Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 game remaster over abysmal AI upscaling that ruined the hand-drawn unit cards: https://www.pcmag.com/news/sega-yanks-total-war-shogun-2-remaster-over-backlash-to-ai-upscaling

@grace@app.wafrn.net

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Process my Vulkan shaders

🌐 Our monthly DWeb Meetup is in less than two weeks!

We’ve got a new theme and new guests, and we’ll be sharing the latest from the DWeb ecosystem. ✨

📅🕐 Wed, Oct. 28, 2026 9am PT | 18:00 CET. Save the date!
📍 online

Come join us, catch up with the community, and hear what’s happening across the DWeb ecosystem. 💚 Stay tuned 🔜

#DWeb #meetup #events

@smallcircles

"Mastodon" is a registered trademark owned by Mastodon GmbH. It would be very unwise to try to use it as a category name, because the trademark might one day end up in the wrong hands. (In case people want real world examples of this happening in the FOSS world, trademarks are why Jabber lost its name and ended up being called XMPP.)

"Fediverse" isn't owned by anyone, isn't used in any other context, and it is already in wide use on the network. It's a much better option for the overall network's name.

🚃 A glimpse into a bygone era and forgotten childhood memories. These trams were a popular part of Blackpool seaside holidays for generations of families.

After their retirement from service, they were stored awaiting restoration in a compound at Fleetwood Docks.

Sadly, most of them ended up scrapped or scavenged for parts when the heritage group disbanded.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/vintage-seaside-trams-england/

#Blackpool #Vintage #Transport #Nostalgia #Abandoned #Rust #Trams #Heritage #Seaside #ArtDeco

Call for public comment:

Meta's Oversight Board is conducting research to provide guidance to the technology industry on how to use large language models (LLMs) for content moderation on social media platforms in a way that respects free expression, reduces harm and adheres to recognized human rights standards.

https://www.oversightboard.com/news/respecting-human-rights-when-using-llms-in-content-moderation-key-principles-for-the-tech-industry/

@vs_everyone putting aside their differences to confront the Mom threat... but it will not be enough...

I was entertaining the assertion I recently heard that soon, very soon, there will be on the order of trillions of cognitive entities on the planet that are non-subjective, but otherwise of human capacity or greater

and I thought of a chapter I once wrote on “the eclipse of human discretion”

and I thought of the “information mechanics” in Greg Bear’s “Blood Music,” and how in that novel the fabric of reality collapsed when it was pinned down too closely by too many observers

and I realized that in any meaningful sense every word that ever issues from me from now down through the last of my days will be primarily read by an audience of machines

and then I stopped thinking, put on Swans and did a few solid sets of skullcrushers, and by the time M. Gira got to the really soaring bit of “I Am A Tower” everything started to feel OK again.

Time Square, a man stands next to a handcart filled with the various pieces of a Bumblebee Transformer costume.

#OnlyInNYC

Just learned that All Things Open is coming up. I don't know how I never know about these things. I'm just not tuned into events, and there's nobody to tell me.

I would have loved to ship some Owncast swag to somebody attending to drop off for attendees, but it's too late now.

It would make a lot of sense for me to attend these things myself in the future, but there's no way to afford it.

Wanna give a talk?: Red Hat Summit 2027 call for proposals is now open https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-summit-2027-call-proposals-now-open

The recording of the October 1st, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/FtPwUs5bJIM

We discussed Reviews that need your attention and testing, keelOS, the Triton hypervisor-agnostic control plane, repeatable #FreeBSD development VMs , Apiary news and yet another deep dive into responsible #AI, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

This content is not AI generated

I maintain that the requirement in ActivityPub for activities to have unique, de-referenceable, persistent IDs is one of the major faults with it as a protocol.

I get why, if you are working in JSON-LD terms, it makes sense, but from a protocol perspective it is bizarre.

← waiting for the perfect conditions to do things, the conditions that will never happen

@jalefkowit is that good?

Gods I dislike programming in golang.

@timbray FORTRAN was a required course when I studied Physics at Berkeley in the 80s and 90s.