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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

tired: the bedrock of knowledge is formal logic

wired: the bedrock of knowledge is emulators

in reply to cancel

LET THEM GET THERE lol
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re: hci.social/@chrisamaphone/1163…

taking off my "impartial observer" hat for a moment (and so breaking out of the thread), one opinion i've started solidifying is that we need stable (or one might say "archival") proof languages, alongside those that actively evolve. a big motivation for me is to develop teaching materials that still run in a decade (Explaining), but i think there are good Convincing-aligned reasons to want this as well.


PLATEAU is a workshop, so this paper is mostly a discussion starter that gestures towards possible projects (we aren't describing a new solution or advocating for a particular agenda). i really want to hear from more folks about your answers to the discussion questions at the end, or any other feedback!

in reply to chris martens

arguably we should also want archival programming languages more generally. sometimes, a language whose features cease to evolve is called "dead". but perhaps we should reserve "dead" for languages whose programs no longer run, and use "archival" for those whose implementations are maintained while their feature sets remain stable (thx @simrob for planting this lexical seed in my head)
@Rob
in reply to chris martens

Have you ever come across Kragen's notes on using UVMs for archival? This might be a good entry into the topic and probably has some usable ideas for your work:
dercuano.github.io/topics/arch…
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new from me, @etosch , @cxli , and Elan Semenova: "Is truth future-proof? On the possible futures of mechanized proof". contains provocations, philosophical framings, and accounts of current practices in light of the idea that mechanized proofs contain mathematical knowledge that we might want to persist across future generations.

preprint: khoury.northeastern.edu/~cmart…

presented at PLATEAU a few weeks ago. slides: khoury.northeastern.edu/~cmart…

in reply to chris martens

people shouted out in the talk include @ionchy (for their lovely reproduction of Reynolds' "types, abstraction, and parametric polymorphism"), @MartinEscardo for his posts about Agda as communication tool, and @david for letting me ask annoying questions about his Lean projects 😀
in reply to chris martens

PLATEAU is a workshop, so this paper is mostly a discussion starter that gestures towards possible projects (we aren't describing a new solution or advocating for a particular agenda). i really want to hear from more folks about your answers to the discussion questions at the end, or any other feedback!
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Today is #WorldBackupDay! Best way to celebrate?

By backing up your precious data, of course. 🫵

Here’s how to create secure, reliable remote #backups of your Nextcloud using #Borg: 👇 nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-back…



Pied #Tamarins are critically #endangered, threats incl. massive #deforestation in #Brazil 🇧🇷 for #palmoil 🌴🙊⛔️#beef 🐮🥩⛔️ and gold. Help them to survive #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #BoycottGold! @palmoildetectives palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…


We're hiring for a part-time position in Finance & Operations at @Mastodon. Fluent German and English language skills are a requirement. In terms of location it's a hybrid role so we're looking for candidates in #berlin or #vienna. I believe this is a rare opportunity to learn about the organisational side of technology non-profits and open source.

jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6c96…

#fedihire #job #jobs

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French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/fren…

#TheCrew #Ubisoft #Gaming #PCGaming




Implemented mandelbrot based on the implementations on rosettacode thinking it might be a good way to benchmark #uxn on the m5, but it turned out almost too fast to be practical.
git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/t…
#uxn
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📱 Taller "Chau Google de tu celular"

Video del taller-conversatorio primeros pasos para liberarnos de servicios de Google sin perder información ni dejar de usar las apps que necesitamos. Migrar hacia software libre, recuperar control sobre datos personales y explorar alternativas. Porque desgooglizar el celular no es sólo cuestión técnica: es autonomía digital, desobediencia algorítmica y resistencia al extractivismo de datos.

🔗 al.internetsocialforum.net/202…



Started off talking about catlangs, ended up on Solresol, Smullyan, Music Mouse and languages as instruments. I never felt more at home in a forum thread.
forum.malleable.systems/t/love…
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The Ecuadorean #Viscacha is a fluffy epic #rodent of #Ecuador’s high mountains with long and wise whiskers and a bushy tail. These tenacious creatures are critically #endangered 😭😿 Help them to survive, be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife 🥩🔥⛔️ @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-aoV?utm_source=ma…


Vous pensez que je peux m'objectiver sur de la merde comme une collaboratrice dans un grand groupe leader du secteur ?

Genre :

  • obtenir le physique de Mewtwo avant qu'on m'enlève mes bagues
  • faire 32 tractions le jour de mon anniversaire @neauoire style
  • faire des squats avec le poids de mon générateur de shitpost statique le jour où je sors la V1 (actuellement 196Ko lmao, va falloir optimiser)


Money is life and everything in SUPER DEBT, an unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/mone…

#SUPERDEBT #IndieGames #Roguelike #BulletHell



Research + Self Promo

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@Friendica Support I remember that there used to be 'previous' and 'next' buttons when I viewed a channel. Those seem to have gone. Do I misremember or is that a bug?
in reply to gmc

I don't think I even have that enabled. I also have no clue where I would deactivate that...

I do get paging for the default channels, just not for the channels I created myself.



Lakehopper looks like a wonderful casual seaplane flight simulator gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/lake…

#Lakehopper #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Still missing head tracking and the controller setup is wonky but this game does have a lot of potential.




Heretic II has a new reverse-engineered source port gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/here…

#HereticII #PCGaming #Gaming #Retro

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wish it was properly based on Yamagi Quake II instead of just merging some parts of it - would probably make a proper Linux port and 64bit support much easier
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The Wondiwoi tree #kangaroo 🦘🌿 is the most endangered kangaroo alive due to #palmoil #deforestation 🪔🌴 and hunting across their range of #WestPapua. Take action to help these wide-eyed beauties #Boycottpalmoil 👎 #Boycott4Wildlife 🚫 @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-8yg?utm_source=ma…


Diablo 2-inspired auto-battle dungeon crawler Skull Horde launches April 10 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/diab…

#SkullHorde #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming



Fans of Portal and first-person puzzlers will definitely want to check out He Who Watches gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/fans…

#HeWhoWatches #IndieGames #PCGaming #PuzzleGames



Bat listening to good music on an expensive record player while pretending to like wine


Virtual hangout game Rec Room is shutting down in June gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/virt…

#RecRoom #Gaming #PCGaming



The Flashpoint update for ARC Raiders has lots of the good stuff gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-…

#ARCRaiders #Linux #Proton #SteamDeck #Gaming #SteamOS

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Excellent! The game is awesome already, so improvements just push it further into GOAT territory 😀

in reply to It's FOSS

really looking forward to this. I'm so done with big corpo leash.



Palantir Is Leading a New Age of Empire


Palantir has merged American empire, Zionist military infrastructure, surveillance capitalism, and technofascist ideology into a single architecture of control.

Palantir manages the security in Australia's refugee detention centres. It also manages the security for our supermarkets. We must uproot this noxious weed.

in reply to Muse

Free Israel from Netanyahu. Free Palestine/Gaza from Hamas. Free America from Trump and MAGA Republicans. These are evil forces that have filled the world with hate, injustice, murder and war.
A container of Course Ground Black Pepper can contain Black Fly Shit. Just because they are both in the same container, and look alike, doesn't mean they are the same thing. -Ivy
in reply to Muse

@Ivy Blackledge Whitfield 2026 Yes, someone said at the beginning of the latest war how rare it is to hope for regime change in all three countries involved.


dear world, naive proposal

cruel empty men should not lead or decide anything, they should be treated to heal



I'll just put this here.
Interesting Tor news.

blog.torproject.org/new-releas…

helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/27…




Humility: Why modern leaders need to resurrect this ancient virtue


...
Van Tongeren: I’m certainly not the first person to think that humility is a good idea, but two things have happened.

First, we’ve accumulated enough psychological research to have a clear sense of what ancient wisdom has suggested for a long time. The empirical data support that humility really is transformational.

Second, our culture — particularly in the United States but also worldwide — needs it more than ever. The U.S. is in the midst of what scholars have called a narcissism epidemic. Our overinflated sense of self is growing at astronomical rates. We’re seeing this lack of humility in political, religious, and other cultural conflicts that are creating a sense of despair, loneliness, and mental disease that we perhaps haven’t seen in quite some time...



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in reply to Andrew Pam

Imagine the jealousy felt by those of us living in the Trump world although I suppose the whole human race lives in it with respect to pollution and climate change. He pays companies billions to abandon renewable projects and go fossil. Unfuckingbelievable.
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diaspora - Link to source
Jay Bryant
Meanwhile, in the US, of fucking course, we double down on fossil fuels, with Dipshit doing all he can to kill renewables. I hate this fucking country now.


Wingo Starr and friends form charity art gullery


More than 200 model seagulls are to go on display later this month as part of a community art project.

Artworks Art4All, a Barrow-based community interest company, has been collecting pieces from schools and community groups for its exhibition since September.

Its volunteers run art projects for groups, including those experiencing isolation and mental health issues, to give them a space to be creative in a supportive environment.

Founding director Sharon Tait said gulls of all sizes, made of felt, glass and even sweets, would be exhibited and auctioned for charity. "We have a lot of seagulls in Barrow. A lot. And now we have even more," she said.

The exhibition is entitled What the Flock? The Seaquell, and builds on a similar project where people were invited to create model sheep.

Treasurer director Linda Rollinson said her favourite was a 5ft-tall (1.5m) cushioned seagull called Wingo Starr...



Making Sense of Slow AI zine by AIxDesign

aixdesign.metalabel.com/slow-a…

"What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past."

#ai #slowAI

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Hey cis people: instead of going "ohhh woooow you people are soooooo braaave" while forgetting to cancel your HBO Max subscription or whatever, why not participate in today's most delicious of festivities?


#News: 🧐🦧 #Study of #orangutans shows they avoid #obesity by resting when food is scarce and balancing protein perfectly. We can learn so much from them! WE MUST save their rainforest home NOW! 🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

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