Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social

The two kinds of Object TF.

https://www.gocomics.com/break-of-day/2022/05/12

computers should be more code a gui in visual basic and less copy excel cells from spreadsheet to spreadsheet in different formats

🎶Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
GRANARY🎶

And, of course, our community is crafting the next release, LibreOffice 7.4: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4

Whoa. Did HELL just freeze over? Nvidia just released GPL GPU kernel modules:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

Oklahoma Kicks Off Statewide Expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
https://imaginationlibrary.com/oklahoma-kicks-off-statewide-expansion-of-dolly-partons-imagination-library/

#oklahoma #oklibrary

Okay, I'm curious, when did you guys first hear about/join Linux? Please boost for a wider data pool. ​​

Everyone’s so impressed by someone who can fly a plane. Pffft, I’ve taken flying lessons, it doesn’t impress me that you can fly a plane.

You want to impress me? Land it

> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
> Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
> Knight turned the machine off and on.
> The machine worked.

https://timo.rinne.ws/misc/mit_jargon.html

#lisp

When did technology get boring?

200 GB of 90s rave tapes https://archive.org/details/neilharrisonravelibrary (via textfiles on birdsite)

Last one:

Radio broadcasting. I spent four years in college broadcasting on the radio and it was something I deeply enjoyed. Sharing music, connecting with listeners (such that we had for 1,000 watts of bursting college FM. You could even hear is in Borculo), and just spending time in a studio exploring music. Absolutely magical time, and I hope that while the medium has become a commercial hellscape of inoffensive music that radio can once again become dangerous and unpredictable.

@hierarchon Doom Eternal was so far up its own ass about Being Doom while often missing the point about what is fun about playing Doom, imo

Post-Postscript. Let’s go back to the original Archos Jukebox for a sec. Notice how the sides are rounded/tubular?

That’s because that is where the batteries went. It ran on four plain old rechargeable AA batteries. So when the batteries finally couldn’t hold a charge anymore, you didn’t have to throw the whole gadget away; you just popped out the old batteries, popped in four fresh ones, and off you went.

We live in a world full of disposable devices. This was something different.

Pelican, my blogging platform of choice. It was the one that imported my Wordpress sites the best and fits how I like to think about blogging.

Does anybody care about link rot these days? The latest tweet/toot/post is all that matters, right?

I have a nifty little plug-in on my WordPress blog that finds broken links among my ~6K posts. And, yes, I check 'em. 90 sec screencast...