Twitter refuses my profile picture, I had to increase its resolution unnecessarily to 2x2

It would be funny if SpaceX would send spacecrafts up to capture all the Russian spy satellites and then deliver them undamaged to the Russian embassy. If Russia is offended and does the same to US spy satellites it would be a friendly competition harming None

We think our followers can draw their own conclusions on this: reuters.com/technology/exc…

EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer.

Its hard to believe one can get arrested for writing Open Source Software. And that this petition is needed, bit it is apparently. #PrivacyNotACrime #FreeAlex #freepertsev #FreeAlekseyPertsev” - Jetzt unterschreiben! chng.it/7w5nwGSp via Change.org

And again my motherland austria beats everyone. We passed a law that prevents non austrians to send packets to end consumers in austria without having a packaging agent in A. Heres a petition against it: change.org/p/sofortige-au…

#arweave the cool decentralised, sustainable and permanent storage thingy, has their own whitepaper 404, linked from their own docs ;)

How correlated is PCG-DXSM (PCG-2.0) output: guru.multimedia.cx/how-correlated… and can this problem happen if you randomly initialize it: guru.multimedia.cx/correlations-i…

Updating Ubuntu or linux in general with a small /boot partition: guru.multimedia.cx/updating-ubunt…

Why has elon musk become so involved in US "politics" ? I really preferred Elon as a genius entrepreneur/engineer/leader. Ok maybe its a stupid question, he probably wants to run as president one day and so needs to join one side. As there are always just 2 options

In Austria, officials warn not to spend time in the woods. 2 Days after the end of the storm and rain. Windless, cloudless day today. I managed to snap a pic of one of these signs. 40min later it was gone. Also never seen as many people in the parks as today when they are closed

Is Chi a ponzi ? guru.multimedia.cx/is-chi-a-ponzi/

I am really impressed by googles buganizer which replaced the thing that oss-fuzz used previously. I didnt imagine one could send a mail per day X per bug X per user saying "Changed Reported: Oct 12, 2024 → Oct 13, 2024" and not get blocked as spam by ISPs

Can Democracy Survive Without Privacy? (Phil Zimmermann interviewed by Naomi) youtu.be/NciVkd6ddPo?si… via YouTube

Criminalizing Privacy (Al Jazeera Interview of Naomi) youtu.be/wcKtnnzsQGk?si… via YouTube

Can we approximate log2() by a cast ? (and some offset and scaling) guru.multimedia.cx/approximate-lo…

FFv1 v4 will add support for IEEE-754 single- and half-precision RGB/RGBA/Grayscale floating point pixel formats. The work designing and implementing that was funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund. Support will be available in FFmpeg 8.0 with -strict experimental.

Nicolas wrote an interesting mail today "On errors, asserts and crashing", lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmp…

Most impressive mail received at ffmpeg-security today:

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