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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

10 PRINT “RIP”
20 GOTO 10
PAUSE

QT guardian: Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1631812764-1

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Upcoming: A patron Q&A this Sunday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/16/another-patron-qa-this-weekend/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJa99cPYfhQ

owl@beach.city wrote:

Rhetorical question; I've heard enough from brandlords to know why.

owl@beach.city wrote:

A thing that displays text at you all day and doesn't let you use a readable font easily. Why is corporate software like this.

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions — very helpful resource that helps avoid fighting the borrow checker:

https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md

owl@beach.city wrote:

I thought Android would let me set the font easily like on other Linuxes, but it seems more like Windows. Tried some app that was supposed to do it but it didn't work.

Anathema wrote:

"average programmer obsesses about type classes" factoid actually just statistical error. average programmer doesn't know what type classes are. Simon Peyton Jones, who lives in Cambridge & writes over 10000 lines of #Haskell each day, is an outlier and should not be counted

owl@beach.city wrote:

Cellophane (cello Stephane)

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
brightneedle@tootplanet.space ("Bright-Needle 🧵") wrote:

Worf: it is tradition to drink pumpkin spice at the turn of the season
Jadzia: I think it's great that Worf is enjoying non-klingon things
O'Brien: but it's not even fall yet!
Sisko: maybe a little pumpkin spice is just what this station needs
Kira: what the hell is a pumpkin

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

If an idea is really bad, you can still sell it to the rubes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/16/what-are-the-grifters-doing-today/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Chad loves selective interpretation of anthropological observations that reinforce the idea that Chad is the greatest Chad.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/16/i-do-enjoy-a-good-evolutionary-psychology-take-down-in-the-morning/

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Anathema wrote:

Dunnocks are pretty birds I wish they’d eat out of my hands

Anathema wrote:

Trying to listen to the 'Joy of Motion' album by Animals As Leaders but getting stuck listening to Physical Education on repeat because it's so good

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
pagetable wrote:

RT @pagetable The Ultimate Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Talk [video]
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1595
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #commodore #c64 #c1541

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Millennials, ACTIVATE!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/16/the-final-clue/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

It's when you make a painting of a pie in outdoor daylight.

Anathema wrote:

One thousand times this: https://kotaku.com/please-stop-closing-forums-and-moving-people-to-discord-1847684851

Discord is awful for drive-by participation. Can't be indexed by search engines, the built-in search sucks, dozens of people asking the same questions is annoying, reading long prose in it is bad.

Keep forums, offer both if want.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
NGIZero@mastodon.xyz ("NGI Zero open source funding") wrote:

Next week, we have two webinars coming up. Tuesday we are happy to discuss #opensource (crowd)funding with dr. Melanie Rieback of Radically Open Security (member of NGI0) talking about nonprofit business models and open hardware developer and writer @bunniestudios share his experiences with crowdfunding (CrowdSupply and elsewhere). Link here, freely accessible, no signup (BigBlueButton-room hosted by the Dutch technical uni of Delft) -> https://nlnet.nl/events/20210921/index.html See you there!

owl@beach.city wrote:

pie pline

owl@beach.city wrote:

What's the Windows analogue of scp?
I am making some process dumps using RDP but don't know how to copy them over to my local machine.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Corporations can't market their products as superior using specs anymore, so you're left to figure out what's better, TurboVision Max or FluidView Pro, or DisplayHDR 500 (just actually saw that last one.)

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blua_floroj@mastodon.art ("August") wrote:

#BattleAngelAlita

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owl@beach.city wrote:

(In this case it wasn't a C issue, but I bring it up because it seems incredibly irresponsible. The issue would have manifested in the same way in C♯ or other memory-safe languages.)

owl@beach.city wrote:

Have to say it's pretty weird to agree on service requirements with another party, and then go and run our services on Azure, which can't really give such specific guarantees.
Swedish collective transit means nothing to MS in terms of revenue, and we don't have any "special agreements."
And then MS can go and run 500000-line C programs as root on "our" servers, which grant remote root to anyone.
It's quite hard to account for stuff you didn't even install that's nonetheless there.

Anathema wrote:

They should teach the NATO phonetic alphabet in school, much more useful than memorising multiplication tables.

Anathema wrote:

Getting the good antiboyotics today.

owl@beach.city wrote:

There is a security bug with Office/Outlook/Teams corporate login web stuff if someone wants to get bug bounty.
It logs you out automatically after some time (I get logged out every morning.)
But if you stay on the "you have been logged out" screen and juggle some tabs that were also logged in to these things, then suddenly it logs you back in.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Tiëstogel

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

this sketch of a rewrite of Star Trek Generations starts off a little rough but I would have loved to have seen this filmed instead of the movie we got. it understands and respects the characters in a way the actual Generations completely failed to.

https://i-harrington.medium.com/fixing-star-trek-generations-133748e11629

owl@beach.city wrote:

*reaches into magic hat and pulls out another, slightly smaller magic hat*