almaember @almaember@mastodon.green

Country toad
Take me home
To your place
In a pond
Wet and boggy
Warm and foggy
Take me home
Swamp biome

Kids Today™ just don't appreciate summer camp like we used to.

https://www.redmeat.com/max-cannon/band-saw-manicure/Content?oid=3347798

(I went to Scout camps, where I nearly lost my thumb to a broken knife, nearly killed another kid in a counting coup game that went bad, played a bunch of D&D and Palladium Fantasy… and a couple computer camps. Nerds!)

In Hamlet, Polonius gives his son some advice before his return to France:
> See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, ...
> Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
> Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Translation: Don't say what you're thinking. Listen to everyone's opinion, but repeat few of them. Listen to everyone's criticism, but avoid judging others.

Now apply this to social media.

#Shakespeare #quote

IBM 704

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704

«The IBM 704 is a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. It was the first mass-produced computer with hardware for floating-point arithmetic.»

#retrohardware

Current mood.

I write all my code in Microsoft Works 9 I don't give a fuck

I’ve wondered this same thing about photos of Japan for years, and he nailed it.

🦋 attention fedi: tomorrow is a total Lunar eclipse! it will be greatly visible in North and South America and visible in parts of Europe

The EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of your private communication – or total surveillance in the name of child protection. This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam
#Fight4Privacy #No2Backdoors

"Pirate site blocking making its way into free trade agreements" https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-blocking-is-making-its-way-into-free-trade-agreements-220508/

This is much more serious than "can I get a pirated copy of something". The real effects of stuff like this is control, censorship, and gatekeeping of the internet in general.

misonformation

Writing a little guide for Lambda Calculus and functional programming in #uxntal.

trying to follow this instruction:

talk about the things you love, even if you think nobody cares.

people won't ask for it at least at first, but some of them will care

and it's attractive to see someone talk about the things they love.

let go of the notion that it's worthless if you don't get a minimum number of listeners, reactions, replies.

practice caring publicly about the things you care about.

I think this is a good reminder for me. I never liked being shy anyway