Ricardo B�nffy
rbanffy@mastodon.social
<p>Writer of executable poetry, maker of a font. Opinions are mine.</p>
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Post #3917223
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-we-ever-find-alien-civilizations-20260709/
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Post #3917222
“The Odyssey” Movie Review | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-movie-review
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Post #3917221
42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support—there are no &#39;bad guys&#39; here, says financial therapist https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/42percent-of-adults-rely-on-their-parents-for-financial-supportthere-are-no-bad-guys-here-says-financial-therapist.html
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Post #3917220
Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching | PLOS Biology https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
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Post #3917219
This is a new level of institutional corruption. Trump Media to sell fast feed of &#39;market-moving&#39; posts to Wall Street https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
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Post #3917218
What Makes Humans Stupid https://nautil.us/what-makes-humans-stupid-1282459
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Post #3917217
Would any of my friends here recommend a good phone-based 3D scanning software that works well with Blender? My kid is planning to make a costume for me and I’d like to scan my head to help.
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Post #3839203
C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake - by Trần Thành Long https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Post #1991210
Trump fires NSF&#39;s oversight board | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board
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Post #1991209
NEO Semiconductor&#39;s revolutionary 3D X-DRAM for AI processors has passed proof-of-concept validation — company secures funding to develop next-gen memory HBM alternative | Tom&#39;s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/neo-semiconductors-revolutionary-3d-x-dram-for-ai-processors-has-passed-proof-of-concept-validation-company-secures-funding-to-develop-next-gen-memory-hbm-alternative
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Post #1991208
New Generation Systems&#39; MicroShell https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/new-generation-systems-microshell
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Post #1991207
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Left a Trail of Methane in its Wake - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/interstellar-comet-3iatlas-left-a-trail-of-methane-in-its-wake
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Post #1991206
Made something for my mainframer friends: Add EBCDIC support to inspector by rbanffy · Pull Request #598 · microsoft/vscode-hexeditor https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-hexeditor/pull/598
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Post #1991205
[2509.00462] AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
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Post #1991204
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/ghost_train_bork/?td=rt-3a
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Post #1991194
So, the cat figured out how to remove the tag from her collar. I wonder how long it’ll take for her to develop opposable thumbs.
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Post #1991193
Higher memory corruption rates means you need to run with more spares in your cluster. [2503.11901] Story of Two GPUs: Characterizing the Resilience of Hopper H100 and Ampere A100 GPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11901
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Post #1991192
Higher memory corruption rates means you need to run with more spares in your cluster. [2503.11901] Story of Two GPUs: Characterizing the Resilience of Hopper H100 and Ampere A100 GPUs https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11901
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Post #1113482
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
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Post #149199
That's it. I'm going back to Emacs. Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/
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Post #101472
I finally decided to start my series of "fun things to do with Hercules" with a page on things to do with a VM370ce machine. Suggestions, corrections, and ideas of other fun things to do are more than welcome. The page is at https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370/wiki/fun-with-vm370
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Post #86181
New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis | Santa Fe Institute https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-mathematical-framework-reshapes-debate-over-simulation-hypothesis
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Post #20528
Swedish publishers file police report against Meta's Zuckerberg for fraud - Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedish-publishers-file-police-report-against-metas-zuckerberg-for-fraud
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Post #19133
Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity https://phys.org/news/2025-11-anomalous-electronic-state-pathway-room.html
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Post #3762
DEC Mini A 3D-printable, fully working, customizable computer https://decmini.tin.cat/