The usual pictures. No more descriptions because itβs always the same: delicate red and white giant flowers slowly opening, sometimes two per stalk, sometimes four.
@plants #hippeastrum
The Latvian Radio Choir singing Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers". The best music for crying and programming, both at the same time. Here I am, tears streaming down my face, thinking about getting data into a Postgres database. And I keep thinking: this is the time we live in. Crying, chagrined, as the world slowly turns into a swamp. And yet. Music is going to turn me into a believer, yet. "For his mercy endureth for ever. Alleluia." We are all in desperate need of it.
A reminder of why I think deleting old posts on social media is important: "I donβt think they have much value going back months and years. I never read through years of tweeting history! This only benefits your enemies, never your friends." https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping
Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit
They really don't want you to discuss pay. Support the union and tell the bosses to go fuck themselves.
thinking about a "Zelda like information system".
https://communitywiki.org/wiki/ZeldaLikeInformationSystem
Possibly also powered by a language system like Inform 7.
Surely people have been working on this?
Also considering the need for Gemini, it's not only about comprehension and security. It's also about autonomy.
When the specifications are giant and constantly expanding then in the busy world who has the time to even begin to try to understand this? High complexity of the web creates a centralising dynamic and a βjust leave it to the expertsβ attitude. There is then a priestly class of gatekeepers with special powers not attainable by mortals.
@jalcine From a purely utilitarian user perspective there isn't any need for Gemini. It does some things which are the same as the web - linked documents - but is a lot less capable than the web.
From a userops perspective Gemini fulfils a need for mastery. You can fully understand the specification in a reasonable amount of time, whereas the web is a gigantic set of specifications which you could spend years studying without full comprehension. Gemini also breaks the dependency upon certificate authorities and all that comes with them. It has a small, well defined attack surface, and its lack of complexity makes tracking and advertising not so viable as it is on the web. Being unattractive to advertisers can be seen as an asset.
Today we went up Gowbarrow Fell, and enjoyed perhaps one of the best hikes Iβve ever done.
Loads more photos here, plus the story of this hike -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2021/4/6/gowbarrow-fell-lake-district-spring π
#landscape #nature #travel #photography #photo #photographie #spring #waterfall #mountains #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england
in the course of writing a comment i didn't ultimately post anywhere about how i got started programming, i found this:
https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive
an archive of the All Basic Code packets, 1995-2003.
"The All BASIC Code (ABC) Archives contains hundreds of BASIC source codes ranging from ASIC/LibertyBASIC/QB/QBasic/PDS/PowerBASIC/VBDOS/VBWIN, and various other BASIC languages (like BasicBasic)."
What do you use for calendaring on your little devices? I just started playing with remind and feel like it's exactly the sort of tool you'd be into.
I was using (well, not really) #Chrome on Android since FF changed the UI completely and broke my entire workflow on Android, but the recent news are unfathomable. I didn't really want to go back to Firefox either, so after some search I found
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
which is Firefox but stripped of some of the annoying bits. Plus it's on F-droid so no breaking updates behind my back.
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death and computing related
Things like using free software, avoiding corporate clouds, and being online privacy conscious can be great personal choices, for excellent reasons, but they are usually more work.
Don't forget how they might affect others around you if you are gone. Life is so dependent on digital memories, online accounts and identities these days. Make it easy for them if you can.
well, utopian is an amazing little font family for fans of piet mondrion, mac/memphis patterns and geometric fonts
Sometimes, rarely (!), I wonder whether I should write a text using ed.
gopher://katolaz.net/0/ed_tutorial.txt
#Biology, #Plants, #Birds, #Photography, #Switzerland, #Emacs, #Wiki, #Programming, #Tea, #Drawing, #Music
@kensanata is my RPG alt.
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