beejjorgensen

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans in c/technology@beehaw.org
Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Agree. Did Google not kiss Trump's ass enough? Is that why they're still going after them?

Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 13 points 3 hours ago (7 children)

On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose "lockdown". The next unlock will require a PIN.

Notes on coreutils in Rust in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] beejjorgensen 1 points 3 hours ago

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you're curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I noticed this on my web logs earlier. Couldn't believe how popular I was until I saw "AI" in the user agent string for 90% of the his.

Invisiclues.org - interesting new Infocom fan site in c/interactive_fiction@lemmy.ml
[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 4 days ago

This is awesome!

US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Why would you give a machine money?

To be clear, you'd give the company that owns the machine money.

Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright.

Except that it sounds like no, you wouldn't by this court case, right?

it’s just worthless AI slop.

I agree. :)

How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 4 days ago

I'm following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I'm a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.

How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I want to throw in a second good word for hashtags. I follow a tiny handful of people, almost entirely personal friends. But I follow a lot of hashtags. Because it typically is the content that I'm after as opposed to a particular person. If my favorite poster of weather information decides to post something about accounting, I don't really want to see that. Also following a hashtag gets you a lot more exposure to like-minded people than you would if you were trying to follow them all individually, and you see a lot more posts about things you enjoy.

Chinese company’s ‘dark factory’ will no human workers soon be the norm in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] beejjorgensen 8 points 5 days ago

That escalated quickly. Uh... "Bring manufacturing back to America!" Or something.

FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] beejjorgensen 17 points 5 days ago

You gonna delete the equal time rule, too? Didn't think so.

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Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer. (lo.calho.st)
 

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

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Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story (medium.com)
 

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

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Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen (newatlas.com)
 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

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How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

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Vintage Infocom collection on eBay (www.ebay.com)
 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

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GPT adventure game generator (github.com)
 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

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Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary (hackthedeveloper.com)
 

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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