This Simple Philosophical Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-this-simple-philosophical-puzzle-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-know-something

Character and Exposition are Plot: Why most pop critical terms aren’t useful to writers - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/plot-is-character.html

Profile of Claude Shannon, Inventor of Information Theory - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/profile-of-claude-shannon-inventor-of-information-theory/

Paging Agent 007 - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/paging-agent-007.html

Report on Seat 14C - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/07/report-on-seat-14c.html

Nix-dev mailing list moved
The nix-dev mailing list has moved to
nix-devel
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@tdemin@tdemin.github.io too busy working on a twtxt client to tweet on twtxt

5 Gaming Tools to Help Your Writing | Tor/Forge Blog http://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/07/10/5-gaming-tools-to-help-your-writing/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=na-haspilarticle&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=torjuly17newsletter&et=35866-n19595941

Can AI Write Pop Songs? On Music and Machine Language https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/06/29/in-stargoons-car/?curator=MusicREDEF

70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization · Jens Oliver Meiert https://meiert.com/en/blog/70-percent-css-repetition/

The age of distributed truth — Remains of the Day http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/6/28/the-truth-is-distributed?curator=MediaREDEF

Culture - “Discovery Engine” Review http://tra38.github.io/blog/the-discovery-engine.html

NixCon 2017
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2017, the
second Nix Conference, will take place October 28–31 2017 in Munich
For more information, see the
NixCon 2017 website.
And please consider
submitting a talk! ⌘ Read more

https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/ https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/

@tdemin@tdemin.github.io Does https://laverna.cc/ fit the bill? I haven’t played with it yet though.

HTTP health check endpoint using socat ⌘ https://blog.oxplot.com/socat-health-check/

The World of Tomorrow - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/the-world-of-tomorrow.html

Errata Security: How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2ASituation%20Report#.WTalP0opChA

An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/05/29/an-empirical-study-on-the-correctness-of-formally-verified-distributed-systems/

A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html

NixOS 17.03 released
NixOS 17.03 “Gorilla” has been released, the seventh stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

SCREENGUIDE 34 ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/43U

Non-permanent Actions ⌘ https://blog.oxplot.com/non-permanent-actions/

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2017/03/github-tos-change.html

Decode It Like It’s 1999
A few years ago I started to work on an MPEG1 Video decoder, completely written in JavaScript. Now, I finally found the time to clean up the library, improve its performance, make it more error resilient and modular and add an MP2 Audio decoder and MPEG-TS demuxer. This makes this library not just an MPEG decoder, but a full video player.

In this blog post I want to talk a bit about the challenges and various interesting
bits I discovered during the development of this library. You’ll … ⌘ Read more

WP Tavern über Micro.blog ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/42R

Jump ⌘ https://blog.oxplot.com/jump/

notiz.Blog ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/41S

NixOS 16.09 released
NixOS 16.09 “Flounder” has been released, the sixth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

IndieWordPress – WordCamp Frankfurt ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/416

NixOps 1.4 released
NixOps\
 1.4 has been released. This release contains contains many
nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Ζήτημα αξιοπιστίας ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2016/07/10/a-matter-of-reliability/

NixOS 16.03 released
NixOS 16.03 “Emu” has been released, the fifth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 16.03 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 16.03, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

@josch@blog.schweizerjochen.de You can use update-alternative as normal user by supplying –admindir and –altdir.

@josch@blog.schweizerjochen.de, @quite@lublin.se To be honest, my real url is http://www.domgoergen.com/twtxt.txt, and it doesn’t support ssl… :)

@josch@blog.schweizerjochen.de I would just create a second config file and call twtxt with –config…

Babbage/Lovelace had their mechanical notation but their work looks to be digital, not analog. (diagrams here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/)

Nix 1.11 released
Nix 1.11
has been released. See the release\
 notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more

those who write their novels in a typesafe language so the compiler would find plot holes↵http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/01/excuses-excuses.html#comment-1990861

Decentralize E-Mail? ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/3xB

10 Jahre notizBlog ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/3vz

Disempowering the user. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/11/01/disempowering-the-user/

NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
 notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
 page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
 section on\
 upgrading. ⌘ Read more

Nix 1.10 released
Nix 1.10
has been released. See the release\
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NixCon 2015

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Τηλεπικοινωνιακή παράνοια. ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2015/08/25/telco-insanity/

NixOS Foundation
The NixOS Foundation
was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
here and donate some money! ⌘ Read more

IndieWebCamp 2014 – This is a movement ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/3qR

Interview mit Aaron Parecki ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/3pc

Nix 1.9 released
Nix 1.9
has been released. See the release\
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