kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@social.cleverlibre.org

'The seizure of Z-Library was the latest episode in an ongoing tussle between shadow libraries and state authorities. In 2015, when the academic publishing giant Elsevier took LibGen and Sci-Hub to court in the US, the sites were found to be in breach of copyright regulations and ordered to pay $15 million in damages (they didn’t). In 2020, Elsevier teamed up with Wiley and the American Chemical Society to sue the sites again, this time in Delhi; the case is ongoing, but seems likely to go the publishers’ way. Yet shadow libraries remain effectively impossible to prosecute, let alone abolish'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/december/in-the-shadow-library

Very informative video on what #cars (and mainly #parking) do to your city. In this case #Amsterdam and, at the end of the vid, what the parking for (only) 400 cars next to the #Bijenkorf does do to the city centre (hint: a hell-u-v-a-lot-of-cars) https://youtu.be/mXLqrMljdfU by #NotJustBikes

【和当地劳工一起看世界杯，管窥“卡塔尔折叠”另一面】无法申请现场观赛的必备球迷身份证“哈亚卡”，加之球票价格高昂无力负担——对于劳工们来说，免费公共大屏的现场直播，得以成为他们和世界杯之间的唯一连结。
https://dig.chouti.com/link/37217253

Intent to Ship WebGPU in Chrome 🎉https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VomzPhvJCxI/m/SUhU9Z0vAgAJ

Benny's single pink bean.

#cat #cats #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

love at first sight

Advance warning: the newest #rust compiler nightlies have much more aggressive "type trimming" in some diagnostics. If you encounter *any* cases where there are naming clashes being surfaced that are not clarified anywhere in the diagnostic, please file a ticket!

Has anyone tried asking #gpt3 to explain #monads yet?

New #paredit release… after 8 years 🤯

http://paredit.org/cgit/paredit/plain/NEWS

You gotta hand it to #racket, in terms of getting things done in a no-nonsense way without sacrificing expressing power, syntax-parse is the bees knees. But its implementation seems pretty thick.

Every time that I feel like I've become comfortable with syntax-case I try to do something seemingly simple that requires procedural transformation back-and-forth between syntax objects and their corresponding forms, only to spend ~10 hours getting the mechanics right.

But each time I walk away with a whole handful of new tools that simplify so many extremely gnarly programming problems. The literature seems to be more or less limited to Dybvig's treatment, which is really good but fairly steep and focused on implementing the same procedures that are always used to teach macros. When I eventually get it down I'll definitely try to put together a tutorial.

Superb resource from Aaron Ballman: collected differences between C and C++ in the superficially "shared subset" of the languages. "C xor C++".

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3065.pdf

As I said this am, Elno’s plans to force users to sign on for personalized ads and to provide location to Twitter isn’t going to fly, but @mmasnick has clearly explained here why.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/twitters-big-ad-plan-violate-both-ftc-consent-decree-california-privacy-law-to-force-users-to-hand-over-info-for-ad-targeting/

The yacht Maryah, owned by Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, sailed for 5 days over 2,970 km.

During this travel, the boat produced at least 729 tons of CO₂. Its itinerary was calculated using global sea routes.

Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the son of the founder of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and serves as the National Security Advisor of #UAE.

The yacht Kaiser, owned by Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, sailed for a day over 768 km.

During this travel, the boat produced at least 133 tons of CO₂.

Oleksandr Yaroslavsky is a Ukrainian businessman, president of DCH. He was formerly co-owner of UkrSibbank and president of FC Metalist Kharkiv. Between 2002 and 2006, Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi was a People's Deputy in the #VerkhovnaRada of Ukraine, as a member of the #PartyOfGreens.

The yacht AV, owned by Mikhail Prokhorov, sailed for 2 days over 1,495 km.

During this travel, the boat produced at least 501 tons of CO₂. Its journey started near TARIFA (Spain).

Mikhail Prokhorov is a Russian-Israeli #oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. In 2011, he ran as an independent candidate in the 2012 Russian presidential election. In June 2012, he declared the establishment of the new Russian political party called Civic Platform.

The yacht Lauren L, owned by Igor Kolomoisky, sailed for 6 days over 2,469 km.

During this travel, the boat produced at least 284 tons of CO₂.

Igor Kolomoisky is a Ukrainian-born billionaire, business magnate, and politician. He served as Governor of #DnipropetrovskOblast from 2014 until his dismissal by President Petro Poroshenko in 2016. In July 2022, #Zelenskyy controversially stripped Kolomoyskyi of his Ukrainian citizenship.

The yacht Infinity, owned by Eric Smidt, sailed for 13 days over 774 km.

During this travel, the boat produced at least 1,179 tons of CO₂.

Eric Smidt is an American businessman. He is a prominent Los Angeles #Democrat who has hosted fundraiser dinners for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is a friend of former Mayor of #LosAngeles Antonio Villaraigosa, and he helped pay down the Mayor's ethics fines. Smidt contributed $114,300 to Democratic campaigns in 2012.

MacOS is pronounced like "tacos"