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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of April 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bot … ⌘ Read more

No standstill?
When I reflect on myself like this, I have long had the impression that I am a person who cannot live at a standstill. I always need a topic that keeps me busy, a thing in my life that I can optimize or at least a frequently changing topic that I can dive into. ⌘ Read more

Monerotopia Presentation and Website News
Just a note that within two hours (11AM NY time), my edited Monerotopia presentation with slides and all will be premiering here on the Monero Talk channel on YouTube.

I did already do an extended commentary and explanation of my talk here on my PeerTube channel, and I might put this an the edited talk onto my YouTube channel if I feel like it. You shou … ⌘ Read more

Monerotopia Presentation and Website News
Just a note that within two hours (11AM NY time), my edited Monerotopia presentation with slides and all will be premiering here on the Monero Talk channel on YouTube.

I did already do an extended commentary and explanation of my talk here on my PeerTube channel, and I might put this an the edited talk onto my YouTube channel if I feel like it. You shou … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft open sources 1995’s “3D Movie Maker”
Including the BRender 3D engine used in games like Carmageddon. ⌘ Read more

looks like blue tribe will end up anti agi risk. sucks, but should have been forseeable—the connection to gray tribe & techbros is too strong.

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Two Mac-like desktops for the Apple II, from 1985.
“Quark Catalyst” and “Mouse Desk” (which would later be purchased by Apple). ⌘ Read more

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Another reason to like spring: cherry blossoms. ⌘ Read more

PEP 690: Lazy Imports
This PEP proposes a feature to transparently defer the execution of imported modules until the moment when an imported object is used. Since Python programs commonly import many more modules than a single invocation of the program is likely to use in practice, lazy imports can greatly reduce the overall number of modules loaded, improving startup time and memory usage. Lazy imports also mostly eliminate the risk of import cycles. ⌘ Read more

“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs”
I do from time to time forays through the Internet and like to visit cool blogs. Wouter has created a list with a few examples and even mentioned my blog in it. 🤓 ⌘ Read more

HTRK releasing demos collection <i>Death is a Dream</i>
Melbourne duo HTRK expand upon their hauntingly beautiful 2021 LP Rhinestones with a collection of “demos, vignettes, and sketches from the album’s genesis”, and on first listen it already feels like an essential companion to one of [last year’s best releases](https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2021/https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums- … ⌘ Read more

no, niplav, you won’t get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.

**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.

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W: The Window System before X… that nobody seems to remember
(Nobody seems to even know what it looked like.) ⌘ Read more

I’m exhausted. I don’t know when it all started to go wrong but I’m exhausted. Every relationship feels like work. Every moment that I’m awake feels like work. kdramaspace

❤️ 🎶: Like a star by Kwon Jin Ah

“Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars” update released for Linux & DOS
Release 2 is a lot like Release 1. But more betterer. ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal has now published 10 eBooks. 10 very, very nerdy eBooks.
Plus 4 video games. And like a bazillion articles and podcasts. Which is crazy awesome. ⌘ Read more

HOTDOGbuntu - Make Ubuntu look like classic Mac, Atari ST, Win 3.1, & Amiga systems
Because more ways to make modern Linux look like retro computing systems is always a good thing. ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: Like a starlight by Lena Park

PicoShare – simple file sharing
Having recently posted about rathole, today I’d like to share another tool I use in combination with rathole: PicoShare. ⌘ Read more

My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can’t tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won’t shrink. it’s piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it’s an eternal struggle.

there is this property of Doneness that I really like, and that tracks a lot (but not all) of my interests. First, let’s take meditation: every single moment in meditation is really Done after it’s over, it doesn’t linger around, the sensations don’t pile up somewhere. They might influence each other, sure, but at the end of the day it’s just the present experience, slashing into and out of existence in its clear luminosity.

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - April 4, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Make Linux look like Retro Operating Systems ⌘ Read more

i remembered i liked structural regular expressions, but re-reading the paper reminds me of how cool they are

Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm ⌘ Read more

in general, lw feels like a place where it would be good for many people to cross-post to, a content aggregator/archiver

Emulate a Classic Macintosh… in your web browser. Seriously.
Not a web app that looks like a Mac… but a true, complete classic (68k) Macintosh emulator entirely in a web browser. ⌘ Read more

3 tools to make your computer look like it is busy hacking and coding… while doing absolutely nothing.
Because sometimes we all want to be lazy while still looking like a l33t hax0r. ⌘ Read more

I’d like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon’s functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom. Mastodon 3.5 | Hacker News

About listening to music
Sometimes I like to listen to music, I listen to a song, which gives me a good feeling, then another and another. I feel really good, sometimes I could even dance, although I don’t really like dancing. ⌘ Read more

to fend off possible accusations of bias: good leftist humor was /r/liftcommunism, /leftypol/ was great too sometimes, and I liked the political catgirl comics. Existential Comics is not funny (except the Beetle in the Box comic), although some of the old comics were indeed existenital. I don’t have a strong opinion on /r/COMPLETEANARCHY and /r/FULLCOMMUNISM.

if you’re not special, generating passwords is like running from bears: you don’t need to be good, you just need to be better than the majority

Make Linux look like Amiga OS
(Or, at least, pretty gosh darn close.) ⌘ Read more

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

Color management deals with translating between representations of
colors across a variety of devices. Throughout this post, we’ll use
natural language as … ⌘ Read more

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

This post only aims to help you understand the basic concepts without
having to delve into dense literature and hard to grok technical
documents.

Color … ⌘ Read more

guy who takes mdma at a techno rave and says “so this is what it’s all about”, but not just about raving culture, but, like, life in general

Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.

Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more

pump and dump? no, more like cuddle and befuddle

Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it’s far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.

Text-to-speech is becoming more popular
I am a slow reader. I read a lot on websites, but not quickly and I often get distracted while reading. What I like therefore is a pre-reading option. ⌘ Read more

I think i would like a display mode that sorts yarns by last twt in yarn and displays only the last twt with the first in the heading if its more than one in length.

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk I doubt there will ever be a 2.0 … It may end up like java and they strip off the 1.

Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much. Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year’s comp review cycle? | Hacker News

Why everyone should be concerned about Ontario’s critical race theory bill

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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!

What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.

Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more

apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER