Holy mother of god. Some satellite images from #Gaza have been unembargoed on google. #Rafah is gone. Just gone. Khan Younis is ruins. Everything, gone. #Palestine is being ethnically cleansed so billionaires can have a new playground.
This is what #Israel has done. This is their crime, the blood of 22,637 children stains the hands of every member of the #IDF. This is #America's crime, this is everyone who has ever supported #Israel's crime. This is unforgivable. We are a terrible country, supporting one that's even worse.
Until it's taken down again, sat images of Palestine here, I've started us in Rafah's main mosque. Or where it was.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bilal+Mosque/@31.305079,34.2398794,490m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x14fd938fd9cce82b:0xf8056862904cb47f!2sRafah!3b1!8m2!3d31.29678!4d34.243482!16zL20vMDJzaHJ6!3m5!1s0x14fd9407c5414093:0x974c7d2ce8e05140!8m2!3d31.3056418!4d34.2401459!16s%2Fg%2F11csb1qbb3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyNy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117382397216266564
thatâs why #NASA hired teams of #embroidery #knitting #beading #fiberArts experts who all so happened to be not just women but mostly Native American, African American and Latinas. they were nicknamed the Little Old Ladies and without them there would be no Apollo program.
they won't even teach you in school that the LOLs were preceded by women who âif they wanted a chance to enter college, a privilege only for menâ they did so by being computers (mathematicians) for ârealâ scientists.
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RT: https://tech.lgbt/users/Natasha_Jay/statuses/117382397216266564
RT: https://mastodon.social/users/tazgetroete/statuses/117386774629157669
Haben sie es mal mit ein- und ausschlafen probiert?
Luckily, rolling back the package version did the trick.
@gregoa_ We are right next to the USA. These things tend to be contagious. Maybe there is a weird splinter group of MAGA called MADA, make America Daylight Always.
On me dit que ce texte signé Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy a fort probablement été créé par IA.
Fabrice Bellard
A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.
He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.
His name is Fabrice Bellard.
Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.
Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at Ăcole Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.
In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.
Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.
He was not done.
In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.
He kept going.
In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.
In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.
Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.
Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org
He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.
A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.
He is still shipping.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy
Ich hab es endlich gefunden. Ein paar von euch konnten sich nicht vorstellen, dass Habeck psychische Profile erstellen lassen wollte. Doch, doch.
âDass wir die GefĂ€hrderpotenziale frĂŒher erkennen,
dass wir also psychische Profile erstellen, wenn wir bei
den Menschen, die zu uns kommen, Gesundheitstests
machen, ist ebenfalls eine naheliegende Konsequenz,
die die Gewerkschaft der Polizei vorgeschlagen hat.â
- Robert Habeck wÀhrend seiner Rede in der 209. Sitzung des Bundestages
, fuck all GenAI
"Cars replaced horses"
This is what people say about LLMs, but it's based on a myth.
Los Angeles used to have an excellent tram system, with its suburbs laid out along the tram line. It was bought by General Motors and scrapped to get people into cars. The Key System, which went from San Francisco to Fresno, was scrapped by a tyre company. Cars did not replace horses in cities. They replaced effective mass transit by leveraging capital to destroy a common good. If cars were actually better, this destruction would have been expensive and unnecessary.
In more rural areas, bicycles were extremely common. They were most associated with liberating women, who were more able to commute and meet with neighbours. Bicycles became a symbol of feminism - for sexists. When male students at Cambridge wanted to protest women's admission, the built an effigy of a woman student and burned it. The effigy was on a bicycle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-45096690
This notion of women cyclists overstepping their place in society and being a menace to the social order appears in the 'Wizard of Oz'. In Kansas, a woman neighbour demands that the family give up Toto because he's been causing extremely minor mischief. Auntie Em tells the neighbour that she wishes to say what what she thinks of her, but can't as she is "a Christian woman". This places her in binary opposition with the neighbour who leaves on a bicycle. Toto escapes and as Dorothy goes to Oz, the woman transforms into a witch and the bicycle into a broomstick.
Bicycles fell out of fashion in the US until mountain bikes, which are loaded with male gender baggage and unsuitable to riding while wearing a dress or for commuting.
Households switched to cars which are expensive, so they tended to only have one, which men took to work and women were placed back in the home.
Cars are a malign presence. Their use was not the advance of technology, but deliberate concerted efforts to harm the public sphere and especially to disempower women. They only became practical because of massive subsidies for highways and roads. They are an inherently wasteful technology, ill-suited to a majority of their current use cases.
Silly question for the #NoLLM #Linux users out there.
Allegedly, the last commit to the Linux kernel that was "clean" before slop started being introduced was made in January 2025.
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#kernels
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d337f4524861f4e74c31ee575d60f2eaa1e82388
Now, dumping out all the patches between there and kernel 7.1-rc6 (where my local working tree stops), `git format-patch` produces 58437 patch files. Of these, there's ~294 that have the `Assisted-by` taint marker.
It'll take some re-work, but we might be able to re-factor those out in a new fork of the Linux kernel, a possible hard-fork.
If I wound a tree back to `d337f45`, and re-applied all the allegedly "clean" patches, leaving aside the 294 tainted ones, would people be willing to pitch in and help carry this project forward?
I just want to point out that the MAGANazi party tried the culture war bullshit with Zohran Mamdani. They tried, and it failed.
They tried the socialism thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into workers rights.
They tried the trans thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into trans rights.
They tried the immigration thing. He waved it away by leaning harder into immigrant rights.
The lesson here for Centrist Democrats is simple. You don't fight Nazis by giving up ground to the Nazis. You fight Nazis by leaning harder into the wind and standing up for individual rights.