Leonora, Bitweaver @tindall@cybre.space

Unity game engine 2018.2 is now out with experimental Vulkan support in the editor https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/unity-game-engine-20182-is-now-out-with-experimental-vulkan-support-in-the-editor.12106 #GameEngine #Unity

Apparently there's a transnational Amazon strike and boycott today (10th July) due to horrendous working conditions in their warehouses. Let's do our best to support workers & not visit amazon's websites, or their subsidiaries like audible or twitch today!

Looks like #peertube finally launched 👀👀👀
https://joinpeertube.org/en/

The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing
https://www.karllhughes.com/posts/plumbing

(submitted by karlhughes)

https://twitter.com/hwitteman/status/1015049411276300289?s=19

in response to a "what one thing seems obvious to your profession but no one seems to know" tweet:

"That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so."

Current read: "Technically wrong" by Sara Wachter-Boettcher.

I've barely started and it already feels like a mandatory reading for anyone involved in tech.

The UK Government is doing a public consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act

A very short pdf on what it's about: https://www.docdroid.net/LWu5Qmg/guide-to-gra-reform.pdf

friends, please let's help make sure that this form doesn't get flooded by transphobes (esp if you're cis)

relevant Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/krheyam/status/1014402933939671040

i dont know where i first heard it, but i really like the term social interaction networks rather than social media. take back the language. we're aren't media and relationship building isn't marketing.

Still boggling at this wonderful 2009 paper about how either economics is true, or computer science, but not both.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf

<< The majority of financial academics believe in weak form efficiency and the majority of computer scientists believe that P≠NP. The result of this paper is that they cannot both be right: either P=NP and the markets are weakly efficient, or P≠NP and the markets are not weakly efficient.>>

Ok one more of the Funloving Luddite symbols for today then I really gotta quit (I caaaaan't)
#mastoart

My nephew has an ipad.

He asked his dad how to write games. His dad didn't know. His dad asked me how to write games on an iPad. I told him not to bother.

My nephew asked me how to learn to write games.

I gave him a raspberry pi and a copy of pico 8.

Now he writes computer games.

He couldn't do that on his iPad.

Wait, what. Windows 10 sends info on USB devices plugged in directly to Microsoft?

And it does that using pure HTTP?
https://pastebin.com/ttYp5rLg

You gotta be kidding me.

#InfoSec

Question concerning #Peertube :

I want to take old movies that are currently available on archive.org and make a classic movie Peertube instance.

But I don’t want to seed from scratch.

Since archive.org already seeds these movies, can I add their tracker info to my peertube instance? Share the load with archive.org?

(If there’s a better place to ask this question, than the public fediverse, let me know!”

Reality Winner is the textbook definition of a whistle blower, who helped the US public understand the state of our electoral system. It is unconscionable that she was not given an opportunity to defend herself & that her story has largely been forgotten.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/26/reality-winner-plea-deal/

Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉

Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.

https://www.thehum.org/events

The future is cooperative 🌶