szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

You go talk to kindergartners or 1st-grade kids,
you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They
ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.
You go talk to 12th graders & there's none of
that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.

#CarlSagan #science

"In the cult of working to your fucking death relax is a revolution"
Willy Pogany's illustration. 
#mykofanesvlepy #pagan #antiwork #anticapitalism #stickers #relax #regen #willypogany #pagananarchism

An interesting, detailed study by @hildabast in PLOS Blogs about how and why it is difficult to measure the growing number of users on Mastodon, where recent estimates in the wake of the #TwitterMigration range between 2.5 to 8 million users: “Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean,” https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2022/12/05/mastodon-growth-numbers-might-not-mean-what-you-think-they-mean/ (Dec. 5, 2022).

Oh my God.

I’ve just realised what ChatGPT reminds me of. It’s from Douglas Adams’ novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, published 35 years ago.

nom nom nom nom

#insects #green #lepidoptera

No Wordle today. No NYTimes at all for 24 hours. My dad, who was in the News Guild as a journalist for AP taught me to NEVER cross a picket line. Solidarity forever!

I am offically stepping down as a Council member from the #UFoI in an attempt to choose a more impartial head until an election can be done. If anyone has issue with QOTO being in the UFoI please report it with any evidence and the new head will remove us from the UFoI, thanks.

https://UFoI

#UFI #mastoadmin

@ufoi

This is pretty cool! The source code for the original Postscript engine from 1984 has now been released in collaboration with the Computer History Museum #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #ComputerHistoryMuseum #programming #PostScript www.zdnet.com/article/this-198…

Well this can't be good: https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-rampaging-avian-influenza-is-entering-unknown-territory/

#climatechange #influenza #flu #fluorescencefriday #birds #avianflu #H5N1 #chickens #seabirds

Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia

So it looks like the Raspberry Pi Foundation has finally jumped the shark. They hired a surveillance cop as a maker in residence, which is Dumb Move No. 1, but when people on Mastodon began voicing their concerns, whoever runs the account responded with mocking and derision, telling users to "chill" and generally acting like an asshole.

That's not the way to handle this. At all.

As it stands, if the Raspberry Pi Foundation wants to go this way, everyone has every right to stop supporting them. Besides RPis being next to impossible to get ahold of nowadays, thanks to the stupid move of supporting corps over hobbyists (as I understand it), this move of hiring a surveillance cop is a massive slap in the face of the marginalized groups that supported and relied on Raspberry Pis for many projects.

So I'm making my decision: my next SBCs will most likely be Banana Pis or Pine64's RockPro boards. Both are inexpensive and plentiful.

In all good faith, I will not be supporting the Raspberry Pi Foundation for this move, nor will I support them in any future endeavors, but also, I implore people to not just dump out your Raspberry Pis; creating e-waste in protest doesn't help.

Donate your Pis, or just put them away if you don't want to use them any longer. Find homes for them; throwing them out when they're hard for others to find is wasteful and the wrong message to send.

I'll continue to use my Pis, because I bought or received them long before this mess. But I will not be giving them any more of my money.

That's how you protest their actions: by closing your wallet to them.

#RaspberryPi

“The Bureau of Land Management gets the $7 entry fee from the 64 daily hikers who are lucky enough to visit Coyote Buttes. The $14,400 in lottery fees that the day's hopeful hikers pay to Recreation.gov for a shot at a permit all go to a giant military contractor: Booz Allen.

“I know. What. The. Actual. Fuck.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/30/military-industrial-park-service/#booz-allen

Beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

a debugging manifesto