@71m@timmorgan.org: why web when it is local? I use sxiv for local browsing and llgal to generate a static gallery from a directory: https://github.com/bgoglin/llgal. If you want something more CGI-ish, you could build it with a few lines of perl: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Application::PhotoGallery
Waiting for Goroutines to Finish with a WaitGroup ⌘ Read more…
How to Do Cyberpunk Right - The Yuri You Need - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfSuUicLdcg
Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/
Bad idea of the day: style transfer every frame of the new suspiria to look like the old suspiria
My goal in life is to create the perfect bowl of ramen https://thetakeout.com/ramen-lord-perfect-bowl-of-ramen-mike-satinover-1830128673
You’ve heard about ghost kanji, but what about yokai kanji – hapax legomemna that, if they don’t occur enough times in the modern corpus, come to life and play tricks on us, drinking lamp oil & jumping backwards over corpses to ressurect them.
For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Band name of the day: conspiracy to riot
Hot take: the primary function of a horror movie is not to be scary, but to be /creepy/. If you don’t know the difference, watch better horror movies.
Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.
So, watching Halloween (1978) is free on shudder today, in case you want to. Not really sure why they only told current subscribers…
There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/there-be-monsters-from-cabinets-of-curiosity-to-demons-within
Botnik presents Goosebumps: Welcome to Sand Hands! https://botnik.org/goosebumps/
A possible future: SSSS.Gridman’s popularity causes a bunch of mecha-inspired toku adaptations to be greenlit & ‘tokusatsu remake’ becomes the new ‘isekai light novel adaptation’ for about 5 years.
Hot take: any command that a user might want to use regularly should be short, memorable, and built-in; any command that a user might really NEED to use should be documented & included in the examples in built-in documentation.
I sort of can’t believe this, considering Maven’s bloat, but there appears to be no build-in command for taking a package name specified on the command line, searching maven-central for it, & installing the latest version from the command line…
Five Star Songs https://5-star-songs.tumblr.com/post/179554319224/take-me-to-the-river-talking-heads-warning
How to get rich quick, apparently: rephrase the obvious as though it is the revolutionary for the benefit of the stupid, and pepper it with the wrong to drum up ‘controversy’. (Worked for Peterson)
Isn’t it great that outlook just prevents people from emailing jar files to each other? Like, it’s not as though people occasionally need to send each other internal proprietary jars that aren’t conveniently hosted.
Love it we have a “contract” developer but he is not in the right group to push commits to the code repo. When I suggested that he be added to the right group one of the other developers was like that will give him access to everything. I’m sorry but what is everything? It’s not like he can pull from any of the repos as it is. Right now he just can’t commit.
Because of the use of ‘rune’ to refer to unicode codepoints in go, a fulthark transliteration program might have somewhat confusing source…
It really pisses me off when people use ‘infinite’ to mean ‘really big’. If something’s actually infinite, adding more to it produces the same number (like in Hilbert’s hotel)
An invitation to category theory - Chalkdust http://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/an-invitation-to-category-theory/
Bad idea of the day: a self-adhesive battery-powered white noise generator & speaker, which can be affixed to the microphone on your laptop
The protagonist of Bunny-Girl-senpai is almost the Kyon-style deadpan snarker (not distinct enough to really be a variant yet, like in Denpa Onna) but I can’t tell if it’s an attempt at reconstruction like in Seiren…
Bad idea of the day: a NOT operation on types, such that a type can be define as the failure to qualify as some other combination of types or some other boolean type expression
iPhones are hard to use https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy/
I switched to OpenBSD and it’s nice.
Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it
How to Troll a Troll https://lifehacker.com/how-to-troll-a-troll-1819880278
At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.
If the Rich Really Want To ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/
Scammers Are Uploading Tutorials on How to Fool Facebook with a False ID - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5gk/scammers-are-uploading-tutorials-on-how-to-fool-facebook-with-a-false-id
New repository: aquilax/time66 - Go library to get the 6/6 time. Based on https://xkcd.com/2050/
Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)
Sail to Majuro, Marshall Islands | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/marshall_islands
Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html
What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/slab-city-library-photos
Cops Are Set Up to Be Dangerously Bad Shots - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cops-are-set-up-to-be-dangerously-bad-shots
The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture http://thequietus.com/articles/25494-music-copyright-jamaica-dub
Bad idea of the day: serious & well-researched answers to stupid questions, as a podcast
Bad idea of the day: Use mechanical turk to do a novel-length exquisite corpse, one sentence at a time.
Do You Struggle to Keep Eye Contact? Here’s What’s Happening in Your Brain https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/researchers-discover-why-its-hard-to-maintain-eye-contact-while-talking-with-someone
Hot take: structural problems don’t excuse individual accountability, but instead merely limit the ways in which that individual will can be effectively exercised to group action. No position is so rare that a group cannot form around it.
Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized
Neal Stephenson demonstrated that people will read (and love) infodumps so long as they’re funny or fun to read. In other words: infodumps in fiction are fine so long as the author is also an essayist.
I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I’ve just done 140K records.
003.00 POST: @aewens@tilde.team, welcome to the party!
Having a fun day trying to sort out why my code isn’t working. Only to find out the API server I’m calling is borked.
Hotter take: ‘ambient computing’, ‘internet of things’, and ‘ubiquitous computing’ all pale in comparison to my favorite goofy term for this tech: ‘everyware’
002.00 RPLY: @dzns@tilde.town, quiet compared to you for sure
001.00 POST: nothing to say, this is my first post
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net they always claim to have a video of me having fun but there is a sticker on my cam and the webcam module is blacklisted. 🤨
Steve Jobs’ strange obsession with Billie Jean during the leadup to the Mac release makes a lot more sense when you remember that at the time he too was denying the paternity of his child.
Hot take: weasel words are not a form of obfuscation but a signal about confidence level. Misrepresenting your level of confidence in a proposition is tantamount to lying.
A house is a machine for living in, & a haunted house (after Jackson) is a machine for dreaming in. Hill House is architectural LSD: it reflects psychic energy inward, causing people to haunt themselves.
Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7
Band name of the day: how to deter bears
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Maybe a DNS issue as I moved my domain to inwx yesterday. Can you try again?
What’s a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/767630/594421f913c3d00a/
Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/10/announcing-a-competition-for-ethics-in-computer-science-with-up-to-3-5-million-in-prizes/
It’s really odd trying to downsize your stuff. Even with stuff you haven’t used in years or use very little, it’s hard to get rid of stuff you have acquired over time.
Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.
The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/
Cody Wilson was Defense Distributed”so who is the organization’s new leader? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/how-and-why-a-london-poet-who-never-shot-a-gun-came-to-lead-defense-distributed/
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Is More Than Gothic Horror. It’s a Love Letter to Moviemaking. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23570109/bram-stokers-dracula-review-francis-ford-coppolla/
Moving on from ed to teco for maximum nerd credibility.
NixOS 18.09 released
NixOS 18.09 “Jellyfish” has been released, the tenth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.09 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
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If Vento Aureo doesn’t make at least a handful of references to Don’t Look Now, I’ll be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you
Things I won’t miss about twitter #72956298: keyword bots that reply to any international-relations-related links with advertisements for Alex Jones
Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology
Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin’ BOOK and it’s super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.
Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style
Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.
I don’t know why but Openconnect no longer will connect to my work VPN.
On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head
Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org
If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan’s almost-30-year economic stagnation?
Fastly supports NixOS
We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly
is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability,
which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine
Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com
and Graham Christensen for making this possible. ⌘ Read more
In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.
Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand
Botnik feat. The Strokes - I Don’t Want To Be There - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dUOrktTQ4
How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language
I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.
How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation
The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I also always try to have a few ssh servers with several ports available for me to use. My favorite port is 443. Once had a firewall that wouldn’t allow SSH on 22 but 443 was acceptable because it expected encryption on it.
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/
@sdk@codevoid.de Why doesn’t that shock me. Hell I’ve worked places where they had a strong firewall that blocked a lot of sites and yet I was allowed to SSH out, setup a tunnel, and bypass the firewall.
Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.
A Response to Yuval Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ > C. R. Hallpike https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=189085
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?
I’m getting used to OpenBSD rather fast. I’s really very consistent and joyful to work with. #openbsd
How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paradox - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkt5Q9a9Ek
In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.
Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099