#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

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A strange and disturbing figure, rendered entirely in dark, dull, monochromatic blue-green against a pale tan background. The figure is lurching forward, the way a zombie would, arms hanging down. One arm is longer than the other. Its legs are oddly thin compared to its upper body. It is wearing a suit coat and tie, but the left arm of the coat is short, like a short-sleeved shirt, and the left side of the coat is higher than the right. Also pinned to the left breast of the coat is what looks like an ID card, although whatever is printed on it is not visible. The figure wears mismatched boots, one of which is open, and appears generally dysfunctional. Where its head would be is a shapeless black smudge; a void that looks like a large ink blot. At the center of the void is a small orange icon of a gas pump—the icon a car displays when it is close to running out of fuel. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[uneasy music playing]

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO_7010_W071.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Clemenspool
CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)

#psa

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DO NOT TALK TO COMPUTERS Should you ever find yourself in the company of a computer attempting to communicate, do not engage. Talk to computers damages your health. Educational poster

WSL stands for Windows as a second language

@jsatk I like languages that are *stable* and don't require me to have 7 different versions installed at once.

This textbox is a message and part of a system of messages. Java is installed on over three billion devices. Java is found everywhere, even in your car. We thought we were a powerful culture.

It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.

A - DNS Record
AA - Battery
AAA - Battery
AAAA - DNS Record

something I've been thinking about is how, when I teach a class, I tell the TAs to never, ever touch the keyboard when they're helping a student with an assignment. not even once! because as soon as someone else is driving, it becomes real easy for the student to stop thinking and just let things happen.

kind of like what happens when we use a coding assistant.

[…] I’m anti-the branding of it as “artificial intelligence”, because it’s not intelligent. It’s a form of machine learning. “Generative AI” is just a very good Markov chain that people expect far too much from.

https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/

it has been 0️⃣ days since I had to send a corporation a nastygram about disrespecting my “reduce motion” and “do not autoplay videos” accessibility settings

the fediverse is just a bunch of neurodivergents building their own internet so they don't have to talk to the other internet

Lodge, I just learned about the mascot for the Montreal olympics in 1976 and need to share.

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A very 70s minimalist poster. At the top of the poster it says "Montreal 76" but the real focus is on the black silhouette of a beaver who is wearing a rainbow sash.

from an article about the bitcoin crash: “Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven’t seen since October 2024.”

Given that I personally remember people being excited that bitcoin had reached the mark of one (1) dollar, the term “historic lows” to describe returning to the state of things slightly over one year ago is rather telling about the tech industry’s lack of perspective and cultural memory…

(it’s still dropping though 😌)

@rasterweb I'm also trying to stop using "amateur" to mean sloppy and "professional" to mean high quality. That has always been a shitty dichotomy, and deskilling is only going to make it worse.

#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10606/opening-of-the-cabaret-voltaire-nightclub

It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.

I just want to remind you that in 1992, the Internet cost $2.50 an hour to access ($4.00 after the first four hours a night), was three million times slower than WiFi, and nobody in your house could take phone calls while you used it. Doomscroll on THAT.

@inthehands Time Machine on two removable USB drives. One lives in your house and gets connected regularly; one lives somewhere else and you back up to that once or twice a year. All other answers are incorrect.

@fanf so, RFC 5966 said SHOULD, RFC 7766 turned it into MUST, and they still had to publish an even _more_ emphatic RFC 9210?

"The key words 'SHOULD', 'MUST', and 'GOOD GRIEF WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ANY CLEARER' are to be interpreted …"