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Since he has just passed away, I was trying to find a free PDF link of my favorite Hoare paper, Proof of Correctness of Data Representations, but unfortunately it is under the Springer iron dome. You can enter the DOI 10.1007/3-540-07994-7_54 into your preferred website for liberating scientific information.
Because I have poor self control, I made a thing to avoid looking at those increasingly terrible ACM Digital Library pages. Introducing Analog Library: https://al.radbox.org
Analog Library Premium Edition™

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

Stardew valley is a popular game with people in my generation. Like most video games it's a power fantasy.

In this case about growing food, having a functional "third space" in your community and fixing public transit. Pure escapism.

Also there are magic forest spirits and dungeons with monsters and treasures.

Peter Thiel is an anagram of Hitler Pete and it fucking shows.
As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.

Introducing Octavo, my Mac app for turning PDFs into booklets, cleaning up bad scans, printing zines, labels, and more.

If you follow me, you may have seen my #BuildInPublic journey developing it over the last few months! It's now launched, and is available on the Mac App Store for $25 (via in app purchase so you can try before you buy).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octavo/id6757485225?mt=12

For more info, the website has more screenshots and a copy of the user's guide: https://octavo.pro

#mac #pdf #software

@Daojoan The funny thing about bringing up Debian's web-of-trust is that in order to become an official Debian Developer, you used to have to meet up with another Developer *in person* to sign PGP keys. It took me almost a year to complete that step, when I lived in a podunk town without a car (I had to hitch a ride with a friend to NYC and coordinate meeting up with another DD there).

Things changed with covid: https://lwn.net/Articles/831401/. However, in The Slopocene, we may need to switch back..

Key signing in the pandemic era

The pandemic has changed many things in our communities, even though distance has always played [...]

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We have an opening for a lecturer in programming languages: https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx

The deadline is tomorrow!

Current Vacancies - Jobs at the University of Kent

Vacancies

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)