numpy.unique needs the type to be comparable by < and >, not just ==. that seems like overkill.

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.4
Gajim 1.4.4 comes with many improvements: emoji auto-complete, automatic theme switching when your desktop switches from light to dark in the evening, a completely reworked Gajim remote interface, and many bug fixes.

After many emoji improvements in Gajim 1.4.3, this version comes with an emoji auto-complete while writing messages! As soon as you start typing a :, a popover will show you available emoji shortcodes, just like on Slack or Github 🎉

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Red Line Through HTTPS
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How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States. ⌘ Read more

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life | Hacker News

Q: Are passphrases really more secure than cryptographically random passwords? 🤔

I have to wonder… It should be possible to do “passphrase” attacks just like “dictionary” attacks? How is a “phrase” any different to the character set you can type? Sure there are more possible “words” (at least) in the English language, but I’m not convinced.

holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.

solarpunk slightly hindered by the fact that for solar panels and cutesy robots you need industrial-strength chipfabs that are so advanced we have like 6 of them in the entire world

Is this what they call the “Mandela Effect”?
Seems likely. ⌘ Read more

I’ll likely take this down soonish as I think it’s pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html

The best terminal emulator for games: Cool-Retro-Term
Because text-mode games deserve a little pizzazz (like emulating the look of CRT monitors of the ‘80s). ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of May 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom.

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My May ‘22 in Review
May is now over too, it feels like it has flown by. But before the month is completely over, I want to take a short look back… ⌘ Read more

A fun little game: Pocket City
I’m generally not a gamer, playing computer games has never really fascinated me, I find programming more exciting. But sometimes I don’t feel like programming or I don’t have the possibility to do it. Of course it’s important to be bored sometimes, because then you can think about things for a while. But a little entertainment in a free minute is sometimes not bad as well. ⌘ Read more

Looks like it could rain soon!

A thin, flexible 6502 processor has been created!
Like the ones used in the NES, Apple II, and C64… except thin. And flexible. ⌘ Read more

I have neglected my homepage for a while. But now I have deleted or updated a few pages, like the list with the hardware I use or the list with my self-hosted services. 🧹 ⌘ Read more

Atari ST Book - The 1991 laptop with 10 hour battery life
68000 CPU (like the Mac and Amiga) and 4 MB of RAM. All powered by AA batteries. (Seriously.) ⌘ Read more

Angular Diameter Turnaround
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**RT by @mind_booster: .@OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too

some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by SDOs like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without buying a license

https://blog.opensource.org/osi-to-the-european-commission-make-space-for-patent-free-standards-too/**
. @OpenSourceOrg to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too

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We don’t have meaningful social connections anymore like our parents or their parents geeration had. We are so scattered, that I am unsure how many of my friends are actually friends and how many are just professional contacts. Everytime I switch job, almost 70% of my friends suddenly fall out of contact. Heck, I don’t even know the people who live in next apartments both left, right, up and down on the same building. Socializing with my friends mean, setting up an appointment weeks ahead to see if we can align on a free-slot and this often involves all of us commuting to somewhere and disbanding by 22:00 hours because family, work next morning, chores to do, doctor appointment and other human things. Why do you waste so much time on the internet? | Hacker News

How to measure innersource across your organization
The innersource contribution percentage is the rate of contributions from people outside the team that originally authored the software. Let’s dive into what it can look like for your organization. ⌘ Read more

Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher
but lighter than HTTP(S), especially if combined with all other web
technologies. The name makes sense if Gopher is Project Mercury and
the web is the Apollo program.

One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, s … ⌘ Read more

Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet
protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher but a bit lighter than HTTP(S).
It’s the Gemini programme if Gopher is Mercury and HTTP is Atlas.

One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, see for instance
[Lagrange]( [http … ⌘ Read more

“We build our computer systems like we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” — Ellen Ullman Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code (2017) | Hacker News

A Retro-Modern Linux Terminal with a Round Screen
It’s like a 1960s design of a “Computer of the Future”… running modern Linux. And I love it. ⌘ Read more

@marado it looks like Wildcat! has locked up again, I’ll reset it. Tends to happen every so often

**RT by @mind_booster: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private online communications but has refused to meet with privacy experts like @EDRi.

The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://Has-Commissioner-Johansson-met-with-Digital-Rights-Groups.eu?

#KeepItSecure #DoBetter**
EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private onli … ⌘ Read more

Maps
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people liked the old SSC more than ACX because substack is chickenshit minimalism, and it’s slow. you have to wait for the fucking text & comments to appear, while the old site loaded pretty much instantaneously. people have learned to associate chickenshit minimalism aesthetic with slow loading times, and subconsciously detest it bc of that.

humans have invented mathematics surprisingly early (while the status of the number zero was still being debated in ancient greece), and programming surprisingly late (although algorithms were around for a long time, they didn’t catch on until later, even though they seem like an at least equally intuitive concept?)

I already liked cherry blossoms 6 years ago. This photo is from 2016, taken with my Motorola Moto G 3rd Gen. That was my third of in total five smartphones. ⌘ Read more

graph names that sound like war crimes:

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bot … ⌘ Read more

No standstill?
When I reflect on myself like this, I have long had the impression that I am a person who cannot live at a standstill. I always need a topic that keeps me busy, a thing in my life that I can optimize or at least a frequently changing topic that I can dive into. ⌘ Read more

Monerotopia Presentation and Website News
Just a note that within two hours (11AM NY time), my edited Monerotopia presentation with slides and all will be premiering here on the Monero Talk channel on YouTube.

I did already do an extended commentary and explanation of my talk here on my PeerTube channel, and I might put this an the edited talk onto my YouTube channel if I feel like it. You shou … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft open sources 1995’s “3D Movie Maker”
Including the BRender 3D engine used in games like Carmageddon. ⌘ Read more

looks like blue tribe will end up anti agi risk. sucks, but should have been forseeable—the connection to gray tribe & techbros is too strong.

Two Mac-like desktops for the Apple II, from 1985.
“Quark Catalyst” and “Mouse Desk” (which would later be purchased by Apple). ⌘ Read more

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Another reason to like spring: cherry blossoms. ⌘ Read more

“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs”
I do from time to time forays through the Internet and like to visit cool blogs. Wouter has created a list with a few examples and even mentioned my blog in it. 🤓 ⌘ Read more

no, niplav, you won’t get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.

**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.

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W: The Window System before X… that nobody seems to remember
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I’m exhausted. I don’t know when it all started to go wrong but I’m exhausted. Every relationship feels like work. Every moment that I’m awake feels like work. kdramaspace

❤️ 🎶: Like a star by Kwon Jin Ah

“Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars” update released for Linux & DOS
Release 2 is a lot like Release 1. But more betterer. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal has now published 10 eBooks. 10 very, very nerdy eBooks.
Plus 4 video games. And like a bazillion articles and podcasts. Which is crazy awesome. ⌘ Read more

HOTDOGbuntu - Make Ubuntu look like classic Mac, Atari ST, Win 3.1, & Amiga systems
Because more ways to make modern Linux look like retro computing systems is always a good thing. ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: Like a starlight by Lena Park

PicoShare – simple file sharing
Having recently posted about rathole, today I’d like to share another tool I use in combination with rathole: PicoShare. ⌘ Read more

My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can’t tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won’t shrink. it’s piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it’s an eternal struggle.

there is this property of Doneness that I really like, and that tracks a lot (but not all) of my interests. First, let’s take meditation: every single moment in meditation is really Done after it’s over, it doesn’t linger around, the sensations don’t pile up somewhere. They might influence each other, sure, but at the end of the day it’s just the present experience, slashing into and out of existence in its clear luminosity.

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 4, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Make Linux look like Retro Operating Systems ⌘ Read more

i remembered i liked structural regular expressions, but re-reading the paper reminds me of how cool they are

Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm ⌘ Read more

in general, lw feels like a place where it would be good for many people to cross-post to, a content aggregator/archiver

Emulate a Classic Macintosh… in your web browser. Seriously.
Not a web app that looks like a Mac… but a true, complete classic (68k) Macintosh emulator entirely in a web browser. ⌘ Read more

3 tools to make your computer look like it is busy hacking and coding… while doing absolutely nothing.
Because sometimes we all want to be lazy while still looking like a l33t hax0r. ⌘ Read more

I’d like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon’s functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom. Mastodon 3.5 | Hacker News

About listening to music
Sometimes I like to listen to music, I listen to a song, which gives me a good feeling, then another and another. I feel really good, sometimes I could even dance, although I don’t really like dancing. ⌘ Read more

to fend off possible accusations of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is not funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don’t have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.

if you’re not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don’t need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority

Make Linux look like Amiga OS
(Or, at least, pretty gosh darn close.) ⌘ Read more

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

Color management deals with translating between representations of
colors across a variety of devices. Throughout this post, we’ll use
natural language as … ⌘ Read more

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

This post only aims to help you understand the basic concepts without
having to delve into dense literature and hard to grok technical
documents.

Color … ⌘ Read more

guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it’s all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general

Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.

Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com I often see messages longer than what the textbox limit is, isn’t it limited by the maxlenght?, I found a workaround by writing from Goryon on mobile, on PC i can simply change the limit with the inspector but isn’t it there for a reason?

I too would like to express a bit more if possible, especially if i have to refer to users and link URLs and images for example, having a limit that isn’t too much of a limit is kind of pointless i think. 🤔

pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle

Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?

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At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.

The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.

The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.

Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.

Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.

Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it’s far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.

Text-to-speech is becoming more popular
I am a slow reader. I read a lot on websites, but not quickly and I often get distracted while reading. What I like therefore is a pre-reading option. ⌘ Read more

I think i would like a display mode that sorts yarns by last twt in yarn and displays only the last twt with the first in the heading if its more than one in length.

I think i would like a display mode that sorts yarns by last twt in yarn and displays only the last twt with the first in the heading if its more than one in length.

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk I doubt there will ever be a 2.0 … It may end up like java and they strip off the 1.

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk I doubt there will ever be a 2.0 … It may end up like java and they strip off the 1.

Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much. Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year’s comp review cycle? | Hacker News

Why everyone should be concerned about Ontario’s critical race theory bill

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@prologic@twtxt.net Re: Chat system, What if the base specification included a system for per-user arbitrary JSON storage on the server? Kind of like XEP-0049, but expanded upon. Two kinds of objects: public and private. Public objects can be queried by anyone, private objects cannot and must be encrypted with the user’s private key. Public keys could be stored there, as well as anything else defined by extensions. Roster, user block list, avatar, etc.

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!

What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.

Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more

apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER

Make Linux look like BeOS
Because yellow tabs are sexy. ⌘ Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/civilised-european-look-like-us-racist-coverage-ukraine

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more a … ⌘ Read more

A person’s feelings don’t have one answer like a math problem. Fantasy and Love: Mischievous Kiss Quotes | Korean Drama Quotes

whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it’s in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor

Does something like poetry kata exist?

Make Linux look like MacOS 9.
Because Platinum is beautiful. Also… why not? ⌘ Read more

You can’t tell people; here is a dial, you can pick ‘fast and you’re screwed later’ or ‘slow and careful now’. You’re setting yourself up for failure; they cannot pick ‘slow and careful’, because that’s not their job; their job is to quickly deliver value/outcomes/whatever. We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt | Hacker News

Make Linux look exactly like Windows 95… I mean exactly.
Blasphemy? Probably! But still pretty awesome! ⌘ Read more

There is no place like home.

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i like consequentialism, but i don’t like any specific version of it nearly as much

Writing free software is like painting. You should do it if you feel like it, or if you, yourself, get something out of it. The moment you start to feel that you are owed something is the moment that you should stop doing it, because what you do from then on is probably not going to be any good. Is it even worth working on FOSS anymore? | Hacker News

»In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Quảng Đức, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He was seriously burned before the fire was extinguished and later could only offer the explanation that “I wanted to see what it was like.”« lmao

. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first

having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?