Holger Durer @h_d@functional.cafe

I don't usually post links to Twitter, but I haven't found any other place where this announcement has been posted.

For a long time I've been part of a group that has been working towards getting characters from old 8 and 16 bit computers into Unicode. Finally, after many interactions with the Unicode committees it has finally been approved.

https://twitter.com/unicode/status/1085613123183071232

"Alexa, use a 24 hour clock"
<irellevant rubbish about 24 hour clocks>
"Alexa, change settings to a 24 hour clock"
"Which device?"
"This device"
"I didn't find a device called device."

The AI revolution is so close you can taste it.

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India. And lied about it.
– by Jason Hickel
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html
'...Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. It's a staggering sum. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today...'

Added "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (2018), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/paywall-the-business-of-scholarship-2018/

Feature-length documentary about the parasitic publishing companies that syphon off billions of dollars of public money by pointlessly charging scientists to read each other's research.

The film is brand new and released under #CreativeCommons Attribution 4.0 licence. You can find out more at https://paywallthemovie.com/

#Paywall #Research #Scholarship #Publishing #Documentary #Film

Humble bundle are currently doing a "Learn you some code" pack.

I'm willing to sponsor one pack for someone who can't afford this but would find it useful (no explanations it proofs needed, I'll assume you are honest). Just respond with your email address where to send the gift code to - should there be more than one request I'll do a random draw.

#HumbleBundle

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/learn-you-some-code-books

Looking for places to buy DRM-free e-books on this International Day Against DRM?

Here's 100+ bookshops that sell fantastic books without DRM.

#IDAD

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

I've been creating an Emacs client for Keybase chat. Nice to not have to run the Electron application.

Tooting from emacs.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/07/fun-with-macros-if-let/ is an excellent post on implementing if-let and when-let macros.

It discusses the different ways you could expand the code, and ensuring the macro composes with other (Common) Lisp features.

Really useful macro too, I'm a big fan of the elisp equivalent.

@pixelfed You should consider @Liberapay as well. :)

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

And... #Emacs 26.1 is out! https://gnu.org/s/emacs

Ohh, I totally missed this bundle! There's now a Web design & development ebook bundle out on Humble Bundle, from O'Reilly

You could buy it via my affiliate link, and even choose how much of the money goes up me, and how much good to charity etc.!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/web-design-development-books?partner=maloki

#humblebundle #ad #sellout #webdev #design

Remember that a boost is just as helpful as a buy! 💞

We just released Synapse 0.29.0-rc1 includes our first officially supported Dockerfile. Give it a try! https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v0.29.0-rc1

I' d like to be able to pin a column in which posts tagged with #guile #scheme, #clojure, #guix, #lisp tags appear

that is a column with several tags in an or disjunction

#mastodon

A first step towards graphs in my Maxima client now. https://functional.cafe/media/mw1ztVYqm7vKXXcxExI

Please don’t post screenshots of text. Depending on who is seeing it, they could be annoying, hard to read, or impossible to read.

Post links to the text or something you want to quote, and transcribe important parts into your toot.

If a screenshot is unavoidable, use the feature for describing an image with text to transcribe the important part of the text.

Thanks for making the fediverse a friendlier place for everyone. 👍🏻 #mastotips