Each time I rewatch Brazil, I dislike the main Sam character more than the last time, and feel less sure about whether he was even intended as a sympathetic character, vs. just loathsome. The film seems to get a bit more sour with age, though the slightly-hidden jokes keep it standing. I think I will avoid it again for several more years.
The Library of Congress Quits Twitter http://bit.ly/2EbeZzD
did i tell you about https://maastodon.net/
Sometimes it strikes me just how *long* we've had rapid communication with people from all over the world, and how transformative that has been.
I do remember a time before there was a modem in my home, but I could still call family thousands of miles away. I had pen-pals in Australia and Ukraine. It felt like a small, warm planet, even then.
tired: a federated social network
tired but slower and spammier: a P2P social network
ｉｎｓｐｉｒｅｄ: a P2P social network that simulates instances in layers
ah yes, the two genders
Things would be easier if I were a tortoise and also lived a few million years before humans.
2017 me, emerging from DeLorean, to 1995 me:
So, this new 'Pentium' chip, turns out the whole 'speculative execution' road is a bit of a mistake. Yes it makes Doom faster but 22 years later all our computer systems are hacked each week by gangs of roaming cyber-criminals wearing vintage 80s micros as cosmetic jewellery on their leather jackets
1995 me (stuck in E1M2): Got it, Doom will get faster
2017 me: Did you even hear a word I said? I said the 80s are going to be fashionable again.
late-stage-capitalism dot jpg
https://octodon.social/media/OD-5jW3HynA6Mijr8Jo
On the plus side, if we're all in a simulation, looks increasingly likely we can break out.
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
World’s largest wind turbines started operating in England. A single revolution of a turbine’s blades can power a home for 29 hours.
Mastodon exclusive: SDF 3B2 is up in preparation for the Vintage Computer Festival. Wanna play? ssh sdf@tty.livingcomputers.org and login as 'visitor' RT if you want but just posting this on GNU Social
https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/_cNPzxYUe4aY07q5fSw
https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/v-CBlxHeQxWgeUW3sII
Sleeparchive - letter of resignation
Somewhere deep beneath an abandoned Intel factory the corpse of the iAXP432 just sat bolt upright in its crypt.
TIL every OS will have to unmap kernel from regular processes' virtual memory, and do 2 fuckin' TLB flushes on every syscall, because Intel has a CPU bug in speculative execution.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
there are two types of people
those nostalgic for infected mushroom and those nostalgic for moby
Retweeted @kemurismoke@twitter.com:
OMEDETO GOZAMASU
My standards for gratuitously horrible hyperrealism have been recalibrated: watching a pair of stationary men playing video-game-hockey, with identical production and commentary to a televised actual-hockey game (complete with coaches and .. towels?)
