µblog - archive for 2023-05

🔗 Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

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An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.

The 1st orders a beer.
The 2nd orders a half of a beer.
The 3rd orders a quarter of a beer.
The 4th begins to order, but the bartender cuts him off, saying “You guys need to know your limits.” He puts 2 beers on the bar.

@maanow via @amendlocke

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I’ve been using Intel’s monospaced typeface IntelOne for a while now and it’s actually quite nice. People complain about the excessively curly braces but for prose and IRC it’s perfectly fine. Can recommend.

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HN delivers a new helping of salty tears from PGP dead-enders and it’s glorious.

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I’m not a digital nomad, I’m an analog sedentary.

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radio free bolgorod

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Compact Flash, he dead

I did a deep dive into what the cool kids old fogeys are using in their expensive NiCany cameras these days, and it’s basically game over for the ole CF card.

Originally posted on lobste.rs

The last “prosumer” DSLR from Nikon (the D850) has SecureDigital (SD) and XQD slots.

The pro D5 has one Compact Flash slot and one XQD slot.

The Z9 (pro mirrorless) has has CFexpress and XQD. The corresponding Canon model, the R3, has CFexpress and SD slots.

The Sony Alpha 9 has dual SD slots.

What the hell is “XQD” and “CFExpress” you say??

Quoting El Wik

[XQD] cards are not backward compatible with CompactFlash or CFast cards […]. XQD and CFast were both designed as a replacement of the 1994 CompactFlash standard.

The format was first announced in November 2010 by SanDisk, Sony and Nikon, and was immediately picked up by the CompactFlash Association for development. The final specification was announced in December 2011.

On 7 September 2016 the CFA announced the successor of XQD, CFexpress. This new standard uses the same form-factor and interface but uses the NVMe protocol for higher speeds, lower latencies and lower power consumption.

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🔗 Lowering the Bar: Bouncy-Castle King Gets 11 Years for Bouncy-Castle Arson

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🔗🇸🇪 Vad Lena Andersson inte vet om panka morsor och deras barn

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was released 43 years ago today. One of Hollywood’s most popular films and most acclaimed sequels, the making of story is as huge as you’d expect.

A THREAD

– 🐦🧵 @ATRightMovies

For all my criticisms of Lucas as an artist and director, he seems like a decent human being.

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🇸🇪 Enligt partierna som nu utövar Tidölag på Sveriges politiska kropp ska nya medborgare svära trohet till kungen. Det skulle jag vägra. Förlorar jag mitt medborgarskap då?

(källa)

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🔗 False Flags in Detroit: On the Multipolar Grift and the Disinformation Ecosystem

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🔗📺 Karen Pirie S01 (2022)

We caught this on SVT streaming. Recommended. A bit formulaic (young female police gets assigned cold case because a podcast is stirring things up) but the acting and setting is good. Nice twists too.

A negative for the crappy sound mixing. Speech was muted compared to other audio.

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🔗 Staring Down the Black Hole of Russia’s Future

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🔗 People want products, not projects

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🇸🇪 en transperson kommer att mördas snart av någon som gått på SDs dynga.

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🔗 Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit
Don’t ever say your car is broke
Don’t sing with a fake British accent
Don’t act like your family’s a joke

– 🎵 Drive-By Truckers, Outfit

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🔗📸 Dante Stella: Buying used cameras

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Awful lot of Basecamp/Hey.com content/spam on Lobste.rs right now. Gonna see if I can trace how it’s flowing from the orange site.

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Twitter sometimes still throws up good stuff as it slowly drowns in a pool of its own effluent. Best stuff now is a menswear historian who patiently dismantles tradfash narratives about how to dress AS A MAN.

🐦@dieworkwear

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It’s only Nazism if it’s a 1930s vintage from Bavaria, apparently. Otherwise it’s just sparkling ethnofascism.

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🇸🇪 nya säsongen av ”Händelser vid vatten” verkar lit!

SVT: Fängelsestraff för par som blockerade polisjakt i Luleå

Det var i mars som paret, en man och en kvinna, blockerade polisen när de försökte få stopp på en förare av en personbil. Mannen körde bland annat ut med en hjullastare framför polisbilen när den kom körandes i en hög hastighet, som ledde till att patrullen tvingades väja ner i diket.

Jakten slutade med att föraren av personbilen kom undan. Polisen misstänkte att paret blockerade vägen eftersom föraren de försökte stanna var deras son. Polisen har dock inte kunnat styrka att det var sonen som körde personbilen.

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My surprise level that a substacker extolling the virtues of classical Greek is also a huge Ayn Rand fan: 0️⃣

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🎵 🫀Vanbot: Today my new album ”How Could I Prepare For This” is released. I hope you will find something in it that connects to you.

Spotify album link

🐦@vanbotmusic

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🔗 GPT-4 Technical Report: A blog post masquerading as scientific literature

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Blue Sky? More like BS amirite

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🇸🇪 Uppdagad VAB-fusk är mindre än 1% av utbetalningarna

SVT Text skriver:

Försäkringskassan har ökat kontrollerna av vabersättning. I fjol polisanmäldes nästan 1 700 personer och nära 85 miljoner krävdes tillbaka från fuskande föräldrar.

I fjol betalade myndigheten ut ca 10 miljarder i ersättning till föräldrar som var hemma med sjuka barn.

85e6 / 10e9 = 0,85%.

Och detta är förutsatt att pengarna verkligen kommer att betalas tillbaka.

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Not even Hackernews’ resident vatniks thinks that the Kremlin “attack” was real.

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🔗🇸🇪 SVT: Ryska ”spökskepp” vid Nord Stream – fram till fem dagar före sabotaget

🔗 BBC: Nord Stream: Report puts Russian navy ships near pipeline blast site

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🔗 ‘I Don’t Believe Cinema Needs to Tell You a Story’ Peter Greenaway on a career spent treasuring artificiality, avoiding Hollywood, and playing games.

(via @RufusTSuperfly)

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🔗 “A Great Ox Stands on My Tongue”: The Pitfalls of Latin Translation

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🇸🇪 SWEXIT!

Så Åkesson tycker vi ska “utvärdera” Sveriges medlemskap i EU. Riktig chutzpah när vem som helst kan se hur det gått för den brittiska ekonomin efter Brexit. Men SD har väl inte riktigt med Murdochs rännstenspress med sig här, och man får hoppas att det svenska näringslivet inte blir helt överkörd av populisterna.

Uppdatering

Enligt SCB så fördelar sig EU-motståndet så här bland partierna (nov 2021):

  L:  2,4% emot
 MP:  3,1% 
  C:  6,1%
  S:  9,2%
  M: 11,9%
  V: 14,7%
 KD: 21,2%
 SD: 45,6%

Så det är en hjärtefråga för SD men för att få med sig fler måste dom korsa blockgränsen och locka väljare från vänster.

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American Putin-lovers so mad Ukraine refuses to fight with one hand tied behind its back.

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I have 14,888 karma on Lobste.rs and it’s freaking me out. I swear I’m not a Nazi!

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🇸🇪 följ Bibeln, fördöm Tidölaget

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🇺🇦 Did Ukraine kill 14K ethnic Russians prior to 2022? This is one of the justification by the Russians for the invasion: to protect ethnic Russians. Recently I have seen a reappearance of this argument. So, we must refute it again, with facts. 1/

– 🐦🧵 @Mylovanov

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