The first time I saw 65daysofstatic playing live they had driven twelve hours to headline a festival held by a youth club, on a stage barely large enough for the band and their (still quite modest) gear, surrounded by beet fields, in Évelette, Belgium. That was fourteen years ago.

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 25, 2021, 11:21

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 25, 2021, 11:21

Sep 25, 2021, 11:21

JKB @jkb@octodon.social

#nowplaying Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou - Anou Malane // https://abdallahagoumbadougou.bandcamp.com/album/anou-malane // gritty but groovy tuareg guitar // Niger // 1995

**JKB** · Sep 24, 2021, 14:56

JKB boosted

**☆ Dmitri ☭** @yogthos@mastodon.social · Sep 24, 2021, 14:56

Sep 24, 2021, 14:56

☆ Dmitri ☭ @yogthos@mastodon.social

Many scientific articles are currently published in subscription journals and locked behind paywalls. This model impedes research and diverts public funding to parasitic publishers, while relying almost entirely on the unpaid work of researchers. https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 24, 2021, 13:42

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 24, 2021, 13:42

Sep 24, 2021, 13:42

JKB @jkb@octodon.social

Oh sweet lord, this has been boosted to the "Bitcoin Hackers"...

I'M NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I criticize public service because I care about public service. Hell, currently I'm working in the public transportation sector

Show thread

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 24, 2021, 10:28

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 24, 2021, 10:28

Sep 24, 2021, 10:28

JKB @jkb@octodon.social

Dear national weather forecasting service: you run on public money, why don't you provide forecasts as open data?

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 23, 2021, 11:22

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 23, 2021, 11:22

Sep 23, 2021, 11:22

JKB @jkb@octodon.social

#nowplaying Russian Circles - Memorial // https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/memorial // post-rock // USA // 2013

**JKB** · Sep 22, 2021, 20:27

JKB boosted

**c0debabe, Not Squirrel Voltron** @c0debabe@hackers.town · Sep 22, 2021, 20:27

Sep 22, 2021, 20:27

c0debabe, Not Squirrel Voltron @c0debabe@hackers.town

This is your irregular reminder that crypto is short for cryptography, which is good and useful. The monster you're thinking of is cryptocurrency, which is currently a toy of the rich and the bro.

**JKB** · Sep 21, 2021, 23:04

JKB boosted

**Mike Lynch** @mikelynch@aus.social · Sep 21, 2021, 23:04

Sep 21, 2021, 23:04

Mike Lynch @mikelynch@aus.social

Me, in tears: you can't just call every system you happen to dislike "technical debt"
IT Manager *points at a seagull* technical debt

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 21, 2021, 10:06

**JKB** @jkb@octodon.social · Sep 21, 2021, 10:06

Sep 21, 2021, 10:06

JKB @jkb@octodon.social

I've made the mistake of commenting on a couple of quite bad-faith posts from US conservative pages on Facebook. Since then The Algorithm™ thinks I want to see every single conservative-leaning post America has on offer (I don't vote in the USA, I don't live in the USA, never even have visited the USA).

So I'm taking this opportunity to get a glimpse of the conservative mind: they've reached the point where they're badly photoshopping Biden bumper stickers on old memes to make a point

**JKB** · Sep 17, 2021, 09:56

JKB boosted

**Ramsey Nasser** @nasser@merveilles.town · Sep 17, 2021, 09:56

Sep 17, 2021, 09:56

Ramsey Nasser @nasser@merveilles.town

building the future is not a purely technical project, I don't even think it's a primarily technical project. it's a project of community and people, which is to say is inherently political. I think that word is a turn off to many programmers in the West who (due to Cold War era education I guess?) are effectively politically illiterate. and when you insist on being "apolitical" then all you can do is bolster the status quo. this is not how you make progress.

Show thread

**JKB** · Sep 15, 2021, 21:14

JKB boosted

**☆ Dmitri ☭** @yogthos@mastodon.social · Sep 15, 2021, 21:14

Sep 15, 2021, 21:14

☆ Dmitri ☭ @yogthos@mastodon.social

Lambda Chip is a 100% free software and free hardware embedded system for functional programming https://lambdachip.com/index/

**JKB** · Aug 03, 2020, 13:22

JKB boosted

**SIN001-SIGMAONE** @SigmaOne@toot.party · Aug 03, 2020, 13:22

Aug 03, 2020, 13:22

SIN001-SIGMAONE @SigmaOne@toot.party

So I got bored and made a trans-istor

ba3d93641260f6ec.png

**JKB** · Sep 14, 2021, 03:12

JKB boosted

**Kezz** @freedcreative@merveilles.town · Sep 14, 2021, 03:12

Sep 14, 2021, 03:12

Kezz @freedcreative@merveilles.town

Just came across this excellent, and also funny, breakdown of how full of shit Elon Musk is. Great primer for anyone who doesn’t know about any of the details:

https://youtu.be/5pNL7MlUpmI