Notices by серафими многоꙮчитїи (djm62@beige.party)

CleverHansGPT

That weird asymmetry of the world that lets people do irreparable damage with a wave of their hand and yet improving things takes years of work

The future is already here: we just need to distribute it evenly.

@Fragglemuppet hope you've persuaded your mum you're a big deal round these parts :blobcat_thinkingcool:

@Fragglemuppet hi!

@mekeor

Weirdly out of touch response to corporations obeying in advance for the incoming US admin
https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

With the restoration of #RSS on my NextCloud account, I have caught up on a lot of LanguageLog/Lingthusiasm* stuff, more-or-less interesting security problems on AWS, and this daily delight which I am going to recommend to anyone who wants to get into RSS: a miniature scene each day

https://miniature-calendar.com/250106

* Full-text transcript in the RSS feed: why, yes thank you!

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "we believe that privatisation will lead to greater efficiency"

@alcinnz I remember those CDs getting mailed out, although what I remember about installation and usability getting better was the switch from 2.2 to 2.4 kernels, and dynamically loadable modules. I remember the nude wallpapers too, but I think they have officially disappeared : I recently spent a predictably disappointing evening trying to get the search engines to show me variations on "naked linux people wallpaper".

Community made a big difference : I had used Red Hat and Debian, and I remember what you would now call fossbro vibes in the irc for Debian. The software was literally magic but the community wasn't welcoming.

@mikez_petm I felt like I was getting into a rut with hip-hop, then I started listening to @airadam on the PodCast - good to branch out

Concept album where every track is inspired by and titled for a Fediverse CW

Representing data as a high or low voltage for 1 and 0... as a bit

@alcinnz what do you mean "any software I didn't write myself"? You wrote the compiler and stuff for the high-level language?

Is this relevant? Seems like the right direction but it's software written by everyone

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

Always like inventing categories for the niblings to be my favourite in : favourite niece, Russian U12 division, favourite nephew Scottish sub 5-kg

I never tell them the categories, just that they are the winner

I haven't seriously evaluated this economically, and that's cool. Beg, borrow or steal.

Anyone reading this: you are worth a million fascists.

Outlive Donald Trump.

If you do, claim one free beverage of your choice from me: chai latte, Shirley Temple, Aged Scotch, a plain lager, 100 gram of vodka, a fruity Chardonnay, anything. If you encounter me, I will personally treat you. Just remind me of this toot. No questions asked.

We probably won't meet, but this offer is in perpetuity, and if you need one petty reason to hold on, here it is.

astronomy 🤝 cryptography

Why don't they just use -ology for the science?

Happy Diwali all 🪔

May we all get the light we need

If you want to win a game you don't know how to play

You must use your lack of knowledge in a systematic way!

Idea: browser extension to register as a host for the website. If you like the site, you can volunteer to act as part of a peer to peer distribution of it. Other extension users can get it off you even if the main site is offline