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Historical linguist. Also the person to blame when there’s something in the Scheme reports that you don’t like.

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dpk, to random
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Started to notice how bad German Wikipedia is at controlling bias compared to enwp. Examples:

  1. The article on BDS has a clear agenda to make the reader believe the movement is antisemitic, based on an idea that its primary historical roots are in anti-Jewish boycotts, rather than the South African anti-apartheid movement

  2. The article on ‘Junk Science’ describes the term mainly as an attack word used by tobacco, fossil fuel etc. lobbyists against the real science they want to attack

dpk,
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To point 2, that might actually be how the term has historically mostly been used in German – I’m not sure. But the case doesn’t look convincing, because dewp claims the term originated several years later than enwp does, ignoring earlier use.

dpk,
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Some factors that might be behind this problem:

  1. dewp introduced the ‘approved versions’ system, where edits only go live after a regular editor approves them. In practice this may give certain ideological cliques de facto control over article content

  2. The dewp community has strongly resisted adding an equivalent of the enwp [citation needed] tag to the extent that opposition to it has become a community shibboleth. Articles feel subjectively less well cited in dewp than enwp on average

annika, to random
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I love how warm this is, even on a cold day

dpk,
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@heiglandreas @annika If it’s Cobalt-60 and made in 1963 it’s probably nearly inert by now

drewdevault, to random
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If you're asked to sign a CLA and/or copyright assignment before contributing to a FOSS project, refuse, and make a hard fork of the project instead.

Take direct action for free software.

dpk,
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@drewdevault Needs some care though, because what GitHub calls a ‘CLA’ can actually turn out to mean you just have to sign the DCO. I’ve been caught out by this before.

dpk,
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@drewdevault I dunno to what extent it’s first-class vs just something people are using a required ‘check’ for, but e.g. here’s a thing from a random Caddy PR. Caddy uses the DCO, but it’s called a ‘Contributor License Agreement’ for some reason

dpk, to random
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‘Scheme (God's programming language, of which Snap is a dialect) introduced continuations as first class data’

https://forum.snap.berkeley.edu/t/what-does-with-continuation-mean/1518/2

dpk, to random
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I just remembered the documentary Everything is a Remix and thought maybe I should rewatch it.

So I went to the website and oh dear, a more depressing sight to see there I could not imagine

ordnung, to random
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⚠️ There will be a scheduled maintenance downtime for chaos.social starting at 17:30 CET. It is scheduled for 2 hours.

dpk,
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@ordnung Danke für euren Einsatz!!

dpk, to random
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Okay, Mammoth got totally enshittified. What other Mastodon apps on iOS are there?

dpk, to random
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An occasional thread of photos I like.

dpk,
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IBM data centre, King Street, Toronto, c. 1963.

(George Dunbar, IBM Canada)

dpk,
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‘Figgins’ a.k.a. ‘Sam and Figgins’ (self-portrait in studio with model), Sam Haskins, 1961.

(A better ‘behind the scenes’ self-portrait i.m.o. than Helmut Newton’s ‘Self Portrait with Wife and Models’, which is itself also a favourite of mine.)

dpk,
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Berlin, ‘Graf Zeppelin’ über der Siegessäule

Georg Pahl, 1928

dpk,
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Déjeuner de poilu (Soldier’s lunch), Paul Castelnau, Reims, 1917. (Autochrome Lumière)

dpk,
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Hotshot Eastbound, O. Winston Link, 1956.

ahelwer, to guix

My understanding of :guix: and :nixos: are that they explicitly pin the versions of absolutely everything & their transitive dependency graphs, all the way down to the compiler versions used to build a specific software commit. But how do they handle bootstrapping compilers?

dpk,
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@civodul @drewdevault @kirschwipfel @ahelwer As a Guile user and potential Guix user, the fact that rms could potentially exercise his tendency to stick his nose into decision-making at any time (and has stuck his nose into Guile decision-making in the past) is something I’m wary of. (Admittedly, I also use GNU Emacs, where he’s far more involved. But I use it despite the governance.)

dpk,
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@civodul @drewdevault @kirschwipfel @ahelwer Have you considered the Software Freedom Conservancy?

dpk, to random
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Productive procrastination of the day: the R7RS effort now has a semi-reasonable website https://r7rs.org/

dpk, to random
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Symbolics technical memorandum (date unknown)

dpk,
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When we have understood this diagram, we will have won the war against Unix

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