I still remember trying to sell people on Erlang back at an old job and it went something like “think of it as concurrent functional lisp” and they were like “Lisp’s syntax is terrible” and I was like “then good news because this is Prolog syntax” and that wasn’t better.
The Green Party candidate for the Gorton & Denton by election is Hannah Spencer; lets hope she polls better than her 5th place in the 2024 Manchester Mayoral election.
As a young female plumber & local resident, there's a lot to attract the Labour vote, but this by-election will be hard fought as it is seen by many as a litmus text both for ReformUK ltd.'s threat to the mainstream parties in the next General Election & Polanski's renewed Greens!
#Greens #politics
https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/30/greens-pick-local-plumber-to-win-gorton-denton/
🪨 Belkin's Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday - Slashdot
｢ Belkin is shutting down cloud support for most Wemo smart home devices on January 31, leaving only Thread-based models and devices already set up in Apple HomeKit functional. Everything else will lose remote access, voice assistant integrations, and future app updates ｣
The Thunderbird team is ready for day 1 of FOSDEM! Come visit us in Building F, level 1 to chat with the team, learn what we're up to with desktop, mobile, and Pro, and of course, grab stickers!
And don't forget Brendan's talk on Exchange in Thunderbird at noon today in the Modern Email Devroom (K.4.201)!
26 martyrs, including women and children, since this morning.
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Deep in the woods lies an abandoned VW Beetle Car Graveyard.
Hundreds of Volkswagen Beetles and Bus Campervans are organised into rows and clusters, seemingly based on age and model.
This fleet of rusting rainbow-coloured vehicles appears to represent every colour.
Somewhere in the USA, some years ago.
https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/vw-beetle-car-graveyard-usa/
#USA #America #Abandoned #Photography #OldCars #VW #Volkswagen #Beetle #VWBeetle #Campervan
#TIL about Cashu, a protocol for e-cash, *without* a distributed but centralised public ledger of transactions;
"Ecash transactions between users or service providers respect the user's privacy. A mint does not store a database of user accounts and their activity which protects users from leaks or hacks and can provide stronger censorship resistance than classical payment systems."
Curious to know how this compares to InterLedger.
Cashu seems similar to the goals of HoloChain too. Again I wonder how they compare.
Our daily haiku prompt for 24-31 Jan 2025
Thanks for all your contributions.
Feel free to use any form of the prompt, or even not use it at all.
01/24 Blizzard Light Clothes
01/25 Lonely Summer Sky
01/26 Charcoal Kingfisher
01/27 Hoarfrost Pasture
01/28 Bean Soup Overcast
01/29 Quince Lightning
01/30 Horse Mosquito
01/31 Glimmer Sand
The short summer night.
The dream and real
Are same things.
--Takahama Kyoshi
Lightning strikes, glimmer -
the horizon's simmering
possibilities
I am always pleasantly surprised with a single word takes up an entire line of a haiku poem
#OtD 31 Jan 1971 anti-fascists attacked the National Socialist Party HQ in Melbourne, Australia. The Nazis, dressed like storm troopers, were told by police to lock themselves inside, but over 500 people forced their way through and wrecked the offices https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11141/melbourne-nazis-attacked
🔥 20 passionnantes minutes d'interview d'Alexis Kauffmann AKA #Framaka (@framaka) par Michaël de Marliave (#Micode) au sujet des #GAFAM, mais aussi et surtout sur les #LogicielsLibres et #OpenSource au Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (dont la #DémarcheNIRD).
👋 @lelibreedu @demarchenird @apps @bigbluebutton @nextcloud @primtux @maths_c0d3
@jerome_herbinet c'est très bien de parler de ces dangers-là mais pourquoi pas une diffusion également sur peertube plutôt que sur youtube qui appartient à Google ?
#OtD 31 Jan 1919 striking workers fought police in central Glasgow. Declared a "Bolshevist uprising", thousands of troops were deployed to restore order. The strike was to lower the working week to 40 hours https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10365/“bolshevist-uprising”-in-glasgow
«A Social Network for AI Agents» - that sounds like a great honeypot to just extract a ton of information from the people who're running those bots. 😅
It wasn't too hard to call this after all!
Sword Girl could beat Superman in a fight and I will argue with any nerd who tries to say otherwise.
@lowqualityfacts okay. There's no arguing on this.
@Gina oh no... That might have been the room Social Web was in last year 🥵
@andypiper it also looks like the room that's used for Community track (upper floor). If it's the same as last year I only made it about 10 minutes before having to leave.
@zotheca @hakendran Was mir missfällt, so klang es durch: die Instanzen müssen sich dafür komplett öffnen, dürften also keine moderierte Registrierung machen.
@tautology Note that in the Laundryverse there are *three or more* Phibes films (and the first two are significantly different to the ones in our universe).
@cstross yeah, I actually wasted time (i.e. a quick Google) to find whether the third film was a Laundryverse thing and whether there was a Nyarlathotep link.
I do like the way you fit two cheesy early 70s comedy horror films as in-universe canon. Especially with the simple upgrade to a BlueTooth speaker for Dr Phibbs to speak.
