@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

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I have tried several times to learn Morse Code. Sadly, I keep having distractions.

Fun fact: OpenBSDs vi does not support utf8. That’s probably the first time I haven’t just used the default system vi.

Karl Marx removes his gloves to reveal knuckle tattoos: THEORY on the left hand and PRAXIS on the right. He removes his shirt and two extra arms unfold from his back: THESIS on the left arm’s knuckles and ANTITHESIS on the right. ‘Time to synthesize’, he says.

Hey guys any of you have an idea why the udev daemon is pinned slightly above 100% CPU like all the time now?

Japanese ghost stories dwell in the spirit of their times | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/japanese-ghost-stories-dwell-in-the-spirit-of-their-times

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

Imagine if Marvel’s Captain Marvel movie was out at the same time as Shazaam (DC’s Captain Marvel). And then imagine if there was also a Marvelman (one of the other Captain Marvels) movies.

every thing every time — Great Exhibition of the North https://getnorth2018.com/events/every-thing-every-time/

Somebody ought to make a word2vec model trained on https://rit-public.github.io/HappyDB/ available. If I get some time, maybe it’ll be me.

PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html

if a gibberish file appears every time you wake your laptop, don’t worry yet, it might just be its dream journal

A gentle kind of first contact: The aliens arrive in orbit, pledge to answer one question per year and not more. Grand and important committees form to choose the best questions, still sometimes the answers are useless, yet other times they decide wars before they’re fought

Whoever decided to nae a government agency after a thing that sets your head on fire if you forget your password too many times should also be too self-aware to think having one of these is a good idea.

I hope the five people following my ‘misc’ repo on github are happy recieving an email containing only the placeholder commit message ‘xxx’ like 30 times a day.

The new Suspiria, based on the trailer, appears to include Varelli, which may mean that they will try to pack 3 movies worth of story in. This may leave no time for a blind man to have his throat ripped out by his own seeing-eye dog :(

Going beyond UI and UX with User Design, the hottest new branch of AI-assisted psychology (because, why spend time optimizing the interface when you can just mold the user)

403 Forbidden http://www.os2museum.com/wp/troubled-time/

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”

Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4

Band name of the day: the teeth of time

Wanted to do so much on todays public holiday but actually I only did some house cleaning and was staying on the balcony enjoying the sun while doing internet stuff most of the time…

Another theory holds that there’s a fixed amount of humanity and since there were fewer people in ancient times, they were bigger compared to the gods than they are now

Band name of the day: trees in time

As the bombs fall, we retrace our steps backwards so that when they play recordings from our time, they’ll think that around us, cities were falling out of the clouds and crystallizing on the ground

Art Bell and ‘Coast to Coast AM’ represented a time when conspiracy theories were innocent | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4343/art-bell-coast-to-coast-am-obitiuary

Cthulhu was due to happen around this time, but its decryption failed because humans had put too many of their own stars into the sky

2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It’s Time for a New Old Language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKbjYqqPPQ

Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman

@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net (re: Matrix/TOX/P2P): Uh, never heard of #rumble or #scuttlebutt. Will have to look into it at some time.

The manufacture of steam-engine time – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0

For the first time in history, the internet makes it reasonable to expect people to already understand that nothing is unprecedented.

Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html

‘It’s old news’ doesn’t make something better – it makes it worse. If there’s a problem that’s been newsworthy several times & not addressed, it’s had more time to affect people, and people should be criticized for not addressing it.

Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.

Bad idea of the day: Instead of an index fund, choose stocks completely at random, and buy or sell/short them completely at random, one share at a time, once every ten minutes or so.

‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html

Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader History: Useful At Certain Times https://tedium.co/2018/03/06/uncle-johns-bathroom-reader-history/

Quinn Norton: The New York Times … https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/

inside their ship, they’ve tied time into a loop and halted entropy, created an endless garden of eden that’s been coasting through the vacuum for a billion years, unaware

I am the very model of a New York Times contrar… https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html

Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights

ok I’ve come to terms with not having a soul, but why is it that every time we kill a zombie, a heavenly chorus sounds and it ascends

Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day

The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One

Pearls, soluble in shadow: Keep them in light at all times or they’ll sublimate into glittering nacre swirls, disappear into dark corners to be found only much later as dew in someone’s meadow

Ask Dr. Time: What Should I Call My AI? https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-what-should-i-call-my-ai

📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight