akosma

akosma, 28 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, 29 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, 29 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. (…)"

akosma, 29 days ago to random

"Underprepared: AI doesn’t have to be sentient to pose a threat — sentient actors are the threat. The 2024 election is going to be the World Cup of online disinformation, as AI supercharges these tactics."

https://www.profgalloway.com/forewarned/

akosma, 1 month ago to random

I just discovered https://donotreply.cards/ and I guess it deserves to be widely shared.

akosma, 1 month ago to random

I know that I must sound like the biggest nerd ever, but I know I'm not alone (particularly not in tihs network) when I say this:

number theory is seriously fun.

akosma, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Yay AltStore! 😁
Booo not in Switzerland 🇨🇭 😒

https://liliputing.com/altstore-pal-is-the-first-apple-approved-third-party-app-store-for-ios-in-europe-only/

akosma, 1 month ago to random

"But the largest colonies, and most dramatic moments in the global spread of ant societies, belong to the Argentine ant."

MBWAHAHAHAHAH

https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-and-turbulent-global-world-of-ant-geopolitics

akosma, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

"Las Puertitas del Señor López es un retrato del hombre común, con sus falencias, secretos y deseos ocultos, pero también la confirmación de que el empleado más rutinario puede volverse autoritario si se presenta la ocasión como demuestra López al encontrar un silbato y una gorra abandonados y usarlas para perseguir a niños que pisan el césped o reprimir a parejas que intentan besarse en una plaza."

https://www.estandarte.com/noticias/libros/comic/las-puertitas-del-senor-lopez-el-fracaso-convertido-en-arte_4837.html

akosma, 1 month ago to random

"The industrial design of the HP-35 was unusual not only for Hewlett-Packard, but for the electronics industry in general. Usually, the mechanical and electrical components of a product are determined before the exterior is designed. The HP-35 took the opposite approach."

http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/72jun/jun72a3.pdf

akosma, 1 month ago to random

So, I made a thing.

Did you know that Windows Notepad, at least since Windows 3.1, has a journaling option? Just create a file with the line ".LOG" on top, and every time you open the file, the current date and time gets inserted at the bottom.

Well, I wanted the same for Visual Studio Code, so here it goes.

https://gitlab.com/akosma/notepad-dotlog

Sburlot, 1 month ago to random French

I will try that. I’m on social medias because I have zero social skills so I’m afraid my interactions with random strangers will look rather sad or creepy or both.
You were warned. https://mastodon.social/@mrdoornbos/112270577116070998