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A five year old Reddit post just helped me solve a knotty problem.
I hate to think how much useful info is being lost in ephemeral services like Discord, Slack, and IRC.

MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language where programs are combinations of rewrite rules and inference is performed via constraint propagation.

github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior

> The core idea of “digital sovereignty” is that the digital exhaust created by a person, business or government should be stored inside the country where it originated

Fuck countries, all of them. The data should be stored inside the person themselves.

Pixelfed Live - simple live-streaming

✨ Easy to use
⚡ OBS supported
✨ Optional live chat
⚡ Fedi + mobile api support
✨ Advanced admin config (limit broadcasts to users w/ 500+ followers, disable replays, etc)
⚡ Simple setup that scales, from a mono deployment to dedicated streaming servers

Shipping soon! #pixelfed #pixelfedLive

It's not who did it first, it's who did it right.

Groups will be rolling out to select :pixelfed: instances next week, and will be available for all pixelfed instances after we conclude federation compatibility testing!

#pixelfed #groups

@qnm @cwebber There are two problems with content or site blocking:
- When it blocks things it wasn't intended to block
- When it blocks things it was intended to block

SPJ on writing a Great Grant Proposal 

> Ask lots of people to help you improve your proposal. Give it to your colleagues, your friends, your spouse, your dog, and listen to what they say. If they misunderstand what you were trying to say, don’t say “you misunderstood me”; instead rewrite it so it can’t be misunderstood. If they don’t immediately see the value of what you want to achieve, rewrite it until they do.

simon.peytonjones.org/great-gr

Idle thought:

The English plural of "virus" is "viruses".

The Latin plural of "virus" would be "virūs", because it isn't second-declension, it's fourth - except that in Latin "virus" is a singulare tantum: it has no plural. "viri" is the plural of "vir", meaning "man". "Virii" is the plural of Virius, a family name.

Just so you know.

Noticed in several talks with colleagues that it's not obvious to people that you can use JSON Schema to validate TOML. Truth is, there's nothing "JSON" about JSON Schema, it validates structured objects in memory, not files. And it doesn't care or even know from where your structured object was parsed. It could be TOML, YAML, or just a hard-coded literal. Serialization format doesn't matter.

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