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And just to be clear... this probably has more to do with the language choice than whoever wrote this code.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Message Not Understood" is a not completed documentary about the early days and visions of personal computing predating the microprocessor and the companies we know and loathe today. It includes interviews with many of the people involved. I hope they're able to complete it.
https://www.messagenotunderstood.com/
Not that this history and ideas are a secret, but it certainly doesn't get the marketing support that corporate narratives get.
Thanks to @j12i for pointing it out to me.
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
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- TORPENHOW PLEASE DRIVE SLOWLY Torpenhow Hill, England When the Saxons arrived and asked the Welsh the name of that hill, the Welsh said "pen" which means "hill" in Welsh. So the Saxons used their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Then the Norse arrived and the same process added the their world for hill "Haugr". So now it was Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Later, the English called it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill) Language is awesome. (remote)
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
we have enshittified enshittification to meaninglessness
Mastodon FeedThe Linux kernel sources are often terrible code.
There, I've said it.
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SailorDisco ("David 🏳️🌈☮️🇵🇸 he/they") wrote:
@StillIRise1963 If a law prevents someone from sheltering the homeless or feeding the hungry there’s a moral obligation to break that law.
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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
Reminder of one of my most Edible Temperature Take: Both Steven Pinker and Peter Singer bear large amounts of direct responsibility for the worst turns in contemporary western culture— especially concerning the popular understanding of ethics and society— and should be ostracized from the canon and public intellectualism as a whole 👍🏾
Pinker's beliefs as regards the lived experience of power, oppression, and the social construction of both criminality and suffering excuse the powerful and blame the oppressed. He's largely responsible for the prejudicial stereotype of autistic people as "robotic." He did a large amount of work to rehabilitate Charles Murray in the public view. And he aided Jeffery Epstein's legal defense.
Peter Singer has straight-up advocated for eugenics and the understanding of disabled life as one of inherent suffering and thus less valuable as recently as this year.
Do not heed them. Do not center them. Remove them from your work as much as possible.
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bengrosser ("Ben Grosser") wrote:
I spoke with Techtonic on WFMU (NYC independent radio) about Silicon Valley's obsessions with growth, their war against sustainability and ethics, and artistic counteractions that invert their growth-obsessed capitalist logics. It aired yesterday. You can listen to a recording below, or find it in the typical podcast apps:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135921
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macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:
Apple to Get TSMC's First 2-Nanometer Chips https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/24/apple-tsmc-first-2nm-chips/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Just_Tired@mastodon.world ("Just Tired") wrote:
@StillIRise1963
Considering that Alito used a Judge that hung witches to justify his position in the draft, I'm waiting for the court to decide that the legality of witch burning is best decided by the states
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:
i built an in-browser diary and i've been using it as a device-specific journal. one for work, one for my personal computer. entries are tagged and archived for easy search and perusal. tbh i love it so far. try it out!
ps it's called spellbook
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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em (is looking for work) :official_verified:") wrote:
Infosec Exchange Privacy Friends 🔒:heart_cyber:!
If you are on our instance’s Matrix server, I just created a room for privacy topics!
I’ll be hanging out there regularly :awesome:
Here is @jerry ’s announcement about our new Matrix space 👇 https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/110488300094150210
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
working a station in Puyallup WA using 10 watts JS8 roxs!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
10m JS8 is getting coast-to-coast #AmateurRadio
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Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:
"In the 14 states that implemented total abortion bans following the Dobbs decision, we estimated that 519 981 completed rapes were associated with 64 565 pregnancies during the 4 to 18 months that bans were in effect (Table 2). Of these, an estimated 5586 rape-related pregnancies (9%) occurred in states with rape exceptions, and 58 979 (91%) in states with no exception, with 26 313 (45%) in Texas." #abortion #ReligiousExtremism #ChristianExtremism #fascism #patriarchy https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2814274?guestAccessKey=e429b9a8-72ac-42ed-8dbc-599b0f509890
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"like a Roman emperor or mob boss, Trump used his victory speech in New Hampshire to humiliate his former opponents – and make sinister threats against his last primary rival."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/trump-victory-speech-haley-playground-bully
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davetron5000@ruby.social ("Dave Copeland :ruby:") wrote:
Wrote up my experience using #WebComponents in Earnest:
https://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2024/01/24/web-components-in-earnest.html
This is a long read about the app I built for making a palette: https://ghola.dev
Here's a sample palette: https://ghola.dev/?primaryColor=%233a88fe&otherColors=complement%2Ctriad-lower%2Ctriad-upper%2C%23929292&compact=true
The blog post outlines the custom elements I created, how they were designed with demos. There is a code walkthrough of a few interesting bits as well as how I tested them + notes on my failed first attempt at making React-style Web Components (i.e. that render themselves).
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I have a ticket that I cannot use to see Jonathan Coulton tonight at City Winery NYC . iiuc he's playing all of Smoking Monkey acoustic. free to a good home, let me know!
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poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club ("Poise Under Chaos") wrote:
"This is the first official reissue of "Conspiracy" since its limited release in 1975, it was her first record under her own name as a solo artist. It is a true lost gem, with a unique and beautiful sound. Musician Elaine Mitchener describes "Conspiracy" as "one of greatest free-form albums of the1970s".
https://moved-by-sound.bandcamp.com/album/conspiracy-2
Thanks to @poemproducer for bringing this to my attention
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scottsantens@hachyderm.io ("Scott Santens") wrote:
Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year.
9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work.
Housing security significantly increased, as did food security. People lived in better housing and ate more balanced meals.
People also felt significantly more connected to the people and places in their neighborhoods.
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starshine@woem.space (":neofox_flag_lesbian: trucker fox sam にゃん :therian:") wrote:
new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I know both early Apples and Macs have been highly influential products, and I don't mean to put a damper on celebrations. Then again, when it comes to Apple, I'm much more an admirer of Wozniak than Jobs, which is putting it mildly.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I never had a Mac or Apple back in the day. Wildly too expensive. I got by with hand-me-down or flea market C64 stuff, followed by flea market and aftermarket PC stuff, which still made me unbelievably wealthy as compared to most of the world. (My dad was a ham, so my dad knew many people with old computers.)
I continue the flea market mentality by buying refurbished computers and running 10yo rigs (like the one I'm typing this on) at home. So I guess it sticks with you.
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
Via @Daojoan, this AI startup for sockpuppet shiling replies that "mention your product in conversations naturally” is not only
a) shit;
b) making everything worse; but also
c) genuinely called REPLY GUY(and does it by replying via fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook)
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices
Apple has acquired 21 AI start-ups since the beginning of 2017.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sweet
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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:
Exercise is too time consuming. I hate that it improves my mood while robbing me of time to get mad online.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Crypto will magically help a crook and his money squeeze through the eye of a needle.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/24/crypto-is-camel-grease/
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting.
Go to https://account.adobe.com/ -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.
If they want to learn from your work, make them pay for it.