Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

Episode 5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/5-milkytracker.html

Exploring chiptunes, tracker music, a little bit of sound theory, and trying to embrace the process of learning even when you aren't very good yet

Portland postal workers fight top-down changes at USPS https://www.streetroots.org/news/2020/08/13/portland-postal-workers-are-fighting-spate-new-initiatives

I just want an image of Jorf wearing a tie-dye tshirt that says “it is a good day to dye”. Somehow I was unable to find such on the internet.

Jupiter and Saturn Rising Beyond Alien Throne Rock

Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Zając

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200813.html #APoD

https://www.businessinsider.com/broken-cable-tears-100-foot-hole-in-arecibo-observatory-2020-8

Computer science pioneer, compiler nerd and first woman to win the Turing Award, Frances Allen has passed away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Allen

If you're a shooter and are distressed at the NRA's being disbanded for rampant malfeasance, theft, and chicanery, then I have good news for you: the Socialist Rifle Association would welcome you.

They're all about firearms, though. No racism allowed.

https://socialistra.org/

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again this Friday, so artists will get their normal cut of any sales (music and merch) plus the fee that usually goes to Bandcamp. This is a good way to help your favorite musicians survive the pandemic - especially musicians of color, LGBTQ+ musicians, and disabled musicians!

Here are all the dates Bandcamp plans to do this in 2020:
August 7, 2020
September 4, 2020
October 2, 2020
November 6, 2020
December 4, 2020

Has anyone tested PostmarketOS, the Linux distribution for movile devices? Impressions? https://postmarketos.org/ It is based on Alpine Linux

Coming up in just 2 hours at 0200 UTC on https://aNONradio.net VINTAGE COMP! w/ jasmaz during OpenVoIP. Today's guest is TAMIKO THIEL who was the lead product designer at Thinking Machines producing the CM-1 and CM-2 Connection Machines.

#design
#vintage
#computer
#ai
#network
#mastoart
#retrocomputing

can't believe nobody told me there was a whole album's worth of new (old) gillian welch / david rawlings tunes released last friday

https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/album/boots-no-2-the-lost-songs-vol-1

Earthstar looks like a really interesting new decentralized-web project! Like Secure Scuttlebutt, but mutable and not log-structured!

This removes a lot of my worries about SSB as a scalable, privacy-preserving foundation layer going forward. Really keen to see where this might be heading.

https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar

#invidious the instance closes down, long live invidious the software!

The lead developer is stepping down, but the project lives on. If you don't host your own, other public instances are listed at instances.invidio.us/ .

> Starting September 1st, I'm shutting down the user-facing portion of invidio.us and stepping away from development. [ . . . ]‌

> [ . . . ]‌ If you're a patron on Liberapay, I would urge you to switch your donation to iv-org, as that will ensure it goes to the stewards of the project going forward.

omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-fr…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wem3Omg64Zs

Molly de Blanc and I wrote a Declaration of #DigitalAutonomy, outlining the Principles of Digital Autonomy. We'd love to hear your thoughts: https://techautonomy.org/

The plural of "index" is "indices".
The plural of "vertex" is "vertices".
The plural of "mutex" is "deadlock".

-- @agmlego