Notices by Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social), page 3

Where does a programmer need to work today if they want to spend time optimising code for speed?

#programming

Reading about celebrities who mix the strongest uppers with the strongest downers, a.k.a. speedballing, and have heart attacks. This does not seem like a good idea to me. I am instead going to continue to mix tea and milk.

#drugs #tea

Saw a Playstation 5 for the first time at my daughter's house. I didn't even realise that it was a gaming console. That thing is the size and shape of a space heater. The computing power inside must be tremendous when they haven't been able to miniaturise it further.

#gaming #ps5 #playstation

The UN's migration authority IOM reports a record-breaking number of drowned and missing on the Mediterranean so far in 2026.

#immigration

Hörni mina sosse-kompisar. Ni vet varför partiledningen har gjort så många främlingsfientliga utspel de senaste åren. Det är för att de försöker få tillbaka arbetarmännens röster på småorter från SD.

Men ärligt talat -- vill ni verkligen vara med i samma parti som främlingsfientliga arbetarmän på småorter? Har ni någon stark intressegemenskap med dem?

Gör som jag. Byt till anständiga Vänsterpartiet och bidra till dess fortsatta avkommunistifiering.

#svpol #socialdemokraterna

Staffan var en stalledräng
Vem kan ro utan åror?
Han vattnade sina fålar fem
Utan att fälla tårar

Vem kan segla förutan vind?
Vi tackom nu så gärna
Vem kan skiljas från vännen sin?
Allt för den ljusa stjärna

@dalias
That's a separate issue. A publication should never ask people to contribute image files at a certain dpi number. As long as the image has not been printed, it has no physical dimensions, no inches, and thus cannot have any dpi.

When you're dealing with digital images, dpi (Dots Per Inch) is a completely meaningless metric. Because you can imagine that your digital 500 by 500 pixel image is an inch wide, or a mile wide. It's still exactly 500 by 500 pixels.

When talking about image file resolution for printing purposes, the number you need is never dpi. It's width in pixels.

#graphics #design #typography

@NellytheWillow
Your digital image is no particular dpi.

@mekkaokereke
Who was the woman who described watching Star Trek in the 60s, and seeing Lt. Uhura for the first time? "MOMMA! THERE'S A BLACK LADY ON TV, AND SHE'S NOT THE MAID!!!"

#startrek

#Tesla refuses to come to terms with the Swedish labour unions. As a result, nobody is willing to link up their charging stations in the small Swedish town of Vansbro. But Tesla has found a solution.

They've bought some diesel generators. 🙄

https://www.arbetsvarlden.se/tesla-rundar-strejken-driver-laddstation-med-diesel/

#union #evs #climate

It was astonishing to me to learn that reading a piece of writing out loud from the page in a comprehensible and engaging way is a skill. And it's a skill that some extremely intelligent and accomplished people lack. And they don't know that they lack it.

OK, so the new version of Office has LLM integration. What I want to know is HAS IT GOT A BIG CLIP ART PACKAGE????

Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.

#trains #climate

Oh, you were thinking of demanding some sympathy for the financially distressed white working man in the US?

Fuck that. I'm from an actual modern Western country where everybody gets government-subsidised student loans and citizens pay no tuition in higher education.

You know how that came about? Our grandparents and parents *voted for it*, not against it. Duh. 🙄

#highered

You may think I'm weird, but I actually prefer people who are kind, smart and educated over those who are mean, stupid and ignorant. I'm not even going to pretend otherwise.

@aslakr
Konservativt bokmål = 1700-talets danska 😄

Jag vill att du stannar upp med mig och njuter av att nynorska KORLEIS är detsamma som svenska HURULEDES.

Lovely animal art design with two antithetical beasts. Early 8th century? #art

Funny how Scandy fascists keep calling #Islam an evil #religion despite being almost completely secular themselves. It's almost as if they don't really care much about Islam, they actually just hate and fear people with black hair.

#fascism #islamophobia