Progress report: the current build of Manna for our Malices should actually be playable to completion. Gotta double-check, but in theory everything should be reachable. Remaining work: fill in fluff like the rest of the school day.

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)

If it doesn’t work properly with javascript turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly with css turned off, it’s not really a website. If it doesn’t work properly in a text-only environment, it’s not really a website.

Every time I complain about how computers can be made better (if we work together) I get a bunch of people criticizing me for being insufficiently grateful. Bitch, I’m a programmer. I know how much effort somebody put into this shit, & it’s not enough.

There’s this approach to computing history where we focus on work that looks shallowly similar to current norms, claim that work was ‘prophetic’ or ‘ahead of its time’, & mostly ignore differences & intent except as quirks. Fuck that.

Github is putting up a banner saying that the version of firefox I’m using is no longer supported. That’s fuckin’ wild to me. It’s 2018: if your website doesn’t work on Mosaic & Lynx, it’s broken.

Short work week and about half the office is out.

Just created my first proper document in Scribus. It worked better than I expected.

Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.

Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0

Cat Work Processor : David T. Craig : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CatWorkProcessor

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

How to get rich quick, apparently: rephrase the obvious as though it is the revolutionary for the benefit of the stupid, and pepper it with the wrong to drum up ‘controversy’. (Worked for Peterson)

The project I’m working on went “live” this morning. Even though most us developers think we shouldn’t have.

post-N235 Prolog prologue (Working draft) https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/prologue

At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.

Having a fun day trying to sort out why my code isn’t working. Only to find out the API server I’m calling is borked.

There are days I don’t know why I come into work.

Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work? (video essay) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

I don’t know why but Openconnect no longer will connect to my work VPN.

@sdk@codevoid.de Why doesn’t that shock me. Hell I’ve worked places where they had a strong firewall that blocked a lot of sites and yet I was allowed to SSH out, setup a tunnel, and bypass the firewall.

I’m getting used to OpenBSD rather fast. I’s really very consistent and joyful to work with. #openbsd

The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net: As long as they are dimmable or relate to the screen brightness. I’m often working in the dark with 1% screen brightness.

Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work

As much as I love photography… working on the pictures for hours afterwards wears me out. But ususally the result rewards for everything. So I just keep working…

QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

@sdk@codevoid.de I have to admit that’s true. While I don’t call myself an expert, I almost always wore several hats at places I’ve worked. Programmer, Server Admin, Network Admin, Cable Puller, Telephone Admin, PBX installer, Database Admin, etc

One thing for sure on this project I’m working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.

Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth

Why Folklorists Hate Joseph Campbell’s Work | Jeana Jorgensen http://www.patheos.com/blogs/foxyfolklorist/why-folklorists-hate-joseph-campbells-work/

What (Else) Cells At Work Can Teach Us - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2Uh4SWGd8

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Thanks! Programming gopher://taz.de was the most fun i had in ages. And it was for work! Kind of. :)

Hot take: when a type of work is no longer necessary, it becomes a hobby or luxury/artisinal work, & this is good for everybody involved.

I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.

I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.

It’s tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.

Damn, colors are not working on openbsd! #txtnish

Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html

Band name of the day: the Forgotten Works

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work

Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html

So, I’m going on a 6 hour road trip on Friday the 13th, starting after work on a day when I woke up at 5am. Wish me luck.

Hot take: the more powerful you are, the harder people under you will work to save you from your bad choices, & the harder they’ll avoid actually addressing those problems. A perfect storm for inflated confidence: your continued success is owed to the people covering your ass, but you attribute it even more to yourself.

Bad idea of the day: A lootbox service for public-domain work – every month you get a hardcover of a PD book & a vinyl of a PD recording