Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

Airtel is not shy when it comes to asking for data

Snakes and ladders was originally a game about morals and karma.

"Here is the story of two game-boards in the British Library’s archives and how an Indian game designed to teach the workings of Karma and religion became the Snakes and Ladders that children play the world over, today."

https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2020/09/ereading-karma-in-snakes-and-ladders-two-game-boards-in-the-british-library-collections.html

#Games #SnakesAndLadders #History #Culture #BoardGames

RT @dylanbeattie@twitter.com

Just saw a tweet that said "Stay at 127.0.0.1. Wear a 255.0.0.0" and I'm like... that's a class A subnet. That's a mask big enough for you and 16,777,213 other people. That's never gonna work.

Be smart, people. Stay at 127.0.0.1, wear a 255.255.255.248.

#TomGauld's #Thriller #Concept #Generator

By going out in public, you're trusting hundreds or thousands of people to not
kill you
-PeachHarvest, Apr 2016

@caranmegil
Some Peertube instances useful for English speakers:

https://peertube.nielsemmer.com/videos/local?a-state=42
Documentaries, scitech talks, a few explanatory videos

https://tilvids.com/
Varied. 'Fun facts' videos, educational, cooking, mythology, music, ...

https://peerkids.com/videos/trending?a-state=42
Peertube for kids - cartoons, education stuff from TEDEd, PBS, etc. that look fun and well-made

https://peertube.opencloud.lu/videos/overview
Privacy, how-to videos, conference talks

https://share.tube/videos/most-liked?a-state=42
Tech reviews and opinions, FOSS tools, gaming, etc.

https://v.pfaff.dev/videos/most-liked?a-state=42
Tech tool reviews, privacy

https://conf.tube/
Conference talks

As we crossed 1 lakh #COVID19 deaths, this graph of "death per million people" is a meaningful yardstick to understand how India & its neighbours performed

I received food. I am very satisfied.

— Goden Akrullisid, Shearer

clickbait "journalists" are the lowest form of human life

Google is buying Fitbit and it's likely they'll succeed, despite the fact that this is an obviously bad idea: allowing one of the world's most data-hungry companies to acquire the assets and customers of a rival whose pitch was, "We don't give your sensitive data to Google."

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“I recognise that I can use part of my income to do a significant amount of good. Since I can live well enough on a smaller income, I pledge that for the rest of my life or until the day I retire, I shall give at least ten percent of what I earn to whichever organisations can most effectively use it to improve the lives of others, now and in the years to come. I make this pledge freely, openly, and sincerely.”
#EffectiveAltruism #EA #GivingWhatWeCan #GWWC #pledge
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge/

Our governing bodies' transition from an extreme reaction to hell may care attitude now has successfully confused people into thinking Covid-19 is some joke. People have literally started advising me to take the mask off if I feel like it. #Velangum

I ❤️ using pandoc to convert markdown content simultaneously to various formats that I can e-mail people at work for feedback:

– PDF, because it’s beautiful to look at and the physics nerds will appreciate LaTeX-formatted content
– HTML, so those on their phones can open it with the built-in web browser with a font size that isn’t tiny
– DOCX, for those who need to edit the document and/or send me comments

Thanks to one makefile I copy into new projects.

I want to write a technical/design article about computer systems and how they treat names.

Based on my knowledge of and social experience with white America, cisgender men almost never have to even give the slightest thought to their name ever changing.

But I wanted to check myself and scope that assertion, if needed. Is men changing names common in other cultures?

I learned about axe. No, I'm not interested.

— Ubbul Likotetes, militia commander

So the other day I was talking with my dad and he thought I said "there's heat to that" and he thought it was slang meaning that a phrase is truthful or has some validity. I don't remember what we were talking about but anyway I want to make "there's heat to that" slang for "what you just said was truthful/valid" who's with me