Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 01/20 to 01/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/01/24/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/right-to-free-movement.html

hurl: HTTP, HTTPS and Gopher file grabber: https://www.codemadness.org/hurl.html

It really looks so much better not having html extension in my wiki.

@ckipp@chronica.xyz https://webring.xxiivv.com/hallway.html looks amazing! How does it work?

Reading https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

#Apple of 2019 is the #Linux of 2000: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html?m=1

json2tsv: a JSON to TSV converter: https://www.codemadness.org/json2tsv.html

NixOS 19.09 released

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added paragraph blocks and code blocks to weewiki HTML output. things look decent.

statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.

Basically it just compiles all chapters in the right order to html, rewrites the internal links and call lynx on the result

Basically it just compiles all chapters in the right order to html, rewrites the internal links and call lynx on the result

also put the both longer.html and shorter.html on the gopherhole in text form

added some more stuff to https://tilde.town/~mox/longer.html

https://blog.w1r3.net/2019/09/13/if-you-want-to-make-people-suffer-teach-them-primary-clipboard.html

Nice explanation of the difference between 1/0 and 0/0: https://blog.plover.com/math/division-by-zero.html

“A pathway to a well regulated instant messaging market”: https://gultsch.de/regulations.html #xmpp

OpenBSD: setup a local auto-installation server: https://www.codemadness.org/openbsd-autoinstall.html

alxd – Hackers in popular culture - the curse of being an eternal rebel https://alxd.org/hackers-in-popular-culture-the-curse-of-being-an-eternal-rebel.html

Zarf Updates: What is ZIL anyway? http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html

Sander van der Burg’s blog: IFF file format experiments http://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2012/06/iff-file-format-experiments.html

Random link from the archives: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html originally archived Thu Aug 2 07:50:49 EDT 2018

totext.py - Convert URL or RSS feed to text with readability - Raymii.org https://raymii.org/s/software/totext.py-Convert_URL_or_RSS_feed_to_plaintext_with_readability.html

Making the obvious code fast https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/07/22/making-obvious-fast.html

Obfuscation https://ferd.ca/obfuscation.html

Random link from the archives: https://mossmanga.blogspot.com/2014/09/berserk-lost-chapter-1.html originally archived Mon May 21 13:57:37 EDT 2018

Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978 https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html

Random link from the archives: https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post117 originally archived Wed Jan 23 14:12:03 EST 2019

Interactive Fiction https://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_nme-jul79.html

Random link from the archives: http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html originally archived Tue May 15 12:43:08 EDT 2018

NixOS 19.03 released

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Electric Velomobiles: as Fast and Comfortable as Automobiles, but 80 times more Efficient | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html

The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/the-4g-mobile-internet-thats-already-there.html

OOP Before OOP with Simula https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html

Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html

How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/resisting-attention-economy.html

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

Twilight Zone theme: How the theme song for Jordan Peele’s reboot stacks up to versions by Korn, the Grateful Dead,… https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/twilight-zone-theme-jordan-peele-grateful-dead-korn-marius-constant-bernard-herrmann-manhattan-transfer.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Random link from the archives: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html originally archived Mon Nov 12 14:43:37 EST 2018

VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

New repository: aquilax/md2html - Markdown to HTML command line tool (wraps Blackfriday)

ESMAJ http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/index.html

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html

Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

The Programming Language Conundrum http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html

Hilarious: http://www.devuan.org/pwned.html

Litherum: Addition Font https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html

End-user programming https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html

Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html

Joe Rogan’s podcast is an essential platform for freethinkers who hate the left. https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html

What Happens When You Stop Speaking? https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/what-happens-when-you-stop-speaking.html

Kilo LISP - T3X.ORG http://t3x.org/klisp/index.html

Errata Security: A basic question about TCP https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/02/a-basic-question-about-tcp.html

How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/how-wattpad-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-hollywood.html

William Gibson Talks ‘Archangel,’ Apocalypses, and Dystopias https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html

Soooo. My whole public_html folder is gone. twtxt as well. Hope I can find a backup somewhere

π day | cormullion https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2019/03/13/piday.html

DSHR’s Blog: Techno-hype part 2.5 https://blog.dshr.org/2018/03/techno-hype-part-25.html

All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Author discovers the recentralization phenomenon, and concludes that centralization is inevitable (rather than that recentralization must be carefully avoided): https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

Lessons learned: writing really long fiction - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html

The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html

Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html

Overcoming Bias : Better Babblers http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html

Ahead of Time http://histscifi.com/essays/milburn/time.html

Exploring Languages with Interpreters and Functional Programming 2018 Version https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci450/ELIFP/ExploringLanguages.html

Jenny Owen’s website - Gosper’s Algorithm Explained https://jennyhasahat.github.io/hashlife.html

Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html

It got even better: http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (from @gwern apparently?)

Evolutionary Futures http://histscifi.com/essays/milam/apeman.html

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Networking Cheatsheet http://gnulinux.guru/networking_cheatsheet.html

Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html

Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html

A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

Idiotbox: Youtube interface: https://www.codemadness.org/idiotbox.html

The Future of Thinking: http://histscifi.com/essays/dick/thinking.html

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)

Programming Z3 https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html

Smalltalk performance and Moore’s Law https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00185.html

1969 & 70 - Bell Labs http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html

Outperforming everything with anything https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_everything_with_anything.html

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post117

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post120

Why I use old hardware | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

An Informal Exploration of Structural Sharing, Proxies, and Copy-on-Write Semantics http://raganwald.com/2019/01/14/structural-sharing-and-copy-on-write.html

Ontology Overrated: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Female Viagra UK, Buy Viagra - Online Pharmacy, Best Offer. http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

TELNET: The Mother of All (Application) Protocols https://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-v2.html

[Toybox] More than you really wanted to know about patch. http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2019-January/010049.html