#Collection interfaces

[blocks2code]

SortedSet Interface in Java With Program Example

SortedSet is a child interface of Set Interface. It exhibits similar behaviour to its parent interface like not allowing duplicates and preserving insertion order. As its name suggests, the elements present in sortedSet, are always stored in sorting order. By default, it applies natural sorting to arrange the elements in a specific order. For example, in the case of numbers, the elements are…

[lunarlegend]

gods, there is just nothing like binge watching a show while playing a video game all day

[trevlad-sounds]

Audio Obscura–Through Nuclear Skies-00:00 Me Lost Me–Real World Me Lost Me-03:17 Bonfire Hill–The Colour of Pomegranates-06:32 Burd Ellen–The Hermit-12:03 The Twelve Hour Foundation–Cascade-18:58 The British Stereo Collective–The Meyer-Bergman Experiment-21:21 Faex Optim–Rodan-24:13 Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd REEL–Droad Eastville Vending-29:05 Spray–Hammered in an Airport-32:54 Vieon–Inter-City-36:42 TSR2–Boat-43:00 Loopatronica–Point Attractor Intro-49:49 concretism–39 Furnival Street-52:15 Pulselovers–Aethelbald and the Golden Dragon-57:45 Scanner–Rhyme and Rebus-1:01:51 Pefkin–Smoke Drift-1:05:48 spaceship–Mercie Field-1:09:54 Gagarin–Wonderdusk 1-1:18:57

[josephlikesmusic]

New CDs and Interface!

A radio station near my dorm was doing a little sale in their parking lot so I had to loot the fuck out of it. No vinyl because I fly to and from school and my house and get worried about flying with records, but still scored these 6 CDs and a new interface for only $16. One of my friends also got a first edition copy of Abbey Road which was really fucking cool so we scored big today. Glad I stopped by the sale, hoping I can find more like it in the future.

[macronectes]

oh great, my custom theme has been reset without a warning

link now redirects to the tumblr.com/[url] and i can't view my page in website mode at all, it's just blank; archive link doesn't work either

does anyone know how to recover anything like that, at least partially?

[euclydya]

goif 2 try 2 make . a. fwiwndship bracelet .

[deepikadpblog]

Mastering Efficiency: Navigating the power of Workflow Form Generator

In today's fast-paced business environment, efficiency and productivity are key to success. Workflow generators play a pivotal role in achieving these goals by streamlining, managing, and automating complex tasks and processes. Acting as digital assistants, these tools help organizations create, organize, and execute tasks seamlessly. 

This blog article explores the transformative capabilities of workflow generators, highlighting their importance in simplifying workflows, ensuring consistency, fostering collaboration, adapting to scalability, enforcing compliance, and providing visibility into processes. The article also outlines the step-by-step process of creating forms using a workflow generator, emphasizing the significance of both custom and predefined forms. 

Ultimately, workflow form generator is presented as a strategic imperative for organizations seeking to excel in today's dynamic business landscape.

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[a-soft-fluffy-girl]

TL;DR: Steam just made library sharing so much fucking easier and so much fucking better. Instead of login-trading, it's just a simple goddamn invite.

Read this. Really. It's a good read. Because it shows that, full-stop, Valve isn't just doubling down on their stance to make sure that people can and should be able to share their copies of digital goods as easily as they can physical ones, but they're making it better and easier than ever.

But you know how Steam allowed you to, with either friends or family, link accounts with another person to be able to establish an ability to share game libraries with one another? The general gist of Steam Family Sharing was that, with a limit of five people plus you (six in total) on a limit of ten computers total could share account access to willingly mix your libraries. You could play theirs. They could play yours.

This was a huge boon. It was meant to emulate sharing a physical copy of a game. A way to allow children to play games their parents or siblings had bought without having to fork over double the cash to buy it a second game. But it had some major limitations and drawbacks, and was archaic to use.

If a person did not share the same computer, you had to manually log into that computer to give it and the accounts on it access. This wouldn't be a problem if both accounts were used on the same computer, but many households (and astronomically more family and friend groups) had multiple computers, all used by different people.

If that computer, at any point, was hard reset to any point before the sharing occurred, you lost access. And had to do the whole process again. This was also an issue with computer transfers. The whole kit and kaboodle needed to be redone on upgrades. On top of that, the old computer is now just dead weight that you may not realize you have to manually revoke access to.

Putting your account information on another person's computer opens up security issues. They could, intentionally or accidentally, land themselves on your account if the login information was stored. Which could easily lead to purchases or bans you did not want to happen.

If anyone was, at any point, playing any game on their own library, you had no access to their games. Even if it was a totally different game, you had to wait your turn as if waiting for their computer to be freed up to sit at. (Admittedly this is kind of like the "mom said it's my turn on the xbox" meme, but hey, kinda archaic.)

You could not choose whose library you accessed a game from. Not at all. It always prioritized the first library it gained access from, DLC access and multiplayer be damned. If another friend you were accepting games from had more DLC? Too bad.

And yet here we are. Steam Families Beta fixes EVERYTHING about the above issues. By just going through Settings > Interface > client Beta Participation and clicking onto Steam Families Beta? You get:

No more login sharing. No more computer links. You can now choose which person's library you borrowed from. And you can play any other game from someone's library, even while they're in-game. It just needs to be a different game than what they're playing.

Pick five people. Invite them to your family. And now everyone has access to everyone's library. My goddamn library went from 150-ish to almost a goddamn thousand in ten minutes of setup.

Account sharing and password sharing are dirty words that "lose" billions of dollars. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Max. They aren't game storefronts, but they still allow you to access massive libraries and scream like you murdered their firstborns for daring to share your password with your mother after you moved out.

Microsoft tried pushing to demonize and undercut used games sales and borrowed copies of physical games. Remember the first attempt to reveal the Xbox One? People forget, but these vultures tried to make an always online console that checked to see if you were the account that owned the game, even if you had a physical disc, and prevent access to the disc's contents if you weren't the original downloader.

Valve walked the fuck up. Valve tapped the mic. And Valve dropped the fucking thing right onto the ground with one feature's revamp.

About the only issues I can see with this are twofold:

If someone sharing your library gets banned from a game's servers... so do you. No one else in the family does, but the both of you do. This is... rather unpleasant, because banhammers can be dropped quite frequently by mistake. I'd urge Valve to rethink this one, but I see the logic: don't cheat and effectively bite the hand feeding you. Still making me side-eye that, though.

If you leave a family you've joined? You have to wait a YEAR to join a new one. It's to prevent people form jumping ship to another group and screwing over who's in the former one in the process, but a YEAR? OUCH.

Problems aside, though... it's probably the biggest fucking power move I have ever seen a media distributor make in the current economic climate. It's the kind of thing that would let so many new games be available in a way that's easier than ever. Just a few clicks to send or accept an invite, and bam. Permanent access to dozens or even hundreds of new games with so much more freedom than earlier drafts of the system.

It's the kind of thing that slaps you in the face with positivity after so many Ls from the games and media industries. And I'm all the fuck for a W like this.

[bluemanedhawk]

I recently found out how to really enable all warnings in GCC: this answer on StackOverflow gives the following command. It outputs a string that can be directly fed as command-line arguments to GCC, and it also reminds me of the title text of xkcd#1638.

gcc -Q --help=warning,C \| sed -e 's/^\s\*\(\-\S\*\)\s\*\[\w\*\]/\1 /gp;d' \| tr -d '\n'

(The “,C” in the text above is not in the original answer. It can be changed if you're not using C.)

However, it's explicitly noted that this can make it impossible to do anything because some of the options are contradictory and most of them are things that are not worth caring about ever, meaning that chances are you're going to need to append some -Wno-s to the output or sprinkle your code with #pragma GCC diagnostic.

Findings so far include the following:

Append -Wno-system-headers or else the output will be flooded with problems you can't solve or even control.

You need to prepend -Wformat because of certain options that are contingent upon it, but are output before it because the options are outputted in alphabetical order.

Unless you're targeting extremely old compilers, you can append -Wno-traditional and -Wno-traditional-conversion.

Unless you're targeting C++ as well as C, you can append -Wno-c++-compat.

If you use any extensions at all, you should append -Wno-pedantic.

Twice i've used pragmas to disable -Wsuggest-attribute=format because it suggested using gnu_printf instead of printf as the third argument. I didn't turn this off at the command line because, though once is happenstance and twice is coïncidence, it is only coincidence, not thrice's enemy action or quadrice's GNOME Project official policy.

The -Wabi warning requires an argument; either respecify it and give it one or use -Wno-abi.

There's a warning called -Wunsuffixed-float-constants that warns about floating constants that don't have a suffix. This warns about all decimal double constants. There is no elegant way to suppress this because this warning is intended for codebases that use the _Decimal_X_ types.

Signal handlers can be static. It's something i'd never thought about, but makes sense now that i do.

There's a warning called -Walloca that warns on any usage of alloca, even with the appropriate header file. I tried searching DuckDuckGo for why this is and it got philosophical.

[kieranczyzyk]

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[blocks2code]

Collections in Java With Program Examples

A collection can be defined as a group of objects (elements) represented as a single entity. Collections in Java can be viewed as Collection Framework which is the most powerful feature. Collection Framework represents a hierarchy of interfaces and classes that is used to manage, handle and store groups of objects efficiently. It resides within java.util package. It wasn’t initially part of Java…

[windfighter]

I rejoined Howrse because I had nothing better to do and they have cute horses, but it's so clear that it's really just a cash-cow nowadays. It's definitely pay to win and almost pay to play.

Also the app stole 28k equus from me and now I'm down to only 2k so I'm a bit upset at the game :P

[jcmarchi]

Making AI Smarter with an Artificial, Multisensory Integrated Neuron - Technology Org

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Making AI Smarter with an Artificial, Multisensory Integrated Neuron - Technology Org

Artificial neuron processes visual and tactile input together.

The feel of a cat’s fur can reveal some information, but seeing the feline provides critical details: Is it a housecat or a lion? While the sound of fire crackling may be ambiguous, its scent confirms the burning wood. Our senses synergize to give a comprehensive understanding, mainly when individual signals are subtle. 

Researchers have developed a bio-inspired artificial neuron to process visual and tactile sensory inputs together. Image credit: Tyler Henderson/Penn State

The collective sum of biological inputs can be greater than their contributions. Robots tend to follow more straightforward addition, but Penn State researchers have now harnessed the biological concept for application in artificial intelligence to develop the first artificial, multisensory integrated neuron.

The team was led by Saptarshi Das and published its U.S. National Science Foundation-supported work in Nature Communications.

Co-authors, from left, Muhtasim Ul Karim Sadaf, graduate student in engineering science and mechanics; Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics; and Andrew Pannone, graduate student in engineering science and mechanics, stand together in Das’ laboratory. Not pictured: co-authors Najam U Sakib and Harikrishnan Ravichandran, both graduate students in engineering science and mechanics. Image credit: Tyler Henderson/Penn State.

“Robots make decisions based on their environment, but their sensors do not generally talk to each other,” said Das. “A collective decision can be made through a sensor processing unit, but is that the most efficient or effective method? In the human brain, one sense can influence another, allowing the person to judge a situation better.”

A car might have one sensor scanning for obstacles while another senses darkness to modulate the intensity of the headlights. Individually, these sensors relay information to a central unit that then instructs the car to brake or adjust the headlights.

According to Das, this process consumes more energy. Allowing sensors to communicate directly with each other can be more efficient in terms of energy and speed — particularly when the inputs from both are faint.

Researchers have developed a bio-inspired artificial neuron to process visual and tactile sensory inputs together. Image credit: Tyler Henderson/Penn State

“Biology enables small organisms to thrive in environments with limited resources, minimizing energy consumption in the process,” said Das.

“The requirements for different sensors are based on the context — in a dark forest, you’d rely more on listening than seeing, but we don’t make decisions based on just one sense. We have a complete sense of our surroundings, and our decision making is based on the integration of what we’re seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, et cetera. The senses evolved together in biology, but separately in AI. In this work, we’re looking to combine sensors and mimic how our brains work.”

Das said that an artificial multisensory neuron system could enhance sensor technology’s efficiency, paving the way for more eco-friendly AI uses. As a result, robots, drones and self-driving vehicles could navigate their environment more effectively while using less energy.

Source: NSF

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You should be using an RSS reader

On OCTOBER 23 at 7PM, I'll be in DECATUR, GEORGIA, presenting my novel THE BEZZLE at EAGLE EYE BOOKS.

No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.

I get it. People write to me all the time, they say, "What can I change about my life to fight enshittification, or, at the very least, to reduce the amount of enshittification that I, personally, experience?"

It's frustrating, but my general answer is, "Join a movement. Get involved with a union, with EFF, with the FSF. Tell your Congressional candidate to defend Lina Khan from billionaire Dem donors who want her fired. Do something systemic."

There's very little you can do as a consumer. You're not going to shop your way out of monopoly capitalism. Now that Amazon has destroyed most of the brick-and-mortar and digital stores out of business, boycotting Amazon often just means doing without. The collective action problem of leaving Twitter or Facebook is so insurmountable that you end up stuck there, with a bunch of people you love and rely on, who all love each other, all hate the platform, but can't agree on a day and time to leave or a destination to leave for and so end up stuck there.

I've been experiencing some challenging stuff in my personal life lately and yesterday, I just found myself unable to deal with my usual podcast fare so I tuned into the videos from the very last XOXO, in search of uplifting fare:

https://www.youtube.com/@xoxofest

I found it. Talks by Dan Olson, Cabel Sasser, Ed Yong and many others, especially Molly White:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaeVVAvk-c

Molly's talk was so, so good, but when I got to her call to action, I found myself pulling a bit of a face:

But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them. The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable…

Are the platforms really that vulnerable? The collective action problem is so hard, the switching costs are so high – maybe the fact that "there's a lot more of us than there are of them" is a bug, not a feature. The more of us there are, the thornier our collective action problem and the higher the switching costs, after all.

And then I had a realization: the conduit through which I experience Molly's excellent work is totally enshittification-proof, and the more I use it, the easier it is for everyone to be less enshittified.

This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.

It's RSS.

RSS (one of those ancient internet acronyms with multiple definitions, including, but not limited to, "Really Simple Syndication") is an invisible, automatic way for internet-connected systems to public "feeds." For example, rather than reloading the Wired homepage every day and trying to figure out which stories are new (their layout makes this very hard to do!), you can just sign up for Wired's RSS feed, and use an RSS reader to monitor the site and preview new stories the moment they're published. Wired pushes about 600 words from each article into that feed, stripped of the usual stuff that makes Wired nearly impossible to read: no 20-second delay subscription pop-up, text in a font and size of your choosing. You can follow Wired's feed without any cookies, and Wired gets no information about which of its stories you read. Wired doesn't even get to know that you're monitoring its feed.

I don't mean to pick on Wired here. This goes for every news source I follow – from CNN to the New York Times. But RSS isn't just good for the news! It's good for everything. Your friends' blogs? Every blogging platform emits an RSS feed by default. You can follow every one of them in your reader.

Not just blogs. Do you follow a bunch of substackers or other newsletters? They've all got RSS feeds. You can read those newsletters without ever registering in the analytics of the platforms that host them. The text shows up in black and white (not the sadistic, 8-point, 80% grey-on-white type these things all default to). It is always delivered, without any risk of your email provider misclassifying an update as spam:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you've read in it. On top of that, they get all the private information your browser or app leaks about you, including your location. This is unbelievably gross, and you get to bypass all of it, just by reading in RSS.

Are your friends too pithy for a newsletter, preferring to quip on social media? Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to get an RSS feed from Insta/FB/Twitter, but all those new ones that have popped up? They all have feeds. You can follow any Mastodon account (which means you can follow any Threads account) via RSS. Same for Bluesky. That also goes for older platforms, like Tumblr and Medium. There's RSS for Hacker News, and there's a sub-feed for the comments on every story. You can get RSS feeds for the Fedex, UPS and USPS parcels you're awaiting, too.

Your local politician's website probably has an RSS feed. Ditto your state and national reps. There's an RSS feed for each federal agency (the FCC has a great blog!).

Your RSS reader lets you put all these feeds into folders if you want. You can even create automatic folders, based on keywords, or even things like "infrequently updated sites" (I follow a bunch of people via RSS who only update a couple times per year – cough, Danny O'Brien, cough – and never miss a post).

Your RSS reader doesn't (necessarily) have an algorithm. By default, you'll get everything as it appears, in reverse-chronological order.

Does that remind you of anything? Right: this is how social media used to work, before it was enshittified. You can single-handedly disenshittify your experience of virtually the entire web, just by switching to RSS, traveling back in time to the days when Facebook and Twitter were more interested in showing you the things you asked to see, rather than the ads and boosted content someone else would pay to cram into your eyeballs.

Now, you sign up to so many feeds that you're feeling overwhelmed and you want an algorithm to prioritize posts – or recommend content. Lots of RSS readers have some kind of algorithm and recommendation system (I use News, which offers both, though I don't use them – I like the glorious higgeldy-piggeldy of the undifferentiated firehose feed).

But you control the algorithm, you control the recommendations. And if a new RSS reader pops up with an algorithm you're dying to try, you can export all the feeds you follow with a single click, which will generate an OPML file. Then, with one click, you can import that OPML file into any other RSS reader in existence and all your feeds will be seamlessly migrated there. You can delete your old account, or you can even use different readers for different purposes.

You can access RSS in a browser or in an app on your phone (most RSS readers have an app), and they'll sync up, so a story you mark to read later on your phone will be waiting for you the next time you load up your reader in a browser tab, and you won't see the same stories twice (unless you want to, in which case you can mark them as unread).

RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.

And here's the best part: every time you use RSS, you bring that world closer into being! The collective action problem that the publishers and friends and politicians and businesses you care about is caused by the fact that everyone they want to reach is on a platform, so if they leave the platform, they'll lose that community. But the more people who use RSS to follow them, the less they'll depend on the platform.

Unlike those largely useless, performative boycotts of widely used platforms, switching to RSS doesn't require that you give anything up. Not only does switching to RSS let you continue to follow all the newsletters, webpages and social media accounts you're following now, it makes doing so better: more private, more accessible, and less enshittified.

Switching to RSS lets you experience just the good parts of the enshitternet, but that experience is delivered in manner that the new, good internet we're all dying for.

My own newsletter is delivered in fulltext via RSS. If you're reading this as a Mastodon or Twitter thread, on Tumblr or on Medium, or via email, you can get it by RSS instead:

https://pluralistic.net/feed/

Don't worry about which RSS reader you start with. It literally doesn't matter. Remember, you can switch readers with two clicks and take all the feeds you've subscribed to with you! If you want a recommendation, I have nothing but praise for Newsblur, which I've been paying $2/month for since 2011 (!):

https://newsblur.com/

Subscribing to feeds is super-easy, too: the links for RSS feeds are invisibly embedded in web-pages. Just paste the URL of a web-page into your RSS reader's "add feed" box and it'll automagically figure out where the feed lives and add it to your subscriptions.

It's still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference.

But using RSS will! Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life – and it will appreciably, irreversibly nudge the whole internet towards a better state.

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

[turiyatitta]

The Evolution of Communication

Drawing Parallels between Integral Theory and TelephonyIntegral Theory, developed by philosopher Ken Wilber, is a comprehensive framework that seeks to reconcile the diverse theories and philosophies concerning reality and human experience. It encapsulates every field of human inquiry, from art and science to morality and spirituality, drawing on multiple perspectives to provide a holistic…