Today I learned about this!
It's the first accurate image of a black hole, created by astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978, using an IBM 7040 computer with punch cards and plotting it out by hand with India ink.
Audiobooks are a 100% valid way of reading, and if it's your primary way, I hear & honor ya.
Your irregular reminder that if you enjoy audiobooks Libro.fm is an incredibly good replacement for Audible.
Libro.fm provides DRM-free downloadable MP3 versions of the book (in addition to having an app you can use). They've had at least 90% of the books I've looked for.
They're also an employee-owned social corporation that allows you to support local independent bookstores with your purchases.
“Defrag please!” Great way to get folks to shuffle and fill the empty space at a tech conference 🤣 #FrOSCon
Truly a testament to the dysfunctionality of computer user interface design - we don't have dedicated keys for copy/paste. "yes you have to press two keys at the same time for the far most common actions"
Building a Mastodon app?
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK has been designed to handle the quirks of the many different servers across the fediverse. It’s been growing fast to support more APIs and edge cases, so you can focus on building your app instead. Also mirrored on https://codeberg.org/TootSDK/TootSDK 🚀
asbestos is the future, asbestos is a modern material of science. if you aren't using asbestos in everything you are going to be left behind
I recently bought an 8bitdo keyboard which comes with a pair of large “Mashable” programmable buttons. I mapped them to shift+ctrl+c and v, which works in my terminal and several apps which want ctrl+c and ignore the extra shift. They are surprisingly handy! Sadly Firefox didn’t.
Back then, the scheme to guarantee persistence had been changed for the third time.
Today I read the (excellent) Debian trixie release notes, which warn that interface names may change on upgrade…
It’s release day for Debian 13 “trixie”! Across the world, the release, publicity, images, and FTP teams are making their final preparations for the new stable release. #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie
Universal #EInk Solutions, which aims to provide a consistent API for driving #epaper displays 🖥️
https://nlnet.nl/project/Universal-EInk/
As someone who cannot concentrate for long periods on bright screens and the owner of an e-ink monitor as well as an e-reader, this is something I'm looking forward too as it'll increase hackability and enable the development of more #OpenHardware devices!
(On a related note, I also learnt during the course of the meeting that #Modos is also an NLnet-funded project)
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We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14
