we just stopped at a restaurant near the autobahn to hamburg to eat something and say that the MNT Reform Next campaign (it's our new 26mm thick 13" open hardware laptop) just went live aaaaa! https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
Interesting article in The Atlantic summarising some recent research suggesting that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer than if it had been there at all.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/
Century-Scale Storage - Maxwell Neely-Cohen @ Library Innovation Lab @ Harvard Law School:
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/
XMPP: the forgotten gem of Instant Messaging
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/xmpp-the-forgotten-gem-of-instant-messaging.md
New study shows that natural disasters have a profound long-term impact with excess deaths orders of magnitude larger.
"... the average tropical cyclone generates 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, exceeding the average of 24 immediate deaths reported in government statistics."
As always we forget to count the externalities. The polluted soil left behind, the stress of the event.
I think I might finally be getting into this #VTuber trend because my wife has started sending me videos by #Ironmouse, who's apparently one of the most popular VTubers in the world... and she's Puerto Rican and disabled to the point of being home/bed bound. And I'm just so happy for her career?
Like, yeah, it sucks that she struggles with her health stuff, but in a world that really hates disabled people and wants to hide them and let them die, seeing someone find something like this for themselves and be HUGELY successful is so nice.
Also I'm a sucker for a good boricua success story. #MastodonPR, #PuertoRico #Disability
Old fogey alert: I just had 40TB of storage delivered in a small cardboard box. All-in cost: $539.98.
When I ordered it I thought: Will this be enough? Should I wait for a better deal?
It's forty frickin terabytes! At less than $14/TB (1.5 cents per gigabyte)! This still blows my mind.
For context, when I started my career in 1981 storage was about $526,000,000/TB. That's 37 million times the price!
Some times I say stuff like this to students and I can see the “Ok boomer" in their eyes.
Hice una pagina en mi capsula describiendo mi exploracion de ITS, el legendario Incompatible Timesharing System de la DEC PDP-10.
gemini://azul.archipielago.uno/its.gmi
o
https://azul.archipielago.uno/its.gmi
Espero actualizarlo con mas ejemplos de como usar ITS.
released a new version of lichen-markdown that reduced the total unzipped release size to 380KB
https://codeberg.org/ukrudt.net/lichen-markdown/releases/tag/v1.1.0
#WritersCoffeeClub 21Nov—Do you have a day job? What is it? Do you wish you could write full-time?
I've been trying to get a day job for a year now. By the way my CV is at https://thunix.net/~jeremylist/cv.html
I'm open to things that aren't conventional employment such as full time writing or getting funded for open source software as long as I get more financial security than being unemployed.
Scientific papers withdrawn because of use of unlicensed software https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/11/12/two-studies-retracted-for-using-pirated-software/
This is a delightful exploration of why the #Lisp syntax works so well: https://stopa.io/post/265
📣 ¡En el día de la animación argentina, lanzamos Quirinux 2.0 Estable! 🎉
La primera distribución GNU/Linux creada especialmente para cine animado.
Nuestro video de lanzamiento fue hecho íntegramente con Quirinux, utilizando las técnicas de stop-motion y dibujo animado 🎥🖌️📽️
Animación: Charlie Martinez
Voz de "Jazzy": Noe Gerbaudo
Descarga gratuita: www.quirinux.org
Autor de Quirinux: Charlie Martínez
Contacto Prensa:
Florencia Cristobo
📧 prensa@quirinux.org
If you work with research outputs and metadata, DOIs are everywhere. For programmers working with scholarly metadata, there are a few things about DOIs to be aware of.
Here are some "Falsehoods Programmers believe about DOIs".
https://pardalotus.tech/posts/2024-10-02-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-dois/