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Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head onto the roof of a blue Tesla Model 3 in a crushing display posted to Instagram on March 11. Mármol told Hyperallergic that his intention was “to satirize the Tesla brand and its creator.”

https://hyperallergic.com/878913/artist-chavis-marmol-crushes-tesla-with-colossal-olmec-head-sculpture/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

A European Citizen Initiative requires a massive investment to come through (quotas of signature per country, amount of signatures, quantity of personal data signatories have to give away, etc.) while at the same time it cannot force the EU to do anything. the Commission can just decide to file it vertically (in the trash can) and they often do.

So speak about a glorified, expansive petition... and you may find modes of action that are way way more efficient.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Netflix, Disney+ -> ThePirateBay

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

wait until you've tried with a PCEngine! ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

+1.

Also it can be turned into a coolest spaceship, with its CDRom attachment, a very first in 1988!

Also the HuCard format for its games is unbeatable!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

you are right. they are now accessible and unified accros platforms by retroarch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

That's to me part of the delight in modern experience of classic games: to go through these games you never had a chance to complete before! mostly with a few features:

  • save/load states (with accessible shortcuts on your controller) anywhere in the game, whether or not the original game had a way to save/load progress, and regardless on when/where the players were "allowed" to save. because we don't have as much time as we had when we were 12yo....
  • rewind. YES. in case you havent played a modern emulator through retroarch recently you may not even have thought it would be a thing! but it is... like in movies. you get killed in that super-hard shmup that implacably sends you back to the beginning of the level every time you die? ever found that a bit... unfair, maybe? well, just rewind, dodge that bullet and keep playing. you may not integrate this new learning as much as if you had to play it 100 times to learn it by heart and get there, but hell, again, the time thing. (also fast-forward comes handy for those JRPGs games, where you had to constantly grind with random encounters in order to level up.. think "catchin'em'all" and not having all the time in the world...)
  • arcade games frequently had unlimited "continue" (as long as you would shove money into them), while console adaptations we tried our teeth into at home -for the lucky few of us- had usually an arbitrarily set number of "continue"... (mostly -so i heard about the US at least, where there was a huge rental market for console games- to make sure kids won't finish the game in less than a day or a week-end worth of a rental... and rather be challenge to rent the game again). with arcade emulators, you have all the virtual coins that you need...

Combining those together gives anyone the occasion to just experience any of these games, from start to finish, in a relatively short period of time. a 90s arcade brawler or shmup or such goes in one sitting of usually less than one hour... anyone is free to then decide to practice them hundreds of times until they decide to stop using these features one by one and/or use them as creative constraints along the way of their own training, etc...

In short: modern emulation gaming levels the playing field (pun very much intended) when it comes to making those games accessible to everyone, especially those nail-hard ones, by giving access to a wide diversity of ways to experience them! yay! \o/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

welcome home! <3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

don't use it if you're flying a plane, though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Coming from someone at the helm of a new reactionary movement, that's pretty tasty!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

newsboat <3

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT all night long

 

By Albert Burneko

9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.

...

 

I tried as in the doc, but ran into

[__0] rejecting: aeson-2.2.0.0, aeson-2.1.2.1, aeson-2.1.2.0, aeson-2.1.1.0,
aeson-2.1.0.0 (constraint from user target requires ==2.0.3.0)
 

#FreeAssange!

 
 

A friend of mine is a social worker, with a cool hacker spirit, but not at all versed into computers.

She wants to learn programming.

I figured (from what i gathered around) that Python is a good language for learning as it has the just right amount of constraints, and that its constraints are actually useful for programming in other languages...

What sort of resources would you recommend to her? A book in particular? A guide/Howto or online course?

Thanks!

#AskingForAFriend

 

Pretty well summarize to convince the last of us and people around us who havent started experimenting with the Fediverse...

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/475611

EXPO/ FILMS/ [REDACTED]/ WORKSHOPS/ LAB/

P145, Invalidenstr. 145 - 10115 Berlin

NoisyLeaks! is a moment combining an exhibition alongside a series of events which will take place from October 8th to October 30th, 2022. NoisyLeaks! aims **to collectively expose and celebrate the historical and cultural heritage of WikiLeaks and its influence on world-wide practices **- a space and moment to share knowledge, practical skills and encourage freedom of information.

Featuring:

!Mediengruppe Bitnik, AFK, Ai Weiwei, Chicks on Speed, Daniel Lismore, Daniel Richter, Davide Dormino, Hito Steyerl, Iodine Dynamics, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Melissa E. Logan, RYBN, Sarah Lucas

Schedule:

https://noisyleaks.space/schedule

 

EXPO/ FILMS/ [REDACTED]/ WORKSHOPS/ LAB/

P145, Invalidenstr. 145 - 10115 Berlin

NoisyLeaks! is a moment combining an exhibition alongside a series of events which will take place from October 8th to October 30th, 2022. NoisyLeaks! aims **to collectively expose and celebrate the historical and cultural heritage of WikiLeaks and its influence on world-wide practices **- a space and moment to share knowledge, practical skills and encourage freedom of information.

Featuring:

!Mediengruppe Bitnik, AFK, Ai Weiwei, Chicks on Speed, Daniel Lismore, Daniel Richter, Davide Dormino, Hito Steyerl, Iodine Dynamics, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, Melissa E. Logan, RYBN, Sarah Lucas

Schedule:

https://noisyleaks.space/schedule

 

Mepo is focused on hackability and performance. It enables endless expandability through its mepolang.

Mepo just reached milestone 5 (tag 0.5) with major performance and usability improvements, including savestates from session to session.

Check it out! or even better: contribute by your user feedback, patches and such!

 

IA surveillance of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while he was sheltering in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London included recording his conversations with American lawyers, journalists and doctors, and copying private data from visitors' phones and other devices, violating constitutional protections, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

The suit – filed on behalf of four Americans who visited Assange – seeks damages personally from then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo for violating the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. The suit also seeks damages against a Spanish security firm contracted to protect the embassy, and its CEO, alleging that they abused their position to illegally spy on visitors and passed on the surveillance data they collected to the CIA, which is also named a defendant in the suit.

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