Results from The International Obfuscated C Code Contest are out, and the winner has a devious program using the Turing-completeness of printf! Yikes.
Can you see the numbers in their silhouettes?
Here is my illustration to wish the end of the pandemic for 2021. Let's hope it will happen.
Happy New Year!
#krita
Today in "Cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion" news, Amazon has released a landlord edition of its Alexa surveillance speaker that can be forced upon tenants.
Here's Amazon's pitch: Landlord Alexa "makes it easy for property managers to set up and manage Alexa-powered smart home experiences throughout their buildings."
Satire is dead. Poe's Law rules all.
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I think it goes to show how immature our field is, when software engineers can work for decades without learning how to make their apps usable by blind or otherwise disabled people. Imagine if architects designed buildings without wheelchair ramps, or if civil engineers designed crosswalks without grooves or curb cuts.
They used to! And it was super dangerous! But now there are regulations forcing the engineers to figure this stuff out. I imagine accessibility will be the same in the future.
"Come on," someone calls, "the night is young!"
The Night shakes Her head. No, She is old. She was always old. There is no terror, no surprise, no joy She hasn't seen.
She walks hidden paths, lonely streets, silent hallways. Always moving.
The Night is alive; She is always alive.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Are you just clicking "OK" on cookie walls whenever you want to read a website? Here are #3 facts you should know.
(Thread & just a short English version from my German article: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/cookies-werber-und-sammler-1.4958294)
This is Deinococcus radiodurans. These bacteria may be the toughest organisms in the world, surviving dehydration, cold, acid, and vacuum, and withstanding more radiation than probably any other living thing.
Some scientists have considered using them as a way of storing data to survive an apocalypse. In 2003, researchers encoded the song It's A Small World into DNA, engineered it into D. radiodurans, and managed to retrieve it without errors 100 generations later.
https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1278748469423861761
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/July_2020_announcement
Denny Vrandečić to lead the Abstract Wikipedia peoject at the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Multilingual Wikipedia
¡Nice! In my #fdroid workshops I promote #Streetcomplete as a brilliant app for beginners and experts that you can use to contribute to @openstreetmap while enjoying a geocaching-like adventure at the same time. And that my only feature request would be some gamification e.g. with "awards" or "achievements" to motivate even more people to contribute.
Now I realise this has been implemented since version 19 \°/
Thank you Tobias Zwick!
#IloveFS #osm #openstreetmap
The first live performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house in Barcelona, newly reopened after coronavirus lockdowns. A string quartet gave a performance of Puccini’s Crisantemi to an audience of 2292 plants. As you can see from the pictures, it was a full house, because plants have excellent taste, obviously. The plants were later adopted by healthcare workers.
The past weeks I've rewritten my #emacs configuration using org-mode and now it's finally on #sourcehut, including some screenshots! https://git.sr.ht/~dkellner/emacs.d
Die "digital souveräne Schule" ist möglich! #BigBlueButton Infrastruktur für Schulen in BaWü wird angenommen. Tag 1 ca. 840 User:innen, Tag 2 ca. 1.400 User:innen. Wir sind schon auf Morgen gespannt!
"Digital sovereign school" is possible! #BigBlueButton infrastructure for schools in BaWü is well received. Day 1 about 840 users:inside, day 2 about 1.400 users:inside. Looking forward to tomorrow!
@kuketzblog @digitalcourage #DigitalSouveräneSchule #DigitalSovereignSchool #Netzpolitik
#nixos 20.03 just got released yesterday! 🎉 Resisting the temptation to upgrade right away instead of getting some work done first...
Wir haben jetzt mit einer Durchstreichung transparent gemacht, was sich an unserer Einschätzung des #Coronavirus-#Tracing-Projekts @PeppPt@twitter.com geändert hat: https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2020/corona-app-einordnung-digitalcourage
"Okay, here's the scenario. You are a crew member on a starship."
"Cool."
"Space travel is slow, you'll be stuck with your crewmates a long time."
"So we must get along."
"Yes. Communicate, listen, share limited resources."
"I can do that. What's the starship called?"
"Earth."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories