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2001: Ha ha Linux could even run on a toaster! j/k
2011: Wow this toaster actually runs Linux. It’s not a joke anymore.
2021: Please pay the ransomware to receive your toast.

This is what you want to read, and spread to your awful relatives on Facebook https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt

John Carmack retweeted the following, yesterday:

“I wonder why people haven't yet deduced that all CPUs have like 26 bugs at least as serious as this Intel one, it's just that nobody has found them yet.”

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/948602309780606981

#Intel #IntelProcessorBug

TIL about the Cagots, a group of people in France and Spain who experienced systemic hatred and discrimination because... they were Cagots.

They weren't any different from the other people living near them - same skin and hair color, same language, same religion, etc. - but if you were born to a Cagot family, you were a Cagot, and the rest of the people hated and shunned you. And nobody nowadays knows why; the origins of the discrimination have been lost to time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot

What Could Have Been

It didn’t have to be this way. As you can read in our analysis of the subject, if we had the laws that were in effect until 1978, thousands of works from 1961 would be entering the public domain. They range from the books Catch-22, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Phantom Tollbooth to the films Breakfast at Tiffany’s and West Side Story, and much more. Have a look at some of the others. In fact, since copyright used to come in renewable terms of 28 years, and 85% of authors did not renew, 85% of the works from 1989 might be entering the public domain! Imagine what the great libraries of the world – or just internet hobbyists – could do: digitizing those holdings, making them available for education and research, for pleasure and for creative reuse.

"To Serve Man, with Software" https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-serve-man-with-software/

Great blog post, sums up a lot of my feelings about working in tech in 2017. There's been a lot to grapple with this year.

Don’t let people tell you “there are always a few bad apples”. That’s not how the saying goes. It’s actually “a few bad apples spoil the bushel” - in other words, if there are a few bad apples, that’s cause to believe the rot has spread and it’s time to throw the whole thing out.

TIL “tamale” (cornmeal and filling wrapped in corn husk) and “tomalley” (edible fat in a lobster) are unrelated words; I always figured “tomalley” was a corruption of “tamale”.

Nope: “tamale” is from a Nahuatl word meaning “wrapped”, and “tomalley” is from the Carib word referring to that part of the lobster.

In about 1-2hrs I'm going to kick off my Christmas Stream \o/

Me and Loa are together going to not starve, in Don't Starve Together

You can check in on https://twitch.tv/maloki

I am currently hosting someone, who's doing a 24hrs stream, so you got something to watch in the meanwhile!

See you later!

(With apologies to a couple of friends I know working in blockchain startups) is blockchain the ultimate example of putting technologies before actual needs? The first thing I learned from innovation training was "Problem First": find the right tech to solve a problem, not the other way around.

"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain"

https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100
via @Gargron

"Bookkeeper" (although I'm told there are others).

"Strengths".

"Queue".

As an aside, it's a dark year for the tech industry when a major news magazine can ask with a straight face whether one of the largest and most successful tech companies can be tried for crimes against humanity.

As Facebook is the #1 site on the web, part of my job on the Edge perf team is to make sure that Facebook runs fast. It's hard to find any corner of the tech industry that doesn't have blood on its hands. What a demoralizing time to work in tech.

Cephalopods know how to get around.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/22/friday-cephalopod-piggybacking/ https://octodon.social/media/906xH2-U3exbGUia_Qk

How did the Roman empire last for almost 1500 years?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/21/hey-why-is-the-solstice-on-21-december/

#Google is trying to eat the web, one service at a time. Now they are even eating external news websites with #AMP.

This is a really disturbing development. Please resist, don't visit AMP pages if you can avoid it.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ #googleamp