NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
me 🤝 Proton's comms person
explaining that you cannot simply decide a court order doesn't apply to you just because you don't like it
Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police.
Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.
Snow Crash was not an instruction manual
Please don't make me tap the sign
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
I think I need to make one of these informative lists for myself and put it up at work now.
Them: That's just gatekeeping behavior!
Me: Chesterton's Fence is more a reminder to learn why things are like they are before taking knejerk actions.
Them: But then you never do anything.
Me: Perhaps, but if you do it's done thoroughly. And then you make sure to remember to keep the old shit gone.
You think that parts would be available for a consumer product produced more than 3 months ago?
The name is irrelevant, because there are no parts available.
- A very frustrated customer^wconsumer
Pic of Gowron's face photoshopped into the sun from Teletubbies
It is a good day to farm
I still wish there was an ecosystem. We could hang out! We could send each other awesome swag and co-rent suites! We could be a little town of booths at ALA.
We could give each other tips, like please don't DDOS people using your playback client.
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
had someone ask "why a tape drive"
well the fiber-channel controller was €20 and the cabling another €20 and the drive was €90 and a stack of 15 LTO-5 tapes of various sorts was €90, so I now have ~22TB of bulk storage for the grand total of €220, which is half the price of a ~22TB HDD
Logo for The Def Con 33 Hackers' Almanack, with the logo for the conference and text overlaid in a circle
My DEF CON talk on DIY web archiving and SUCHO made it into the annual publication, the Hackers' Almanack (p. 10)!
All in all, it's a very accessible summary of major trends and highlights from the conference, worth checking out!
harris.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...
Fresh churro being dipped in a “FUCK OFF UNTIL I GET COFFEE” mug by Effin Birds, filled with BBotE
DECADENCE.jpeg
"Your file? You wanted your file? Fine." *growls* *Whirrs* <100 seconds pass on average> "I am prepared to give you this data, but are you prepared to receive it?"
A decade ago, my version of this story ended with:
"This week, I have two tape libraries."
Good luck. Have fun.
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
shout-out to everyone else who had "the first 500 strips of Questionable Content as a formative experience"
An airline security card but instead of oxygen masks, it's squid. Just roll with it.
Secure your own squid first before helping others.
(I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)
I'm at 22. I have more than one pair of airpods. I am in the red zone on this.
Well, that's a piece of data I didn't have, and, uh, I can now foresee a problem in my life sooner rather than later now.
Thank you for the view into my future.
My understanding is that it's per iCloud account.
Do with that information what you will.
A system that clearly scales horizontally, but is limited in the vertical direction. The limits are rarely encountered, unexpected, and for no obvious reason.
*sigh*
It turns out there is a limit. Last I heard, but have not checked, it's either 32 or 64.
Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?
Yet another variant of Vegas attempting to force you out of your room
This is very cool. If you aren't familiar with it, the Quilt Index exists, and has a process to record, display, and document your quilt. quiltindex.org/add-quilts/s... (The dontation is optional)
Happy New Year 🎆
"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
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