~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs

They've been around since 2010.

As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.

New official #Gemini news feed:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/

We have closed the loop.

The launcher can now assemble tal files on the fly, you can use Left to write #uxn programs, Nasu to make graphics, Dexe to include them into your projects.

That means you can have a complete workstation on a NDS, GBA, Playdate, etc..

Thanks to everyone who helped to put this together.

“wow the fediverse federates… let’s keep it to 2 or 3 instances guys, let’s never use this awesome power to actually do anything”

Dino (XMPP): Decentralized End To End Encryption Messenger/+ Chatroom Client (Linux/Pinephone Shown) https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/86d8b6df-8000-41f6-a92c-1d8ba2501972

🔭 #Fediverse in 2021 🎉

https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2021

#ActivityPub #federation

This blew our socks off - #PineNote 's e-paper display now works on mainline #linux ! 🎉

Thanks to Samuel Holland (https://github.com/smaeul) as well as other contributors for this incredible achievement.

What's even the point of getting a PhD in the middle of a pandemic if you're *not* going to make a plague doctor mask and wander around campus wearing it along with your regalia?

Cheers to all of my fellow plague doctors from the class of 2021 or 2020!

As foretold by @cwebber ( https://octodon.social/@cwebber/107475000512669706 )

I decided that these merry days leading to Christmas, when we’re infused with positive sentiments and hope for humanity, are as good as any other to read… #Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

😲

Not really! In fact, I’m a bit embarrassed to leave my e-book reader lying around so that others can see what I’m reading… But my Theory of Reading actually supports and encourages reading anything that has been very influential (for good or for ill) regardless of its literary merits, its veracity, its applicability today, or its moral qualities.

Not to put them all necessarily in the same bucket, but I have read The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Communist Manifesto and Atlas Shrugged — and I would read The Bible and The Quran too: all of them #books that are ( in a way or another) wrong, false, corrosive, harmful, evil, racist, sexist, pro-violence, or pro-war — or even all of those things at the same time!

Granted: #MeinKampf may well be the wrongest among the wrong books… And in a way, that contributes to making it “useful” as a reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/64930929-tripu?shelf=currently-reading

That was about 📚 #reading (#books).

Related, about the 📰 #news:

“I don’t know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a whole bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs.”

— #RolfDobelli

https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf