Once upon a time -- many, many years ago and late one night -- I entered the ARPANET (the Internet's ancestor) computer room at UCLA to do some work on ARPANET host #1 -- the DEC PDP-11/45 that was UNIX UCLA-ATS.

But something was wrong. The system was behaving very oddly. It was up, and not under heavy load, but ... it was as if it kept starting and stopping. When I'd type there'd be activity -- I could see it on the front panel lights, but when I stopped typing ... everything seemed to stop. I could get keyboard echos, and then a response ... but then everything would stop again.

Normal boot wasn't working either, but it was possible to reboot from the emergency DECtape.

But still clearly failing overall.

When we ultimately found out what the problem was, I was quite amused. The real-time clock hardware had failed, so the process scheduler was not cycling properly. However, whenever someone typed, the keyboard interrupt would push the scheduler so there'd be some action -- but then it would stop again until there was more typing and more interrupts.

Basically, the system was operating as if on a hand crank. Live long enough, and you see almost everything. -L

CC: @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

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It's called azorius. It lets people post links to groups and comment on them. It lets you follow groups you're interested. Does it need explaining? It federates via activitypub.

The primary federation compat target is lemmy, which almost works. You can follow both ways. The representation of posts and groups should be similar. azorius can receive posts from lemmy, but lemmy currently rejects announce activities from azorius because the data did not match any variant of untagged enum SharedInboxActivities. Rustaceans are welcome to start here and embark on a journey of awe and splendor.

Compat with AP microblogging is pretty low priority. I've already got one of those.

There's a test instance at az1.azorius.net. You can't post anything until your account is approved, to control how much mess I need to clean up, but should be able to follow and subscribe if you'd just like a reader. If I know you, probably approved, but don't run to tell all your friends. Again: early access, low expectations.

The azorius source can be checked out and built on sufficiently powerful computers. It's only like 50%, or even 25%, done, but the work that's left should generally slot in to what's there. The major technology choices like javascript framework and build system have been decided.

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

just arrived in san francisco and learning about "coning" or "unicorning" - the practice of "placing traffic cones on self-driving cars" 😂🦄🚗🚫

more at
@SafeStreetRebel https://www.safestreetrebel.com/

#coning #unicorning #safestreetrebel #autonomouscars #selfdrivingcars #selfdriving #ai #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #sanfrancisco #sfba #sf #bayarea #california #til

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photograph of a cone placed on top of a self-driving car posted by @SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social

Una hipoteca inversa es cuando vendes una propiedad y te dejan seguir viviendo en ella mientras vivas, pero cuando te mueres, el bien pasa a los nuevos propietarios (generalmente una empresa, una aseguradora o un fondo buitre).

Esto es como decir: «si me votas, la casa de tus viejos se venderá para pagar su jubilación y tú te quedarás sin ella». Y eso como propaganda electoral 😆

Aunque, no sé, Feijoo me parece más perdido que Wally, así que igual lo piensa de verdad.

Esto es de memoria de hace unos años, igual ya no existe.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrimiento_al_rojo

Una 🍺 para usted.

CC: @diegor@social.gl-como.it

I think it's my duty to pay for what I love.

Fui perdiendo ese superpoder con el tiempo.

Ahora que soy viejo y tengo acúfenos (o tinnitus) todo el rato, es como si tuviera una pantalla de tubo encendida todo el rato al lado de mi cabeza. De vez en cuando, la busco para apagarla.

#ActivityPub does not provide #RSS feeds; some implementations, like #Mastodon, #snac or #Pleroma provides RSS feeds of an actor's timeline, but as an added value, not as part of the protocol. You can be fully ActivityPub compatible without generating RSS.

https://dotat.at/@/2023-06-23-random-double.html

aaaaaaaand another big tech person does an article about The Pact lol

and it's actually good, wow

https://ianbetteridge.com/2023/06/21/meta-and-mastodon-whats-really-on-peoples-minds/

#FediPact

What kind of history do you write for your world?

#WorldBuilding #Pride #PrideMonth #ttrpg #AmWriting #dnd #writing

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beggars-opera: Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997 do-you-have-a-flag: I fully know what you mean! but! I did also think "Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray 133 years ago as of 2 months from now, and people still act like being gay was invented by the Rocky Horror Show in 1973" and now I cannot stop laughing making more gay history comparisons beggars-opera: But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham,' containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/ Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890 elim-flower: Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago insufficientdata: Gilgamesh and Enkidu "loved each other like man and wife" in 2700 BC and ppl STILL act like being gay was invented by Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep in the 25th century BC

I know there are people reading this who work for major companies still advertising on Twitter (Apple, Google, and Amazon at least), so: two days before the SF Trans March, Elon is making it even more explicit that Twitter is a transphobic platform. You have the ability to influence the behaviour of your employers. Maybe do that?

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Screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk reading: "Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform."

según una inteligencia artificial que recoge datos de varias fuentes

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@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

Backport OpenBSD 7.3 pkg_add enhancement

In this blog post, you will learn how to backport a huge speedup to pkg_add for OpenBSD 7.3

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-30-openbsd-backport-pkg_add.html

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/openbsd-backport-pkg_add.gmi
#openbsd

@solene

Me acompañará mi compinche Fernando Cámara, que ha estado a mi lado en tantas cosas.

¡Os espero!

El PP ha perdido 44623 votantes.
Vox ha perdido 88188 votantes.
El PSOE ha ganado 2904 votantes.
Más Madrid ha perdido 4044 votantes.

Los números son los oficiales, sacados de la web del diario El Mundo.

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Un juego de texto tipo «elige tu propia aventura», pero implementado mediante encuestas #ActivityPub privadas.

Introducing a new object type means a new UI means a new interpretation. Necessary? Not at all. But practically, pushing people to add a new code path sometimes requires a new case for their switch statement.

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

#cprogramming #programming

https://twitter.com/europapress/status/1660863126005334020

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Perro grande: Cómo se ven a sí mismos los empresarios: "Los empresarios creamos riqueza y prosperidad para todo el mundo con nuestras manos desnudas" Perro chico: Cómo son en realidad: "Ay no encuentro gente k trabaje 16h al día por 350 euros"

What development environment is it, if you can disclose?

CC: @bagder@mastodon.social

Ok, to install [and build] git-tiny, you need Ruby, tcl, Python, ipython, cython, Lua, Perl, mercurial. gcc (despite clang being part of the system), redis, subversion, and w3m.

A total of 604 ports.

This is f'ing insane for a "tiny" port. (yes, a majority of it is build tools that aren't needed at runtime, but still it shows how bloating modern software packages are.

https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.1.html - User Manual
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html - Message Formatting and File Format Documentation
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html - Administrator Manual

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

@mjgardner @icing actually, being liberal in accepting things is not a good idea either. If it violates the protocol, eject, close, kill, abort. At once. That leads to better code and protocols in the longer run.

https://www.eldiario.es/madrid/80-000-arboles-murieron-filomena_1_7184580.html

No sé si el artículo que enlazas menciona este hecho, no lo he leído.

En parques que conozco bien, como la Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, fue una catástrofe.

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no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

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Al menos puedes "silenciar" el grupo para que no te interrumpa con notificaciones y solo mirarlo de cuando en cuando.

https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/

Pero dado que Markdown no es una especificación clara ni única (hay un montón de variantes), preferiría que Firefox no se hiciera aún más gordo con otro intérprete + validador + conversor a html.

new twitter encrypted messenger sounds real secure

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Are cw links clickable? (Should be.)

Estaba jugando él solo: subía su pelota a lo alto de la pendiente, esperaba a que cogiera velocidad y cuando casi se le escapaba corría a por ella, la cazaba y la volvía a subir hasta lo alto. No fue casual: lo hizo varias veces. Lo hacía adrede.

He tenido perro y sé lo listos que son pero no dejan de sorprenderme.

"Replace capitalism with a good nap"
Stencil seen in Marseille, France

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Red and blue stencil on a wall that says "Replace capitalism with a good nap" in French

The thing is, if you suppress comments like that, then you may think that people like that aren't out there, and that they won't use these systems in that way.

Please, Jon, forget about the goats, we need you.

@LWN@fosstodon.org @delroth@delroth.net

"El capitalismo es una máquina creada para impedir que los mercados se vean afectados por la democracia".

Micro-rant: if you are writing software that asks for a password, please tell me which password you mean. My Mac password? My 1Password password? OneLogin? ssh key?

CC: @nick@norden.social

Cuando yo era joven se llamaba "hacer puente" cuando caía un laboral/lectivo entre fiestas (como una especie de metáfora cutre de las patas y los ojos de un puente).

"Authenticator apps are convenient, but some of us still use real computers and often want to access sites that way. Your editor, unlike his offspring, does not have a phone surgically implanted, so logging into a site can lead to a scramble to figure out where the damn phone is so that the code can be produced. [...]"

https://lwn.net/Articles/925870/

https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/

Además, me ha parecido que estás mencionando a Apple y a Google como ejemplos de empresas que no espían a sus clientes y seguro que lo he entendido mal.

3D model viewer in ASCII for the terminal

https://github.com/autopawn/3d-ascii-viewer-c

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/autopawn/3d-ascii-viewer-c

#cprogramming #programming

In the #ActivityPub protocol, it's called 'Announce'.

In the #Mastodon web interface (and here in #snac too), it's called 'boost'.

In the Mastodon API, it's called 'reblog'.

Mastodon users say, informally, 'retoot'.

In the #Pleroma web interface (AFAIK), it's called 'repeat'.

In #honk it's called 'bonk' (because, why not).

Outside there, in other crappy social networks, Facebook names the action 'share' (IIRC), Twitter users names it 'retweet'. I don't know about others, but they probably use a different verb.

Todos esos sitios tienen ya una página web: es ahí donde tienen que publicar lo que tengan que decir.

Y si el ayuntamiento es tan pequeño que no tiene una página web, siempre tendrán un tablero de corcho donde clavar el mensaje con una chincheta.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green @maxxcan@mastodon.social

Plano de la Villa de Madrid (1623) https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-urbanos/plano-de-la-villa-de-madrid-1623/

This is (also by design) different to what Mastodon does, so it may seem confusing until you get used to it.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

Y sí, yo también odio a Facebook y a todo lo que trae consigo.