2024 devient 1984 : des médias de propagande et un corps médical sous surveillance
L’année 2023 vient à peine de commencer que, déjà, de multiples signes s’accumulent dans la presse de grand chemin qui montrent que jamais la liberté d’expression n’aura été autant attaquée. C’est, sans surprise, le deux-poids deux-mesures déjà évoqué dans un précédent article qui permet aux journalistes de s’époumoner en outrages courroucés lorsqu’un des leurs est […] ⌘ Read more

BREAKING: Gizmodo stuns world by publishing Tech article
“We won’t let computers distract us from our core mission…complaining about Elon Musk” ⌘ Read more

Tesla, perdant de l’éclatement de la bulle
Un article de Henry Bonner Le dégonflement de la bulle a raison des actions les plus en vogue. Tesla en fait partie. Son cours a chuté de 70 % cette année. La faute ne repose pas sur l’entreprise en elle-même. Au contraire, le fabricant de voitures électriques surpasse les attentes. L’entreprise a fait grimper ses […] ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Favorite Stories of 2022
Listen now (38 min) | News, history, & satire. The computer-y articles that Lunduke found the most interesting over the last year. ⌘ Read more

Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023

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I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.

Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more

Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023

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I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.

Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more

I really enjoy the portray of conseqduentialism in the SEP article on deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

Bio-méthane, hydrogène, éoliennes : ruée vers les “chimères”
Un article de Henry Bonner Le programme sur les émissions de carbone englobe tous les aspects de la vie. J’ai rejoint une journée au Lycée agricole, en Normandie, à la fin du mois dernier, au titre d’un rassemblement pour les clients d’une société de comptabilité agricole. La matinée a démarré avec un discours sur le […] ⌘ Read more

Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep … ⌘ Read more

Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep … ⌘ Read more

Drames chez Disney : au-delà du « woke »
Un article de Henry Bonner Le PDG récent de Disney, plus grosse société de divertissement au monde, vient d’être relevé de ses fonctions. Bob “Chapstick” (baume à lèvres) Chapek a atteint le plus haut poste au pire des moments – juste avant l’arrivée du virus et de l’hystérie qui a mené aux confinements. Il l’a […] ⌘ Read more

the last century was wild: “Her love of tennis included playing naked, with nude tennis ‘a common practice in those days among the more louche members of the middle classes’”, from the Wikipedia article on Enid Blyton.

pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)

Tell me you write go like javascript without telling me you write go like javascript:

import "runtime/debug"

var Commit = func() string {
  if info, ok := debug.ReadBuildInfo(); ok {
    for _, setting := range info.Settings {
      if setting.Key == "vcs.revision" {
        return setting.Value
      }
    }
  }

  return "" 
}()

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/11/14/3-ways-embed-commit-hash-go-programs#3__using_runtime_debug_package

Amnistier les covidistes ? Et puis quoi encore ?
The Atlantic, vénérable mensuel fondé au XIXème siècle, a récemment fait paraître un article d’Emily Oster qui a largement défrayé la chronique : dans “Let’s declare a pandemic amnestie” (“Déclarons une amnistie pour la pandémie”), l’auteur tente d’aligner quelques arguments en faveur d’un pardon général pour tous ceux qui, pendant la pandémie, ont pris les décisions […] ⌘ Read more

Comment continuer à voir Rumble en France ?
Encore une fois, l’État français sombre dans le ridicule et la tentative de censure la plus vile. On apprend que le site de vidéo en lignes Rumble n’affiche plus qu’un petit panneau laconique pour les visiteurs provenant de la France. C’était une étape sinon prévisible du moins logique après les derniers articles de la presse […] ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more

Blockchain Blasphemy

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deeply troubling about a war unfoldin … ⌘ Read more

JMP: SMS Account Verification
Some apps and services (but not JMP!) require an SMS verification code in order to create a new account.  (Note that this is different from using SMS for authentication; which is a bad idea since SMS can be easily intercepted, are not encrypted in transit, and are v … ⌘ Read more

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - Oct 2, 2022
Listen now (47 min) | The Article & The Podcast – all in one place! Fancy! ⌘ Read more

🌲 Using RSS to curate opportunities
I divide my RSS feed according to how I can interact with the articles, how far along I am with processing the information, and how I think I can use them later. ⌘ Read more

Maxime Buquet: Versioning
I finally took time to setup a forge and some old drafts turned up. I am
publishing one of them today as is even though it’s 4 years old
(2018-08-07T13:27:43+01:00). I’m not as grumpy as I was at the time but I
still think this applies.

Today I am grumpy at people’s expectation of a free software project, about
versioning and releases. I am mostly concerned about applications rather than
libraries in this article but I am sure some of this would apply to libraries
as well.

Today we were discussing ab … ⌘ Read more

Cette étrange et récente surmortalité
Un précédent article notait l’étrange épidémie de coïncidences qui agitait à la fois les services hospitaliers de cardiologie et quelques obscures revues scientifiques à faible tirage comme Nature, JAMA ou le British Medical Journal : un nombre statistiquement significatif de troubles cardiaques sont actuellement enregistrés alors même qu’une intéressante expérimentation vient de se produire à grande […] ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Implementing Go Fish to Learn Elixir
A walkthrough of how we implemented GoFish as a way of learning Elixir and the concepts of the BEAM and OTP.

In this article, we will outline our initial design and implementation of the card game Go Fish in Elixir using raw processes, and then describe how we were motivated to re-implement the project using the GenServer module instead. The first step is to agree upon the rules of the game, then describe the domain mode … ⌘ Read more

Age Milestone Privileges
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Age Milestone Privileges
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Funny Programming Pictures Part XIII
The “Because I’m sick and this is easier than writing an article” edition. ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: “Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right, nowadays web 5.0 is coined already too - it’s “The Telepathic Web” or “The Symbionet Web”, or, I’ll call it “the Metaverse brain chip”.

https://www.timesnownews.com/exclusive/jack-dorsey-web-5-0-how-will-it-work-and-why-it-is-different-article-92209954**
“Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right … ⌘ Read more

‘Based’ Paganism vs. Christianity
I’ve been meaning to write about Paganism recently. I will frame it as a response to an email I received within the past day or so:

Hey Luke,

First off, I would like to thank you for all your efforts in making everything
you know accessible to everyone. You have exposed me to some of the most
thought-provoking people on the internet and Varg is one of them. I was
wondering if you can write an article or make a video on what you think about
Varg’s Paganism in r … ⌘ Read more

‘Based’ Paganism vs. Christianity
I’ve been meaning to write about Paganism recently. I will frame it as a response to an email I received within the past day or so:

Hey Luke,

First off, I would like to thank you for all your efforts in making everything
you know accessible to everyone. You have exposed me to some of the most
thought-provoking people on the internet and Varg is one of them. I was
wondering if you can write an article or make a video on what you think about
Varg’s Paganism in r … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net When searching for a replacement I came across somebody telling, that nobody used it and it shouldn’t be needed anyways, so they removed it and put a half^Wfully-assed implementation in place. Can’t find it now. But I found this bug report that is linked in the addon’s readme and also an article by the same guy opening the bug report. I haven’t read any of them.

Before we were sexually herrassed by flying ants in the end, we picked the first blackberries of the season on today’s hike. Very yummy, let me tell you!

It’s super dry everywhere, just have a look at the dried out grass in the first two photos. Two nights ago we had the first and biggest forest fire about eight kilometers away. The newspaper article claims that 7,000 m² (sic!) of forest were on fire. In the morning of that day the district fire chief introduced the new alarm plan for forest fires. Eight fire brigades responded with 83 fire fighters in 17 vehicles. Eight trucks shuttled 30,000 liters of water to the scene. Luckily, four and a half hours later they had it under control. A fire fighting drone specialists department of a neighboring fire service located several pockets of embers. I wasn’t even aware, that we have such specialists here in the county, pretty cool. Unfortunately, one fire man probably broke his Achilles tendon in this fire run, the article says.

Other than that, there had been four other wildland fires with a hedge, bunch of trees, a 20,000 m² big stubble fields and another vegetation fire since June in our county. I actually didn’t know that. Well, that’s all nothing compared to the fires they have in East Germany at the moment.

https://paedubucher.ch/articles/2022-07-26-git-with-multiple-e-mail-addresses.html

La coïncidence contre-attaque
En décembre dernier, un précédent article notait un pic inhabituel de petits soucis cardiaques chez les sportifs et notamment les footballeurs en 2021 : apparemment, cette année voyait plus de décès sur les terrains que les années passées. La proximité de ces événements avec la distribution de picouses magiques était troublante. Mais, nous avait-on assuré à […] ⌘ Read more

@mckinley@twtxt.net The first one is the best in my opinion. I just watched the video from the updated article on the floppy disk array and had to smile as well. Thanks. ;-)

https://z-lib.org/ ebook article

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Back in the days in an R&D project we ran into something similar (or the same? – didn’t read the article). I don’t remember the details anymore, but each containerized JVM thought, that it could use up the whole hardware cluster system resources and didn’t obey the limits set in the container. And then of course it got killed.

The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all day with their strength.

It reminds you of the fact that while children in the Incan Empire did indeed have some toys with wheels, apparently no one thought to use the wheel to make a simple … ⌘ Read more

The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all day with their strength.

It reminds you of the fact that while children in the Incan Empire did indeed have some toys with wheels, apparently no one thought to use the wheel to make a simple … ⌘ Read more

Climate Change: Chinese offshore oil and gas giant eyes major clean energy output expansion to help nation reach environmental goals
China National Offshore Oil will aim for non-fossil fuel to make up over half its domestic output by 2050, and to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions arising from its own operations by 2028. ⌘ Read more

Marcos Jnr sworn in as Philippine president decades after father was ousted from power
The son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sworn in as president of the Philippines on Thursday, completing a stunning comeback for one of Asia’s most famous political dynasties, 36 years after it was ousted in a popular uprising. ⌘ Read more

JD.com extends access to Tencent’s WeChat for three years with US$220 million in stock
JD.com is keeping its preferential access to WeChat’s 1.29 billion users, extending a partnership with Tencent that gives it a short cut on the platform. ⌘ Read more

How tropical islands on Indonesia and Thailand are the new working from home
Tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia are trying to take advantage of business-leisure travellers – a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. ⌘ Read more

More than a tropical island: Phuket residents discover international school that offers world-recognised holistic ‘education in paradise’
British International School, Phuket offers students from around the world a curriculum with IGCSE and IB academic programmes, and professional coaching in football, tennis, swimming, golf, aerial arts and gymnastics ⌘ Read more

How leaders mingle after Nato meetings: with fine food, art and music at Madrid’s famous Prado Museum
Nato country leaders and European Union heads of state and government got to admire some of the world’s greatest art and listen to a Ukrainian classical orchestra live as they gathered to dine at Madrid’s Prado Museum. ⌘ Read more

China’s art-market rebound gives way to mood of uncertainty as economic challenges mount
A surge in enthusiasm among Chinese art collectors early this year may already be waning, as investment confidence is undermined by poor global economic growth and weak domestic consumption, industry insiders say. ⌘ Read more

Google’s ‘fast track to surveillance’ sparks backlash from European consumer groups over ‘deceptive’ practices
The Regional consumer organisation BEUC accused Google of using ‘deceptive design, unclear language, misleading choices and missing information’ for extensive data collection. ⌘ Read more

Chinese team implants brain sensor without cracking skull
The less-invasive technique is a new way of capturing electrical neural signals, lead scientist says. ⌘ Read more