Jonathan Dowland @Jmtd@mastodon.cloud

Round of applause to whoever decided that "quit" and "exit" should be separate commands with different semantics

@Wewereseeds

glitchin-out

if a gigawad is a thousand megawads then I have published ~5.8 gigawads over the past 16 years through my SLIGE megawad generator https://soulsphere.org/hacks/slige/ #mastodoom

Lots of people talk about owning libs but to find out who owns a lib, check the COPYING file in the root of the source distribution. That will give information on copyright and who owns that lib. If it is public domain then nobody owns it

I contacted the Computer History Museum and paid them a small fee to have them scan the first 9 RFCs. I'm happy to say those scans are now online.

My post with interesting excerpts and things I learned looking at the scans: https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs

The listing of the scans in their catalog, with a link to the PDF: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102661172

You can follow along with my series commenting on the first 365 RFCs here @365-rfcs

The @debian 10 'buster' release freeze has begun -- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/01/msg00008.html

protip: If someone files a bug report you don't like and don't want to deal with and the bug report is getting unwanted attention, don't redirect the bug url to your home page.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/21737

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

@liw Makes me wonder what the write-to-read ratio of that content is. I suspect it's far above 1.

345 billion web pages saved. That compares with 39 million books in the US Library of Congress (largest collection in the world) and about 130 million books ever published (growing at 300k/yr trad, 1.5m/yr nontrad publishing).

TIA's 2016 report suggests ~90 kB/pg, or ~2% of a book (~5 MB PDF text).

TIA have 5 billion books worth of data.

https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/

So close!! If you like our vision of community-driven, fantastically diverse and always principled free software, then we hope you'll support us by making a financial donation to help us keep doing the work to make that vision a reality. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/dec/28/nicerthings/

Crayola had a line of tech-themed crayons in 1997 called "Techno-Brite"

Why is a user's `$HOME` directory shortened to "~"? Because "~" and "Home" shared the same key on an ADM-3A keyboard. Also influencing vi/vim: H/J/K/L double as the arrows and the colon doesn't need SHIFT, making it more convenient.

I think about this Naomi Klein passage a lot:

Lost NES version of SimCity surfaces: https://kotaku.com/lost-nes-version-of-simcity-emerges-after-27-years-1831308462

Christmas through the harsh lens of reality:

I love these designs for an Amiga computer from an alternate reality, where Commodore was able to build on their European success, and SuperDisks took off as the storage medium of choice.

Art is by "Arne" - http://androidarts.com/

Fabien Sanglard's Doom Engine Black Book is now available for pre-order (releasing next month on the 25th Anniversary): https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/1065671659405758465