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I made myself a Photos Extension to crop pictures of book covers for my online book reports. It is available on the App Store: https://t.co/aYzsMJAotg
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Continuing my series of book reports on “technology and social”, I’ve just published the latest entry. This one is on a book about the dangers of AI.
ockham.online
This book report is offered as a stark contrast to my last one (Freedom’s Edge: The Computer Threat to Society). Both books were written…
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I published yet another book report on “the intersection of technology and social”. This one rockets forward in time to the 1970s with a book that reminds us that “the intersection of technology and social” hasn’t moved very far in the last fifty years:
ockham.online
In this article, I review Freedom’s Edge: The Computer Threat to Society by Milton R. Wessel. I include an Amazon affiliate link with the…
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I’ve published my latest book report inspired by #monktoberfest . This one is on literacy.
ockham.online
In my previous article, I reviewed a book about medieval technology. In my inaugural article, I mentioned that I would be talking about…
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I’ve started a publication on Medium (inspired by #monktoberfest ) to review books about “the intersection of technology and social”. So far, the topics range from programmer productivity to literacy to the Carolingian renaissance.
ockham.online
How the internet continues to be shaped by medieval philosophy.
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The 22nd amendment sez: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”. If we all concede that Trump won and was elected in 2020, then he is ineligible to run in 2024 (or ever again). #22A sez nothing about serving as president — only “be elected”.
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Just got back from the #Monktoberfest . That means I’m now inspired and energized. Sated in body and spirit.
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Their insurance premiums should also be raised — given that they might be spreading the disease and raising costs for the insurance companies by infecting others.
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Indeed. SQL support in the browser is long overdue — but we also need better HTTP support in the database to connect the two. Then your “website” login is your database userid. And with the right schema, SQL injection isn’t even a problem.
Poor @r0ml has been trying for years to get people to understand this was possible all along ;) (I can't find the original @recursecenter talk recording about it, but here's his library for doing SQL straight from the browser: https://t.co/BdxcYGIyfH)
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Looks like “free software” has interest declining over time until there is no longer any interest.
If I look on Google Trends for “free software”, which includes software you don’t pay for and also politically-oriented software, I see this: https://t.co/8JIkKtlXHb
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If I look on Google Trends for “free software”, which includes software you don’t pay for and also politically-oriented software, I see this: https://t.co/8JIkKtlXHb
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It’s not “defense”, it’s “aggression”.
2020 Military Spending: 🇺🇸$740 billion 🇨🇳$193 billion 🇮🇳$64 billion 🇬🇧$62 billion 🇷🇺$61 billion 🇫🇷$55 billion 🇩🇪$51 billion 🇯🇵$50 billion 🇸🇦$49 billion 🇰🇷$40 billion 🇦🇺$31 billion 🇮🇹$29 billion 🇧🇷$22 billion We should not spend more than the next 12 nations combined on defense.
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Advice for which open source license to use.
@pachamaltese I use the Charles Babbage license. At the top of every source file it says: Copyright (c) 1868 Charles Babbage Found amongst his effects by r0ml You can add “All Rights Reserved” if you like.
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Today I learned that my copy of the OED does not include the word “software”. Not even in the supplementary section. Either I need a more recent edition, or the word is too new for its meaning to stabilize.
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Got my second Pfizer jab today. Fourteen day countdown to all the things: restaurants, movies, the mall, and karaoke!
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By popular demand, a linguistic, rhetorical, epistemological exploration of the figure of speech: “free as in …” https://t.co/yuSuOVhGZD
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Last week I published a screed about software politics. I received lots of comments — thank you all for that. The responses were, for the…
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As a followup to my @usesthis interview, here is the long answer to the question “why did you stop using open source software?”
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Recently, I was quoted in an interview at uses this saying
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Agreed. Love the BSD. Also the MIT.
@r0ml That should be " "where would we be *without* BSD ?" - silly me
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Agreed. Succeeding and getting credit is the best. Succeeding and not getting credit sucks. Failing and then insisting on sharing credit with those who succeeded is the worst.
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