Huh, apparently they’re still using the Xeon brand for server chips. But what really surprised me is that Intel only stopped shipping Itanium chips in 2021!?!?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/
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Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Huh, apparently they’re still using the Xeon brand for server chips. But what really surprised me is that Intel only stopped shipping Itanium chips in 2021!?!?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/30/end_of_itanium_shipments/
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I will not confirm or deny that I have an old ~2016 Chromebook on which I’ve installed a mainstream Linux OS and last fired up a month ago sitting next to the work laptop I’m typing on right now.
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Webmaestro?
CC: @Meyerweb@mastodon.social @heydon@front-end.social @ellyloel@micro.blog
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Car shop found more extensive damage when they dismantled the front bumper assembly. Need to wait for parts.
Insurance already approved the original estimate. Here’s hoping they approve the update, because it’s a lot more.
I already returned the SUV we rented to haul stuff over the weekend. Sticking to walking and biking distance, and I can rent something smaller (maybe even electric?) for just the days someone needs to go farther.
I wonder if short term car rentals like Zip are still a thing….
This looks interesting:
For the better part of a century, people have said that comic books are dying. Crisis after crisis, the comic book industry has survived and lives to this day. So, to celebrate its harrowing journey into the 21st century, a satirical OGN about the history of comic books has taken shape. Introducing the ironically named Comics Are Dying: The Comic – a brief history and celebration of the comic book industry!
Interview with the writer who planned the book and teamed up with 100 artists:
You see, this whole project started because I am sick of pessimists, naysayers, whiners, bullies, and opportunists screaming from the heavens about how comics aren’t like they were when they were a kid. I see so many bigots and ignorant folk online complaining about diversity or inclusion and how they want comics to go back to the old days. I think that’s so stupid.
Comics are changing and they’ve always been changing. They’re art and no medium of art stays the same forever. Some of the stuff people complain about has been in comics for decades anyway, so it’s really just a “complaint of the week” for some people. Truly just a miserable lot of fandom. On a more positive note, I see and know the wonderful creatives working today and the heart and soul they put out into this work. But, the joy of it is that I’ve met so many people from all over the world living vastly different lifestyles, but they are unified in their love of this business we call home. It’s a great unifier and a source of creative community.
So, the only way to fight against those clambering for death is to live your passion and express your love on the page. That’s what this book is about. It’s a celebration of not only comics but the people who make them too.
My transition plan for Windows 10’s expiration may be a bit more expensive the first year, but it’s to get a new graphics card that plays more nicely with Linux, Proton and Wayland, and move the rest of my Steam games to the Linux partition.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139132/microsoft-announces-prices-for-the-windows-10-extended-security-update-program/
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And they often used keyboards and touchscreens for more complex commands and responses, with the voice commands used for the kind of thing you’d rather not have to walk across the room for.
groan
“POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’” — @verge@mastodon.social on the White House’s Threads account turning on federation.
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
via
this post by @verge
Found myself using the phrase “Parsing the void” while debugging today.
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Nice! The preliminary filter support in @gotosocial 0.15.0-rc1 can be managed in Semaphore, and works in Semaphone and Tusky timelines.
Unfortunately: Tusky can’t manage the filters, and both clients treat them as hide completely (without the option to use a warning instead), but I suspect that’s because GTS has only implemented version 1 of the api so far.
Also: Elk doesn’t seem to support filters on GTS accounts at all, though it can handle filters on Mastodon accounts. I wonder if it’s also the api level, or if there’s another issue going on with it.
P(roblem) != N(o) P(roblem)
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sigh #Takahe and #Snac2 are both able to message #RSSParrot and get a response with the relevant feed, but neither seems to be able to follow the generated feeds.
Note to future self: Try again when I’m more awake and can look at some logs, then file bug reports where applicable.
(I should note that the authors of all three pieces of software have been very helpful in debugging and fixing compatibility issues with other platforms.)
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Oh, that’s interesting: Takahe is able to *follow* my WordPress blog with ActivityPub, but posts show up as from “(unknown user)@takahe.social” instead of @kelson@hyperborea.org
Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Millions Of Cats
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/30/game-jam-winner-spotlight-millions-of-cats/
Apparently the issue of Apple Music automatically launching because macOS noticed a bluetooth audio device is available is common enough that someone wrote a mac app to stop it.
Kid found a “5D Chess” game where you can move pieces backward through time and branch off new timelines, and also move them across timelines. But still following their usual rules for moves (ex. Move the knight forward 2 and over 1 timeline)
“Your preferred solution won’t help as much as you think it will, or won’t be effective in all circumstances” is not the same as “The problem doesn’t exist” or “we can’t solve it perfectly so we shouldn’t do anything.”
Treating these as equivalent just fucks up so many problem solving discussions.
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Well I certainly hope no one else is logged into this VM that I just rebooted to install system updates, but if someone is, I won’t feel too sorry about them losing their work, helpful shutdown prompt.
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Got StreetComplete running under Waydroid! I don’t plan on editing with it on my desktop, but I can use it to find areas I’ve missed and do some armchair mapping with bing or mapillary images.
It looks like Waydroid still doesn’t get location pass-through from the host system, but I can at least tell it “download data here” and see, for example, where I haven’t mapped sidewalks yet.
I have been informed that Merge Dragons is, in fact, “a dragon drop game.”