Daphne Preston-Kendal

@dpk@chaos.social
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Chair of the Working Group for R7RS Large, the next revision of the standard for the Scheme programming language.

Codeberg presidium 2025–7.

Indo-Europeanist.

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LocationBerlin, Germany
Pronounsshe/sie/elle/ji/hēo/hon/ἥ/सा
Thank fuck Stonehenge gives you 5 era score, and first religion gives you even more … narrowly dodged my first era being a dark age, which would probably have meant I gave up
Bad start as other civs grab all the nearby villages and meet all the other nearby citystates before me. Tempted to restart already but I’ll press on for now
Trying Kristina of Sweden … again
Okay, beginning my third attempt to win a science victory without accidentally turning it into a diplomatic victory
Sometimes a meme gets your head and you gotta draw it from scratch.

I can’t believe this open web advocacy account that says opt-in consent is a gray area is actually Chromium Charles, Google’s previous head of violating user consent

but on the other hand Charles says this time it’s different and Mozilla’s decade+ long track record of fuckery doesn’t exist so what is truth really

You can tell the former East still lags behind West Germany. For example, the trains there are still punctual
https://toot.community/@chuuchuu/115746750599938629
chuuchuu (@chuuchuu@toot.community)

Attached: 1 image We tracked like 17 million train arrivals last year to see where delays happen, and this is the result 🗺️ Find out the best and worst stations, routes and times of day in our 2025 Wrapped overview: https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped (on that note, we have a new website so check that out too)

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Learning some Sanskrit 🧐
I wake up → Everyone I know has been installing Unix v4 overnight

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

Credits:

* Jay Lepreau for holding on to this tape
* Aleksander Maricq for finding it
* Jon Duerig for driving it to the Computer History Museum
* Thalia Archibald for doing a huge amount of research into the tape, its history, and file formats, and the upload
* Al Kossow for the tape-reading equipment and doing the actual read
* Len Shustek for the lab where the read was done and the software used to decode it

#retrocomputing

UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell circa June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and...

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