ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

First, the very good news: Version 4.0 of The Ultimate Tape Archive, a compilation of Commodore 64 cassette-based software, has been released, with Internet Archive as the primary download!

https://archive.org/details/Ultimate_Tape_Archive_V4.0

16gb of cassette based software, scans of the cassettes and inlays and instructions.

The even better news: The collection has ALL of them, emulated!

https://archive.org/details/ultimatetapearchive

That's 2000 tapes for you to enjoy.

@RIDDLES Sun, Mar 12, 2023 2:00 AM - Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:00 AM

California is getting drenched from another #AtmosphericRiver event 💦 #CAwx #CArain

Satellite + radar since yesterday shows the incessant rain, with flash #flooding now affecting #Kernville

It's 'cooler' to say "I am not woke" than "I am scared and insecure of things I don't understand and I react angrily about it"

"Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor."

Signal calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. #surveillace #e2ee

A must read 👇

https://signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

1990s problems #retrocomputing

Meet Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin – a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.

Shantell Sans is open-source (SIL OFL 1.1). It includes Latin and Cyrillic support, with 48 styles across 5 variable axes.

It was a huge pleasure to work on this, and I’m very excited for it to go public today! Check it out and read about the process on the minisite:

https://ShantellSans.com

(Note: this may be an #advertisement?)

Great visualization of information propagation by @randomwalker!

He explains how information arrives in your feed, and what the effect thereof.

This is critical to understanding how relevancy algorithms work, and what makes Mastodon different from Big Social.

More reading: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/understanding-social-media-recommendation-algorithms

@algorithms

Microsoft’s official @dotnet sent its first Mastodon post today.

Pay attention to the domain: dotnet.social.

Which means Microsoft is officially connected with a Mastodon community server.

@dotnet account was registered in November, but it became active today.

Clearly, Microsoft sees the Fediverse as core to marketing to developers. I wonder what other brands they’ll bring to the Fediverse as well.

https://dotnet.social/@dotnet@dotnet.social/109990127969245035

@fediversenews

(ME, APPLYING FOR A JOB)

"What would you say your greatest weakness is"

"Whenever I see an electric screwdriver I feel an irresistible compulsion to pick it up and say 'This is not a drill'"

(d/dx) cos( pi ) = -sin( pi ) ... [You may need to think about this one]

"…only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project…On Monday, the engineer made a “bad configuration change” that “basically broke the Twitter API” according to a current employee."

One of the fundamentals of #SiteReliabilityEngineering is that "human error is never the cause of outages". By this we mean that if a human /can/ make a mistake which takes out a system, it's not their fault.

A no blame culture is important for a well-functioning team.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/6/23627875/twitter-outage-how-it-happened-engineer-api-shut-down

Just discovered that a group of parrots is called a pandemonium.

And I’m quite happy about that.

#birds #words

Your character must do something they know will annoy everyone.

#WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #authodons

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

A year ago, many people said this would never happen.

“The Fediverse can’t be monetized,” they said.

Now @medium has come along and monetized their Mastodon server.

Not only can the Fediverse be monetized, it’s being done by Twitter Co-Founder @ev (though @coachtony, amongst others, probably drove this initiative).

That’s symbolism for you!

An estimated 20 million plus people have died from #COVID-19.

Each year, 7 to 8 million people die from air pollution, at least 3.6 million due to fossil fuels.

Everyone has the right to breathe clean air, inside and outdoors.

We need to fight both COVID-19 and #climate change.