Joost van Baal-Ilić @joostvb@mastodon.green

Fedi, the great thing about posting a #drawing like this around here is that if we play "name that teletype" I'll get a correct answer in < 10 minutes, very likely from one of my #SDF comrades.

Posted this on Instagram a while ago and ... it's a different crowd over there. :)

#illustration #cartoon #unix #teletype #JurassicPark

“Debootstrapping without Archeology — Stacked Implementations in Camlboot”
https://programming-journal.org/2022/6/13/

Neat article by N. Courant, @roptat, and G. Scherer on #OCaml bootstrapping using the #Guile-based Camlboot interpreter (yes!). Includes a detailed overview of #bootstrapping work, including work by @janneke & co. 👍

https://www.pnas.org/content/119/8/e2120481119

“Artificial intelligence (AI)–synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, financial fraud, and disinformation campaigns. Our evaluation of the photorealism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable—and more trustworthy—than real faces.”

If I can’t reach out and touch you, I’ll assume you are fake.

had to explain RSS to two fellow gen z-ers

me: its kind of like subscribing for updates on a website, before "following" was a thing.

them: oh, is that something new?

me: actually closed "following" on walled gardens, like twitter, kind of killed out a lot of RSS for our generation, but there are people who still use it and find it handy

them: wait, so i don't need to make an account?

me: no.

Want to hear about what's going on with Sequoia? Tune in to NLNet's webinar on the future of OpenPGP on Tuesday, November 23 at 10 CET. We'll briefly present Sequoia and the various projects that we're working on! https://nlnet.nl/events/20211123/PGP/index.html

The advertising industry is fuelling climate disaster, and it’s getting away with it | Andrew Simms

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/advertising-industry-fuelling-climate-disaster-consumption #ClimateEmergency #pollution #environment #ecology #advertising

If you love or/and use @Framasoft candies like #PeerTube, #Mobilizon, Frama(put what you want) they need your support and made several cards (with the amazing talent of @davidrevoy) explaining what they do /> https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en 🙌

i'm watching:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police” 11.9.15

https://vimeo.com/146450686

This is a bold thing to write on a lighter

really need to version control my .git/configs

I'd kind of been hoping for years that someone else would solve this..