A little history lesson for China
Once upon a time China was a flourishing country. Trade was booming. Europe was buying and China was producing. Hence the silk road from way back in time.China was selling and was selling for silver. All the world’s silver was flowing to China in exchange for goods.However Europe, all the individual countries in Europe were […] ⌘ Read more
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Apple Event for 18 October 2021, 10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT begins. Commentary will stream as replies to this twt. I might miss things here and there, as I will also be on a work meeting from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT.
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Everything starts in a garage… the history of Macs, pretty much, with music.
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I am noticing that Yarn doesn't treat "outside" (that is, twts coming from a client other than Yarn) twts hashes right. Two examples:
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Oh, OK, then not touching it. I will consider it part of history and, thus, unchangeable. 😊
A way to weigh whether you are on the right side of history
We have to weigh each time we argue for or against something whether we are arguing out of fear or for the most basic right of life ⌘ Read more
Worst color palette: ZX Spectrum or CGA?
The two ugliest color palettes in computer history… but which burns your eyes the most? ⌘ Read more
Lunduke on the History Channel
H2 anyway. And mostly in the UK and a few other countries. But it still counts. ⌘ Read more
Jokes about Starbucks’ drink-size names are old enough to drink, drive, and vote by now, but calling the 30-oz. size “trenta” is probably the least dumb name in the history of names for sizes
learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy
How to export your complete Foursquare checkin history ⌘ Read more…
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the History of Earth Day ⌘ Read more…
Women’s History Month spotlight: Honoring women developers ⌘ Read more…
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A calm, reasoned take on the Stallman situation (some language warning as the creator doesn't mind dropping an F-bomb now and then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHxY-QsQkQ
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I can’t believe it’s controversial to say “somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn’t be in a leadership position”. That’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just friggin’ obvious.
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Many are very upset about the return of RMS, and how that could be seen to legitimise his views. I knew nothing about his views, really, controversial or otherwise. I'm currently correcting that. I do like how he's acknowledged that his views on certain controversial subjects has changed since 2013; an admission that he was wrong. I guess an important question is whether his new views on said subjects align with the current moral standard. More reading required...
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This is an awful take. The issue isn’t that he’s cantankerous and rigid; it’s that he’s sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn’t “cancel culture”, it’s “consequences” (as is usually the case with that term).
According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders ⌘ Read more…
History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily
Bash emacs command history via ^R ^P ^N ^S, who knew? https://blog.pythian.com/emacs-keybindings-in-bash/
Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.)
‘The Right Side of History’ is a Spook. On Whig History and Self-deception. ⌘
Bletchley Park & The National History of Computing Museum ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/bletchley.html
On the blog: Re-Imagining Law Enforcement https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/31/police.html #history #philosophy #politics
📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
travels with a cat, quite a fine cat, its only flaw being that it refuses to enter any enclosed space whatsoever, bad history or something
The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/
Malfunctioning Doorbell Lessons: Hey, At Least It Wasn’t Hacked https://tedium.co/2019/04/16/doorbell-history-doorbell-malfunction/
Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978 https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html
401(k)s, abortion, youth football: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years - Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction
Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-the-birth-of-machine-bias
Psychic Healing at the End of History | Hannah Gais https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais
Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history
Band name of the day: a game called history
The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/
Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-charles-babbage-and-the-turk
Random link from the archives: https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/ originally archived Thu Oct 26 08:16:35 EDT 2017
Apparently, not only is Netflix making more FMV VNs, but Youtube Red is going to produce some too? As a VN author I can’t complain too much but jesus are we in 1993 again? The return to forgotten history in the tech industry gives me whiplash
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm
Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
PSA History: It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? https://tedium.co/2019/04/04/public-service-announcement-psa-history/
SnackWell’s History: Eat More, They’re Healthy https://tedium.co/2019/04/02/snackwells-history-low-fat-cookies/
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
The many counterfactual histories of Nazi Britain | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-many-counterfactual-histories-of-nazi-britain
📚 Finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Moondog History: Part Viking, All Musical Icon https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/
📚 Finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Milk Crate History: Too Well-Made Not to Steal https://tedium.co/2019/03/19/milk-crate-theft-history/
Educational Toy History: Did The Erector Set Copy Meccano? https://tedium.co/2019/03/21/erector-set-educational-toy-history/
Who are the Public? Public Sphere, Opinions, Moods & History - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Yv0FamjCw
How Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/
There are three kinds of haunted houses: the return of the repressed (the history-haunted house), the dressing room for werewolves (the house that just makes people crappier), & the house-that-is-monstrous (the amateur architect’s place)
History is the time-inverse of science fiction: While coming from different directions, both write fictional accounts that converge on the present, and both are inspired by facts but usually not true to them.
Adobe Antitrust Concerns: Is the Photoshop-Maker Too Big? https://tedium.co/2019/03/12/adobe-history-antitrust-concerns/
List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history
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
Acne Medication History: Why Clearasil Was Marketing Gold https://tedium.co/2019/03/05/acne-medication-history-clearasil-oxy-proactiv/
Workplace OS History: IBM’s $2 Billion Microkernel of Failure https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-history/
Why Do Americans Love Ice Cubes So much? https://tedium.co/2019/02/26/ice-cubes-history/
A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842
A Short History of Italian Horror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCo35gX7j0
It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.
The Secret History of Dune - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune/
Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/
A Modern History of Satanic Panic in South Carolina | Features | Charleston City Paper https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/a-modern-history-of-satanic-panic-in-south-carolina/Content?oid=26695975
Reese’s Advertising History: Eat Peanut Butter Cups However You Want https://tedium.co/2019/02/14/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-marketing-history/
Strongly recommend ‘Horror Noire’ for folks who are interested in the history of horror on film. It filled in some big gaps in the timeline for me. It’s available on Shudder, which is also streaming some flicks covered.
Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan
Con-Culture Experts On the History and Future of Scamming - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming
’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/
Screw Standards: Why We Aren’t Happy https://tedium.co/2016/09/15/screw-history-standards/
Suggestion Box History: The Small Data Before Big Data https://tedium.co/2019/01/31/suggestion-box-history/
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/
Terrible Stage Banter: Why Many Musicians Stink at Talking on Stage https://tedium.co/2019/01/22/bad-stage-banter-history/
Why Professional Magicians Don’t Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/
The Great Chlorophyll Fad of 1952 https://tedium.co/2019/01/15/1950s-chlorophyll-fad-history/
Histories of the Present http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/histories-of-the-present/
Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.
The History of Italian Thrillers’ Ridiculously Twisted Plots | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-italian-thrillers-ridiculously-twisted-plots/
Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet https://tedium.co/2019/01/08/brannock-device-history-foot-measurement/
I love books about the history of tech, but no matter how well-researched, they’re typically mostly a documentation of tech’s mythology (or some countermythology). I prefer the countermythographies.
So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.
I wrote a proposal for a high-performance OSMIC backend: https://medium.com/@/proposal-for-a-high-performance-storage-system-for-osmic-branching-histories-7cb324c7df2d?source=friends_link&sk=40fc22e94810bd20995286d1f8815a6c but it occurs to me that I don’t have a good intro to OSMIC so that’s next.
Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop - 1985 (AUGMENT,101931,) - Doug Engelbart Institute http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/112/000/
Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away https://tedium.co/2018/12/25/seat-belt-history/
The Tangled History of Weaving with Spider Silk | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-tangled-history-of-weaving-with-spider-silk/
A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice
Celebrate X-Mas by watching: X/1999, Project X, xXx, xXx II: The Return of Xander Cage, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X: Night of Vengance, and American History X.
Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/
There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.
Internet Content Filter History: Filtering Out the Bad Stuff https://tedium.co/2018/12/06/internet-content-filters-history/
Band name of the day: the history of an error
Beyond “Lump”: The Presidents of the United States of America Rocked https://tedium.co/2018/11/29/presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america-band-history/
Processor Socket History: The Upgrade Path is Shrinking https://tedium.co/2018/11/27/processor-socket-history/
History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html
Hometown Proud: IGA‘s Business Model Brilliance https://tedium.co/2018/11/22/independent-grocers-alliance-history-hometown-proud/
How Marketing and Lobbying Built Thanksgiving Traditions https://tedium.co/2018/11/20/thanksgiving-history-corporate-roots/
The Abridged History Of Having Fun With Keyboards - Marcin Wichary - btconfBER 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u22w2t0DV4
“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/
The History of Unix, Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs