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RyNo @yellowapple.us · Jan 31

Zig-on-N64 progress continues, now with video output! fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64/info/d...

A Nintendo 64 console (connected to a CRT television) running a ROM written in Zig, demonstrating the ability to turn the screen yellow (or whatever approximation of it the TV and its horribly-miscalibrated color output can muster).

Ares emulator running a ROM written in Zig, demonstrating both the ability to log debug messages and the ability to turn the screen yellow.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 6h

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 7h

Sure, but I don't think you're arguing with an epiphenominalist, so I don't see the relevance of that conclusion ;)

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 7h

In this case “first-person qualia are necessarily epiphenomenal” doesn't seem especially wrong to me (though I disagree with the usual epiephenomenalist assertion that something entirely dependent on mechanical/biochemical events can't in turn cause other mechanical/biochemical events).

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 7h

That won't fix the underlying issues motivating people to kill each other (or more commonly themselves).

Better socioeconomic safety nets and better healthcare accessibility would accomplish everything gun control aims to accomplish, plus much, much more. That's where our energy needs to be.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 7h

I understand that's your argument, yeah. What I'm struggling to understand is your basis for that argument. I don't take that “must be” as a given — especially given the currently-incomplete knowledge of what processes underlie a quale in the first place.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 8h

Just because we don't have the ability to do that now doesn't mean we won't ever have that ability, nor does it mean that lacking that ability is relevant for whether something is conscious.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 8h

When human brains break down, their underlying nature (as blobs of meat) also shows through.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 8h

That paper seems to assume that what it dubs the “consciousness-multiplying exploit” is an undesirable outcome without clarifying why; if the “splitting” operation produces two independently-operable Turing machines then of course that would produce two independent consciousnesses.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 8h

It is indeed humor on my part lol

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 8h

Reminds me of one of the mock debates we had in one of my HS English classes, where the teacher decided to appoint a special moderator specifically to call out all the logical fallacies.

It quickly devolved into “literally everything is a logical fallacy”.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 9h

This shit is making me very strongly consider dropping Tidal and returning to my high school days of torrenting FLAC discographies.

A screenshot of the artist page for TOTO on the Tidal app, flooded with fake clearly-not-TOTO slop albums and singles.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 9h

Nuclear is a lot easier when the thing that needs power is sitting on top of a planet-wide heatsink. I think once thorium catches on as a fuel, nuclear-ifying the global shipping fleet will be a straightforward environmental win.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 10h

Thanks to timezone shenanigans, it's tomorrow the 13th somewhere ;)

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 10h

Video games add no more value to people's lives than AI. They're both entertainment, and both use comparable amounts of electricity and water.

And it's rich to bring up the “child porn” argument apropos nothing when games in the same vein as RapeLay have existed for decades.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 20h

Do you hold the same opinion when it comes to, say, playing video games or watching streaming video?

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 23h

Yeah, seems to have defaulted sensibly for me, too. I wonder if there's some theming shenanigans going on?

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 23h

WYSIWYGUYIDM

What
You
See
Is
What
You
Get
Unless
You're
In
Dark
Mode

Selene 🏳️‍⚧️ | ⚸ @selene.euyis.me · 1d

starting libreoffice for like the first time ever in a decade and what

whose idea is it that in dark mode a document should be white on black like unless you expect it to never ever hit a printer buddy you’re literally or at least pretending to be a serious office suite

oh wait it’s black on white again in print preview this somehow feels even worse I love a wysiwyg editor that lies to you even more than they usually do

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 23h

Don't you see? When America abducts Nazi scientists and then installs them into various positions of power in West Germany, it's cringe. When the USSR abducts Nazi scientists and then installs them into various positions of power in East Germany, it's based. QED.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 1d

The free Ubuntu 7.10 CD is in a large part responsible for my current career. My mom grounded me from my PC because of my bad grades, so I booted off one of these as my daily driver until I found out about WUBI and used that to hack together a hidden dual-boot.

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

Perfect example of "It made sense in context"

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 2d

I think that depends a lot on how that UBI gets funded. Land value tax, for example, prevents that inflationary pressure when it comes to rents; landlords jacking up rents in response to UBI would just end up paying more in LVT (and therefore UBI).

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 2d

If one of those boats had a Nobel Peace Prize winner on it, then Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize would make him the third Nobel Peace Prize winner to have bombed other Nobel Peace Prize winners, the other two being Kissinger and Obama.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 2d

It's false.
No way.
Not this time.
We created it.
Not this time.
No.
Not this time.
It's totally made up.
Pure fiction.
It's fiction.
It's fiction.
We made it up.
We made this one up.
It's a made up tale.
It's a total fabrication.
It never happened.
It never happened.
This one was invented by a writer.
Not this time.
It never happened.
It's false.
It never happened.
It's a fake.
It's fiction.
It's an urban legend that never happened.
No way.
We got you.
Not a chance.
Not this time.
It never happened.
It never happened.
We made this one up.
It's fiction.
We made up this one.
We made it up.
Not this time.
Wrong.
Not this time.
Not this time.
You're wrong.
Not this time; it never happened.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 3d

What next? “James” and “Thames” not rhyming‽

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 3d

Shego can break me.

RyNo @yellowapple.us · 3d

I ain't no doctor or nothin', but I'm pretty sure if a baby's in the placenta at 8 months something's gone horribly horribly wrong.

CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 3d

In the placenta?
🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

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