“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.
I enjoyed watching Exterritorial. It’s a solid action movie with a credible main character even though the plot is less plausible.
Just looking at the way technology was presented in the movie (c.f. Hollywood hacking) reveals the makers know what they are doing.
What Dr Doctorow says!
…which is basically:
- Right to repair in the EU is hamstrung because the EU implemented similar regulations as the US (DMCA) regarding tampering with/circumventing DRM
- Implementing these similar regulations is a requirement to have access to the US-American market without paying tarrifs
- Trump’s Terrific Tarrifism
- Happy liberation day!
Relevant: Very nice recap at LWN.
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming.
In this paper we provide an overview of petname systems, a way of mapping human readable names to cryptographically secure names, and describe changes to two user interface designs that we believe that are compatible with intuitive user expectations.
Multicritera user devices impacts.
The impact assessment tool provides an understanding of the environmental impacts of servers, cloud instances and user terminals on several criteria (at least Global Warming Potential, Primary Energy and Abiotic Resource Depletion Potential), over two life cycle phases (use, manufacturing) based on their technical characteristics and context of use.