Notices by soybean (popefucker@cybre.space)

When someone says "wow you're like, super smart" what I hear is "wow you did a bad job explaining that thing and I now think it is accessible only to 'super smart' people"

how math is presented: "this knowledge came fully formed out of someone's head at the same pace that you are reading it"

how math is done: "this person became obsessed with a problem, worked on it for anywhere between a week and their entire lifetime, and finally produced a very messy version of this knowledge which was later refined and expanded by other mathematicians"

I am not a clever man

https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

it's kind of sad how computing has moved towards monocultures. Even just 10 or 20 years ago, there was way more variety on operating systems, internet browsers, that kind of thing. That variety was good, it meant there were more ideas flowing around and more opportunities to develop new and interesting operating system designs. Now you basically have to choose Windows, Mac, or GNU Linux, or if you're really brave *BSD. Anything else and you will not be able to use your computer for everyday tasks

do u ever find yourself sitting in a library, and you see a fuck ton of books, and u think "damn it would be nice if I had no responsibilities or goals and I could just read books all day"

computer scientists in the 60s: "cool, we can do math with computers! And we have these amazing beautiful programming languages that can perform effortless recursion! I wonder what new vistas of thought this will open up!"

techbros in the 2010s: "we paid a bunch of Turkish people to generate 150 gigabytes of training data and shoved it into tensorflow. We'll put it on top of a JS app running in a virtual electron environment on the cloud. It's like uber but for marmosets."

Strewth

@jk would be much more effective than clocks

@em one always tells the truth, one always lies, and one will sometimes tell the truth and sometimes lie.

from the front page of r/C@ to you eyeballs

shout out to youtube-dl for having the best man page I've ever seen

@cypnk however, one thing:

radicals *need* to learn to use free software, and to thwart the surveillance dragnet. That's not a question of morality like most free software stuff is, it's a question of necessity, and too much organizing is still over corporate channels well-monitored by three-letter-agencies.

@lain but THERE AIN'T NO CURE FOR THE SUMMERTIME BLUES

https://cybre.space/media/_OVUO09MYgf8o4Ge9s0

when a page requires javascript to display *anything* it makes me ree a mighty ree.