Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 43

I think I’ve just accidentally invented cyber camp fire

A novice of the temple once approached the Master Programmer with a question: “Master, does #Emacs have the Buddha nature?” the novice asked.

The Master Programmer had been in the temple for many years and could be relied upon to know these things. He thought for several minutes before replying: “I don’t see why not. It’s bloody well got everything else.”

cat: hello sir I would like the snugs

me: ok

cat: oh wait I meant biting. RAHHHH

Great blog post on Slack's "bait and switch".

https://opkode.com/blog/slacks-bait-and-switch/

"The reason email is federated, is because it was developed before surveillance capitalism was a thing and because it was established and entrenched long before these companies came around.

There's a reason why your email address is still the de facto way to sign up for any service on the web (sometimes with one or two degrees of separation), and it's because of federation."

Weekend hack: Creating a retrofuture internet terminal by replacing the Motorola MDT-9100's i386SX with a BeagleBone Black and Teensy: https://trmm.net/MDT9100

Fuck DST

It's remarkable to me that after years of research into graph-databases and specialized data structures (to model social relationships), Mastodon has succeeded with, uhh, Rails on top of Postgres. I love it.

OH WAIT, one last piece of Sunday reading!

"After 22 years, a synagogue study group finishes reading the Torah from beginning to end": https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/02/01/after-22-years-a-synagogue-study-group-finishes-reading-the-torah-from-beginning-to-end/

"'We moved slowly,' Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt admitted."

@Kensan lookin' for a good time? Come on down to yomimono's House of Cats* and Sewable Electronics! We got FLORA, GEMMA, Lilypad, and all the LEDs you can eat. Hold a genuine RISC-V processor! Cross-stitch your very own souveneir!

*one cat. cat interaction not guaranteed.

In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a dancing QUEEN! Not dark but young and sweet as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Only seventeen! All shall feel the beat from the tambourine and despair!