Halcek @halcek@merveilles.town

regular programs: oh this is a great ten year-old processor, we can do everything

browser: okay to read articles, i guess, just don't go crazy with extensions

half of new games: this won't start on pre-2013 anything and it needs exactly 8 cores, if you have 9 it will crash and burn

There are at least 1200 covid-related German coinages: from Maskenflickenteppich (mask rag-rug, the patchwork of masking regulations) to Homeofficepauschale (home office flat-rate, a called-for €100/m home worker stipend), and so, so many more.

https://www.owid.de/docs/neo/listen/corona.jsp

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For those with better things to do than read my blog posts:

"Forever Falls," the first Aidan Redding novel, is now free everywhere. Here's #kindle, but your favorite bookstore probably has it as well. #scifi #ebook

https://amzn.to/2QtKRXf

Did you know that the Metropolitan Museum has a huge online collection of art that's in the public domain, that you can browse through and download high res versions of?

Here are some examples of the things you can find there!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0

#MastoArt #ArtReference #CC0 #PublicDomain

Hey, if you wanna catch up on my series where I co-write with an AI, all previous episodes (and the text produced) are here!

Part 5 is a great place to jump in as it's when I got an upgraded AI to write with.

🤖 📚 https://victoriacorva.xyz/?post_series=co-writing-with-ai-dungeon

In 2008 South Korean company Daewoo Logistics concluded a deal with the government of #Madagascar to lease 3.2 million acres of land, about half of arable land on the island, for 99 years at $12 an acre, with the food produced to be exported to #Korea. Popular resistance to the deal led to then-President Marc Ravalomanana's ouster in what has been called a revolution, and the Malagasy government under new President Andry Rajoelina scrapped the land deal. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #history

Oh my… https://calladev.com/

@halcek when talking about the worrisome centralization of podcasts, one should not skip spotify who has been making hosts sign exclusivity deals

Good news guys! Twitter could be looking to launch THE FIRST EVER decentralized social network. It's about time someone did this... https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/365327

"Microsoft has essentially deprecated JavaScript and the non-profit foundation, which governed it, by TypeScript, which is governed and controlled by the for-profit Microsoft Corporation. … it took the ‘Evil Corp’ approach of making the foundation and JavaScript slowly irrelevant, so it could guarantee that it could monopolize and monetize the whole industry."
https://hackernoon.com/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-and-killed-javascript-in-the-process-5s5i33ma
via @avalos and @takeonrules

My #funkwhale instance for #Irish #Punk now has 159 bands / 42 hours of music. Give it a shot:

https://saviouroftime.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-set-up-spotify-alternative-for-irish.html