#ausPol #policeViolence #Naarm #Melbourne #VicPol #GreenLeft

Police in victoria yesterday used pepper spray, rubber bullets, flash bangs, tear gas and OC grenades against unarmed civilian protesters in Naarm (Melbourne) Victoria yesterday. The protesters were protesting a war summit hosting war profiteers and people supplying weapons to war criminals. A healthcare worker treating injured protestors said that the police response was absolutely “grotesque” and “horrifying”.

edit: The OC grenades were OC rubber pellet grenades which combine the effects of a flash bang with OC (pepper spray) and rubber pellets.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/vic-police-use-excessive-force-against-anti-war-palestine-solidarity-protesters-outside

The drive to be constantly innovating to sell more new shit, when the shit we have works fine, is ruining technology.

I don’t want a new phone every year. I don’t want a new computer every six months. I don’t want a software upgrade that changes everything. I don’t want a fancy new language we have to rewrite everything in for reasons.

I want bug fixes. I want security patches. I want removal of fundamentally broken things. I want big thick manuals with full coverage of every option and setting and function call. I want people to be able to learn programming the way you learn woodworking - as a mature discipline not subject to regular world shaking innovation.

just found a macromedia dreamweaver 3 manual in german in a zu verschenken box, and it feels like a time capsule from another world

@vidak also take this https://toobnix.org/w/p/4bRcULzg6bBAyELkRqU6EQ

@vidak when you say primer, what kinda thing do you want to know? It just works out of the box. The difficult thing I guess is getting used to beginner-like define-application-frame invocations. Here's one:
(define-application-frame vidaks-app (standard-application-frame) ()
(:panes (int :interactor) (app :application :display-function 'display-app))
(:layouts (Default (horizontally () int app)))
go for broke! Oh that defines
(define-vidaks-app-command (com-foo :menu t) () (print 'hi))

@vidak @screwtape I've mostly been looking through documentation and the clim-examples code in McCLIM's repo. But I've also been more focused on backend learning.

This Guided Tour may serve as a quick primer for an app writer's view: https://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/guided-tour.pdf

i love that "software patch" comes literally from the fact that people would fix errors in punch cards by patching it over with tape

@tapesinside Akkoma has docs specifically for *BSDs https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable-docs/installation/freebsd_en/

For webserver you can use nginx or httpd. (Or whatever else you want)

For nextcloud there's this https://www.freshports.org/www/owncloud

OpenBSD is much easier to grasp imho, same software listed here is available for either.

You'll be expected to read a lot either way. Apart for the 'Absolute *BSD' series, these two I recommend - The latter makes sense if you decide to use httpd:

https://nostarch.com/pf3
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/httpd-and-relayd-mastery/

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt stellar to #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in stars & hence the universe.⁠
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard a lecture which changed her life. She wrote, “My world had been so shaken that I experienced something very like a nervous breakdown.” 🧵
#linocut #physics #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #astronomer #MastoArt

I think phones are undergoing carcinization.

- hard outer shell
- compound "eyes"
- clicking noises
- no audio jack