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PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future.
This line printer was incapable of shifted characters, so the
^indicated a shift (^7would be apostrophe on the common non-Selectric keyboards of the day, for example, and^/would be a question mark). Infamously, PLATO Notes even inspired early consternation over network censorship during Watergate when the NSF got wind of a Notes discussion about President Nixon's possible impeachment and promptly called Bitzer (“We just got a call from Nixon’s office. The White House says that our money will disappear if this goes ahead, and we know you’ll disappear...”). Bitzer required the student who started the discussion to post a disclaimer that “it is not permissible in the classroom or on PLATO to organize political mobilization.”
Relevant: Paul Tenczar and TUTOR.
The one who brought you the expert opinion about Franz Fuchs, brings you…
Der renommierte Psychologe Dr. Reinhard Haller klärt über das Wesen der Kränkung und ihre Wirkungsmechanismen auf. Er gibt konkrete Tipps, wie wir eigene seelische Verletzungen verarbeiten können, und zeigt, wie wir zu einem achtsamen und empathischen Umgang mit unseren Mitmenschen gelangen.
A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems.
Letting your scraper run JavaScript means that it can also run JavaScript for other purposes, for example for people who would like to exploit your scraper's CPU to do some cryptocurrency mining, or simply have you run JavaScript for as long as you'll let it keep going (perhaps because they've recognized you as a LLM scraper and want to waste as much of your CPU as possible).
Relevant: Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen.
“My 25 Favorite Programming Quotes that are Funny too.”
One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job. (Jessica Gaston)
Who actually is Jessica Gaston? 🤔
50 Jahre Ende des Vietnamkriegs: „Geblendet von eigener Hybris“.
Wir haben es hier mit einem Bankrott politischen Denkens zu tun, mit dem Ersatz politischen Denkens durch Mechanik. Historische Prozesse verlaufen nicht mechanisch, folgen keinem Masterplan, es gibt immer Zufälle und Unvorhersehbares wie auch Korrekturmöglichkeiten. All das wird von der Dominotheorie für irrelevant erklärt. Man kann aber herbeireden, was man befürchtet.
Relevant: Bernd Greiner.
Seine Studie »Krieg ohne Fronten. Die USA in Vietnam« wurde in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt und erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen.
You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy.
They find tools whose vibes align with theirs: Ada says “slow, conservative, baroque” while Rust says “fast-paced, unproven, parvenu”. They use Emacs because they read that Neal Stephenson essay and they feel VS Code is for normies and Emacs is Gnostic.
But many people can’t admit this to themselves! Because it is contrary to their identity: that they are unfeeling Cartesian rationalist automata. And so they invent rationalizations. Once you read enough of these posts, you see the patterns.
The Young Ones! 🤩
teaching old hippies new tricks.
(…) if they didn’t let DRM into the web platform, then the W3C would lose part of the universe to native apps, and that must not happen. I remember at one meeting saying, in effect, “would that be so bad? That maybe DRM is just a thing that is so alien to the web model, that it is better to leave it outside?” But the feeling was that if the web was not everything to everyone, then it would lose.
Decompression chamber FTW?
Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying.
(…) those who had encountered the compressed Adele did not get off so lightly, with their stapedius reflexes never fully recovering and exhibiting half of their strength at the end of the experiment a week later.
Open Source Archetypes: A Framework For Purposeful Open Source (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software.