bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

If you’re at the right place at the right time, with the right equipment, this is possible.

Last night, with guidance from https://transit-finder.com/, I positioned myself along the narrow line where the International #SpaceStation would pass between me and the nearly full moon.

I used a Fujifilm X-T4 shooting 4K video through a Celestron 8” SCT to capture the pass. Then, back at the computer this morning, put together these views with PIPP, Registax, and GIMP.

Quite pleased. My best yet.

I've gotten to the point in using Common Lisp that every other language feels clunky and dumb past the first 100 lines or so

It seems I've successfully made myself unemployable as a software engineer

What's your password strategy?

#3guteDingedesTages

Jaa, noch über ne halbe Stunde ist heute. Also.

💙 Der Verschenkenschrank hier in der Gegend, der über Weihnachten Neujahr von den Betreibern stillgelegt wurde - "vielleicht für immer" - ist wieder offen! OH YÖH! ich hab ne große Tasche voll Kram, und ich find auch fast immer was Schönes. Ich bin SEHR froh.

💙 LaoTse, der heut vorbeikam. =)

💙 Heute Morgen schien fahle Sonne in den Raum, widergespiegelt von einer Fensterscheibe gegenüber.

„Ich weiß nicht, wie es dazu kam, dass die Natur es versäumte, in die Herzen der Menschen ein brennendes Verlangen nach Freiheit zu legen. Einen Segen, der so groß und so wünschenswert ist, dass, wenn er verloren geht, alles Übel folgt und selbst die verbleibenden Segnungen ihren Geschmack und Genuß verlieren, wegen ihrer Verderbtheit durch Knechtschaft.

Freiheit ist die einzige Freude, auf der die Menschen nicht zu bestehen scheinen; denn wenn sie sie wirklich wollten, würden sie sie bekommen. Anscheinend lehnen sie dieses wunderbare Privileg ab, weil es so leicht zu erlangen ist.“

* Etienne de La Boétie, Die Politik des Gehorsams: Der Diskurs der freiwilligen Knechtschaft

the whole clown network

#Fediblock Generally speaking, technological control over human behavior will probably not be introduced with a totalitarian intention or even through a conscious desire to restrict human freedom.Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind will be taken as a rational response to a problem that faces society, such as curing alcoholism, reducing the crime rate or inducing young people to study science and engineering. In many cases, there will be a humanitarian justification. For example, when a psychiatrist prescribes an antidepressant for a depressed patient, he is clearly doing that individual a favor. It would be inhumane to withhold the drug from someone who needs it. When parents send their children to Sylvan Learning Centers to have them manipulated into becoming enthusiastic about their studies, they do so from concern for their children’s welfare. It may be that some of these parents wish that one didn’t have to have specialized training to get a job and that their kid didn’t have to be brainwashed into becoming a computer nerd. But what can they do? They can’t change society, and their child may be unemployable if he doesn’t have certain skills. So they send him to Sylvan.

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Enjoy witnessing the total destruction of the liberal arts

@thatbrickster

Anyone who sees it coming is insane and a conspiracy theorist.

@tiskaan

@Leyonhjelm It's only dystopian because it's far-removed from what's considered the norm at the time. We don't notice we're heading towards it since it edges closer too slowly for us to notice. By the time it's adjacent, it's too late.

@tiskaan

Interested to know more about the history of the FSF and free software? Follow the FSF's thirty-five (plus!) years of advocating for software freedom with our timeline project: https://u.fsf.org/3fc #UserFreedom

what are some other forbidden domains in CS, that you're not allowed to touch? cryptography, mail servers, <insert yours here>