zack wol berg @zwol@mastodon.social

there has been some confusion among my foreign friends about the names and locations of the states. i, a resident of the usa, have decided to make this handy map to clear up any confusion :)

the thing that gets me about "6*9=42 is true in base 13" and "42 is ascii for '*' which means 'everything'" is that those might be fine jokes in another book but they show such a poor understanding of the kind of humour douglas adams writes

like some other scifi comedy author could make some joke about base 13 being the true way to represent the universe fundamentally or whatever and i'm sure it could be funny, but it's so... not adams

What you are referring to as GNU/Linux is actually three Emacs sessions in a trenchcoat.

since this is doing something resembling numbers where the post I boosted with all the "how to buy Situation Normal" information is not: here's a post with all the details about preordering Situation Normal, including information about an ebook giveaway promotion you should enter: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2020/11/25/0

SITUATION NORMAL, the new novel from CONSTELLATION GAMES author @leonardr, comes out Dec. 14th. Free preview up: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/situation-normal/9781936460984-item.html

Enter a drawing for a free copy, or preorder ebook or paperback, today! https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2020/11/25/0

https://nitter.net/CandlemarkGleam/status/1328356178292830210

Constellation Games, @leonardr's first book, came out at the same time as Ready Player One, and everyone who read Ready Player One should have read Constellation Games instead. So every time I see anyone give any oxygen to Ready Player Two I'm just gonna boost his new book, Situation Normal, instead.

that cool with everyone

imagine how much happier we'd all be if advertising were just illegal

Brent Simmons: No Jedi

https://inessential.com/2020/11/22/no_jedi

I am the Rock
I am Anaaaaaaaaaaïs Nin

Sharing my friend's kitten, because she's adorable and likes music!!

Interesting OS security project: https://spectrum-os.org

* each app runs in a separate KVM container
* each VM is generated by a #Nix derivation
* graphics output is composited together via wayland/virtio

The idea is not too dissimilar to #QubesOS
, with the following main differences:

* Xen -> KVM
* Fedora/Debian -> #NixOS
* Xorg -> wayland/virtio

You can read more about the details here: https://spectrum-os.org/design.html

#4 Pong. But it's randomly generated.

#gamedev #creativetoots

Link rot is such a pervasive problem for anything that's older than 1-2 years. I wish more folks at all levels of managing websites would have some awareness that keeping URLs stable or setting up redirects is important for our collective memory.

Does anyone know what kind of plants these are, and what I should do with them in the fall? #gardening