Looks like Die Linke did better then expected in #Germany
https://mastodon.social/@dielinke/114054427423935453
Just discovered @The_Counterforce put together this really lovely zine about how to use the #fediverse for punks!
https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse
https://kolektiva.social/@The_Counterforce/113947288265944385
As computer scientist I wince when I hear "I want no algorithms in my software" the same a chemist might wince when they hear "I want no chemicals in my food".
At least I know that journalists & in turn laypeople mean "(non-trivial) recommendation algorithms".
But reflecting on @TechConnectify 's latest video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA ) I think "algorithmic complacency" does fit compsci's vauger definition.
In a sense of: Just because the computer says it doesn't make it so!
This was my second attempt at implementing a spreadsheet in assembly, the first time around I got so tangled up that I had to put it aside. But, this time, it went smoothly, I must say I've picked up many new tricks for this sort of development during the past year.
I'm so happy to finally have my dream spreadsheet program to manage my little databases and lexicons, all in.. just over 8.3kb.
I think that might be less than a blank excel file 🤔
tonic cracked software hosting site called Freed Software Foundation is that anything
A lot of blog engineering today, mostly doing smart #ed hacks and dealing with the consequences.
But! I came up with a way to include arbitrary files with #ed, so it's almost as powerful as #C #Preprocessor for my purposes! (Taking file name from buffer, modifying it into a reading command and then running another ed instance over this same file with this command. And using E command to read it back from modified file.)
Next: moving all the stuff I churned out to my HTML-ish format (that I should write about someday) and then to Server Side Includes (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes) for the sake of portability?
Who invented the #Unix operating system?
a) Joe Ossanna.
b) Brian Kernighan.
c) Ken Thompson.
d) AT&T employees at Bell Labs.
e) All of the above
ok, so i've just scraped 1972 ebooks out of Kindle for Android's data directory (4.3GB's worth!) - now how do i deDRM them? (also, can i deDRM them?)
Well I just spent three hours tromping around in frigid darkness trying to get people to go out and vote against Doug Ford so
If you are an Ontario voter
Pls vote for whoever in your riding is not a conservative!
You can vote early FRIDAY FEB 21 and SATURDAY FEB 22 from 10 AM to 8 PM using the "voter information card" that was theoretically mailed to you OR the identification described at OntarioNDP.ca/vote
I cannot vote I can only ask you to do this
comrades Riley Breen and Isaac Nellist conducting yet another fascinating and pertinent interview.
the green left show is worth the attention of every radical leftist in so-called australia.
Matilda Lane-Rose, a young climate activist and member of Disrupt Burrup Hub, was fined $2000 and charged with unlawful damage and trespass for protesting gas giant Woodside.
Lane-Rose joins the Green Left Show to discuss her court case, building the climate movement and why we must disrupt Burrup Hub.
Find our more about Disrupt Burrup Hub: https://www.disruptburruphub.com/ Donate to help pay fines: https://chuffed.org/project/zyvlzgmp9oky
We acknowledge that this video was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
digital preservation and archivist friends: it came to my attention recently that mobygames was bought by some trashy atari holding corporation a few years ago. all of the scans and item entries that many of us slaved over for the past 25 years were sold off. anyone submitting mobygames entries/updates are effectively working for free now.
i can't say i'm unhappy to see it going downhill with the new owners. updates to entries went from taking 1 day for approval from moderators, to 4-6 months.
it also had a frustrating limitation of declaring any software outside of its very traditional definition of game as out-of-scope.
that being said, it's a critical service for those researching and writing about games.
i'd like to know if there are any publicly-owned database initiatives in development to replace and/or subsume mobygames.
and if not, let's build one.
My PinePhone Pro arrived today
the idea of having a phone with a removable battery and an SD card slot seems so retro yet so delightful
The default Sailfish OS isn't going to work for me, will be trying out postmarketOS later.
