My #CompSci lecturers often dropped the names of inventors. But only if they were men. We talked about Gordon Moore, obviously Turing 🏳️‍🌈 was mentioned, about Don Knuth, about Chomsky etc.

But when we discussed the #ARM architecture, we never talked about the inventor *Sophie Wilson*. We also never talked about *Mary Ann Horton*, despite her work on `vi` and `terminfo` -- but of course we mentioned Bill Joy. We discussed the Spanning Tree Protocol, but not its inventor *Radia Perlman*. We have the whole field of #SoftwareEngineering, but who coined the term? *Margaret Hamilton*. We mentioned the ENIAC and v. Neumann, but failed to talk about *Adele Goldstine*. We discussed the origins of #OOP and #Smalltalk but ignored *Adele Goldberg*. We programmed in #Assembly but never talked about the woman who wrote the first #Assembler, *Kathleen Booth*. And don't get me started on #Safari and our sweet @lisamelton <3 Or any of the (incomplete list) of *Ida Rhodes, Carol Shaw, Shafi Goldwasser, Edith Clarke, Annie Easley, Joyce Little*, ...

And today? Let's talk about our favorite trans woman CPU designer, Lynn Conway.

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Duran Duran's "Rio" came out more than 40 years ago, and people have speculated ever since about who inspired the cover artwork, which was created by illustrator Patrick Nagel. Consequence explains that a Nagel fan finally tracked it down to a Vogue Paris 1981 cover featuring model Marcie Hunt. Here's more — including the reaction of Hunt, who discovered at the same time as the rest of us that her photo had been used.

https://flip.it/QC2eAo

#Music #Art #DuranDuran #AlbumCover #Illustration

*Look Scanned*

Web app to make pristine PDFs look like poorly scanned/photocopied documents. Besides being fun, it's a good tool to think through epistemological questions about authenticity, authority, and knowledge 🏛️📚🔍
https://lookscanned.io/scan

Google asks every app to have a Privacy Policy to be accepted in the Play Store. So, xScreenSaver had to write a privacy policy.

Here you go:

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

Google plan to limit ad-blockers kicks off next week.

If only there were a way we could fire Chrome so we could out-fox Google's plan 🤔

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

#Firefox #Chrome #Google #AdBlock #uBlockOrigin

to effectively compete with microsoft, linux needs to up its AI game. heres some ideas:

- new default shell with "did you mean" autocomplete recommendation carousel showing adverts for popular pay-to-win games using sixel graphics
- kernel continuously runs `strings` on /dev/mem and pipes the result up to the chatgpt 32-gigatoken-context model
- drop support for opengl/vulkan and replace with dall-e for increased realism
- tux now lives on your desktop and can joke, write rap lyrics, and flirt