#TIL too! @neauoire did you ever play with that in your Macintosh adventures?

#TIL @jensorensen, as seen in #TheNib, is in the Fediverse!

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife

#TIL about #UnPaywall:

"An open database of 46,853,993 free scholarly articles.
We harvest Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make it easy to find, track, and use."

https://unpaywall.org/

#research #PeerReviewed #AcademicJournals #OpenAccess

#TIL that, when using #NextCloud Desktop, unchecking the sync check box for a file or directory will permanently delete it.

And, no, it's not a bug. It's a feature. 🤡

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1023

#TIL Linus Torvalds had a Linux Quake3 port on DEC Alpha.

i have both revs of the #Killswitch and i am totally with you 100% that it really feels like an enhancement.

and anyone that travels should consider it mandatory, imo. #TIL that people are making 'deck docks with m2 drives in them why didn't i think of that?!

#TIL about the Japan-made Pickles Pocket for 68k-based Macintoshes. Did you know about it @neauoire? Is a gem

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pickles-pocket

today I learned this isn't just me #TIL

#TIL The C preprocessor is actually Turing-complete if you try hard enough. There's even the Order programming language, a functional programming language built entirely upon the C99 preprocessor, with first-class anonymous functions, partial application, tail recursion, reflection, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and more! https://github.com/rofl0r/order-pp/tree/master/example
Its author also found there were only two C compilers in the world that could run Order correctly, one was GCC, another was the Wave C++ preprocessor library, everything else violated C99 (and even C89) in some ways.