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fighting terrible Free Software culture 

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.

Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.

livescience.com/animals/orcas/

youtube.com/watch?v=p-VYUSV0_6

Beautiful video. Honestly, can't hate on . He's doing his thing and it's cool. If I want to, I can grab an old CD, but modern re-releases are very important to have.

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From the comments under the YouTube video which I rewatch every year since 2010, I have learned of the passing of . I'm deeply saddened by this... It may sound a bit goofy, but lately, releases a lot of new visual content, music videos and all. All the Shulmans got together and made the anniversary release of discography.

It feels like Ray could have done so much more...

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Greg Egan is on mastodon. Wowee.

gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz

I had a dream where I desperately needed to recall the password to my work account at my first computing job, in the 80s, so I could go back and fix some problem there. It was only when I woke that I recalled: that system was set up with NO PASSWORDS and it was never an issue.

bandcamp won their union! bandcamp won their union!!

i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing

their full statement - blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/b

Was taking a shower, thinking about my art and tech project ideas for which I'd rather have a team, thinking about the heroic efforts of @spacekookie with their projects *while* getting funding while coping with an immense amounts of bureaucracy. (BTW, give them your money! [1] HAS TO GET ADOPTED!).

I think that in a society with guaranteed basic income or in a self-sovereign, self-sufficient commune we (collectively) could have achieved so much more. Our time here is finite, why do we need to have such a shit baseline for existence?

The aren't ironic questions, perhaps some fan will answer with some meta-analysis or something. I'm especially interested in hearing from people who understand how decision-making is organised in existing -congruent countries like , and . How come your governments didn't establish universal income yet? Is it considered? What are the actual drawbacks?

[1]: irde.st/

I was thinking about XML, toml and JSON and I realised that they should be small. As long as they are small, they are readable and comprehensible.

Interestingly, XML scales a little bit better because it reminds you of the context when the context ends.

I really like some systems that incorporate inlining the code into their configs, but I'd prefer for it to go the other way — have configs in code.

The way and handle configuration is almost perfect.

You kinda have to have a schedule if you live in Croatia. But also I feel pressured to work late because during work day I have to go to a shop. If I won't, it will be closed.

I remember I've adjusted to this lifestyle, but after being out of country for five years, it feels surreal again.

So apparently that was 6th longest game in the history of the sport. I need to look up the stats now.

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U wot mate? That's quite a number of overtimes. The most I've ever seen.

youtube.com/watch?v=-2hkLVlfbR

Please contribute to project. Their sponsor has pulled out and this absolutely has to happen.

Please set up a password manager, and ask your elders to do the same. 

good morning, #montreal! heading out to the old port for #northsec2023 — this is going to be my first, and i'm quite excited.

p.s. also, it's #ukrainian #vyshyvanka day, no way i'm missing it!

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