josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2020
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At the beginning of 1985 #microhobby interviewed Paco Suarez, legendary programmer, author of La Pulga (Bugaboo). He started his career as a designer and soon got into the coding world. La Pulga was initially a demo of a parabola trajectory, later converted into a game.
He sent a #BASIC program about astrology along with this game, coded for the #ZX81 , as a filler, to Indescomp, but the company surprisingly chose La Pulga, that had to be converted to the Spectrum.
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Today in 1991, 33 years ago: in Los Angeles (United States), an amateur video records the beating of African-American taxi driver Rodney King by white police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
-- Oscar Wilde
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SPC is back, baby!
I sadly have to take those words back. Not the best wishes or the appreciation towards PV and his work, of course, but the comment about us slackers being less grumpy than other computer users.
Ever since I moved from lilo to GRUB (I know it’s not related, but it all started at that point), Slackware -current has become increasingly unstable for me, and several updates have gone wrong, some of them terribly so.
@SinclairSpeccy@bitbang.social Happy birthday, @volkerdi! Thank you for dedicating more than half of your life to making us slackers less grumpy wh...
The one thing that pisses me off about qoto’s migration is that it is now hosted on AWS. I have everything (well, that’s probably not true. Let’s just say a lot of) Amazon blocked in my firewall.
I was happier when qoto was hosted on OVH, or wherever it was, but what am I going to do? I am a guest here. I shouldn’t even complain.
Today I could test chatgpt for the first time and I must say I am not the slightest bit impressed. I had hoped it would be more human-like in its conversation, but its answers are mostly boilerplate and legalese.
I thought at least it would be fun to use it to help me learn stuff (like Math or practicing foreign languages), but apparently getting it to do something like that would be a full-time job for me.
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Miss my SPC pals 
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Anarchist, anthropologist, and author David Graeber was born on February 12, 1961.
Explore the David Graeber Memorial Lectures hosted by CIIS Anthropology and Social Change https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
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Sé que por aquí no hay mucha gente de #soria pero también sirve por si hay alguien que dé clases de alemán y que quiera cambiar de vida y mudarse a Soria.
En la Escuela oficial de Idiomas buscan "desesperadamente" alguien para trabajar a jornada completa dando clases de alemán.
Visto en TW: https://twitter.com/sandrineeoi/status/1755287181311070591
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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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David del Alamo & I have spent the last 18 months putting our combined experience in scientific editing, education & funding into this baby. We've been running workshops since last January & now we've launched our site 👇
I wonder why he didn’t try Codeberg instead of going back to GitLab and GitHub. Sad news anyway.
Protesilaos Stavrou: "I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on SourceHut" https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-01-27-sourcehut-no-more/ It's not a...
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Charles Dickens ya se mofó de la cultura woke (escribió una 'Cenicienta' políticamente correcta)
El escritor se quejó de los intentos por modificar los cuentos infantiles en un artículo de 1853, recogido en una recopilación de sus escritos periodísticos que ahora publica Gatopardo bajo el título 'Pasiones públicas, emociones privadas'
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One day, we will all be just pictures on a phone.
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Luis Martín-Santos, el psiquiatra rojo que cambió para siempre la literatura española: "Es nuestro Joyce"
Este 21 de enero se cumplen 60 años de la muerte en un accidente de coche del autor de 'Tiempo de silencio'
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https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/literatura/2024/01/20/65aa9381fc6c832d058b458d.html
Usenet was much better than forums. Forums are the Slacks and Discords of the people who used newsgroups.
It's time to ditch the chaos of Slack and Discord communities and make a return to the organised, focused world of forums. They aren't obsolete. ...
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Just remind me again, who is winning the "War on the motorist"?
This is just one zebra crossing in Bradford, but the "war" is on every street...
Excitement!
Joined Sep 2020
