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akosma, 15 hours ago to random

"Luckily we have the Wayback Machine"

Just a week after publishing this, the @internetarchive is down.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/webpages_vanish_decade/

akosma, 2 days ago to random

TIL The Belleville Three is not exactly the same thing as Les Triplettes de Belleville. Not at all.

akosma, 3 days ago to random

Some ideas https://akos.ma/blog/running-programming-workshops/

akosma, 6 days ago to random

TIL that Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/IMG files. No need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI supported. MBR and GPT partition style supported. OS supported: Win/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen. 1200+ ISO files tested.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

akosma, 8 days ago to random

"Tax policy groups have been lobbying to close this loophole for years, and Congress nearly did it in 2022, but Senator Kyrsten Sinema took $2 million from the private equity industry (aka Owners) and saved their $14 billion loophole. It’s well known that our leaders are whores. What’s more surprising, and disappointing, is what cheap whores they are ($2 million for $14 billion)."

https://www.profgalloway.com/earners-vs-owners/

akosma, 9 days ago to random

there’s clearly a thread here @hisham_hm @santiago

akosma, 14 days ago to random

"Something happens when one tries to have rational conversations about downsides with people strongly advocating expansion of type-level programming capabilities (…) This happens all the time once extensive type-level programming facilities are available in a language–they immediately get misapplied in ways that makes code harder to understand, excludes beginners and fails to convince those from the outside."

Don Syme, creator of F#

https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243#issuecomment-916079347

akosma, 16 days ago to random

COMPOSERS COMPOSERS COMPOSERS #esc

video/mp4

akosma, 16 days ago to random

Yes. The Swiss asked Céline Dion to sing for them once. Just like Bruce Wayne once said to Barry Allen, Switzerland’s superpower is being rich. #esc

akosma, 16 days ago to random Spanish

Un clon fresco del Indio Solari cantando para Letonia?

(Argentines will understand) #esc

akosma, 16 days ago to random

After a well deserved toilet break we’re back for more comments. Now Måneskin from Norway. Wait no. #esc

akosma, 16 days ago to random

“Again: the skilled worker of the present day is an aristocrat in the world of labor. It is a question with him whether he shall ally himself with the unskilled worker against the capitalist, or with the capitalist against the unskilled worker. Very often he is himself a capitalist in a small way, and if he is not so individually, his trade union or his friendly society is pretty sure to be so.”

Bertrand Russell, “Proposed Roads to Freedom” (1918)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/690

akosma, 17 days ago to random

The main effect of Stack Overflow selling data to ChatGPT is that from now on, the chatbot will reply to any and every programming question with a passive-aggressive RTFM.

akosma, 18 days ago to random

… so here's Lotus 1-2-3 for Unix… for Linux. wat

https://github.com/taviso/123elf

akosma, 18 days ago to random

“Our industry cannot afford to suck a little less; we need paradigm shifts.”

James Coplien (minute 29:49)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBQmIDdls4

akosma, 18 days ago to random

“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to have a dogmatic opinion, to be backed up by inflicting starvation, prison, and war, and to be carefully guarded from argumentative competition with any different opinion.”

Bertrand Russell, “Free Thought and Official Propaganda”, March 24th, 1922.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda

akosma, 23 days ago to random

The contrast was brutal back then

Screenshot of Microsoft Word 5.1a for Mac OS 7.5 running on Basilisk II for Linux

akosma, 26 days ago to random

"In short, most Americans would probably prefer European working hours. It is just that their employers, and the cost of health insurance, get in the way. The US offers big prizes for finishing top, and big punishments for finishing bottom. That is partly why Europe exports its most ambitious strivers there."

https://archive.ph/Lf5eW

akosma, 27 days ago to random

Watching "Genesis: Together and Apart" I find spectacular how much this band (and each of its members) defined the sound of the 70s and 80s.

I've heard many (quite arrogant) musicians through the years dismiss their production after Peter Gabriel left, but seriously, it's still remarkable and very enjoyable to my ears. I love Genesis, with and without Gabriel, before and after.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3966500/

akosma, 27 days ago to random

Unpopular opinion: the Internet Archive and Wikipedia should be part of UNESCO.

akosma, 27 days ago to random

"John Markoff’s New York Times article speculating about a vaporware Apple-branded mobile “iPhone” is getting a lot of traction. Go ahead and read it, but remember that it’s all bullshit speculation at this point."

John Gruber, August 19th 2002

https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/iphony

akosma, 27 days ago to random

In other news, archive.today is a godsend. https://archive.ph/

akosma, 28 days ago to random

I've recently come across two socially responsible French conglomerates of software developers, organized as either a cooperative or some other egalitarian business forms, and I wanted to make a huge shoutout to them.

Please visit their websites and, if you want and can, hire them for your next projects.

(Disclaimer: I'm not associated with either, I just find these organizations not only remarkable, but also necessary and fundamental.)

• https://les-tilleuls.coop/en
• https://www.codeursenliberte.fr/

akosma, 28 days ago to random

I've just spent a week at the "Casa The View" in Poschiavo (Southern Switzerland, near the border with Italy) and I can only recommend it. Also, it's seriously sold out, so plan in advance.

https://www.holiweek.ch/

akosma, 29 days ago to random

"As Harp climbed higher within American industry, the paradigm started to shift. Senior figures within other companies began to resent her presence at the top of the tech pyramid. What had begun as an unthreatening story of two housewives running an odd little business became one instead of two women successfully building and expanding their empire. (…)"