Voltist @voltist@linuxrocks.online

Wait, am I... browsing the GitHub explore page to comfort myself after a sad event? It's like social media but I haven't realized I'm addicted yet.

Love it when you get 5 hours sleep the night before something important. It's not a terrible amount of sleep, but I still worry to myself that it is.

A Blender render I did yesterday. Vaguely based on the cinematography of the original Utopia TV series.

I just discovered a block of IPs that has been purchased by a white supremacist and all-round fascist from NZ, under the name of a fake Australian chemical precessing company, which he uses to sell VPS hosting services to far-right groups all across the world.

The worst thing is that there is nothing I can do about it that isn't illegal.

There is no better way to spend a Saturday morning than desperately trying to recover a partially overwritten filesystem.

Is it possible to run a machine on swap memory alone?

Controversial opinion: Journalism should always represent an opinion; If you have an idea about the what is or should be that you believe is true, it would be immoral not to try and convince others. I don't mean that the news should be biased and not present the whole truth, but that it should go further than just collating facts and actually interpret them.

Blender.

Scanning 90-110 year old books with... a cardboard box.

If you, or someone you know, could be considered to have expertise in the area of political trends within open source communities, let me know! I'm considering writing about the strange world of alt-right politics in open source.

Been working on some CG scenes. Might make a webseries with my friends some time?

Stimulus checks seem like an odd course of action in a world where a significant amount of shopping is done through international corporations like Amazon, rather than local businesses. When it was proposed that the NZ government could give all under 20's $500 ($300 USD), I started looking on Amazon for microscopes, not considering what local cafe to spend it at.

Is creating a 16GB swap partition a good solution to a memory leak? No. But is it a solution? Yes.

Correction: Google Brain not Deep Mind

Deep Mind's new machine learning chatbot scores 91% as 'sensible' in conversation as the average human.

I wonder if there is a limit to how human a chatbot can seem without expressing other human-like characteristics. For example, does a chatbot need complex and genuine opinions about a film before it can have a 100% 'human' conversation about it? I'd guess yes because if it was simply generating typical responses then its opinion would break down at some point (eg. begin contradicting itself).