Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Mother of all Demos" as applied to Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo? Wikipedia doesn't say; it only mentions that the name was retroactive. I'm guessing the origin is Steven Levy's 1994 book _Insanely Great_. Rationale: Other authors write things like "known as" or "so-called" when mentioning that phrase, but Levy simply said "It was the mother of all demos." (I don't know about capitalization as I pulled that quote from the audiobook.)
@esoteric_programmer Almost certainly not, because the phrase "mother of all X" in English apparently only came into common usage in 1991 with the Gulf War.
The Rust Foundation is hiring a Rust Infrastructure Engineer!
Help scale & secure the systems that power Rust & support its global community.
If youโre passionate about open source & infrastructure, weโd love to hear from you. Learn more and apply here by Oct 26: app.beapplied.com/apply/wus8snโฆ
The Rust Foundation was formed in 2021 as an independent, non-profit organization to serve as a steward of the Rust programming language and its users, maintainers, and enterprise advocates.
Travelling my air is already terrible. But they make it even worst to get to the airport. There are very few options to get to the airport beside cars.
Couldn't they have waited for the REM to be in service?
Montreal-Trudeau Airport is set to permanently close its multi-level parking lot on Oct. 15 as part of its development plan to modernize the airportโs infrastructure.
: undear mr. Netanyahu, *YOU* are the biggest terrorist.
The armed wing of Hamas are freedom fighters. Nobody but *YOU* turned them into temporary monsters on Oct. 7, 2023 - because *YOU * turned Gaza into a concentration camp decades before 2023.
YOU DON'T CARE SHIT ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE.
You WANTED the Oct 7, 2023, attack attack to happen, as an excuse to colonize greater Israel. Palestinians have the D-choice: Die or Disappear.
๐จ HOWEVER: You and your people have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER on Palestinian soil.
Palestinians MAY even have been prepared to live together with you in Palestine, but YOU NEVER HAD ENOUGH. YOU kept stealing land and murderering Palestinians.
If you EVER had ANY right: YOU, and your fscking pathetic "democratic" voters, caused zero of it to remain.
ISRAELI's: GET LOST!
Maybe Musk can help you colonize Mars. Most Israeli's are inhumane (the rest can stay). Earth will be a better place when you, the *REAL* terrorists, are gone.
And when (not if) you go, please take Donald J. Trump with you.
Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that we'll shortly take the NV Access website and other infrastructure (certification, add-on store, update checking etc) offline for planned maintenance. Hopefully it should not take long and I'll post again when we're back. Do behave while we're in the dark :)
Now's our chance to see what y'all are hiding in that back closet. You know, the one with the multiple locks. We can have that picked before you return. LOL. Good luck with the maintenance. Thank you for all you folks do.
curl maintainers meet-up to discuss HTTP3, GnuTLS, wcurl and other things.Presenter:Samuel Henrique "samueloph" is a software developer focused on Debian, Li...
I can't watch it because I have class, but I've already decided who to vote for. You should watch it so that you can decide to vote for Transition Montreal as well.
Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Whatโs New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications.
Any of you among the "undisclosed recipients" of this double #XSS attempt just landed in my inbox (thanks @thunderbird for being impervious to these sheenigans)?
Ghostty 1.2.1 released, focused on fixing bugs introduced by the 1.2.0 release. This also contains more macOS 26 compatibility changes. ghostty.org/docs/install/releaโฆ
@15b77589 is there a proper way to format a note from NOSTR to ensure that it shows up the way it is expected to in a friendica forum (like with proper title and stuff)?
Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote.
+ Easy Control Next: control other android devices from an android device (scrcpy) ๐ก๏ธ + Bluesky Redirect: automatically launch Bluesky links in your preferred Bluesky client ๐ก๏ธ
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
- 1-2-Authenticate: last release 2018, just a limited demo (OTP) - TaskLabAct: last updated 2021, very few installs (ToDo) - AndroidBible: GMS, Firebase, Crashlytics โ and no efforts to address this for over a year
Your gardener takes a little break now, more later. Check our sereviceToots if you can help, some requests for feedback are still open ๐ค
AI studio suggested โplot sin(x) from 0 to 2piโ to this guy, who did it, and the graph that came out is incredible framapiaf.org/@nitot/115327611โฆ
Attachรฉโฏ: 2 images
Sรฉrieux, avec l'IA gรฉnรฉrative, on marche sur la tรชte ! J'essaye Google AI studio, et il me suggรจre de faire le prompt suivant, pour tester :
"Plot sin(x) from 0 to 2*pi. Generate the resulting graph image." Du coup j'essaye.
Fin a mรกs de seis meses de huelga en Enviser: subida salarial de 5.000 euros y 108 horas menos
Los jardineros de Gasteiz han ratificado este martes el preacuerdo alcanzado entre el comitรฉ y los responsables de Enviser, poniendo fin a mรกs de seis meses de huelga. Han logrado un convenio propio, con una subida salarial lineal de 5.000 euros en tres aรฑos y una reducciรณn de 108 horas de jornada.
the esoteric programmer
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Matt Campbell
in reply to the esoteric programmer • • •