Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With "Secure Scuttlebutt" - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/

"Home Movie"Documentary Electronic House Pt2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVBS-QHEms

"Home Movie"Documentary Electronic House Pt1 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9Lr-qk6Ws

GitHub - deniskyashif/ssfst: Subsequential Transducer for Efficient "Dictionary-Based" Text Rewriting https://github.com/deniskyashif/ssfst

Chuck Thacker, "Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

GitHub - shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning: Syllabus for Part 2 of Nature of Code: "Intelligence and Learning" at ITP Spring 2017 Edit https://github.com/shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning

“semantic contaminant (99B). corrosive, infectious. keep quoted at all times. professional use only.

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net The problem is that my ini parser does not remove quotes around values and twtxt’s does. Another parser? Another format? sigh

@kdave@kdave.github.io I have no strong opinion about different configs fot #txtnix and #twtxt, but @david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de had compatibiliy issues with quoting.

@david And there are no problems with shell quoting! And especially with history expansion when using an exclamation mark.

Apparently this thing — by which I mean “my shell” — has trouble with exclamation marks inside double quotes. Phooey.

I made a website archiving quotes saved in h: https://quotes.greedo.xeserv.us

out of context quote: “That’s how the moon was detected back in the 1960s using a low energy laser and no retro reflectors”

Email liturgy
I miss the days when emails were written with thought, and care. They were clear, and to the point. There was no HTML in them; replies were perfectly quoted, references were neatly annotated. Emoticons were kept to a minimum, if any.

No one does that anymore… well, not many of us do. I haven’t give up, I insist. For me, sending and replying emails is a liturgy. ⌘ Read more

The slashes
Lots of people do not get it. Lots of businesses and governmental institutions do not get it. Yesterday my call to the Federal Reserve Complain line (I called to complain about them, and their delay on ACH transfers, but there was no option to complain about them, yet, many to complain about others) had it wrong too:

The symbol “/” (without quotes, of course) is a “slash” or “stroke.” The symbol “\” is a “backslash”. Please do not invert the names or simply call a slash, backslash. I … ⌘ Read more

New build farm hardware at TUD

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Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more

Why?
While visiting South today I found, once again, this quote that I like so much:

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, ‘What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?’ and my answer must at once be, ‘It is no use.’ We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It’s no use. So, if you cannot understand that there … ⌘ Read more

Downing Street Memo
I have known about this since it was released to the News media, but I haven’t comment about it here. I am providing a link to the contents of the Memo (pretty small read, I assure you) as they showed on the Times Online on May 1st, 2005. Draw your conclusions. I just want to quote a few parts of it. … ⌘ Read more