Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe), page 2

Cory Doctorow: Fake News Is an Oracle – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2019/07/cory-doctorow-fake-news-is-an-oracle/

Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com//2019/07/01/Absence-of-features-in-IRC.html

GitHub - google/schism: A self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler https://github.com/google/schism

Bad idea of the day: plantasia but for rocks

Bad idea of the day: prototype the future but in AGPL code so startups can't steal it. Then, everybody else gets to use it for free.

Noah Webster’s civil war of words over American English | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/noah-websters-civil-war-of-words-over-american-english

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites

Republicans and Democrats Don't Understand Each Other - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/republicans-and-democrats-dont-understand-each-other/592324/

Introduction to Petname Systems http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html

Bad idea of the day: "The Postman Rings Twice", a story about posthumans with bells in their body

Tech Critical Canon | L.M. Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/tag/tech-critical-canon/

Ten Reasons Why I Don't Like Golang https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/why-i-dont-like-go.html

@enkiv2 @vertigo
Also, some of your difficulties probably come down to trying to do hard things & trying to do them right. It's often substantially easier to make short term progress doing the wrong thing. Past success greases the wheels & insulates folks temporarily from the negative side effects of their own bad decisions, which the rest of us deal with.

Band name of the day: comfort noise

Unless your application is specifically intended for users with specialized high-performance hardware, if it doesn't run reliably on a mid-range laptop from 2008, it's broken.

Hot take: every product or service Google cancels, they should open source. If Google doesn't want to run it, they shouldn't keep anybody else from running it instead.

Bad idea of the day: a professional wrestler whose persona is a thinly veiled version of Slajov Zizek

Buster Keaton: Anarchitect | Lapsus Lima http://www.lapsuslima.com/buster-keaton-anarchitect/

@ultimape @enkiv2
Right. I think it's because the commercialization of access is what generally lowers the bar for access: folks who join before the commercialization are insiders who have passed the shibboleth (which may even just be obscurity), while anybody who can be described as MOP is by definition part of the deluge & is blissfully unaware of the function of whatever gates they hopped.

modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long