The more I think about this, the more I realize: pretty much every website has some form of tracking code (Google Analytics is free for a reason), some kind of advertisement integration, Facebook/Google login integration, _something_ that steals your data and tracks you.
The largest exception to this rule that still sees any reasonable amount of web traffic is the #fediverse.
When i was younger, you could leave a web page open overnight and still read it in the morning. Without it deciding to reload. But that was before 50MB of framework was needed to display a paragraph of text...
Not that systems don't have gigs and gigs of RAM now compared to the 12MB I had then.
Reposting ( sorry, realised I added them in the wrong order, and forgot the captions!)
Wow.. Gotta say, I've shared a lot of these in the past - but my timeline is truely crammed full of people who I followed for some tech oriented reason, and subsequently noticed identified somewhere among these groups!!
As someone whos diagnosed with Aspergers (a form of autism) and suspect I have ADHD too... but who is also cis/het...
It's bonkers the amount of overlap there is around masking, conforming to stereotypes etc. Though I hadn't realise this until I read these.
I guess it's probably why I've felt "I get it" and done my upmost to live up to the role of an "ally" - especially after paying attention and reading what people in these groups have to say!
I don't really leave my flat often, so the "difference" I make is only what I manage online, but I've met and spoken to so many talented people....
@Synchro It has a great idea about time travel in that they build a box that simply reverses time while you're inside it. So if you want to go back an hour, you have to spend an hour in the box. And if you want to go back a week, be prepared to spend a week in the box and pack supplies. So it's not a trivial "jump to whenever" time travel.
They start to use it, successfully, on minor tests, and everything seems alright. Then things start unraveling...
Capitalism does not work, we can see that now. Eventually, only the super rich will have money, but it will be worthless because there will be no economy to sustain it. At which point they will have to fall back on violent oppression and control of the fundamentals of life. This is already happening in certain parts of the world.
Communism does not work, we saw that already, because all the attempts at it never managed to get past the dictatorship or the proletariat.
So what does work?
Regulated capital markets with sectors carved out so that the are owned and controlled by the state. Water, Power, Transport, Health, Housing and a few others. But that can only work if all the governments agree to it, and while ever they are wedded to unadulterated capitalism we are stuck at square one and on the path to destruction.
A ray tracer written in pure CMake (by perverting CMake to do fixed-point arithmetic). For non-programmers, this is a bit like building a wide-bodied airliner ENTIRELY OUT OF LIVE EARTHWORMS (nobody tell Boeing):
twitter is a social media platform created in 2006 by john twitter, when he didn't like that at the time people with blogs and in forums got to communicate their complex thoughts with lots of organised text, and wanted a space where communication is so limited that all that exists is barely comprehensible streams of unfiltered thought with no nuance at all
SALAMANDER!! You don’t see many of them in the furry fandom, even though this community is full of so many species. There are so many animals that almost never get picked. What animal species do you think deserves more presence? Quolls, alpacas, whales, seals, turtles...?
Drawing for a post for NordicFuzzCon Traditional. Colored Pencils.
And already framed over an Ikea frame This will be exhibited at the MFF's Art Show 2025
The wilder these get, the more closely I feel they represent just how fragile and easily toppled all the digital infrastructure we use today is.
When I say it's a good idea to get IRL names and addresses for your closest friends so you can stay in touch in the event that the internet as we know it collapses, this is why I say that.
I seem to have an instinctive aversion to going very far up this edifice. Probably why I just don't do languages newer than maybe Python and don't trust things that automate other things that automate other things that automate… etc. The tower of layers of abstractions is just too high these days.
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A nostalgic piece that brings back to the times where there was this needing to get distracted at doodling the first thoughts around the notebooks, in order to pay attention to whatever the teacher was saying and to not fall in boredom.
Aliens, rock bands, roller coasters, monsters or even symbols we didn't understand but we thought they looked cool.
The idea of this piece started during a day I forgot my tablet or any other device and I had to stay for many hours in a restaurant, and at least a friend brought a sketchbook and some pencils I could borrow. And my memories of feeling like that came back to me, so I did a doodle of a fox drawing while boring at his school desk. But this final colored piece was drawn over a Mix Media paper sheet where I printed the scan of a real notebook (if I had decided to draw over a real notebook sheet, it wouldn't have held the layers of color pencils on it). And I decided to play an educational podcast to feel like if I was in a class room, doodling again whatever came in my mind, but mainly I was reminding some doodles I remember really doing during high school.
Traditional. Color pencils and pencils.
The original piece will be exhibited at the MFF 2025 Art Show!
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This reminds me a lot of a scene in Ursula Vernon's "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking", where the teenage heroine laments that everyone is praising her for her heroism when from her perspective it isn't good at all, because a 14-year-old shouldn't have to be a hero. There were multiple layers of grownups who had the job of protecting them, and they all failed so badly that she was forced to do it instead, and it really didn't sit well with her that people were celebrating that.
A good vibe to remember on #InternationalMensDay. You don't have to carry the world on your shoulders. You can be held and loved for you just being you.
We clearly need skirts and dresses that accommodate tails! I have an idea specifically for skirts - just need to figure out the sewing or find someone who is more skilled at it than I am! X3
Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?
The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!
It's interesting how much this looks like a half way point between my modern keyboard layout and the typewriter that sits next to it on my desk. Coincidentally it was built between when they were as well.
I am sorry but I think you have the causality backwards. Surely at least two of the arrows come from the fact that in ASCII, Backspace is Control-H and Linefeed (i.e. one line down) is Control-J. The connection between (Control-) H / (Control-) J and horizontal/vertical movement existed already long before the ADM-3a.
K and L are less obvious, Vertical Tab (underspcified what it should do) is Control-K, and Form Feed (meaningful only on paper terminals) is Control-L.
This hits close to home (or $HOME as it were), using my Linux system on which I use Vim or Vim-inspired keys all over through Emacs, a browser extension, and a programmable keyboard xD
@soy Really old school serial communication stuff. You could program a sequence of characters that would be transmitted automatically if the terminal received an ASCII “ENQ” (enquiry) character, or if you pressed that key.
Interestingly enough, when I built my current keyboard (an Idobo75, which is an ortholinear) I didn't have room for doing the normal layout for the arrow keys, so I did them as a row. I also came up with down, then up (of course left and right are in their respective locations.) Having arrows in a line actually can actually be easier on the fingers, depending on how they're used I've discovered, and in documents and such I'm liking having them in a row better. (Worse for games where your fingers sit in the same positions most of the time, but I have a separate pad I use for that.)
I thought it went the other way: vi existed, and the ADM-3 enshrined their keystrokes? Note that the ctrl-h,j,k,l commands were already defined in ASCII to have analogous meanings.
I’ve logged many, many hours on an ADM-3A terminal. I still love the way their keyboards felt. They didn’t sound *quite* as good as a VT-100 keyboard. But still vastly superior to the rubbish the youngsters are fond of today.
I know it’s ergonomic suicide, but I love the clean unified feel of 1970s screen/keyboard terminals. Feels more futuristic than the separate pieces of kit we use now.
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Our ADM-3a fleet often suffered a failure where the 'l' key sent a 'k' for some reason, resulting in bug reports of form "Terminak 12 has a broken keyboard again". I managed to get this into the Jargon File.
Token the raccoon, and Jack... who might be a fluff, a sock, or... a mysterious little fluffy whose species no one can quite define... enjoying a quiet swing together. It's one of those small, still moments that seem to pause time for a while.
Drawn with colored pencils over a toned tan paper during BLFC Picture for Satti and Jack Fluffyfluff
It’s hard to believe this effect was created nearly a century ago. In the 1937 film Sh! The Octopus, actress Elspeth Dudgeon plays a seemingly harmless nanny...
That study that showed the human mind stops developing at age 25 did no such thing. It studied humans up to the age 25 and showed the brain continues to develop.
He’s Rauch the wah! I had the pleasure of meeting him and doing an art trade during a late-night art jam. This little red panda can jump! He almost reached the edge of the sketchbook! Traditional piece, drawn with pencils, for Panda Rauch.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies.
My uncle died about a year ago now, and one thing my aunt is gearing up to get rid of is his music collection. He had *hundreds* of CDs of classical music, many of them near-duplicates, because he may have already had a piece but wanted a particular conductor's version, or a performance by a particular orchestra.
Is there anyone here who might be interested in such a collection as a whole, or knows of someone who might? I feel it'd be good to find a home for it as a whole rather than selling every disc off separately.
it sounds like something maybe a university music department might be interested in. My father was a entomologist and the local university here took his entire collection.
where abouts is the collection? I too am strongly suggesting a music school library, or else offer them to the local appropriate radio station. They often do big cd sales and could get them distributed that way
Can you say anything more about what sorts of classical music it is? Emphasis on certain composers, styles, periods, etc.?
Speaking as a CD collector, you might well find someone to take the collection, but you will probably not find a guarantee to keep it intact, unless your uncle was famous for a related reason.
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
as someone whose appreciation of classical is quite similar - study myriad recordings of the same piece to suss out what lies at the heart - i’d say the answer here lies a bit in the specifics of the catalog. there are labels that have gone out of business & their catalogues disappeared; if he was obsessive enough there may be things that are genuinely difficult to obtain…
@burnitdown i can safely assure you a library would absolutely not be interested. the license on the recordings will be personal use only, no lending. and in any case i know of no libraries that are looking to grow their collections in this medium.
when my grandfather died, leaving a mountain of DVDs, home movies of family over his lifetime, I took possession of all of them. I then ripped each one and built a website for the whole family to be able to watch them.
Maybe you could do the same? Rip the entire library and donate it to the commons as a great big torrent in his name.
Thanks for all the interest in this post, which I did not expect. This has over 150 boosts and a dozen replies which is absolutely bananas - I'm not sure I've ever posted anything that's had more than about 5 boosts before. I've had to mute this thread because I can't keep up with the notifications and I don't know what to say to all the individual replies, sorry.
It sounds like a lot of people think this collection of CDs is a lot more significant than it probably is, possibly because it's a post from someone you don't know that's getting boosted around the fediverse which makes it look important. It sounds like it might be possible to find someone who'd like it all.
A few points:
1. Hampshire, UK.
2. CDs have never had region coding, the way DVDs and BDs have.
3. I have little knowledge of music (classical or otherwise) so I couldn't say what type of classical music this is. I know a few of the CD cases are labelled with ranges of composer names (like "Bach - Griegg" or something - I have no idea what composers are there though, I'm just pulling names out of the air, and I haven't actually opened the boxes to look inside yet).
4. I have my doubts about whether any of this is particularly rare or would need to be "saved" and archived, but I suppose it's possible.
So, I guess I can tell my aunt there may be interest in someone acquiring the whole lot, so it might be worth a bit of time to try to catalogue at least some of it. Any ideas where I go from there?
hi, french musician here It can be interesting to donate to some music school, like little music school to form younger musician (the big school have lot of money to buy some if they need to)
Also, for the catalogue, I can recommande you to list everything in compositor name, in alphabetical order Like : Bach (and the CD about his pieces) Beethoveen Chopin Etc If it can help
No need to put the pieces in a particular order It could be too much time consumer because the right thing could be to put it in chronological order (I mean : Bach write some piece at the beginning of his life and some later, etc) So too much time to search etc.
I don't know if it help you. If this is a really big collection, you can put in little boxes like All the B for one (Bach, beethoven, etc) C for another with Chopin, etc Or maybe A to C , etc It is hard to say without knowing much And I understand it is hard to tidy everything with not lot of music background and dealing with the grief
there's a music school in the UK i donated a large sheet music collection to. i can ask my friend who taught there if they have a place for CDs. another thought is to search out a local classical radio station to you, some hold onto large CD collections and might take a donation. i have a classical music degree, and my dad dj's several classical radio shows, but we're in the usa so shipping here seems cost prohibitive. and if you're looking to sell, list on ebay as a large collection with local pickup only. include as many photos as you can.
(Note that there are two other Academy Records stores in NYC that are vinyl-only and don't stock classical, so use the above link to get to the right one.)
Academy Records & CDs buys and sells used vinyl records, CDs, and DVDs/Blu-Rays. We purchase large estates and collections of all sizes and offer top dollar for quality jazz, rock, and classical LPs and CDs.
how about giving (some of?) them to a community radio show that plays "Composed music from all over the world, from 25 centuries ago to works premiered this morning. Familiar works in extraordinary performances; special rarely-heard music; compositions from around the world; comparisons of performers, styles, and traditions with context from history, politics, art, philosophy, science, and culture; and the occasional live concert -- all presented in a somewhat mad style" https://coopradio.org/shows/west-coast-classics/
I was executor for my uncle, who had over 5,000 albums when he died. All incredibly weird stuff (for example, "Music for the Luftwaffe"). So I know your pain. Contact local antique stores. There's usually someone there who sells albums (usually 50/60/70s, but you never know. Have a fairly firm idea of your inventory. For anything that looks interesting look it up on eBay. But most importantly, know your stuff's worth. Don't take the first pitch. Get multiple quotes if you can.
Someone may have already suggested but it might be worth asking the Internet Archive - might not want the physical discs (depending on relative locations between the you and them) but may well be interested in rips if not.
(edit: removed the bit about charity shops because I missed the "selling" part. whoops. sorry!)
I read some years ago update from local record shop (that sells both new and second hand records alike), that they had gotten a similar collection to sell. They had no idea how to price the CDs, being mostly focused on popular music rather than classical, and apparently the family of the late music enthusiast was just happy to get rid of the collection and was not even expecting to get money of selling it, so the record shop was selling them for like 2€/CD or something like that.
they were also telling everyone to spread word so that people who are interested in getting some classical music could come and see if there's something they'd like. If I remember correctly, they got at least part of the collection moving pretty fast. So, if there's record shops that sell also second hand near you, it might be one option to ask them, if they have contacts possibly interested in the collection, or are up to a challenge.
My spouse passed a few months ago, and I'm having trouble finding new homes for her things. There is a reluctance to do that. It can take months or years to get past that.
The more I think about this, the more I realize: pretty much every website has some form of tracking code (Google Analytics is free for a reason), some kind of advertisement integration, Facebook/Google login integration, _something_ that steals your data and tracks you.
The largest exception to this rule that still sees any reasonable amount of web traffic is the #fediverse.
We've really got something special here, y'all.