John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

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RT @CubicleApril
big middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the `z` in `tar -xvzf` hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.
https://twitter.com/CubicleApril/status/1653905572415119361

There’s an interesting exploration of the consequences of finite energy availability for economics here: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/ It’s a few years old, but maybe most of it won’t have changed much.

There’s also a blog somewhere about the effect of adding fusion energy into the Earth system (it’ll all end up as heat) and the risk of us cooking ourselves, but I can’t just find it. #energy

Another day in Microsoft purgatory 🤬

Mastodon Is Doomed

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/

In the late 1880s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

Just realized I never wrote an #Introduction when I joined last fall -

#Books are my favorite thing; particular #Horror, #Fantasy, and #Mystery. You can see what I #AmReading in my profile, but lately I've been into classic fantasy, and the #SwordAndSorcery and #DyingEarth subgenres.

#Bass player in a past life. No longer play but still enjoy all kinds of #Music.

These are my primary interests, but don't be surprised if I also talk about #VideoGames, #Movies, or #ProWrestling.

Also yesterday I flippantly suggested that the UK Emergency Alert system only came about as a way to siphon money to a Tory MP's wife/family/friend etc.

Turns out Infosys, yes the one Sunak’s wife has shares in and was co-founded by her dad, was involved in the project.

*does the I told you so dance*

I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.

https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard/-/blob/master/README.md

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard/-/blob/master/README.md

#linux #unix

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

#ChatGPT #Emacs shell delegating markdown blocks to #org babel

https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell

Following Elsevier's decision to raise the article processing charge for NeuroImage to $3,450, all editors (inc. chief editors) from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports have resigned, effective immediately.

I am joining this action and have also resigned.

Full announcement: https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf

I think there should be a hashtag that's dedicated to helping people who are new to the Fediverse.

But for it to work it needs to be known and promoted by a critical mass of us.

The only way I can think of to make this happen is by asking you to boost this post, and to vote for the hashtag you think we should unite around.

I'll share a follow up in a week with the one that gets the most votes, or a new poll if there's lots of suggestions for different hashtags.

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/ It creates a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites.

happy #eastern !

Find them all…

One day when I'm all grown up I'll remember that it's not a good idea to eat my entire chocolate bunny for breakfast, but I am 40 years old and today is not that day.

Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 😃

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

How are you using the ⭐ flag below messages here on Mastodon?

(boost if you want the result to reflect more opinions)

(note that there is a bookmark flag as well, in case you're still using it for that like I did for too long)

This is impressive: the double-slit experiment, with the slits separated in time rather than space

https://theconversation.com/famous-double-slit-experiment-recreated-in-fourth-dimension-by-physicists-203060

#physics