Brit @kingcons@tiny.tilde.website

the pinephone looks cool:

https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limited-edition-linux-smartphone-for-early-adaptor

what blobs does it require? in particular, will hardware accelerated graphics work without blobs? that is what usually kills my interest in these things.

@enkiv2

nitter.net/enkiv2/status/11954…

> Making money & making tech are very different skills, often fundamentally at odds: good tech is very often not profitable and the most profitable tech is just varying reframings of rentseeking. Very few people can do both well, and SV has a bias toward profit.

Maybe something even more significant comes in the next 8 messages, but so far this is the high point.

put de-escalation techniques in smash

http://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/

programming languages personified; it's old but classic

If you're doing a very long term software archive, you might want to think about bootstapping.

guix has. guix will not be included, because they have the good taste to not use github. (Well, I found a 4 year old mirror of it on there.)

"a lot of money to change the google results for Github ICE" probably sums this up.

Still, I have thoughts.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/

The worship of billionaires like Jeff Bezos has become our worst religion | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people?zd=4

MDS Attacks: Microarchitectural Data Sampling
https://mdsattacks.com/
"We show that attackers who can run unprivileged code on machines with recent Intel CPUs - whether using shared cloud computing resources, or using JavaScript on a malicious website or advertisement - can steal data from other programs running on the same machine, across any security boundary: other applications, the operating system kernel, other VMs (e.g., in the cloud), or even secure (SGX) enclaves. "

Aaargh.

Just discovered #Gancio! An event platform that (partially) supports #ActivityPub and is already being used!

There are already two instances!
https://gancio.cisti.org (Torino, Italy)
https://lapunta.org (Firenze, Italy)

Project website:
https://gancio.org/

Code repo:
https://framagit.org/les/gancio/

Tired: Disney+
Wired: Undoing the fucking damage Disney has done to our culture, copyright, and the public domain.

New article: The State of (SNES) Emulation, Part V.

I write a new entry in this series every three or so years. This article serves as a recap of 2016-2019. This most recent entry has been one of the most eventful yet! Here's to three more years~

https://articles.byuu.org/state-of-emulation-v

Me, holding the severed head of Mickey mouse: NO GODS, NO MASTERS, ONLY PUBLIC DOMAIN

'Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees'

http://m.nautil.us/issue/77/underworlds/never-underestimate-the-intelligence-of-trees

Are there any incremental computation systems that treat inputs not as mutable cells, but model the whole system as a persistent data structure, and updates create a new, structure-sharing instance?

tired: leaving the house
wired: never leaving the house (become a hermit)
inspired: carry your house with you (become a hermit crab)

RT @Masterjun3@twitter.com

This is the craziest SMW Lua script I've ever made (~1500 lines of code).
It displays precalculated frames given inputs and it's even interactive!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Masterjun3/status/1191520618841362432

Authentic 1991 dithering from "Beyond Cyberpunk"

RT @francescozappan@twitter.com

Our paper on synthesis of DWARF unwind tables for x86_64 binaries is out! Bonus: we can additionally speed up unwinding by a factor of 10x-25x. Feedback welcome! https://www.di.ens.fr/~zappa/projects/frdwarf/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/francescozappan/status/1171772594003030018

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/11/01/ten-years-of-nokia-n900/

RT @alicegoldfuss@twitter.com

Her palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's errors on her console already, kubernetes

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/997268087429713922