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Museum of Endangered Sounds - http://savethesounds.info/

Leo's TWiG pick for 30 March 2022

Fun fact: So in 2020, Google announced that Chromebooks made then or later would continue to receive updates until 2028. Before then though, the typical Chromebook platform got updates for 3-4 years.

This means that we're currently in the middle of an influx of perfectly fine Chromebooks going out of support.

This means that it's pretty easy to get a lot of decent-if-underpowered Linux-capable laptops very cheaply.

So if you need to (e.g.) set up a kids' computer club with laptops, there you go.

I was today years old when I learned that bash and zsh (and probably other shells) treat single and double quotes differently. Single quotes will NOT evaluate variables:

foo=1; echo "$foo"
1

foo=1; echo '$foo'
$foo

https://github.com/pedker/OLED-BongoCat-Revision

one-page dungeon generator

https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon

Watch like no one is dancing.

Anyone know of a pocket PC out there for under $200?

I know GPD exists but according to folks I know they're overpriced. Form factor it's right along what I want, though. Mostly just want to have a pocket sized text editor. Battery life is more important than speed/power

Boosts welcome

#pocketpc #netbook #hardware #hardwarerecs #recommendations #boostswelcome

On this #AaronSwartz day, consider how the public image of #hackers affects creative tech-savvy people. How it might have affected Aaron.

Aaron was an easy target for US DoJ, partly because "of course hackers are bad". Perhaps Aaron would be alive today had the hacker movement not been demonized as much in the mainstream.

Consider this next time you use the word "hacker" when you mean "cybercriminal":
https://rys.io/en/155.html

📢 Owl is now on GitHub! 🎉

After an unsigned long long wait, I'm finally releasing the source code of Owl, my portable #Wayland compositor in Objective-C that runs on Mac OS X, the Hurd (and probably just about anywhere else thanks to the magic of #GNUstep). Along with it, I'm also publishing the port of Wayland that runs on OS X.

Please note that Owl is still very much a work in progress. It's amazing that many things work, but naturally others don't. There's a lot to improve!

https://github.com/owl-compositor/owl

That feeling when you sit in your car, and the song is so good you have to let it finish.

With my new computer I took another stab at the "Vaporwave Animation". Armed with more reference materials and some better understanding of procedural geometry, I ended up with this.

I think it's a substantial improvement on other results.

Tired: "Screening an unknown call..."

Wired: Screaming at unknown calls

Only UNIX users can understand how to touch cat head for less echo while history find man who killall.

Once again, this month we have not one but two posts detailing Haiku in October: first an activity report from pulkomandy...
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2021-11-01-haiku_activity_report_october_2021/