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Living in Seattle saved me. In the winter months I started waking up and sitting in front of a SAD light for half an hour. I almost immediately got bored so I started reading long-…

Somewhat apropos... I started re-learning cursive about two years ago. I'm old enough to have been taught cursive when I was young, but my dad preferred block letters (he was train…

Ouch. OpenAI is giving up. I guess the next step is to be bought by IBM and then sold to Computer Associates.

Any indication when v2.9.0 will be released? I'd love to play with this, but the install instructions (at least for linux) don't seem to work. Is it working in Windowsland or on ma…

sure, but when I worked there, the only abbreviation I remember seeing was LLNL for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. But the T:L producers could easily have just used LLL as…

lol. I remember seeing LLLSDL go by when I originally saw the movie. The funny but is I had just written the internet draft for LLSD, so I was wondering g if someone on the writing…

As a long time emacs user, I appreciated the inclusion of EMACS as an error code. When I moved from TECO to gnu emacs in to 80s, elisp was an advance. Now I have a perpetual todo i…

I upvoted this post because a) I love hearing people's memories of their first programming interactions and b) Susam's website is delightfully straight-forward: no ads, appeals to …

and Pagemill and Sitemill. At Bell Canada we had a very early web dev team in '94-'95. At one point pagemill came out and we could hire mostly non technical designers to build web …

join the party.

This kind of misses the point. Or rather... it's necessary but not sufficient. If the goal is to get code you can trust, then you have to trust each package. Origin Integrity will …

And there were some amazing RAD and prototyping tools in the 90s (mostly for DOS, but also for Windoze desktop apps.) You're right, we sort of gave up on the idea when everyone wan…

If Google can reuse the "Flash" brand, I'm re-branding myself as "Meadhbh the Merciless."

IPCMSes make it somewhat easy to MitM SMS. If your system poops a cookie in the wrong place it doesn't matter if the secret is in someone's head or if it's in a hardware dongle, li…

Also... Money is Theft and The Economy is a Lie. Education inoculates you against new facts. Our meritocratic democracy ensures government by the mediocre. As Paul Virillo once qui…

All revolutionary fervour aside, I'm a fan of Kurz. My bread is buttered more on the David Harvey side, but Kurz is no fool. I'm not sure the headline "Capitalism has to become mor…

I'm going to start singing the Internationale here in a second. (not snarky. I'm feeling pretty revolutionary after that last comment.)

Oh man. Don't google "sackler family" or "purdue pharma". [EDIT: Added after that one person upvoted this comment.] Slavery was big in the south because there wasn't enough low-ski…

Isn't the point of modern capitalism that you don't have to be humane. Or that the best way to be humane is to do what's best for company management?

I miss Apple during it's hey-day. There was a time when Apple was the sine qua non for #a11y and #hci. Then Steve came back.

Am I really so old that when someone says "Flash" my immediate response is... "consider HTML5 instead" ??

For people coming to this later. A day later, I bounced my router and got a new public facing IP. All my problems went away. Willing to bet GH thought I was a horrible H4XX0R based…

Yup. There's a reason that all the AppKit classes start with 'NS'.

I have issues with the Librem community. But... if you like them, I certainly won't dis you (or them.) I don't think they're bad people or bad developers, they just have a style th…