[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They’re rereleasing movies in theaters because they decided to stop making movies in order to break strikes. As a result, a job that consistently paid $100,000 over 10 years has made me $20,000 in the past two years.

Don’t go see this unless you are a scab who doesn’t care about the hardworking people that take pride in working in the film industry.

Pirate the fuck out of this movie.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 1 month ago

First past the post. Here’s my go-to graphic to describe how it affects democracies.

First past the post’s affect on Sweden’s government as a point of comparison.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nix actually IS Bash under the hood. It uses Perl and Bash to create an atomic installation. I tend to do a LOT less maintenance than I’d need to do if I rolled everything from scratch in Bash.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 4 months ago

Why are we seeing this ad?

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Motörhead had 23 studio albums.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 7 months ago

I fully support this. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s corporatism was the last straw for me.

End to end free and open source. RISC-V chipset.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I worked on that movie. I can tell you that the crew knew it was going to be a stinker for the entire time it was being made.

It was GREAT money while it lasted even though Sony was unbelievably stingy at times. We (the crew) quickly came to look at it as a box office writeoff.

As we always say,

I don't write em. I just light em.

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 23 points 8 months ago

All the news today about them reminded me to cancel my prime membership. Thanks, Barbara Streisand!

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

we should just Go aroUnd acting lIke they are the best ever Landlords on the pLanet and there is nOthing unusual abouT them beIng the oNly people on earth familiar with thE concept of happiness, right fellow captive serfs?

[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 23 points 11 months ago

Researchers at the UK’s Newcastle University are using fungal networks (called mycelium) to build structures. The goal is to create lighter-weight buildings, reducing our reliance on concrete and lessening negative environmental impact.

Mycelium, small strings that are part of a fungus, intertwine underground with tree roots. It’s part of a network of plants that pass water and nutrients to each other, even allowing trees to “communicate,” according to the National Forest Foundation.

Mushrooms, the fairytale home of garden gnomes, are a byproduct that grows on the surface.

Researchers are leveraging the growth properties of the organism to create mycocrete, an ingenious paste that, when dried, is “stronger and more versatile” than other fungi biomaterials.

“Our ambition is to transform the look, feel and wellbeing of architectural spaces using mycelium in combination with biobased materials such as wool, sawdust, and cellulose,” Newcastle’s Dr. Jane Scott said in a university report.

The process is quite the biology experiment. Scientists take mycelium spores and mix them with materials the spores can devour and grow on, including grains.

This mixture is put into a mold and placed in a room that might resemble your basement right now — warm, dark, and humid. The mycelium grows to form and is dried, creating a building material that could be a cleaner fill-in for foam, timber, or plastic, per Newcastle research.

In this innovation, the experts have improved the process by using flexible, tube-shaped knitted molds, which are hung from a frame. This allows for more oxygen to enter, helping to create what the experts call mycocrete, CleanTechnica reported.

The team proved the concept through a unique build called , which was tested for strength, outperforming past samples. It’s a “complex freestanding dome constructed in a single piece without [joints] that could prove to be weak points, thanks to the flexible knitted form,” to Newcastle experts.

It looks sort of like a birdcage. A university shows two people sitting inside it.

If this fungus can prove versatile enough to replace concrete in even a portion of our buildings, the results could be impactful. Princeton University that concrete is the “most consumed” product on Earth, not counting water. The concrete industry contributes of air pollution a year, Princeton.

The experts must create the right mycelium mix for buildings, before it goes mainstream.

It’s “a significant result, and a step toward the use of mycelium and textile biohybrids within construction,” Scott in the university report.

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