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Fuck to anti-robot systems!


Its just enshittification
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don't like this

in reply to Tux

I recently tried to buy tickets on Ticketmaster for an hour. But no matter what I tried, different browsers, different device, I always got blocked from buying because I supposedly "browsed too fast".

I gave up and bought the tickets in 5 minutes elsewhere.






Warren Buffett Just Bought A $185,373,840 Stake In This Little-Known SpaceX Competitor barchart.com/story/news/293314…

Lol. Uncle Warren is betting against eloon. I wonder what he knows that we don't. 🧐



Update: finished. A true #Poirot in every sense. So satisfying! Next: The mystery of the skeleton key

#ReadingDay #Books @bookstodon

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in reply to marinheiro

@marinheiro Well, 2 and a half :-) To be fair, they were around 200 pages, all of them a page turner, and I didn't do anything else all day :-)

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There is nothing more upsetting to a gender essentialist than entirely effortless and unpretentious masculinity. That is why Tim Walz has so thoroughly broken the brains of folks like Carlson, Sean Hannity, and their other hysterical cousins. trib.al/PstE69y




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I want tshirts made that say;

On the front - "Because of People Like You"

On the back - "I don't use Arch"

And in a small font someplace #Debian Crew"

#mylegisbrokenhaveyoutriedusingarch #iusearch
#arch #linux #fuqbois #NobleShift






🎲 #WeekendGaming Roll Call! 🎲

Who’s diving into a game this weekend? Are you exploring new worlds, running your campaign, or cracking open a fresh rulebook? Drop what you’re playing or prepping below—let’s see what everyone’s up to!

#TTRPG #IndieGames #TTRPGCommunity

in reply to Thought Punks

Things are too hectic with taking care of my dad right now, but whenever we can cobble together the money to place him in a memory care home, we intend to turn his bedroom into a "gaming room" including a large table for board games and ttrpgs. I'm excited ❤️ (now we just have to find local friends who are awake while the kids are Ai school to play with, lol)
@gaming


WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from Node.js (!!) to Rust


WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from... #rust #node.js #javascript #wikimedia #wiki #mediawiki #wikifunctions #abstractwikipedia #wasm
in reply to Aatube

Wikidata is so cool, but not really public-exposed. I imagine it's an incredible research tool though.
in reply to IrritableOcelot

Wikifunctions finally exposed running functions via API in March, though yeah, it's still a long, long way from being integrated in wikis, not to mention the arcane parameter that is passing a JSON via URL. (and hopefully you meant Wikifunctions and not Wikidata lol)
in reply to Aatube

Oh I understood wikifunctions primarily as a way to operate on wikidata data, I don't know if that's right. And you're right it is publically available, I guess I meant more that few few folks know about it.
in reply to IrritableOcelot

It's quite independent from Wikidata. It's an alpha-stage programming functions repository.
in reply to Aatube

Node.js is really not a bad backend language, since it's JIT, it's actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.

Rust will definitely have the advantage of being a compiled language though.

Source: I write both Java and TS backend code, have done benchmarks.

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in reply to setVeryLoud(true);

Somehow, it feels horrifying to use something that high-level for the backend, especially when MediaWiki has so much PHP and the WMF has so many PHP programmers. Maybe my adolescent arse is getting old...
in reply to Aatube

Oh PHP is hands down one of the slowest languages out there. It's just convenient because it's easy to host, but it's awful to use and it's really slow.

Here, have a chart:

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In this chart, where the benchmark is calculating digits of π, Java is faster than JS, but there are cases where it's the opposite.

github.com/niklas-heer/speed-c…

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in reply to setVeryLoud(true);

Calculating the digits of pi seems like a poor benchmark for comparing various languages in the context of backend web application performance. Even the GitHub readme points out the benchmark is entirely focused on floating point performance.
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in reply to elrik

Absolutely, it's just one aspect of it, benchmarks are always narrow in scope. Some languages may be good at some things and worse at others.
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in reply to setVeryLoud(true);

since it's JIT, it's actually faster than Python and Java in most cases.


Java is JIT'd too, and Python can be depending on which runtime you deploy.

in reply to 4z01235

True, I didn't structure my sentence correctly.

It gets to compete with Java and Python because it's also JIT is what I meant to say.

in reply to setVeryLoud(true);

Node.js is a runtime, you can compile a number of languages to it. It's useful because it can have relatively low resource usage and there are a lot of libraries available for it.


Early career researchers in computational early universe physics, come and work in Helsinki! 💕

This year we are hiring up to four postdoctoral researchers! We have a friendly, supportive group and we do some cool early universe physics with computers.

Our advert is here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/job…

I'm happy to answer any questions! And please do reach out to past and current group members to ask about their experiences working here, their views matter far more than mine.

For what it's worth, I arrived here after my doctorate 13 years ago and except for two excursions (to Stavanger and Nottingham) never really left. It's very nice here.

#physics #hiring #cosmology #UniHelsinki



"The behavioral repertoire of the individual bees and their function in the colony are not learned, but rather inherited. Until now, it was not known how such complex behaviors were genetically encoded."

phys.org/news/2024-11-honeybee…

in reply to HandgunYoga (he/him/his)

Sommer says, "The gene programs whether a worker bee takes up a task in the colony and for how long. This includes collective tasks such as caring for the larvae or foraging for food and social exchanges on food sources, for example."
in reply to HandgunYoga (he/him/his)

The biologists used the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors in their investigations to modify or switch off the dsx gene in selected bees. They attached a QR code to the manipulated bees, then monitored their behavior in the hive with cameras. The resulting video sequences were analyzed with the support of artificial intelligence to determine the bees' individual behavioral patterns.
in reply to HandgunYoga (he/him/his)

What a time to be alive. I wish so much of what's going on right now wasn't such a dumpster fire so I had more mental bandwidth to appreciate how far science has improved.
in reply to HandgunYoga (he/him/his)

I'm curious to know how often bees switch "jobs." maybe they're the perfect model for socialism, where people swap jobs frequently so no one faces burnout and learns empathy for the difficulties of every job 😋


🎉 Good news! Even though the #Mauritius ICTA had originally announced that the social media blocks would be in place until 11th November 2024, the blocks were lifted today! 🥳

We updated our report to include the latest data: explorer.ooni.org/findings/737…

mastodon.social/@ooni/11341076…



The first time I went to see a film in a cinema in the USA I was surprised at how people vocally responded to events on screen, and the applause at the end. It was in Manhattan.

These are not things I’ve ever encountered in the cinema in Northern Ireland. Or the few times I’ve been to the cinema in England.

Is it common in US theatres?

#Film #Culture

in reply to Ian Robinson

Not really. RRR is made in AndraPradesh where there is a distinct other film industry called Tollywood. Movies made in Telugu language. So it is not Bollywood. Though for RRR it is more like a Pan-Indian movie. Just so happened to be made in Tollywood.
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