Last night I made pong in Scratch for my 5yo. This morning we modded it together, we made a colour selector for the paddles and made you able to move the goals.
He's now making sprites and adding code. He's not able to read and refusing help, so he's mostly throwing things to the right, but he's getting there!
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@Jonathan Lamothe Part of the issue is just that I don't like sitting there for 8 hours in a mask - but that's not a terrible plan
The library near me is pretty small though - but I should think thoughts
My son has a much loved audiobook that he listens to every night. But. One of the line reads in it scared him sometimes, and he sometimes fears to listen because he's worried about it.
We talked, and we're experimenting with a version of the story where the line is said in my voice, I opened the file, cut out the scary line, said it instead in my voice, and left the rest of the audiobook intact.
Talk to me again about DRM.
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@Mister Spinalzo yeah! I 100% paid for the book for my son to enjoy! The line reading was great! But sometimes the line read of "a dragon surprises the main character" is too scarey for an anxious 5yo!
Thanks for writting books it's important work!
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Quick, someone give the police force a billion in OT to shake the bushes at a local park! We need 4000 posts about how supporting OpenAI in these times is unthinkable!
I was just talking to a colleague about the AI bubble. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.Is there enough money on the line to kill over?
There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.
RIP Suchir
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#OpenAI #AI #VC #SuchirBalaji
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.Jakob Rodgers (The Mercury News)
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@silverwizard Dec 24th 6pm, I just lost Whamageddon, at the restaurant we’re having Christmas Eve dinner, thanks to an assist from my partner.
I was so close!
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I did some work on porting miller's work on the risc-v userspace over to 9front, the toolchain works well enough to compile all of /sys/src (at least at the time of its writing). There was some work on a qemu targeted kernel but people lost steam and we never got it booting to userspace.
If you want to check out the userspace parts you can find it here: shithub.us/moody/riscv/HEAD/in…
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@moody I probably don't have the C for this, but I wanna! I am gonna look and then mostly get lost.
I should buy DevTerm R01s for some Plan9 devs...
@Allen that definitely is a shocking connnection!
My kids are young, but I've been talking to them about shorts since they were 3
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@Allen My older son picked a lock before he turned 2. My younger son built his own computer (with help from mom) at 3.
I basically am going to accidentally make the stars of a heist show, and I'm ok with that.
But honestly, kids love to learn everything. And we all know enough to be a friend and mentor to a kid. Don't sell yourself short for raising awesome kids. The kids may be alright, but parenting is hard work, and doing it *matters*
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Remember when Boeing was assassinating whistleblowers?
Why is no one up in arms about that? We have more important assassins to be chasing.
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@benda I am not a fan of murder as a solution! But like, there's a reason why it's happening! We're not... stopping it
And fuck - people need to stop being hypocrites where we don't show *horror* that people killing people in masses, but get upset because one murderer got vigilante justice
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A CEO can get shit done when motivated
Anthem backtracks on anesthesiology cap policy in CT
An unpopular move to cap anesthesiology coverage by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield drew criticism from patients and state officials.Rob Polansky (Eyewitness News 3)
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email# ls |wc -l
14999
email# ls -l |wc -l
15000
email# find . -ctime -1 -exec ls -lT {} \;|wc -l
15027
email# Something is very wrong
To be clear - Piketty wanted to continue capitalism and said that if we didn't make it slightly less garbage people would die.
I guess no one started the process of even making it slightly equitable, so I guess we're on the other path.
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Ok, looks like I can read tapes. Now I need to figure out if I can write a tape from this USB deck, and source some blank tapes!
Dat tapes for the future!
@💞 eva 💞 I will never learn to use a camera
I'm using an R01 (the RISC-V one) because I wanted the cool form factor, but also needed to justify it with a weird CPU to play with.
I really want to love the DevTerm but the keboard is in a magical place to be annoying no matter how it's held, but if I use an external keyboard it' *wonderful*.
I should save this work for loading into Koha
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twice now I had it stop resolving recursively and I needed to futz to make it work
might be openbsd router time
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There is nsh: nmedia.net/nsh/
It can be installed via pkg_add nsh
It's really hard to be in free software spaces. So many are so libertarian and kinda fashy.
I had someone try to get me on side by saying "When I said group of kids, I meant gang"
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My 5yo just asked me "Was Andre the Giant smarter than you"
What the fuck do you say to that?!
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Built an F-Droid repo for my kids inside our local network. Added games and basic apps, let the kid tablets work without unfettered internet.
F Droid wont let me use a self signed cert because, I guess, the CA system is good
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@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.
apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update
then point a webserver at the repo dir.
not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!
But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet
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I asked my church music director if he had a HAM license today, and he replied he never got into radio. I then had to ask how we'd run a pirate radio station together.
One day I'll be a HAM
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@Hypolite Petovan why thank you!
But I wanna be an amateur radio operator!
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As usual my forays into making me enjoy reading RSS feeds is failing
One day I'll find a reader I love
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard It's almost as though it's not actually about speech or something.
Huh.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •secretspecter 🚲
in reply to silverwizard • • •Grumble
in reply to silverwizard • • •- sometimes it's words; once thought to be powerful, they are surprisingly impotent because any rando can spout nonsense
- sometimes it's not baking a cake because you don't like who might eat it
- sometimes it's not paying for certain kinds of healthcare for your employees because you think your sky friend wouldn't like it
- sometimes it's bribes; this is a very powerful form of speech in US politics. mostly used by the wealthy.
- sometimes it's lead; even more powerful than money; the government thinks it should be the only one to use speech of such finality
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