David @ddipaola@cybre.space

Old MacDonald had a CPU instruction set, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.alangref/idalangref_eieio_instrs.htm

@chr we need at least 1 cute potato emojo

Users develop craft -- incredibly complicated folk-ontologies, rituals, procedures, and heuristics -- for working with whatever tools they regularly use, & this craft is itself a tool. A user who identifies as 'non-technical' is in fact extremely technical: their desire to stay roughly within the bounds of the craft they have already developed leads them to invent incredible workarounds.

Apple gets away with not calling app developers employees because they don't dictate hours or anything like that. But when you have to acquire skills that are only useful in one company's ecosystem, and that company exercises absolute control over whether you're allowed to use those skills to make money, how does one claim that you're somehow independent?

anyway i'm extremely disappointed they didn't get gilbert gottfried to voice pikachu

Inspired by @djsundog wondering why this phrase wasn't A Thing on Mastodon, I give you—

ROOTIN' TOOTIN', as drawn by @extinct!

Rootin' Tootin' can be found roaming the fediverse, scrabbling to collect the finest shitposts. Look, there's one under its paw! Aw!

I'm still not sure what gender, if any, Rootin' Tootin' is. Thoughts?

SALTO - The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto2.html

"Fake videos can now be created using a technique called a generative adversarial network, or GAN.

Although the machine learning breakthroughs in computer graphics are impressive, researchers should be more cognizant of the ramifications of what they’re creating. “It is not clear that the positive implications outweigh the negative.”

“Deep fakes are amplifying the liar’s dividend. When nothing is true, the dishonest person will thrive by saying what’s true is fake.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth

Look at the way Kirby's feet flop right down onto the slope when he rests. What a dream.

#NES #Kirby

Some really exciting news: Voyager 2 has experienced a drop in particle detection, just like Voyager 1 did when it began to cross into interstellar space in 2012! If it is entering into that region, Voyager 2 is expected to be in interstellar space by mid-December.

Voyager 1 is above the Solar System's plane, Voyager 2 is traveling downward, so data points from two different places about interstellar space!!!

Voyager 2 data blue, Voyager 1's data from 2012 crossing in gray.