Would be interesting to know how these big services are powered.
Month: June 2019
“Ema” by Loscil
https://loscil.bandcamp.com/track/ema
One of my favourite ambient tracks ever. Well worth a $1…
#NowPlaying
Some days are just ‘mark all as read’ days.
Watched the Lecture 1a video for SICP. (Not sure how exactly these correspond to the book – is it by chapter?)
It’s Hal Abelson giving the lectures. I find him really engaging. And, I did not know this until I looked him up just now, but is a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation. Rad!
Anyway, here’s a few notes I made while watching the video.
https://archive.org/details/s27-059PabloRibot-UrbanMetaphor/05KitschScience.mp3
Kitsch Science by Pablo Ribot
How to force Alt+Tab to only switch windows in the current workspace?
Because I keep needing to remember how to do this:
# bash
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.app-switcher current-workspace-only true
Capital Ring reeds
Woodberry Wetlands
Chris McLeod (mrkapowski.com)John Wick poster
I finally got round to watching John Wick. It was good, and I see what all the fuss is about; the lighting, cinematography, and choreography were all great. The action plays out very much like a form of dance. The plot is very “by the numbers,” but I liked that it was very strip…
More from Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson on some requirements of a Green New Deal, specifically around zero waste. Making things last longer; local collective ownership; producer responsibility.
The program should also require the elimination of the planned obsolescence built into the life cycle of all modern consumer products from cars to cell phones, a practice that both enriches corporations and drives the need to extract more resources and expend more fossil fuels to make more products.
https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/greennewdealmusthaveazerowastepolicy