says XEC is "just getting started".
"And that's going to take many weeks, a couple months, before it really takes hold and starts to cause a wave.
"XEC is definitely taking charge.”
After updating the kernel under #Debian, the file
/var/run/reboot-required
is no longer created.
I was wondering why my ansible playbook doesn't reboot the machine anymore
Does anyone know more?
IMO the post install-Script should create this file
I can't find a bug report on this and needrestart also tells me that a reboot should be
Some years ago, my son said, "Let's play Minecraft!"
Then he watched me open a terminal on #Linux and type:
java -jar Minecraft.jar
He asked what on earth I was doing.
I still wonder sometimes.
I heard Alok Sharma on the radio this morning and his rhetoric gave rise to this linked observation mastodon.social/@urlyman/11315…
…we can’t address climate breakdown because we have the wrong incentives.
Caring more about something we’ve made up (money) than what we’re made of will go down in history as the biggest collective mind fk in history.
In parallel to antibiotics that once worked which are now becoming redundant (also in the news this morning), the worth of the vast pools of capital ‘looking for a return’ will evaporate mastodon.social/@urlyman/11204…
Will falling oil prices hurt #Russia?
The Central Bank of Russia has very limited liquid reserves. It could not do much itself to support the ruble if export earnings collapse, but it could try to tap Russia's "shadow reserves".
One of the many interesting puzzles of Russia’s new post-sanctions economic reality is where Russia’s trade surpluses have gone over the past 2-3 years.
Source?
Micropayments via GiveSendGo financed the convoy blockades that cost the Canadian economy billions in losses in 2022.
Using AI, small sums can be sent automatically at scale & remain under the reporting threshold.
It's why the IRS wanted the threshold for reporting to be changed to $600.
Threat funding of far right movements.
cnbc.com/select/irs-600-report…
Threat funding using PayPal & GoFundMe has already happened. Cryptocurrency is the next one to scale up.
Fossil Phaseout Pledge at Risk as UN Climate Finance Negotiations Bog Down
Mitchell Beer
7–9 minutes
Petrostates preparing for this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, are pushing to roll back the signature commitment to phase out fossil fuels that countries adopted at the end of last year’s COP negotiations
theenergymix.com/fossil-phaseo…
#COP29 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
There's a lot to unpack here but maybe we should just throw out the suitcase instead.
Thank you hachyderm.io/@hrefna/113126675… , that's an immediate yoink. Putting that in the back pocket for future use. 😇
like this
fed.dyne.org/post/245669
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