12. https://deniseyu.io/talks/
One of my coworkers has a bunch of her talks posted online and it seems to have some useful tech info in there.
The US has been purpose-building hell on earth for minors for about two decades, and mark my words *everything* that is being done to trans kids and undocumented kids will make that hell far, far worse for all kids here.
Public spaces ubiquitously ban minors these days, hostile civil engineering that builds stroads everywhere make the outdoors ugly and dangerous, the commons have long since been enclosed, the internet is deep into its own age of enclosure, surveillance of minors is becoming more widespread and invasive every day, their rights and privacy are barely that of property. Now we see them being stripped of labor protections and subjected to genital exams.
Our most vulnerable community members are *daily* being subjected to more and more inhumane conditions, deprived of autonomy and humanity. Our society's naked contempt for the young seems to have no end.
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.
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.