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US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

amazes me how far my VHF antenna on my roof can reach considering im in the middle of the city.. Especially if you factor in digital modes. I've gotten close to hitting new york city on very rare occasions. 50mi+ connections are not unheard of.

I'm not sure whats worse at this point progressives or communists.. how much overlap does that venn diagram even have.

the irony is I used to be very liberal and progressive but not like this. I think I've mostly come to reject those labels lately just so I dont get associated with people like this.

After well over a month of quarantine I really dont miss most people at all...

After encountering a public domain tileset on itch.io that appealed to me so much that I'm now considering experimenting with game development, I decided to start compiling a list of game assets on Itch.io that are under Debian-compatible licensing terms.

(i.e. Not the usual "don't redistribute or sell alone or in assets packs" terms which violate the FSF, OSI, and Debian definitions of Free and/or Open.)

itch.io/c/845926/libre-game-as

(The description also lists other sources like OpenGameArt.)

@Gargron I need to ask for a desperately needed but I hope simple feature.

The ability to retroactively suspend all accounts that signed up with an e-mail from a blacklisted address.

We have a massive number of spam accounts that register dozens or more accounts at a time before spamming allowing them to easily circumvent the email blacklist system.

@n0btc You just do DMR or you do C4FM too? I am C4FM capable now on HF, VHF, and UHF now with access to an WiresX repeater now too if you want to do a QSO sometime.

Anyone wanna do a WiresX QSO (C4FM Yeasu System Fusion) by any chance? I'm bored?

So I have been having a lot of fun using Spacemacs (Emacs + Vim) lately as my new IDE. Its a game changer for sure. One thing I find particularly fun is the "pretty-mode" extensions I managed to program into it (had to write my own layer that I derived from some existing code). I'll explain each aspect of pretty-mode in a second but first check out some screen shots at the bottom of this post to see what it looks like.

If anyone wants to replicate my configuration the full setup is here: git.qoto.org/freemo/pretty-spa

Pretty-git is the most functionally useful of them all. When you make a git commit it helps you format your git message using the standard format where you start with one keyword classifying the commit (such as fix, feature, refactor, etc) then a colon, then the text. It provides a list of selectable keywords and adds it to the git message. Moreover it can replace these keywords visually with descriptive icons (such as a little red bug for bug fixes). Later when you look through the git history you see these icons where the keywords should be making for a very nice visual representation.

My favorite is the pretty-code. Its a simple idea, it replaces certain keywords of phrases in code with equivelant mathematical symbols. So, for example null/nil/none will be replaced with the empty-set math symbol (a circle with a slash through it), similarlity stuff like not equals (!=) will be replace with an equals mark with a slash through it. You can fully customize what symbols are replaced and what it is replaced with. Also when you cursor over a symbol it temporarily reverts back to the keyword it replaced so you can see what it means. Searches and of course the underlying code itself (and in git) is unchanged.

pretty-shell is just a shell with some nice font-awesome fonts to make it pretty, usually informative so different icons might represent if a directory is a git repository or if it has staged changes and what not.

Finally pretty-outline. This basically just gives bullet points (useful in org-mode and note dating) some pretty icon representations rather than circles. Pure eye candy on this one.

We just had a fly by in Philly to show "support" for the medical professionals here... how about buy them some supplies with that money instead?

RT @leighalexander
ok so I’m absolutely obsessed w algorithmic casual game ads right now. this one seems to be about dealing with flooding and mice simultaneously while pregnant in jail

So while my top-end rig is being repaired i decided to buy a new cheaper rig as a temporary standin. I decided to get a FT-991A. It has a waterfall display and can do digital voice on both HF and VHF/UHF which means it will actually still be useful to me after my main rig is fixed. Looking forward to trying C4FM over HF frequencies!

Wanted to share a little screen recording sneak peak of the NCurses display working over Telnet for the mmorpg/mud (text based) I've been working on.

FYI i wanted to show this off at full resolution to show the full sized composite window possible... the video may even be larger than your native resolution. Though the game is playable at low resolutions as well the display will scale accordingly.

My mmorpg/mud (text based) is coming along nicely.. might need to do a screen recording soon. I think its the first mud that ever used NCurses over telnet so I had a lot of stuff to learn without much help, but it has been rewarding.

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