Degrees Of Freedom
blargby mhoye14d ago
August 10, 2026 This started off life as a thread on Mastodon, about Google’s upcoming decision to restrict all software installation to be beholden to Google Play’s chain-of-custody developer...
exple.tive.orgadded August 2026
blargby mhoye14d ago
August 10, 2026 This started off life as a thread on Mastodon, about Google’s upcoming decision to restrict all software installation to be beholden to Google Play’s chain-of-custody developer...
blargby mhoye24 Jun 2026
June 24, 2026 It’s pretty weird that water isn’t compressible. You wouldn’t think so, but should you find yourself at the very the bottom of the Marianas Trench, the water pressure around you will...
blargby mhoye12 Jun 2026
June 12, 2026 I had the aging-computer-toucher’s blessing-slash-curse of introducing my son to the Yin and Yang of Windows Problem Solving this week, with the emergence of an absolutely relentless...
blargby mhoye12 Jun 2026
June 12, 2026 Ted Chiang recently wrote that: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a...
blargby mhoye2 May 2026
May 2, 2026 This is fun. I was into the cheese banter with some friends over on Mastodon – as one does – and I came up with a clever phrase that I thought would make a clever joke.