SDF: In Syria, we are living through historic moments as we witness the fall of the authoritarian regime in Damascus. This change presents an opportunity to build a new Syria based on democracy and justice that guarantees the rights of all Syrians.
@jackdaniel
https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/mcclim/ sans the live Q&A yet.
Though, there is a good opportunity to amend the accepting-values the way I was using it, since (as was widely requested) I still need to actually implement the mcclim interface to Sandewall's The Lisp Demo Program (interactively developed scheduling app).
god i love linux so much
there's so cool shit it can do i will never get over it
you're telling me i can have packet radio devices handled by the kernel? and they just show up as normal network devices? THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME?!?!?
i think my favorite thing about spotify wrapped is that it is not particularly different from sorting my recent plays by count. we dried lakes for this? madness
Hey, if you're the type of person that can start typing a reply to an argument, then decide that actually it's not worth bothering with and delete the reply, I want you to know:
You're doing fantastic, and you should be proud of yourself. I wish more people had that kind of restraint.
tonic 
Cory Doctorow on why he's on Mastodon and only Mastodon.
"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase."
--thx @JoshuaACNewman for putting this in my timeline!
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/
you don't want bsky. you don't even want fedi. you want yourhandle at the library dot a society worth living in
Tiny Lego Computers 
James Brown, a WETA Workshop engineer, created some itty-bitty LEGO computer displays that actually display stuff. What it takes to build a tiny Lego computer...
He has a 
account btw
https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/20/23308217/lego-brick-computer-james-brown
#maxima talk at #emacsconf -dev track! https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm
By a wonderful Brazillian #logician
excited to share that lichen-markdown is now in the yunohost application catalog ⚙️ 🌿
been thinking about the programming language ruby
i would use it for more if it wasn't associated with so much webshit
not sure if this is a poor reason to structure one's programming language preferences, but much of my desire to adopt a language is based on how i like its syntax.
for me, whatever features or power a language has is secondary to the beauty of its syntax
makes me think--i wonder what good purpose ruby could be put towards?
Wishing everyone a great time at EmacsConf by EmacsConf team starting today in the Internet
https://foss.events/2024/12-07-emacsconf.html
#emacsconf #EmacsConf #EmacsConfteam #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
Hey everyone, #liveNow in a minute
https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev-480p.webm
#archive https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/mcclim/
Thanks to @sacha
my #emacsconf talk on #commonLisp #mcclim #slime in #emacs
themed around #Sandewall's 1978 The Lisp Demo Program is happening.
Live Q&A after pre-rec.
Stream:
I'll be in Paradise sushi in #lambdaMOO for questions, and answer them in the bigbluebutton room for the talk I am going to hopefully find a link for in a moment!
having thoughts
these systems on chips are sometimes very beefy
makes me think about using ulisp on them and doing the 'starting again from scratch' idea
the problem is social and institutional--lisp systems are inherently superior to C and UNIX, yet here we are
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec7. What do you think is the most critical element in storytelling?
Reader attention.
A reasonable bar for a habitual reader is 300 words per minute, or 180wpm for audiobooks. Normal human focussed attention span is <= 40 minutes. So your story needs beats/scene breaks/plot punctuation every 12,000 words at most (ideally 7,200 words) or you risk your readers losing track/getting bored.
(There's a lot more … but calibrate your chapter length to be no more than this!)