If a foreign power can hack your phone, I am sure criminals and our domestic law enforcement and government agencies can do so even easier and not get caught. Cell Phones remain a clear and present danger for identity theft, privacy theft etc.
There are different kinds of paranoia, everyone has some level of it in their nature. Dismissing reality is also a danger. I have survived when many friends and family members have not, because I remain alert and observant and cautious. Being alive and beating the odds so far means I have about the right level of paranoia on many many things.
"Having some understanding of how airlines work has served me in good stead, but the first step is in learning to see collective systems as, well, collective systems. I'm part of it as a passenger, but so are the staff, whose behavior and flexibility within the system is likely even more constrained since their livelihood depends on it. I've only witnessed a "Do you know who I am?"-style meltdown at a gate a couple of times. They're rare because most adult humans, even when they're upset, do understand that their needs or desires don't outweigh those of a passenger jet full of people. It's the same idea as "You're not stuck in traffic, you are the traffic." We can consciously sidestep the narrative solipsism of thinking we must be the hero of the story (or that anyone is) and the attendant fallacy that the systems are there to serve us individually or specifically, rather than as part of a collective."
A few years ago I found out about a programming language written in #Gaeilge (the Irish language) called Setanta. I tinkered a little with it then but hit some road blocks and it seemed to have been left unsupported.
The creator Eoin Davey developed it when he was a teenager, later honed while studying computer science at NUI Maynooth in 2016.
Today I learned that it is still updated and there are some pretty great tutorials to have some fun with an IDE.
Setanta - An teanga ríomhchlarúcháin as Gaeilge - The Irish language Programming Language. Setanta is a modern, simple and friendly programming language that's 100% in Irish.
On this, I remember a really good article from around 2020 that was written by a computer scientist about a programming language written in Hindi, and how it subverts embedded colonial language in computers. I can't find the article any more. Anyone know what I am talking about/where I could find it?
@anne amazing, thank you so much for sharing this. Both are fascinating. The Cree# and Ancestral Code interview gives a lot of context and motivation for why they took this approach. Really grateful for the links!
Probably not exactly what you were looking for, but it made me think of the programming language Hedy, that is available in multiple different languages including Hindi: hedy.org
This can be easily done in Lisp and it would naturally look kind of like Irish because of the syntax, e.g. (is-ionann X agus Y) or (an-bhfuil X níos-mó-ná Y).
@yoel yes for sure but that also makes it a translation exercise from English to Irish, beginning with English-led (colonial) linguistic forms and traditions. There are many concepts in Irish (and every language) that don't easily translate into other languages so having a programming language built to a specific spoken language potentially opens the door to programming with these concepts.
A couple of the articles linked in the replies here write about this specifically, and better than I can.
In three hours, at 3 PM Eastern, @gaw will stream TOEM from Something We Made Games. Hang out with us and chat about game design as they play this gorgeous cartoon black-and-white photography adventure!
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* The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell Game Design Workshop by Tracy Fullerton A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster Effective Java 2nd Ed by Joshua Bloch This Gaming Life by Jim Rossignol
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Play vivid/stasis ooooOOOooo. Free rhythm game on steam oooooOOOooo. New update todaaaaayyyy. Probably the biggest update yet ooooOOOOooo. [Insert convincing ghost here]
Footage shows NY officers beating prisoner before death
Newly released bodycam footage appears to show New York corrections officers fatally beating a handcuffed inmate who died the following morning. The inmate, 43-year-old Robert Brooks, was pronounced dead on 10 December, the day after the incident took place at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
Following an internal review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the firing of the 13 officers and a prison nurse who were involved in the assault. The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened an investigation into Brooks' death, and the union that represents state prison workers called the video "incomprehensible".
I hang out on Mastodon quite a bit. 1 One of the most consistently engaging people in the Mastodon fediverse is @futurebird@sauropods.win. Besides pro-ant propaganda, you get thoughts about teaching and mathematics, micro-science fiction, her cat Pica (often wronged, always right), and much more. Highly recommended.
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The scientific illustrator, Quentell came to the US after WWII ...
Who is Quentell, I wondered?
...I did enjoy this weird journey discovering a man who did not exist. It's fascinating to consider how in an information society a mythical figure such as Jung-Koch Quentell can be created by accident.
It demonstrates how easy it is to casually pollute our information landscape.
I feel like I'm an ape who is expected to be enamored with thier reflection an imperfect mirror. Interesting, but I'll play the contrarian and not look. 😀
I just spoke to the warehouse. In an effort to ship as many orders as possible before the holidays, they used all available packaging. They now have new boxes and future orders will be packaged to a better standard. I am sorry for the subpar experience. I hope the toy has arrived safely.
All good, man. Appreciate the reply. It totally made it safely and intact so that’s what matters. A small heads up in the shipping notification or something would’ve sufficed. No need to apologize and I’m glad they’re finally available here in the US!
Is there an easy way of setting it up on just a local network? The need for it to be publically accessible with a domain is a major source of friction imo.
There's a newer one of this of a fellow rescuing a koala who is breaking its way into a gas plant in Western Australia, but it's only up on Facebook. This video will have to do.
Desmond continues to model for my Freecycle photos! This photo actually blew up on our local Freecycle. Everyone wanted to know about Desmond! No one wanted the mugs! I even had people sending me photos of their cats! Oh well, it was worth a laugh!
What helps us to take responsibility for our mistakes? A recent study says the key might lie with your belief that people can change.
"When you believe that your behavior can change, you are more likely to be willing to admit responsibility. A big reason why you are able to admit fault is that you recognize that once you admit what you have done wrong, you can work to make it better, and so you are not threatened by admitting mistakes. People who do not believe that they can change are stressed by admitting their mistakes, because they believe that those mistakes say something fundamental about who they are as a person."
Long long ago, I was working in an office and brought a FedEx package into the mailroom. Handed it to a staffer, and left. When I got back to my desk I realized I'd made some error with the package (don't recall now what it was). So I went back to the mailroom and asked for the package back because I'd made a mistake.
The mailroom guy looked at me and said, "Will you marry me?"
Huh?
Guess he wasn't used to "higher ups" admitting they'd done something wrong.
Personal Observation: People change. When they don't usually it's considered a chronic mental illness.
And really, the idea is to not make the same mistake twice and work to help others not make the same mistake (training, documentation, velvet ropes, etc.)
This is ableist propaganda. Just because the system has been taking the taxes of disabled people and funneling them to inaccessible things, doesn't mean that LLMs trained on stolen creativity are the solution. When it's free or cheap, institutions like assistive tech. When it requires their own investment, they usually deny assistive tech. Because they're NOT about making things accessible. They could have done that ages ago.
Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others. Schools everywhere
Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental, bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
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