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Incarnated as a human in the area of "Yay".
What others call the Bay.
Encountered networked computers before TCP.
Email? UUCP before SMTP.
I knew the late great Doug Engelbart, personally.
Helped patch an embargoed bug in BIND 2013-4854 by CVE.
Helped restore UNIX before C.
1 of 4 skratch deejays in ThudRumble's 33.3 Club as well.
Struggles amidst these Saṃsāric rings of hell.
My 2nd language is Japanese.
Default to English, if you please.
I'm a polyglot & read & write in multiple orthographies.
A deprecated accounthttps://mastodon.social/@byterhymer
An editor since 2004https://undeadly.org
A modest websitehttp://www.artkiver.com
A maintainer glimpsehttps://repology.org/maintainers/?search=artkiver

@drahardja When I was at Microsoft, I encountered the phenomenon of the -1x engineer. The people who threw a load of code at projects that then took at least one full-time engineer to fix bugs in and refactor. These people were often rapidly moved to positions where they could do less immediate damage, such as going to cross-group design meetings. Unfortunately, this raised their profile and got them promotions and transfers to other teams who did not initially know how much damage they’d done in their previous team.

Interestingly, if you look at commits, these people had the exact opposite profile to the so-called ‘ghost engineers’. The people fixing their bugs would often make a load of single-line changes, they would be the ones throwing a thousand lines of spaghetti into the repo at a time. Often, it wasn’t just that the code was bad, it was the design was fundamentally flawed and they were solving entirely the wrong problem, but they wrote a lot of code and so looked productive.

The best engineers increase functionality or performance and write a net negative volume of code.

Ecclesiastes had commentary on contending with misinformation from the rich and powerful as countermanded by the poor and wise which still seems pertinent to the tyranny of narcissistic billionaires’ discourse in the present day:

“14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.”

The anti-science movement is going to be put in charge of the #NIH. The goal is simply to make the corruption endemic and hurt the American people. Don't let the liars attacking our intellectual institutions tell you otherwise.

(gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/health/nih-trump-kennedy-bhattacharya.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE4.U-1I.GLGq1hb1OpFA&smid=url-share

Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target

The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.

The New York Times

Has anyone made an activitypub server designed for blog/blog comments?

E.g. blog posts are posted as messages, and then people can reply to it to post comments to the blog. But before a comment is publicly posted it has to be approved by a moderator (another activitypub account would be easiest, e.g. a star or a boost).

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

@annaleen kinda funky.

When it comes to the moon though, I don’t think human kind will ever get enough of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 “Whitey on the Moon” until they stop wasting resources on it when there is so much sufferance still on Earth.

(This isn’t the original album recording but is at least Gil in more than just his words: https://youtu.be/otwkXZ0SmTs?si=oLe9293tTUDT6b6q)

Gil Scott-Heron Whitey on the moon.avi

YouTube
@remotenemesis you had me at demoscene.
Self report
Update: They defederated my Fediverse instance hellspawn.gay over this issue. I would love a legitimate reason provided to me by the tech.lgbt staff.  

URGENT UPDATE: tech.lgbt has deleted Raeve's account with over 6000+ posts after harassing them. Without any warning. Without any rule on Raeve's part broken. https://archive.ph/2RPxM

IMPORTANT UPDATE: tech.lgbt made an apology that basically blames everyone else. Fuck this server. Defed as soon as possible. https://tech.lgbt/@mods/113589162846967568


David, the owner of tech.lgbt, is harassing someone with their email obtained from the user database used to sign up for the instance. This is a fucking IMMENSE breach of user trust.

As a Fedi admin myself, this is a HUGE red flag, fucking run as far as you can away. Do not trust people like this, this is abuser shit.

My suggestion, is if you are on tech.lgbt, to migrate immediately.
If you are not on tech.lgbt, I urge you to spread this message.

https://tech.lgbt/@Raeve/113523530557928842
(this has been taken down, here's an archive that details the events https://archive.is/ye27u)

EDIT: David deleted the above post, please refer to https://hellspawn.gay/notice/AoHczY91Fh6nkGeXHU (screenshot of said post)

EDIT2: David deleted these posts too (linked with alt text) while they continue to harass this user https://hellspawn.gay/notice/AoHhevtoEllT6nWjY0

EDIT3: CW: fediblock, fedi meta, suicide manipulation: https://hellspawn.gay/notice/AoHR9kT95MHTPoACDw David is being an abuser, but please remember this all happened because they weren't transparent about why they fediblocked social.nano.lgbt. Nano is an abuser and the information should have been made public, instead of hiding it.

EDIT4: Here's the entire thread from tech.lgbt I posted in ghostarchive https://ghostarchive.org/archive/iegXK

EDIT5: Here's an archive of the events that happened https://archive.is/ye27u
Akkoma

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MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access

Nobody's jumping on me here about this yet, but I wanted to note each of these has a URL back to the original MIT Press landing page for the books in case you wanted to buy the wood versions, or to get as gifts, etc.
@textfiles Excellent work! Thank you for the effort involved.
@textfiles Thanks, this is fantastic!
@textfiles What an incredible collection, thank you so much
@textfiles Many thanks for your work. I will enjoy working my way through these books and enhancing my knowledge on subjects that I may have never come across before.
@textfiles. Blessed are the geeks and nerds for they shall do weird and wonderful things that make life more interesting.
@textfiles Some fine looking books. Not read any of them yet.
@textfiles This bot has been asked to generate an alt text for your image by @whvholst. Do you consent? Reply with 'Y' or 'Yes' to proceed.
thanks!

is the link right? I'm just getting a blank page
@lxo working here
oh, I see, the page is javascrippled :-(

did it really need to require a browser with javascript enabled with permission to run arbitrary code in it to show anything whatsoever, without any graceful degradation? that's so inaccessible, and it makes it unusable to me and others like me :-(

hopefully that can be improved
@lxo technically, all websites allow the execution of arbitrary code and a browser. Anyway, there is a command line interface to the archive if you want to use it. It's how I do 99% of my work.

@textfiles @lxo It used to be not very easy to access files at archive.org w/o JS before, but it'd work. In-browser viewing required JS, but it would load a page with at least links to browse all files, and IIRC that provided direct links (perhaps with a redirect in the middle, but something one could feed e.g. wget).

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@textfiles @lxo
But now I'm getting the redirect to "a lite version" as soon as I follow the link to the description page. This redirect, in my experience, has never worked over the years, but wasn't on this part of archive.org, and now it redirects to a 404 message.

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@textfiles Oh, this is pretty cool, thanks! How can I download the full collection? There isn't an obvious link on the collection page.

@petrichor Probably the #InternetArchive CLI would be recommended.
https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html#download

"""
Download an entire collection:

$ ia download --search 'collection:glasgowschoolofart'

"""

Command-Line Interface — Internet Archive Developer Portal