Notices by Orbifx 🌙 nature's emissary (orbifx@mstdn.io)

The #newsserver main #newsgroups are now relayed to #MailingList(s) for those who prefer #email to #NNTP. 🎉

Main lists are: #computer #nature #science #politics & #solarpunk

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/listinfo

#Google #Microsoft and #Yahoo addresses will not be allowed, sorry. Consider getting an address with a less snoopy provider.

Every day I pick #plastic #waste people have discarded along my #footpaths.

It pisses me off that companies are allowed to package or sell these. Young kids don't appreciate the impact yet. And then there are "grown-ups" that never grew up to the world's problems.

Please don't condone these companies, don't buy confectioneries in #SingleUse plastics.

@fitheach
As far as I'm concerned:
https://notes.orbitalfox.eu/from-mastodon-to-news-groups.html

Happy #Winter #Solstice everyone! I wish you all brighter days.

The #UK landfills 12 million tones of #waste and then exports another 19 million tones of waste to #EU to bury. In fact, it's the biggest exporter of waste by far in the whole EU.

Insatiable #consumerism?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Waste_shipment_statistics

#environment

This is how #hot it is in #Portugal.

from: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/947xmy/this_is_how_hot_it_is_in_portugal/

#heat

May the #theforce be with you! 🙇

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou
#MayTheFourth

My #gopher hole:
gopher://orbitalfox.eu

I might need to restart it as I experiment.

#OCaml now has a foundation! "Supporting the OCaml programming language and its ecosystem"

http://ocaml-sf.org/

Announcement on #mailinglist along with upcoming new version: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2018-04/msg00040.html

@amiloradovsky #Ocaml is getting #Algebraic #Effects.

- http://ocamllabs.io/doc/effects.html

- https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial

World’s last male northern white #rhino dies.

"The #poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, fuelled by demand for rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Asia and dagger handles in Yemen, wiped out the northern white rhino populations in Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad."

https://www.fauna-flora.org/news/worlds-last-male-northern-white-rhino-dies

#extinction #conservation #nature #environment #animals

The year is 2017 AD. The whole web is occupied by centralized services. Well… Not entirely. One small village of indomitable free software lovers still holds out against the invaders…

https://www.konradlischka.info/2017/02/blog/how-a-french-association-with-6-employees-offers-mainstream-users-free-and-libre-alternatives-to-facebook-groups-slack-skype-and-the-like/

https://mstdn.io/media/SiijUNqnO-G2KlpCMO8

Rutger Hauer on the set of #Bladerunner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/7gq535/rutger_hauer_on_the_set_of_bladerunner/ https://mstdn.io/media/J_KzbGcrF1pO7XutVAA

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
#quote #quotes

@clacke @lnxw48a1 I'm using #OCaml for #robotics and #controlsystems. I think it's very underestimated, because of shallow evaluations based on where it's currently used.