⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

I already know what everyone on here is going to say in response to this post. But writing it helped me sort out my thoughts!

I don't know how to social media any more: read for free on #Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/posts/97820156?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

@derek

Heh. You and me both! I tried to make a solo tabletop RPG that captures the feeling of captaining a ship with a close crew. Most sci-fi games are skin-of-your-teeth survival, grunge future, or dystopian, and doesn't really capture the more idealistic or social aspect of captaining.

https://lonespelunker.itch.io/welcome-aboard-captain

@cybergibbons @hacks4pancakes The time I had to maintain an internet-facing Windows 2003 box well past EOL until the space probe it ran crashed into Jupiter.

Fuck my life, why do people think it’s ok to leave comments on *real life sex stories* giving critical feedback about the way people are shagging?

Just had a new comment on an old guest blog asking ‘why the hell didn’t he use a blindfold on her?!’

Maybe because he didn’t want to, or she had limits, or it wasn’t their vibe at the time. People aren’t your porn puppets you creepy fuck.

"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road."

- Rebecca Solnit

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

@simon_brooke @frameworkcomputer We just bought a Framework 13 Ryzen for my wife to use as a Linux Mint daily driver.

It's a great system, and I'm very tempted to abandon my usual plan of refurbished ThinkPads when it's time to replace my W540.

The other problem that bsky has is more subtle. They took a bet on creating their own protocol. And I think that was a mistake. I don't think it will gain adoption, and I don't think they're going to succeed at becoming a truly distributed system.

Kemi Badenoch: Thanks so Brexit, exports of honey to Saudi have skyrocketed!

British Bee Famers Association: Eh?

Brexit is making it up as you go along.

#Brexit #KemiBadenoch

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/04/brexit-trade-perks-firms-business-department-leaving-eu-companies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.

As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.

I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot