I've cleared out a storage unit and am going through old papers, etc. Happily, I found an extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self. The scan is here: levien.com/dijkstra-letter.pdf
This is in response to my somewhat juvenile ideas of explicit continuation passing style and lambda lifting with a sprinkle of communicating sequential processes thrown in. That paper, for reference, is dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/709…
I'm still amazed at how generous Dijkstra was with his time.
Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.
It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.
This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony
theintercept.com/2022/12/20/el…
To you, it looks like Musk unblocked journalists like me. It’s an illusion: The truth is that we are still locked out of our accounts.Micah Lee (The Intercept)
Formula One drivers will need prior written permission from the sport’s governing body to make ‘political statements’ from next season following an update of the International Sporting CodeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
This is a pedestal-worthy example of the Rhetoric of Reaction.
It’s Jeopardy: the idea that doing something will endanger other goals.
#rhetoric #reactionary #conservatives
The #NYTimes is making a rightwing argument— making a prototypical rightwing argument. Do you think the editors know that?
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Here’s more on the Rhetoric of Reaction.
(Thanks to @drvolts
for turning me on to it and Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Once I learned about it, I now see it regularly.)
Tell your children that a Firefox bug older than them has just been fixed.
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RESOLVED (jfkthame) in Core - Layout: Floats. Last updated 2022-12-20.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Orquesta Sinfónica de Mujeres del Nuevo MilenioDirectora Artística, Gina EnríquezSala Silvestre Revueltas, Centro Cultural Ollin YoliztliCiudad de México8 de...YouTube
In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)
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Mozilla are going to be experimenting a new Mastodon instance @ mozilla.social - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…
Quite excited to see what comes from this
In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)
Welcome to #ZeroCon22 - The Zero Project Conference 2022 on Accessibility!Five high-tech start-ups pitch to experienced investors, who question their potenti...YouTube
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[:es]El modelo PASBLUE es una óptica LED de 200x200 mm que integra, junto a un peatón verde, un sistema acústico de ayuda a invidentes. Esta solución se puede instalar en cualquier modelo de semáforo al ir integrada en la misma óptica.TACSE
Song by TQ-Jam. One pulse channel, nothing else. Entry 43 in the FamiCompo Pico 4 Originals. Placed 7th place.Visualized with Corrscope.YouTube
I'm bored, so have a random recording of the very old fire alarms at my school. I got two recordings, one from in the classroom and one as I was walking outside. The attached one is the latter, because it's much more interesting. You get to hear some quite interesting things they do, as well as me running into a table like an idiot.
Its a tad choppy in places, I think probably because I was on a really bad connection and it was trying to stream it to iCloud, but it still sounds pretty good I think.
Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
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An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl…NBC New York
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Development guides for librsvg and at-spi2-core - viruta.org/development-guides.…
Guías de desarrollo para librsvg y at-spi2-core - viruta.org/development-guides-…
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@hpj Yeah, I'm finding it extremely useful!
I also get a kick out of seeing it auto-published from the CI. Still have scars from doing rsync in janky scripts, I guess.
This is my favourite photo I have taken. It is the Kalbarri National Park in Western Australia.
#australia $westernaustralia #landscapes #landscapephotography #art
I've been using this generic live captioning app with both google meet and zoom and it's been pretty great so far!
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Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy GIMP, GNU Octave, Spotify, Steam and many more!flathub.org
wow. facial recognition stopped a mom from going to see the Rockettes at MSG — because she works for a firm with a client suing the arena.
nbcnewyork.com/investigations/…
Kelly Conlon took her daughter to see the Rockettes in the Christmas Spectacular in NYC, but was not allowed in after facial recognition identified her because…Sarah Wallace (NBC New York)
Exhibit 1: youtube.com/watch?v=kCX6H90RvP…
Exhibit 2: lowes.com/pd/Boost-Oxygen/5005…
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A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.Common nesting issues in HTML - HTMHell
A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
More: apnews.com/article/prisons-dce…
#Stutthof #history #Nazis #Germany #SS #justice #woman #trial
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.Geir Moulson (Associated Press)
Google introduces client-side encryption for Gmail - but only for key account customers.
Yet, you'll be happy to know that encryption is available to everyone in Tutanota, not just a chosen few. 😀
#fight4privacy #PrivacyMatters #privacy
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Gmail's end-to-end encryption project seemed dead in 2017. Now it's back, but only for key account customers.Tutanota
Gmailのエンドツーエンド暗号化プロジェクトは、2017年に死んだかに見えた。今は復活していますが、主要アカウントのお客様のみです。Tutanota
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Tweet from Miroslav Bobek
„Prosím vás, ať se to dozví co nejvíc lidí: 24., 25. a 26. prosince mají děti do 15 let vstup do @zoo_praha za 1 korunu. Takže vezměte i ratolesti známých nebo třeba sousedů a přijďte!
A díky za retweet :-)“
Mastodon, a decentralized Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 monthly active users to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO Eugen Rochko said in a blog post.Jay Peters (The Verge)
In which I explain my unconventional mic technique for my piano.
#InspiredBySound - What a Great Knight youtu.be/1gSZgk99Ee4
Knight K10 Upright Piano, that is.I've had this piano since 2015 and the longer I have it, the more I love how warm it sounds.Not long having been tuned, it'...YouTube
Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.Eric Eggert
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