KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

Forget the official name, I heard a better one:

Panopticoin.

It's so apt and succint.

Spam subject: "A solution to dealing with stuffy, hot spaces." - It's called Windows, and you can buy it from Microsoft for the low price of $199!

I love that the Visual Studio installer has its own, smaller installer

Spam subject: "Your kid has never played minecraft on a screen this big" - Please tell me this is the place Frank bought his 2000" TV from!

I compared the benchmark numbers for my multithreaded PNG encoder on my upgraded 2009 workstation (8 cores / 16 threads, 2.26GHz Xeon E5520) and this 2018 arm64 laptop (8 cores, 2.96 GHz Snapdragon 850) and they're neck and neck. :D

Sure, the laptop throttles down after a few seconds of sustained CPU usage, but it's a fanless light laptop, not a big ol' mid-tower case.

Tech advancement isn't just about how powerful a CPU we can make, but where we can put them at lower mfg & power cost.

Cloudy.
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All I'm saying is calling a car the "Fusion" when it's not fusion-powered is false advertising

Interesting. Phil Plait on results from Galaxy Zoo showing Hubble's classification of spiral galaxies may not be correct.

#Science #Astronomy #Galaxies #CitizenScience #GalaxyZoo

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/battle-of-the-bulges-have-astronomers-been-wrong-about-spiral-galaxies-all-this-time

@evilscientistca

What heretical software features can you imagine that would never fly at a growth oriented company but could totally work on free open source social media?

For example, algorithmic timelines are one way to deal with information overload. But what if instead your software offered suggestions for people to unfollow (this person posts a lot and you hardly ever interact with them)? Not necessarily a good idea but it's an idea we could implement that would NEVER happen on Twitter, Facebook, etc

New blog post: "How to de-Google your Android phone" https://nolanlawson.com/2019/06/13/how-to-de-google-your-android-phone/

That's right; I'm getting back into handy tips and helpful guides. Hopefully this post will steer folks in the right direction!

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
– Plutarch

One potential outcome I can see is that the mainstream channels suffer from a kind of "Gresham's Law" - bad speech drives out the good. If you have something to sell, or you want to swing an election, you're on Facebook/Twitter. Whereas the genuine conversations are happening on Discord/Mastodon/etc.

I think we're already starting to see this happen (Twitter is full of brands, influencers, politicians, etc.), but it's happening slowly.

"The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" by Yancey Strickler https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

Interesting series of posts. I'm definitely seeing more people switch to "darker" channels like Slack, Discord, etc. Mastodon probably counts as one of these "dark forests," not because it isn't open, but because it's small.

An article about Archive of Our Own and they way it uses people to curate the tags people use to find stuff on it.

#Archives #FanFic #Tagging #Curation #Discovery

https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-our-own-fans-better-than-tech-organizing-information/