«lambalicious»CS & Tech Headlines I want to read unironically this 2024:
"Web 1.0 is doing great!"
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"Social platform's workers democratically elect to relicense system to AGPL, announce new Forgejo repo for designing 2025 public-facing API."
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"AMD begins free recall program for all PSP-enabled processors, offers owners jailbroken PSP 3000s (the videogame handhelds) in exchange."
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"Developer of libfoo awarded retroactive, lifetime grace salary by RedHat, WTO, UN for thanklessly maintaining 200 LOC component that sustains the entire Western world economy."
(See: https://xkcd.com/2347/ )
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"Firefox, Vivaldi enable switching their renderer to Opera Fresco, homebrew remake of 2000s glorious Opera Presto engine."
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"Ransomware victim SMS-phishes attackers into giving her master decryption key, botnet disabled near-instantly."
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"Unicode Consortium to remove all emojis, start from scratch with less rich-hemisphere, more world-inclusive set."
(re: https://aleph.land/@lambalicious/110738560638799715 )
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«lambalicious» (@[email protected])
#Unicode is weird and kinda "rich hemisphere-centric" when it comes to #emojis ... or everywhere. I could start a Unicode Complainopedia by myself alone, but today I want to focus on my "Emojicomplainipedia". I mean. They are so... arbitrarily restricted, and they don't seem to represent a language or anything that resembles a language that you can create concrete messages with (unlike eg.: Unicode symbols for traffic signals). And the choices and the gaping holes in between... oooh boy. Why are there emojis for Americas, Eurafrica and Oceasia, but not for Antarctica? Why is there Tiger and Lion, but TigerFace and not LionFace? On that, why no Jaguar and PallasCat? Why an emoji SPECIFICALLY for Mount Fuji but Pinatubo, Villarrica or the damn EVEREST don't get theirs? Why MilitaryMedal but not PeacePrize? (US loves guns) Why Sushi (north hemisphere food) but not Cazuela (south hemisphere food)? Why no Yugoslavia flag, but Texas (US) gets its own flag? Why does Unicode even need emoji to begin with?
"Billionaire buys social network, donates it to Human Rights groups, then donates same amount of money to Alzheimer research."
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