Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 13

Today I learnt that GNU readline supports editor macros! If you often find yourself typing something, you can create a shortcut.

https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html

20 ans plus tard, la définition du néolibéralisme par Pierre Bourdieu reste d'une pertinence inégalée.
Vous pouvez même l'apprendre par cœur.
https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1998/03/BOURDIEU/3609

@npisanti

Sure, but most if not all of our primary computing devices have some degree of closed source component. That's a dimension to be minimized, but if it's a deal breaker you can't even buy Olimex.

The net positive of having cheap, youth focused single board computers is big IMO, and if we start uniquely penalizing them when most of our hardware is full of things in the same condition, that's not very good for the community.

I already see folks in your mentions saying that having a closed source component currently owned by a big tech company that Slashdot hates is a deal breaker, and that's probably a bad meme.

there were some things i ddn't knew about raspberry pis:

"Linux runs on that ARM CPU, we know that, but we might be surprised to learn that Linux on this device is only a second class citizen. The GPU cores run a real time operating system called ThreadX. This operating system is closed source and rules the system without the open source Linux Kernel being aware of it."

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

and guess who bought the ThreadX operating system last april?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

I have enough oregano, but I let the plant spread anyway because the bees love it so much.

#bees #oregano #flower #gardening

I've talked before about how telling kids about queerness of whatever flavor is not at all a big deal. That to some adults, these things feel mind blowing and like they're upsetting something about the world they thought was a constant. But for kids, it's just yet another thing they didn't know about. Which is a vast majority of things, for kids. So it's not a big deal to discover one more.

Knowing this, my friend told me this great story: