timorl @timorl@qoto.org

also looking for CP437 fonts reminded me that i made a 16-seg-like font for dwarf fortress once
it's beautifully ugly

Great article just hit talking about SafePKT, an EU funded research project with myself, @sh4l and our excellent colleagues, advancing the art of automatic software verification for Rust code in the PKT ecosystem! 🎉

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/08/179147-caleb-james-delisle-co-founder-at-pkt-explains-how-theyve-used-blockchain-tech-to-pay-users-for-contributing-unused-internet-bandwidth/

Problem: The actual receptors in the retina are on the back so light has to pass through the blood vessels and other support infrastructure to reach them.
Smart solution: Move receptors to front side.
Evolution solution: Fix it in software.

While I knew about Dunbar's number before, the smaller and larger social groups he postulates are interesting:
https://youtu.be/-wC8oOyiDhk

They are:
Inner Circle 5
Sympathy 15
Overnight/Affinity Band 50
Active Network 150 (Dunbar's number)
Acquaintances 500
Human capacity to recognize 1500

I think we need to agree collectively to consider soundbites and political memes impolite.

it’s a complete domination of style over substance, and we can’t debate anything meaningful this way, the tribal dadaism of what goes on on all major social networks is just awful.

Considering it good form to at least put together a couple of paragraphs worth of arguments for a position should be the minimum that we do.

all of my linux installs

two kinds of dwarf fortress fights:
- the -cotton ball- fractures the skull, bruising the brain!
- 50-year long colossus siege

Sketch of The Analytical Engine invented by Charles #Babbage.

The notes of #AdaLovelace are really REALLY something any programmer should read.

In particular, the famous Note G first lines are prophetic.

```
It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. For, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formulæ of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all extensions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, various collateral influences, besides the main and primary object attained.
```

http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html

I will be talking tomorrow at 6pm CEST about data colonialism, and how data extraction affects commonality in and outside of technological practice.
https://www.mybehavioralsurplus.org/projects/howtostaywiththetrouble

Gisteren heeft het Europees Parlement de verordening over #chatcontrol aangenomen: een trieste dag voor iedereen die vertrouwt op vrije en vertrouwelijke communicatie en advies, waaronder slachtoffers van misbruik en journalistieke bronnen. #surveillance

Zo hebben de fracties in het Parlement gestemd:

"From 2015 to 2019, #Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week. An analysis of the results was finally published this week, and surprise! Everyone was happier, healthier, and more productive. Please pretend to be surprised."
https://mashable.com/article/iceland-four-day-work-week-trial

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