I wish retirement wasn't just an option for the privileged but a mandatory thing for everyone. I feel like we could have more social progress if people (including those with power) would just vibe and relax for their final years before death.
Speaking to older people their perception and values in life change over time and we could all benefit by embracing it.
ZIP files are fun. You need to scan for 4 magic bytes starting from the end of the file. Then from there you can figure out how many bytes before that offset to start finding "file header offsets" in the rest of the file and the file names / sizes. But then you need to parse the file header offset to actually know where the file starts. :P
Very convoluted but I guess it could be worse.
I wish more folks I knew ran #Agregore or a similar p2p browser so that I could send them p2p archives of web articles instead of raw links so that they could skip the paywall and adblocking bits on their end. 🤔
Alan Turing is widely recognized as a hero and a genius. He’s considered the father of theoretical computer science and AI.
But he was also a gay man whom the British government chemically castrated.
Turing killed himself because of the way his government treated him.
What more might he have done had he lived?
As this wave of hatred sweeps the US, I wonder how many gay and trans Alan Turings we’ve already lost, and how many we’ll continue to lose.
I find myself saying "community-owned independent social media sites" rather than "fediverse" in mixed company because it gets a much better reaction (active interest rather than blank stares)
I realize that the venn diagram of the two does not overlap perfectly but the overlap is precisely the stuff I actually care about and I'd rather be inaccurate in a way that garners interest than similarly-inaccurate in a way that doesn't
Though TBH my initial approach would have been better for a purely streaming mode where we process and chunk the WARC file on the fly. Now I need to be able to do random access to a WARC either on the FS or via Range queries over the network.
Spent a few mins tonight messing with the Desktop Mode on my #SteamDeck
So far so good! Running Manjaro with KDE for a few months seems to have prepped me well. Hopefully this weekend I can set up my dev environment. I now have sudo so the sky is the limit 🥰
3. Probably instead of the Nreal Air I'll get the https://air.rokid.com/ since the app is installable in Canada and I like the look more. :P
Also seems about as compatible with my Steam Deck.
I'm really excited to be presenting my work on using Datalog to build decentralized systems at @causalislands later this month, in Toronto!
It's a future of computing conference some of my colleagues are putting on, and the lineup is full of some fascinating talks by people like @edwinb, @maggie, and @jenn!
You can use my code for 20% off on tickets if you'd like to come: WILTON20
Testing Hubzilla again, one federating software i found, that installs on shared hosts with Cpanel, but w/o (real) root access.
The concept of a "nomadic entity" is enticing.
This is part of a grant project i 'm currently working on & to show, that we artists & musicians can do _much_ better in _not_ submitting our own audience to personalized user tracking etc.
We've to demonstrate through our own use of tech, how to do this right.
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@jrp for more.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.