L’autre pause estivale
Oui, vous avez correctement lu le titre : c’est à nouveau une pause pour ce blog, qui ne verra donc pas de nouveaux articles avant mi-septembre. Bien évidemment, chers lecteurs, chères lectrices, chers bots d’IA, je compte sur les plus forts d’entre vous pour alimenter la section « commentaires » afin de faire tenir les moins solides, ceux […] ⌘ Read more

Intelligence artificielle et web parallèle
Internet est en train de changer, et de changer plus vite que vous ne pouvez l’imaginer : d’un côté, jamais produire du contenu n’a été aussi facile mais de l’autre, jamais le contenu réellement humain et original n’a été aussi rare… La tendance est évidente pour qui regarde avec attention ce qui se passe depuis quelques […] ⌘ Read more

Not too shabby: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-08-28/

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Finalement, Bayrou n’a été qu’une grosse perte de temps
Il était vaguement attendu, et, avec toute l’onctuosité d’un vieux cacique mou, Bayrou a parlé : le 8 septembre prochain, pour pousser son budget, il mettra l’avenir de son gouvernement en jeu devant les parlementaires. Ah, décidément, rien de tel qu’une bonne louche de politique politicienne pour sauver un pays ! En effet, avec cette annonce, tout […] ⌘ Read more

Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui.
Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.

Para ajudar outros que possam estar assumir mais do que devem como eu, fica aqui a Lei que tem a lista das freguesias que se voltaram a dividir (o resto fica tudo igual):
https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei/25-a-2025-910933580

Tudo parece pouco, mas há que fazer o que se pode para acabar com o #genocídio em #Gaza

https://sicnoticias.pt/especiais/guerra-no-medio-oriente/2025-08-26-mariana-mortagua-miguel-duarte-e-sofia-aparicio-integram-flotilha-humanitaria-que-parte-esta-semana-para-gaza-3ae6438e?s=35

RIP Android:

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.

I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.

I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.

Panique : la BCE improvise de plus en plus son euro numérique
La presse française étant ce qu’elle est (c’est à dire aussi subventionnée que médiocre), ce que Trump a réalisé en matière de cryptomonnaies est bien évidemment passé à peu près inaperçu de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique. Pourtant, la Banque Centrale Européenne vient d’en faire récemment les frais… Pour comprendre ce qui se passe, il faut […] ⌘ Read more

Sinfonias de Aço (de Manuel Melo)
(aos Sábados das 12h às 15h, na Rádio Barcelos)
Emissão de 23 Agosto 2025

39 músicas de bandas portuguesas, incluindo 7 que integram o catálogo da ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA:

. The Dreams Never End - Perdido
. Marciano - John Said
. Ameeba - Lizard Face
. Sci Fi Industries - TriVial
. Kokori – Time Traveler (sedation mix)
. Turning Point – Espelho
. Zero à Esquerda - Porque Tens Tanto Poder

https://www.sinfonias.org/playlists/1961-playlist-podcast-23-agosto-2025

#kokori

Arrêt d’éoliennes, chute d’Orsted : perte de subventions et soucis de dette
Un article de Henry Bonner Le groupe Orsted connaît davantage de difficultés en Bourse… L’action baisse encore de 30 % en août, une chute de trois-quarts en 5 ans. Les groupes du secteur de l’éolien en mer, comme Orsted, dépendent du recours à la dette pour le financement des parcs. Ensuite, ils cèdent des participations […] ⌘ Read more

O segundo dia de #Extramuralhas 2025 foi assim.

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Here’s an interesting thought/angle on this topic:

gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1

A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organization—Tencent [4]. I’m seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.

Contrôle du net : tous les prétextes sont bons pour vous faire taire
Les dernières semaines offrent un véritable festival de nouvelles consternantes d’attaques portées contre les libertés fondamentales de vie privée et d’expression, ainsi qu’une volonté de faire complètement disparaître l’anonymat ou, plutôt, le pseudonymat sur internet. En effet, de plus en plus de gouvernements occidentaux font passer ou sont en train de préparer des mesures visant […] ⌘ Read more

Surprisingly, the sky got quite some lovely colors this evening. I approve! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-08-21/

Sabem o que é uma #rapidinha ? Não é isso, pá!, na #musiquinta é uma música com menos de 3 minutos. E como hoje começa o #Extramuralhas 2025, a música que escolho é uma rapidinha da Meredith Monk:

https://thehousefoundation.bandcamp.com/track/nota

Le 10 septembre, ça va chauffer !
Cela suffit ! Kevin ne se laissera pas faire, il est temps que ce gouvernement de fascistes comprenne que le peuple français refuse cette austérité imposée par des puissances étrangères ! Kevin essuie sa sueur abondante d’un revers de main : dans sa petite chambre-étuve d’étudiant inscrit en sociologie à Rennes 2, devant ses murs décorés d’un poster […] ⌘ Read more

Ainda o #SIRESP :

https://www.publico.pt/2025/08/19/sociedade/noticia/alargado-ate-30-novembro-prazo-proposta-substituicao-urgente-siresp-2144330

TLDR:

• Prazo adiado.
  
• A culpa não é do governo, claro, é das “vicissitudes associadas à transição governativa”, porque a transição do governo anterior, que o governo deitou abaixo para convocar eleições e ser o agora actual governo deu tanto trabalho ao governo que o governo ficou, não por culpa sua, sem tempo para fazer o seu trabalho.

BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.4 Released ⌘ Read more

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Continua a “guerra à burocracia”… Isto não se inventa:
https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/08/13/governo-quer-acabar-com-criminalizacao-da-omissao-da-contratacao-de-trabalhadores-a-seguranca-social/

https://pt.euronews.com/next/2025/08/08/o-regresso-do-chat-control-algo-esta-errado-no-reino-da-dinamarca

Administração Pública Portuguesa em 2025:

“Faz prova detalhada de tudo e mais alguma coisa, passo a passo, tintim por tintim, e tudo comprovado e documentado.”

Também a Administração Pública Portuguesa em 2025:
“Mete tudo isso num só ficheiro e submete através de um formulário web. Tamanho máximo do ficheiro: 5Mb.”

5Mb, o meu telemóvel tira fotos maiores que isso…

Sabias que vais poder ver ao vivo, e de forma completamente GRATUITA, bandas como THEN COMES SILENCE, MINUIT MACHINE, DARKWAYS, NNHMN, SIIE, SUICIDE COMANDO e muitas outras? Vai ao site oficial e vê quais são os concertos a pagar e os de livre acesso para te orientares já com a tua agenda! Está tudo aqui: www.fadeinfestival.com
#Extramuralhas

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San Francisco Billboards - August 2025
Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I’ve decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time. ⌘ Read more

Um artigo de fundo sobre o estado da vitivinicultura em Portugal:

https://www.publico.pt/2025/08/03/terroir/reportagem/portugal-gastou-785-milhoes-euros-queimar-vinho-ja-importou-8212-milhoes-litros-espanha-2142007

Parece que não foi só ao vivo que pude ser ouvido ontem, também na rádio o programa “Sinfonias de Aço” de ontem passou uma música de #kokori - e o programa pode ser ouvido em diferido aqui: https://sinfonias.org/playlists/1947-playlist-podcast-2-agosto-2025

É preciso ser-se artista: a #AMA passa a #ARTE, a #FCT é extinta. A investigação passa para a ANI (que passa a chamar-se AI2). A substituição da AMA pela ARTE acontece “imediatamente”, mas a escolha do seu director é que não tem data prevista.

https://expresso.pt/nosection/foruns/forum_politica/2025-07-31-governo-acaba-com-varias-entidades-no-ministerio-da-educacao-como-a-fundacao-para-a-ciencia-e-tecnologia-23ec8128

Já em problemas concretos da tecnologia na administração pública - por exemplo a mudança no #SIRESP … bem, o prazo que acabava hoje para um estudo foi afinal adiado (sem nova data), e estamos aqui estamos a fazer novo ajuste directo porque o governo não consegue cumprir os seus próprios objectivos.

https://healthnews.pt/2025/07/31/estudo-para-substituicao-do-siresp-sem-prazo-definido-apos-prolongamento/

#ptpol #tecnologia

psst i’ll be at my local event for HTML day!!! i’m very excited but very nervous, i don’t even know what i’ll be working on! but i’ll figure it out…

Esra semana a #musiquinta é com músicas da #fossa, e como calha no primeiro dia do #ZigurFest 2025 escolho a música “8H” da “Banda de Call Center”, um dos projectos que tocará neste festival.

Click Click: https://bandadecallcenter.bandcamp.com/track/8h

Speaking of manpages:

“Man pages are great, man readers are the problem”

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/

Chamada aberta pro encontro brasileiro de programação criativa - Compoética 2025 … https://compoetica.github.io/links/

Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.

All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.

These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).

Canine out °_°

We ate the #burgers and drank the #beers before taking a picture to the #books during the second #BBB (Books, Beers and Burgers) of #2025 in #Lamego - oops!

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I wish I could watch this (maybe they’ll record it… but I’m not sure):

“From #Fortran to #Python: A Conversation Across Generations of #ScientificComputing” #PyOhio

https://www.pyohio.org/2025/program/talks/from-fortran-to-python/

《“Não agir deixou de ser legalmente aceitável.” Decisão de tribunal da ONU pode dar impulso à Lei de Bases do Clima》

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/26/azul/entrevista/nao-agir-deixou-legalmente-aceitavel-decisao-tribunal-onu-dar-impulso-lei-bases-clima-2141791

#criseclimática

37C3 and New Year’s Eve 2023
Another one from the vaults. The 37C3 conference took place in
December, 2023. This report was mostly written in January, 2024.
Mostly finished it at night in my cottage between 28 and 29th
December, then edited and added some stuff in July, 2025. So… Only
1.5 years late?

It was a little ironic, and a little sad, that I was finishing the
37C3 report during 38C3. I didn’t manage to get any tickets for me and
#3 for 38C3 and had to make do with watching the stream.

The links to the talks go to [C … ⌘ Read more

Em crescente #criseclimática , nunca nos portámos tão mal:

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/sobrecarga-do-planeta-humanidade-esgota-recursos-naturais-de-2025-esta-quinta-feira_v1671587

@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png

And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png

I like the looks of your window manager. That’s using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)

This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don’t get it how people can work like that. You can’t even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there’s 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There’s the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a “regularish” 16:10 monitor and don’t see shit, because it’s resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D

Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn’t serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don’t recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I fully agree with you on https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/POSTING-en.html!

Although, in the first screenshot, the window title background is much darker in the new version than the old one!1!1 :-P Kidding aside, the contrast in the old one is still better.

Also, note the missing underlines for the Alt hotkeys now. I just think that the underline in the old one is too thick.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/21/ckjv-j21.html

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.

I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.

Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
have implicatio … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net That was one of the inputs into my research 🧐 So that’s already factored in. We bought our new truck (2025 GWM Canon) recently to replace the ‘ol 2nd hand Nissan Navara we bought that just had too many things go wrong with it, and I don’t have time or energy to learn to be a diesel mechanic haha 🤣 – So yes, the SCT-16 has a Tare (unladen weight) of 2150Kg and a maximum legal (ATM) weight of 2,800Kg.

Folks, another unicorn vomited in our sky tonight: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-07-19/

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“As pessoas só estão a dormir na rua porque querem” - João Soares (PS), 2025

#semcomentarios

Dois vencedores portugueses no Wiki Loves Folklore 2025, na categoria dos prémios regionais “Northern & Western Europe”!

Os #Caretos de Lazarim e o Carnaval de #Lazarim, em #Lamego, foram premiados nesta competição, pela qualidade e originalidade de 2 fantásticas imagens. Muitos parabéns aos autores Filipe Salgado e António Alves Tendim!

Vê todas as fotos vencedoras: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2025/Winners

#wikilovesfolklore2025

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 28

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Se só lerem um artigo hoje, que seja este.

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/11/azul/opiniao/armas-mundo-chamas-2139779

#criseclimática

A mate visted me and we went on a few hours long hike. We came across a mythical creature in its natural habitat:

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https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-07-12/

Agora que as ondas de calor já passaram e já consigo ter a casa outra vez a temperaturas aceitáveis, já tenho coragem de pegar nesta #leitura de #verão: #Portugal #2055 (#BD Portuguesa sobre a #criseclimática).

#fridayreads #bookstodon

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Ciência: a Europa precisa de chegar à neutralidade carbónica até 2035

Europa: só estamos disponíveis a propor fazer uma redução de 90% nas emissões e lá para 2040

Direita: vamos deixar a extrema-direita controlar esta agenda

Extrema-direita: hahaha, no way.

Obrigado a todos os envolvidos, this is fine.

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/09/azul/noticia/extremadireita-vai-controlar-aprovacao-nova-meta-climatica-ue-2040-2139651

#criseclimática #EU

We covered quite some ground in the two and a half hours today. The weather was nice, mostly cloudy and just 23°C. That’s also why we decided to take a longer tour. We saw four deer in the wild, three of which I managed to just ban on film, quality could be better, though. My camera produced a hell lot of defocused photos this time. Not sure what’s going on with the autofocus. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-07-10/

When the sun came out, colors were just beautiful:

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Vi um artigo (quase publicitário, mas ainda assim interessante) sobre a nova fábrica de discos de #vinil em #Portugal.

O artigo é interessante, mas o número que me chamou a atenção e merece destaque é mesmo uma nota de rodapé já quase fora do tema…

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/09/local/noticia/porto-volta-fabrica-vinil-faz-discos-mundo-2138417

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Pessoas da comunidade brasileira de #ProgramaçãoCriativa por muitos anos fizeram encontros sob o nome promovido pela Fundação Processing, os chamados #ProcessingCommunityDay, fizemos encontros em várias cidades e então depois de 2020, com a pandemia do COVID-19, fizemos três eventos nacionais muito inspiradores em 2021, 2022 e 2023 (vide https://compoetica.github.io/links/)

Ano passado não conseguimos fazer e este ano pretendemos retomar, só que usando outro nome: #Compoética. Vamos aos poucos divulgar mais sobre o encontro brasileiro de programação criativa em https://compoetica.github.io/CP2025/

Meus agradecimentos profundos ao @guilhermesv@guilhermesv que dedica generosamente um enorme esforço para organizar esses eventos da comunidade e cria o design e peças de comunicação sempre emocionantes de lindos.

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We got some colorful spots in the sky this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-07-08/

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Yesterday’s moon through the window: https://lyse.isobeef.org/mond-2025-07-06/

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“Can you see circles or rectangles [on the experiment’s image]?
And does the answer depend on where you grew up?” — Anil Seth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception #perception

Okay, now this is a very interesting Rust feature:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/07/03/stabilizing-naked-functions/

This (and inline assembly) makes Rust really interesting for very low-level stuff. 🥳

Sem palavras pra descrever esta baixeza de artigo:

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/04/impar/opiniao/banir-smartphones-escolas-impacto-bemestar-2138957?cx=ultimas_1

1. é citado um único estudo baseado em testemunhos de alunos (ficam de fora pais e profs), um estudo qualitativo por isso não generalizável. Mm assim, os autores do artigo copiam as conclusões do estudo, e o Público tb parece estar ok com artigos decalcados

2. os autores do artigo são consultores que dão formação a pais e educadores sobre problemas do digital nas crianças, por isso basear opinião apenas num estudo q os ignora é ainda mais wtf

3. argumento de q crianças têm acesso a dispositivos fora da escola é parvo - tb têm acesso a tabaco e álcool, por isso tb os devemos permitir na escola? come on

4. e é muito conveniente clamar pela regulamentação das redes sociais sem especificar a forma (proibir anúncios? introduzir idades mínimas? não sabemos).

No final é o costume, os pais e profs que se desenmerdem, a responsabilidade é deles e não das empresas que criam mecanismos de viciação, claro

#SmartphonesNasEscolas

Metas Europeias: “Os países da UE têm de poupar, em média, 1,5% por ano. A poupança de energia deve começar com 1,3% por ano até ao final de 2025”

Portugal: “Consumo de eletricidade em Portugal atingiu máximo histórico no primeiro semestre [de 2025]”

Fontes:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/pt/article/20221128STO58002/poupar-energia-acao-da-ue-para-reduzir-o-consumo-energetico

https://expresso.pt/economia/economia_energia/2025-07-01-consumo-de-eletricidade-em-portugal-atingiu-maximo-historico-no-primeiro-semestre-5f9ed595

#criseclimática

** Om nom nom LLMs, in which I respond to Simon Willison’s analogy **
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond.

This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone), Simon Willison shared the following blog post, quoted here in full:

Quitting programming as … ⌘ Read more

#LGM #LibreGraphicsMeeting 2025 - “The State of #Processing: How We’re Bringing a Creative Coding Icon Back to Life”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQwedwFyOY

#Processing4 #CreativeCoding @processing@processing @processingorg@processingorg

Vimconf 2025 Small Tickets ⌘ Read more

Cheers @danzin@danzin, was it you who added a PR to core #Python about pprint?

(listening to #corepy #podcast)

Update: Thank you so much for improving Python @danzin@danzin !

core.py: PyCon US 2025 Recap
Starting from: 01:32:45 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corepy/episodes/PyCon-US-2025-Recap-e347dc3
https://anchor.fm/s/eb6edc3c/podcast/play/104100675/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-13%2Fb281ac3a-b0ec-49b9-b31d-7a90031e910d.mp3#t=5565

“For learning, #genAI is a forklift at the gym.” — @glyph@glyph
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

Heck yeah, I’ve been a firefly taxi again! \o/ One landed on my hiking boot and rode along a few meters. It then took off on its own without me having to help it. I saw easily a thousand glowing individuals tonight, bloody cool. :-)

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Ted Unangst’s snarky (and entertaining) remarks this month:

• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/modern-software-2025-edition
  
• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/killing-X11
  
• https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed

https://wadler.blogspot.com/2025/06/what-is-happening-in-gaza-is-injury-to.html

OH, FUCK ME DEAD! On the way home from today’s walk I saw easily 800 fireflies! Yes, over eight hundred! That was absolutely amazing. First time this year and already this many. Crazy! They were just fricking everywhere in the entire forest. I counted to one hundred and then stopped. The darker it got, the more fireflies came out and glowed around. :-) There were spots where in under ten seconds I counted 20 glowworms. Super sick. Soooo beautiful. <3

Before I left I tried to call a mate to join me, who apparently wasn’t home yet, though, didn’t pick up. But in the very end I surprisingly met her in the forest and we were super happy to encounter all the fireflies. She also said that today was her first time this year to spot them. I’ll definitely check them out in the next days, too.

Apart from all the glowworms, I also came across some goats, two deer (one of which only the ears showing out of the grass), according to the sounds I sadly must have scared up four more, bucketloads of tadpoles, four big and very active anthills next to each other and three bats to finish the stroll off. I call that extremely successful.

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There ya go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-24/

I did a “lecture”/“workshop” about this at work today. 16-bit DOS, real mode. 💾 Pretty cool and the audience (devs and sysadmins) seemed quite interested. 🥳

• People used the Intel docs to figure out the instruction encodings.
  
• Then they wrote a little DOS program that exits with a return code and they used uhex in DOSBox to do that. Yes, we wrote a COM file manually, no Assembler involved. (Many of them had never used DOS before.)
  
• DEBUG from FreeDOS was used to single-step through the program, showing what it does.
  
• This gets tedious rather quickly, so we switched to SVED from SvarDOS for writing the rest of the program in Assembly language. nasm worked great for us.
  
• At the end, we switched to BIOS calls instead of DOS syscalls to demonstrate that the same binary COM file works on another OS. Also a good opportunity to talk about bootloaders a little bit.
  
• (I think they even understood the basics of segmentation in the end.)
  

The 8086 / 16-bit real-mode DOS is a great platform to explain a lot of the fundamentals without having to deal with OS semantics or executable file formats.

Now that was a lot of fun. 🥳 It’s very rare that we do something like this, sadly. I love doing this kind of low-level stuff.

** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately I’ve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries’, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.

I’ve also been working on a handful of personal utility programs. I … ⌘ Read more

** My measurer **
My dad is an electrical engineer and physicist. Measuring things is a core part of his professional life, and something he seems to spend a lot of time doing around the house. This is all to say my dad is relatively expert in the ways of measuring things so I think it’s hilarious that he calls absolutely anything he is using to measure anything else“my measurer.” Measuring tape, oscilloscope, scale, volt meter, bubble level, table spoons, whatever. They’re all“my measurer.” ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Short Fiction — Transgender Athlete Bans https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/22/title-ix-hope.html #fiction #freeculture #lgbtpridemonth #politics

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — First Woman — Dream to Reality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/21/first-woman-1.html #freeculture #bookclub

We really are bouncing back and forth between flat UIs and beveled UIs. I mean, this is what old X11 programs looked like:

https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2025%2D06%2D21%2D%2Dkatriawm%2Dold%2Dxorg%2Dapps.png

Good luck figuring out which of these UI elements are click-able – unless you examine every pixel on the screen.

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/16 to 06/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Gambit part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/19/gambit-part-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

** growing good **

“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

George Eliot, Middlemarch ⌘ Read more

It all started in New York in the early 1980s. Click, now 85, and his friends were sitting at the long bar of the New York Athletic club reading magazine articles about boxing, fencing, judo and wrestling. “One of my mates said, ‘Dude, we don’t do any of those things.’” They had to face it. They were dull. They decided to embrace their dullness.

As a joke, they started The Dull Men’s Club, which involved some very silly, dull activities. They chartered a tour bus but didn’t go anywhere. “We toured the bus. We walked around the outside of the bus a few times. And the driver explained the tyre pressures and turned on the windscreen wipers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/09/meet-the-members-of-the-dull-mens-club-some-of-them-would-bore-the-ears-off-you

On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of the African Child https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/16/african-child.html #programming #project #devjournal

As feiras medievais são “reconstruções históricas” do que nunca existiu - e ainda assim espalham-se pelo país como momentos de convívio e folia. Em Lamego tem a particular característica de ser promovida como contendo uma recriação histórica das #cortes de Lamego*, ainda que estas nunca tenham existido.

Mas para mim a feira #medieval de #Lamego é aquela altura do ano em que vou até à praça e bebo #hidromel. E quem diz que essa não é uma boa tradição a manter e celebrar? ;-)

• https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes_de_Lamego

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On my blog: Go Nowhere Fast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/15/go-nowhere-fast.html #harm #rant #politics #harm

Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on… No bug…

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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Tag Team https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/14/tag-team.html #freeculture #bookclub

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/09 to 06/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/13/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

E por falar de figuras a quem o Observador dá voz…

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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Interface https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/12/interface.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Curiosos, como eu, sobre “e então quais foram as causas do apagão”?

Pelo vistos temos de esperar (muito mais) para saber:
“O apagão de 28 de abril será investigado estando o relatório final previsto para 2026”

Fonte: https://observador.pt/2025/05/27/apagao-causas-de-um-evento-excecional-continuam-em-aberto-um-mes-depois/

#CoopAzine N.º 4 (Maio 2025)

Já podem ler, online, o #Fanzine da #CoopA.

aqui: https://online.fliphtml5.com/tmpeo/swpa/

tux is helping me through this very anxious day <3

Once again, I went on a hike onto my backyard mountain after calling it quits very late. This time I brought my cam along. The view was extremely hazy, but the setting sunlight resulted in cool colors. The freshly cut grass smelled wonderful.

I saw a flock of pidgeons circling around and some sort of rat or mouse quickly running over the road in front of me from one field into the next one with a giant nut in its mouth. Or so I at least believe, couldn’t really tell, it happened so fast.

A couple enjoyed the setting sun on a bench and stripped their shoes on this warm evening. Somebody forget their bottle of water on the summit, but it looked rather cool in the evening light:

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Not sure what they’re doing, but they now set up scaffolding at the ruin. I heavily doubt it, but it would be cool if they rebuilt the castle. :-)

On the way back I met up with a mate who couldn’t come along right from the beginning. We saw two deer on the meadow, but it was already too dark for my camera, the photos were totally rubbish. The sunset turned really pretty and colorful just in time when I reached home. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-10/

@bender@twtxt.net Can’t you see this twt ??

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