Rémi Rampin @remram44@framapiaf.org

"I predict that there will be a time where, just like POTS lines were
exchanged for cellular phones, people will disconnect their cable internet and rely on 6g or 7g alone. And probably still with IPv4 addresses." (Seen on the #NANOG mailing list)

#networking  #Internet

Looks like EA might be banning Linux gamers using Wine to play Battlefield V https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/looks-like-ea-might-be-banning-linux-gamers-using-wine-to-play-battlefield-v.15706 #Editorial #Wine #Misc

HEAVEN is where the police are British, the cooks French, the Mechanics German, the lovers Italian and everything is organized by the Swiss

HELL is where the cooks are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and everything is organized by the Italians

It's my love's birthday!! Happy birthday @remram44

If you are wondering who is Fabrice Bellard, he is the guy behind FFMPEG, QEMU, BPG and he broke the world record on the number of decimal digits of Pi in 1997... with his laptop.

Also he has a this wonderful page where you can run Linux in the browser: https://bellard.org/jslinux/

cheese is the jerky of milk

Let's talk about user interface design. This is my parents' microwave. The task is to warn up food. How?

Realistic hacking montage: someone starts trying to write a script, Googles a question on StackExchange, reads a Reddit thread, navigates over to TV Tropes, starts looking up something about a famous band on Wikipedia, starts playing Minecraft, starts looking at their email, and suddenly remembers they're supposed to be writing a script.

They now have 20 tabs open, and three hours have gone by.

Jack Dorsey followed Mastodon on Twitter a month ago so it's not like he doesn't know Mastodon exists, take from that what you will

Where are the git on activitypub stuff happening that's *not* forgefed?

new preprint up from @remram44 , Fernando Chirigati (@fchirigati@twitter.com) and I!

Reproducibility, Preservation, and Access to Research with ReproZip and ReproServer -- https://osf.io/preprints/lissa/mgvxq

hackernews nerds don't know the difference between distributed, decentralized, and federated. so here's an oversimplification:

distributed: when separate systems coördinate. placement of authority is a differentiating factor of their design.

decentralized: distributed system that can elect to defer or migrate central authority. mutable actions may be negotiated.

federated: distributed system that has nomadic and often competitive authorities. actors negotiate their own activity at any point.

You MUST play AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game run by a neural net.

@nickwalton00 built it using @OpenAI's huge GPT-2-1.5B model, and it will respond reasonably to just about anything you try. Such as eating the moon.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/189511103367/play-ai-dungeon-2-become-a-dragon-eat-the-moon

It's only FPGA if it comes from the PGA region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling gate array.

hermit crabs evolved bubble sort for trading shells 🦀

Modern art