@SuperDicq I heard it, myself, from the person to whom it happened. I have to admit that I forget who I heard it from, but I remember where it was (a book release party for a fantasy novel, in NYC, in either 2006 or 2007). I was either working for, or had recently quit working for, the FSF.
@SuperDicq I once met a woman who RMS had hit on while they were sharing a taxicab. She had been 14 at the time. He was old enough to know better.
@nedbat
External Attachment: A photoshop job by @igb that has taken the weird taxonomy of Google Docs classification system and added Borgesian categories like "Those belonging to the emperor", "Those that from afar look like flies", and "Embalmed ones" to the usual "Owned by anyone" and "Not owned by me" buckets. The docs displayed in the view behind the modified drop-down are all Borges texts or references: "The 3 Versions of Judas", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge".
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@tedu Actually, honk query for you: Imagine that I'm following person A, and person B, whom I am not following, replies to person A. I can follow the link to A's instance and see B's reply, but how do I reply to B's reply without following B? Ideally, I would like a "load replies" button on the convoy, but maybe there's a better way?
I don't think this will help me prepare for a database exam. Good thing I don't have a database exam coming up.
@alchemistsstudio https://youtu.be/sfeGaZUHJDY?si=4us4seNqGGV3LaxP&t=377
@mjd OK, but the free trial is still called a "stool sample", right?
@mjd Interestingly, profanity tends to use matching vowels instead (see this study of "shitgibbons")
@mjd Recognizing that this is a specific rather than general suggestion, use Larry Wall's rename
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What idiot called it FUSE instead of "those that, at a distance, resemble files".
@b0rk Too bad -- Danielle's brother is going to be giving a talk!
Some loud military type planes flew by as we were walking, startling us. Later, I realized it was because it was Fleet Week.
I wish that when the Navy offered to hold Fleet Week here, we had said, "No thanks, our city doesn't need an enema."
I realize that McMaster Carr is a very silly place to buy a roof turbine, but weirdly, Lowe's doesn't sell the size I need, and the McMaster one is not made in China.
Also, since last time I checked, McMaster started telling you shipping costs before you order, which means that their web site is now perfect in every way (I am serious -- if you haven't tried it, go right now and find a 1/8 long in brass set screw on Amazon. Then try to find the same thing on McMaster Carr.)
Like puzzles? Want to work with (well, at the same company as, anyway) my wife? Jane Street is hiring a puzzles and games producer.
https://mltshp.com/p/1R0FZ “N’a jamais été”
@novalis @mjd
This is wild!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault rupture ever filme...
@mjd I don't think of him that way, but I admit it's probably been a decade since I last read the books.
(Also, Gandalf is very quotable, whereas quoting Jackson Lamb is a nearly always a firing offense)
One thing I like about the Slow Horses novels is how mannered they are. Nobody talks like any of these characters, but it doesn't matter, because they are so much fun to listen to.
Also, I love Jackson Lamb as the perfect example of Stage 3 ethics.
And in terms of his role in most of the novels, he's a lot like Gandalf, except, you know, an asshole.
@CStamp Yes, the standard advice is that if you're going to have a baby, take a CPR class.
Happy Multiply By Today's Date to Convert Your Temperature To The Other Scale day to those who celebrate.
(Please ignore the 32 offset.)
The new VNV Nation album, Construct, is now available on Bandcamp (at least). This is supposed to be the positive one of two paired albums, but it's got (another) "please don't kill yourself" song and also one about an apocalypse, so I can't wait to see what Destruct brings.
@CStamp It's fruit juice, as opposed to whole fruit. It's there as a sweetener, but there's no need for a sweetener. (Even the concept of baby food is pretty suspect -- babies can do a surprisingly good job on many ordinary foods despite their lack of teeth. You haven't lived until you've seen a one-year-old go to town on a chicken leg.)
@cscott Also, added sweeteners in baby food seems pretty alarming.
What do you call an awful bipolar Cape Cod cop?
A detestable unstable Barnstable constable!
@bekit I pointed out a specific term that I was bothered by.
@bekit Imagine passing a law that said, simply, "Don't be evil." Clearly, that wouldn't work -- no lawmaker would ever write a law like that. And if you visited a place with a law like that, you would be in constant fear.
So your license will succeed in making nobody want to use your software, and if that's your goal, you've succeeded.
Like, I wouldn't use your software -- the supply chain for my current game will include roughly a hundred companies and individuals, most of which I know nothing about, and the license seems to require me to publish this information -- that's way more work than I have time for.
It's important to have a sense of perspective when everything is so divided...
#Photography #Netherlands
@alchemistsstudio That came out incredibly nice!
So glad this piece survived yesterday's raku firing! 🔥
I have decided to call the piece "Penumbra."
How do you like it?
#sciart #space #pottery #MastoArt
( Included is a process picture from the firing. )
@mjd Thanks for checking. I just assumed it was false without checking, but I shouldn't have assumed.
filmmaking tips
filmmaking tips
With good lighting and color grading you can film Friday for Thursday and it will look almost totally natural
Meet my elbows, Elsa and Bowie.
#verbalbrainnoise
@jmac I think back then memory was expensive, so shared libraries were very important (leading to DLL hell, of course). I think Linux was more of a minority platform then, so there was more emphasis on following the traditional Unix directory structure.
Apt was pretty magical back in the days before anyone else had an "app store", and it's kind of a shame that now instead of one place to get apps, we have at least four (apt, snap, flatpak, and appimages). Back then, of course, one regularly had to build from source, so maybe this complaint wouldn't have happened?
There's also a reflexive neophobia among technologists, for good reasons, although I think that was less of a thing in the Slashdot era.
So on reflection, I think the major complaint back then would have been memory and disk usage.
I encourage everyone to please sign this petition that asks #OpenSource Initiative to release the election results for #OSI's 2025 Board of Directors Election.
3 methods available to sign:
* email <sign@osi-petition.org>
* Pull request on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025
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I thank @wolftune & @iank's leadership in shepherding the drafting of this petition.
OSI's work impacts everyone involved in #FOSS, so everyone is welcomed to sign.
@mjd Congratulations!
@aysamanra I always feel a tiny bit guilty when I normalize a vector. I think vectors should be allowed to let their freak flags fly.
@jessamyn Nope, for roughly the same reason as Semantle: once I binge a game like this, I lose interest.
@jessamyn And if you're in the mood for an easier game than Semantle, I also made Middles.
Does anyone have a reliable way to, given two photos of the same subject from the same location at different exposures, compare the focal lengths of the two photos? I don't need an absolute measure of focal length -- just "are these two focal lengths the same?".
Really makes you think https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
@jmac My brother's wifi was named "Portland Police Surveillance Horse".
“I get no respect” —Rodney Dangerfield
“I get no respect or division operator” —Rodney Dangerring
“I get no respect, division, or multiplication” —Rodney Dangergroup
@lahosken I found a bunch of people saying it wasn't real -- generally, the sort of people who I would not believe, except that I also couldn't find a primary source.
@lahosken I can't find an original source for the second quote. Is it real?