switching.social
Just to make clear, election advertising has always been misleading, but it's never before misled people in totally different ways simultaneously.
Posters, newspaper ads, TV spots etc are the same for everyone who sees them, and everyone has a common frame of reference about the candidate.
With online ads personalised down to the individual level, everyone sees something different, but they don't know this is happening. This makes it much easier to deceive voters, and to distort elections.
HN Tooter
The Markup
https://themarkup.org/about.html
(submitted by petethomas)
elomatreb :blobpats:
Tek dba Tek
Motherfuck the GasBuddy privacy policy at https://www.gasbuddy.com/Privacy:
If you access the Service through a mobile device [...] we will also automatically collect information about your driving habits, including, but not limited to, driving distance, speed, acceleration and braking habits (collectively, “Driving Data”). Such collection occurs even if you are not logged in to the Service. [...] GasBuddy may share your Driving Data as described [...].
Vertigo
@akkartik @kragen @haitch @freakazoid Honestly, my advice here is to read two books: "Programming a Problem Oriented Language" teaches you how to write your own Forth compiler from scratch (bare metal on up). There are no assembly listings in the book, because it's pure guidance, but it was instrumental in me getting DX-Forth working at all.
Eugen
Wrote this page! API permissions:
ValO'ween🧹
Remember when we used computers so long we had to change out the BIOS coin battery?
dust
new, completely 🔆solar-powered🔆 website for Low-Tech Magazine!!
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
"How to Build a Low-tech Website?"
"Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/
Hackage
haskell-dap 0.0.8.0 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-dap-0.0.8.0
☆ Dmitri ☭
Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Revolutionary_Violence#Publishing_history
Greg Hendershott
racket-mode is now stricter about the TCP connections its command and logger servers accept: Only from localhost, and, supplying the same token used to launch the server process. https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/issues/327#issuecomment-417826049
Thanks @cwebber
Christine Lemmer-Webber
hello this is your computer speaking, this is a simulation and the reason for quantum uncertainty is because the engineers wrote an optimization where certain levels of detail are only calculated lazily through probabilistic approximations if and when necessary to compute
maiki
I guess folks should find other #Mastodon users that sign up at the same time so you can experience the emotional roller coaster together.
Otherwise you might be elated by how it feel like "old Twitter" while your friends realize "humans suck everywhere". And you definitely want to relapse together!
Remember, fair or ill, we're in this together, you beautiful, sucky humans!
Caleb James DeLisle
Playing card trivia:
Did you know that the 4 suits of cards come from the 4 forms of power ?
* Diamonds -> Merchant (capitalist) class
* Hearts -> The clergy, controlling the hearts of the people
* Spades -> Spade = sword, the power of overt politics, military & the king
* Clubs -> The power of the people, with primitive weapons (clubs) still able to project influence
The Ace was added in France to commemorate the revolutionary who overthrew the king...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/dec/04/books-advent-calendar-4-four-card-suits
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
"Galaksija" or Galaxy in Serbian, was a DIY computer from Yugoslavia, invented by Voja Antonić in 1983
It ran on a Zilog Z80 at 3Mhz and had 6K RAM and 8K ROM max. You built the whole thing, including the keyboard
Here's the complete listing from the Računari magazine (January, 1984) with the complete build instructions including the keyboard wiring (language is Serbian, I think)
http://www.voja.rs/galaksija/0102.htm
And the ROM-a B instruction set http://www.voja.rs/galaksija/ROM%20B%20Listing%20Scans/ROM_B_listing.htm
switching.social
Friendica, the federated open source alternative to Facebook, has just released its 2018.09 update:
https://friendi.ca/2018/09/23/friendica-2018-09-released/
The 2018.12 update (due by the end of the year) will apparently include #ActivityPub support :blobcheer: :blobaww: :blobgrin:
You can try Friendica out right now on instances such as https://squeet.me, https://libranet.de, https://nerdica.net and others:
https://dir.friendica.social/servers
You can also follow the Friendica blog at @news
Arjen P. de Vries
@alcinnz @phryk @aral I don't think convincing a majority of websites to adopt a new standard is easier than coding a new browser!
(the common crawl contains 1.6B sites if I remember correctly...)
neil 🍄
@strypey @cwebber @bhaugen @KevinMarks I'd say it's definitely grasped, but not yet solved. e.g. https://indieweb.org/generations .
neil 🍄
@strypey @bhaugen @KevinMarks @cwebber
IMO:
a) indieweb actively does *not* want to be by developers, for developers
b) it currently mostly is
c) this is recognised, and there are initiatives for it not to be, https://micro.blog fitting into that category.
Ivan Enderlin
What nobody tells you about documentation, https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/.
According to the author, there are 4 kind of documentations: Tutorials, How-to Guides, Explanation, Reference. Each one serving a specific purpose.
Interesting read.
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