Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
I uploaded this image to a caption generator AI and it says:
- a close up of a clock on a wall
- a black and white photo of a clock
- a close up of a clock on a building
- a black and white picture of a clock
- a close up of a clock on the wall
- a close up of a black and white clock
- a close up of a clock on the side of a building
- a black and white photo of a clock on a wall
- a black and white photo of a black and white clock
- a black and white photo of a black and white photo of a clock
so… not bananas.
I regret having wasted time trying to figure out what this is all about.
It’s crypto!
it is neither cryptocurrency nor cryptography
It’s blockchain!
in name only
It’s decentralized!
until you spend a few minutes looking at their architecture diagrams.
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It’s nice to see Windows’ decline, but Android being the most popular OS is a bit horrifying. What percentage of Android users are patched against the latest known vulnerabilities? Last I checked, it was a small minority of them.
Do free-speech-loving western countries allow to flourish projects like libgen, Sci-Hub, or the numerous bittorrent sites that have been forcibly shut down (often with operators going to prison)?
add = (
lambda f: (lambda g: f(lambda *h: g(g)(*h)))(
lambda g: f(lambda *h: g(g)(*h))
)
)((lambda _add: lambda a, b: _add(a ^ b, c << 1) if (c := a & b) else a ^ b))
see also The Loving Trap
archive for if/when it gets deleted (it isn’t yet).
It is a rather baffling tweet. An hour later he tweeted “They wrote PEACE on the wall at Berghain! I refused enter.” …so my best guess is that he somehow blames John Lennon for his having just been rejected by the bouncer at a nightclub which is famous for rejecting people.
fyi, your account and this community are both on lemmy.ml (which is a different instance than lemmygrad.ml).