whether cryptocurrencies are more or less likely to be stable during a multipolar ai takeoff depends on whether our current cryptography is “endgame” or not, i.e. whether it’s in practice basically uncrackable by any advanced actor

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Make Linux look like MacOS 9.
Because Platinum is beautiful. Also… why not? ⌘ Read more

Make Linux look exactly like Windows 95… I mean exactly.
Blasphemy? Probably! But still pretty awesome! ⌘ Read more

i like consequentialism, but i don’t like any specific version of it nearly as much

Gemini seems like a great community to revive the concept of the pen pal. Would anyone be interested in doing that?

»In an apparently non-political case of imitation of Quảng Đức, the young son of an American officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. He was seriously burned before the fire was extinguished and later could only offer the explanation that “I wanted to see what it was like.”« lmao

. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first

having small “this feels like mdma” type moments during listening to techno & dancing. who knew that ~1000 hours of meditation could have an effect?

Thanks, I’d forgotten about that. I’d rather avoid Google Voice, and I’m okay paying (reasonably). Looking like Twilio might have most of what I want natively.

** What is an addressing mode? **
In a recent post I referenced addressing modes. But what the heck are they!?

The instruction register holds the program instruction that is currently being run.

A fixed number of bits within the instruction register represent the operation, e.g. “op. code” — examples of these instructions include things like add, subtract, load, and store. We can imagine the instruction register like this:

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Its weird to see a tech company be bought by an investment company. Like what is the motivation other than to milk it for investor profit?

How many things do I own?
Even though starting my job has put me in a situation where I can sometimes afford stuff just like that, and maybe buy the occasional thing without thinking much when I should have before, I still make sure to keep the number of things I own low. ⌘ Read more

Get ready for Campus TV Season 2: 🌱 New Beginnings
Learn new skills, build projects and meet like-minded students with the latest shows from the GitHub Education Stream Team. ⌘ Read more

** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”

To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.

Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!

…and even then, not all need apply.

For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more

This is like my 5rh day at it. I suck at words and spelling. So this is good practice.

Syllable : The long abandoned Amiga OS clone
Itself a fork of Amiga clone, Atheos, this OS has been dead for a decade. Let’s see what it was like. ⌘ Read more

huh so that site doesnt give you the share emoji like wordle.at?

its like a mix of hangman and mastermind. You try to guess the word. Yellow means the target word has the letter but its in the wrong location. Green means its in the right location.

Introducing “Nerd Cards” - Retro computing, digital trading cards
Like baseball cards. For computer nerds. ⌘ Read more

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com, I am sure profit—or the search for it—was involved. Most likely that pilot was a Ferengi in disguise. We are known to visit lesser planets seeking to exploit. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. Hoping my fellow Ferengi fares well or, at the very least, lets me know where his Latinum is.

Some recently sold Lunduke Journal NFTs
These are like super nerdy baseball cards. And I’m loving it. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.0 has been released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is elated to be able to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.0!

This release is the first non-patch release in more than a year, which brings a healthy amount of new features, as well as bug fixes.

I’d like to explicitly thank the many people in the community that have supported this release: not only were a significant amount of code contributions provided, the feedback that we get in our [chatr … ⌘ Read more

I should use twtxt more. I actually like it better than fedi, in general.

I have only just discovered this and need to dig in more, but so far it looks like a really nice reference for electronics pinouts: https://pinouts.org/

Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
I’d like to take a step back from my regular Mega-Nerdy ™ articles for just a moment… To talk about things from a more personal point of view. Today was a rough day in the news. I won’t go into the details here, but things were happening out there in the world that made me pretty sad. And frustrated. And afraid. Things that hit close to home. ⌘ Read more

https://aradaelli.com/blog/why-i-like-d/ dlang code

Eagle-eyed folks may have noticed that I made a few wee changes to this website.

The biggest, and most noticeable one is that I’ve filtered out all of the like type posts from appearing on the main feed, from rss, and in the archives. There were waaaaay to many, so filtering them out makes the entire website a lot more navigable. They are not gone, though, and I’ll probably keep sharing like type posts, but now they ar … ⌘ Read more

How to convert USB webcams to HDMI
There are a handful of interesting USB webcams out there, which naturally work great with a computer. But what if you want to combine video from a USB webcam with your HDMI cameras in a video switcher like the ATEM Mini? ⌘ Read more

I feel like it took me a bit longer to fully understand how to work in Smalltalk than it did most languages. The IDE is different than anything I’ve used before, and probably anything you’ve seen as well. You’re not going to be opening myscript.st in your favorite text editor, and then run it from the command line as you would a Python program. It takes a little mental adjustment to start with.

That’s not the warning, howe … ⌘ Read more

“ut: like, as” fsdjkljiasdasdf

every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can’t tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

🙌 Liked: Virtual Pet Jam - itch.io ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal about to hit subscriber goals… for NEXT month.
Woah. Apparently people really like articles about Linux and retro computers! ⌘ Read more

As I read “No Social Media Club”, I wonder what it would be like if I don’t share so much on my blog, what it would be like if I had never started sharing anything on the internet in the first place? 🤔 I somehow don’t have an answer to this… ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Vlojure ⌘ Read more

Switching to Purelymail
After long consideration, I have now moved email for all but my main domain (but that’s coming too) to Purelymail. Email without bullshit. And with the “Advanced billing mode” they really only charge by usage or $10 with the “Simple billing”, but that shouldn’t be much more than $1 per month for me. What I like most is that there is no unnecessary limit on the number of users, aliases or custom domains. 👍 ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Mimic — Buried Treasure ⌘ Read more

Finally I have implemented a kind of trash in GoBlog. When I delete a post, it is first marked as deleted and can be restored within 7 days. Unfortunately the integration with ActivityPub is not that easy. ActivityPub allows to Undo a Delete activity, but Mastodon doesn’t support that, just like Mastodon doesn’t support Updates. 🙄 ⌘ Read more

Throat and Nasal Passages
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🙌 Liked: NASM Assembly Language Tutorials - asmtutor.com ⌘ Read more

About Telegram’s new translation feature
Telegram is developing updates and new features like crazy, they just released the 12th major update this year. One of the new features is the translation of chat messages from a foreign language to your own. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Stampadia, print and play roguelike ⌘ Read more

I just went to type the phrase “I avoid Linux like the plague” but then remembered that we’ve all learned that most people won’t actually go much out of their way to avoid the plague.

“Consider SQLite”
I am convinced of SQLite. For many use cases where other databases like MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL are often used, SQLite would suffice, given the right design and architecture. ⌘ Read more

Paul Schaub: PGPainless 1.0.0 Released!
Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! After a series of release candidates, it is finally time to party! The OpenPGP library successfully underwent a security audit in late November and I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.

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I just watched “Don’t Look Up” and somehow I think it’s not unlikely that the earth will really end up like in the movie… Not by a comet, but, well, by the climate crisis. Look up! ⌘ Read more

The CDE-look-a-like desktop gets a 2.0 release
The Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) has old-school looks… and it is gorgeous. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Hempuli’s blog >> Snake nest ⌘ Read more

Make the Linux shell look like DOS.
Why would you want to make your Linux terminal look like DOS. Well. Why not? ⌘ Read more