Bird footprints on freshly fallen snow. We can see they investigated the frozen water bowl, which I’m sure was a disappointment!
[#]birds #Atlanta
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now I'm wondering whether there's an esoteric game engine out there that accepts a curvature function as a parameter during initialization (yes I've played hyperbolica, it uses unity)
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(in all seriousness non-Euclidean geometry is neat, when it's on a ball or saddle it's pretty obvious what's going on but picturing how that would work in three dimensions (our reality) is very weird!)
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Why did math people care about Euclid's parallel postulate for so long? Did they never consider doing geometry on a ball or a saddle? Were they stupid???
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Watch Unrest, a Swiss film about anarchist watchmakers in the Jura Mountains a few years after the Paris Commune (late 1800s). Pyotr Kropotkin is one of the characters. You might expect this to be a gripping tale of factory/worker conflict but it was mostly a slice-of-life film depicting interesting things about the time period. It's the dawn of universal timekeeping and the town uses four separate timekeeping systems clashing to be the standard. Photography is new and people buy & trade portraits of random people like they're pokemon cards. The Anarchist newspapers are widely read because they have such a developed telegram network that they can publish articles about happenings all over the world. A local election happens with very specific rules about who can vote. Basically it's a slow film (read: almost everybody will find it boring) where not much happens and the characters never express any emotion but you can enmesh yourself in the world a bit. Enjoyed it for what it was.
[#]film
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Keeping a media log the past half decade has me reeling at the passage of time. I remember playing a game recently. But no, four entire years have passed!
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I've been wanting to get into stargazing with telescopes for nearly my entire life, but I really do just like sleep too much. So perhaps my optical hobbies lie in the small, not the great!
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
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Seems this is a bug in systemd-networkd unfortunately. So for now I just have to run dhclient after every suspend. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2221138
[#]ArchLinux #Networkd
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Polling for Taiwan independence sentiment got its annual update. As expected, all anybody wants is status quo to infinity. It is interesting to see "decide at later date" and "status quo indefinitely" cross over so dramatically a few years back. Source: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963
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In literature, that "falling by the wayside," that loss of "relevance," is even better known. The Quixote, Menard remarked, was first and foremost a pleasant book; it is now an occasion for patriotic toasts, grammatical arrogance, obscene deluxe editions. Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.
Jorge Luis Borges, 1939, short story "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
[#]literature
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Wrote the January 2025 TLA⁺ development update! This is a lighter one since many people were taking a break over the holidays. https://foundation.tlapl.us/blog/2025-01-dev-update/index.html
[#]tlaplus
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With Civilization 7 coming out I rewatched Civ 4's well-known Baba Yetu intro and man... that game's depiction of american settlerism has not aged in accordance with the understanding of history gained since I was a teenager lmao. I remembered this intro as a sort of pan-humanistic all-are-one thing.
https://youtu.be/IJiHDmyhE1A
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Positive developments! If peace comes about due to Trump influence that marks the Biden administration as the most catastrophically inept of recent memory, unwilling to use the most basic tools of state power to push through a deal. Remains to be seen whether this was all in return for something awful like annexing the West Bank.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-trump-pressuring-israel-end-its-war-gaza
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Played Alien: Isolation. Fun game with a lot of variety despite a relatively small number of enemies and items/weapons. If you enjoyed Prey then you'll like this game. The 1979 tech aesthetic was excellent as always. I'm enjoying these early-mid 2010s games since they look great but also play really well on the steam deck. Graphics development could have cut off after 2015 and I'd be happy.
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I bike to my gym year-round here in Atlanta, which amazes people when temperatures are 30-40 F (0-5 C). They think I'm some tough person but I am actually very intolerant of cold lol, it's all about having the right outdoor wear! Many people here don't even own a real jacket or gloves and use their car to keep them warm outdoors in the winter. So partly it's an education problem and partly a money problem; it does take a few iterations and wasted money to find a layering system that works for the specific way your body heats up while biking in cold weather. Extremities are most important; if I have some cozy boots and mitts then my body pretty much heats itself after about 15 minutes of riding.
[#]Atlanta #BikeTooter
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Latest Linux fun times is that I lose my IPv4 connectivity after about an hour (forced to live in the future with IPv6 only!) and half the internet becomes unreachable.
[#]Linux #ArchLinux
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Now at the point in my free software involvement where reviewing others' code is a notable work item. It isn't yet a half-day-every-day thing like I know a lot of maintainers get to, just a half-day a week. Certainly not as enjoyable as banging out code myself but facilitating others' contributions is by far the best way to get wherever it is we're going.
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Am I remembering wrong or is there some particular popular essay on why constructive mathematics is the way to go? After working through a weird proof that uses the law of the excluded middle to pop a bunch of propositions into existence out of nowhere I am feeling sympathetic lol
[#]AskFedi #Constructivism
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Does anybody know a tutorial for debugging a crash in your desktop environment on Linux? I am mostly interested as an exercise in actually using the “source” part of open source. Like I imagine it requires:
The DE aspect makes it weird, like I would have to run it in a VM maybe so the crash doesn’t take down whatever program I’m using to run the debugger too.
[#]AskFedi #FOSS #Linux
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Control my fate, tell me what game I should play next
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