Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca), page 4
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 07:26:02 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
Meh. If you're using Twitter's embed code to show info from Twitter's site on your own web page, then you get whatever Twitter wants to show you. This is not Twitter editing your web page, this Kevin Marks's web page retrieving code from Twitter, and letting unknown code run in the viewer's browser.
If you really want an immutable record of what Twitter had then copy'n'paste the text, don't use Twitter's embed code. Or you could capture a screenshot, just be sure to provide full ALT text so the text is still text.
Browsers that block Javascript should still see the blockquote text that's actually part of the page.
#Javascrippled, although not in the conventional manner. -
शंतनू (shantanoo@gnusocial.in)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 04:01:08 UTC 
शंतनू
Twitter is using it’s embedded JavaScript to edit other people's sites - http://www.kevinmarks.com/twittereditsyou.html -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 19:05:21 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Tech Connections! I love that guy! -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 18:58:22 UTC
Bob Jonkman
You know you're getting old when your idea of "Recent events" is longer ago than the people reminding you of them... -
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 10:45:40 UTC 
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
Wow, Ali G Science Rap is already 10 years old.
No, wait, it came out in 2012, that's recent. Wait! Oh.
farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6HPT… -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 10:07:25 UTC
Bob Jonkman
According The Register's forum, this is the patch: "The current fix: Represent 2022-01-02 as 2021-12-33."
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/01/03/exchange_servery2k22_flaw/#c_4389861 -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 07:34:39 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99
think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of decades of use. how screwy and irresponsible is that? -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 03-Jan-2022 04:11:09 UTC
Bob Jonkman
From what I can tell, they were using the decimal digits of the 32-bit number as a sort of BCD, with the base10 digits representing portions of the date. The example used is "the new date value of 2,201,010,001 is over the max value of 'long' int32 being 2,147,483,647". So, YY MMDDHHMM ?
What an extraordinarily stupid way to represent a date. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 04:59:13 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 03:32:00 UTC
Bob Jonkman
And, of course, Wikipedia knows everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#Adaptations
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Dec-2021 03:29:40 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Happily, it's been about 50 years since I read the first three novels, and about 20 years since I started on the sequels (which never did finish, got about halfway through the third sequel book). So my foggy memories of the storyline in the original trilogy shouldn't detract from the TV series.
I recall there was a BBC radio play or a BBC TV series in the 1980s, I heard at least one episode on the radio but never caught it again.... -
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 10:43:16 UTC
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
@Bob Jonkman It is highly character-driven.
It uses key characters, the Empire, the exile, Terminus, Psychohistory, two kingdoms instead of the Four Kingdoms and some echoes of half of the first book and fainter echoes from other parts of the series, while the main story maps roughly to half the first book.
It shifts characters around, fleshes them out, gives them more connections between each other, adds its own world concepts and turns key characters into women. There is no Scientism, only straightforward diplomacy, and there are fewer Seldon Crises (only one).
Apart from the pacing I think it's a far better TV series than a faithful adaptation would be. The concepts it adds are interesting and fit with the world and give it depth, they're not just random stuff. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 06:53:22 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Don't get me wrong, I think Foundation is one of the greatest SF stories ever written. And I hadn't heard there was a series, must find out when and where it airs... !SciFi @clacke -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Dec-2021 06:49:57 UTC
Bob Jonkman
So you're telling me the series closely follows the 9? 12? books of the Foundation Trilogy... -
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 05-Dec-2021 12:46:46 UTC
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
A few more episodes in the pacing is a real problem. Now I'm just watching because I'm invested in the characters, but the main epic story is really moving at snail's pace. -
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 11-Oct-2021 00:32:09 UTC
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
#Foundation is a very good series, judging from the first episode. It takes Asimov's grand galactic imperial scope and vision add three-dimensional people with motivations and purpose. Beautifully shot, acted and rendered, of course.
People are making so much cool stuff now that has finally become technologically possible. -
Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Dec-2021 10:33:38 UTC 
Aral Balkan
Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to centralise information, power, and wealth. Think about where your strengths lie and design from first principles according to those.
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Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 12-Nov-2021 09:52:11 UTC
Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
twitit.gq/ddzwiedziu/status/14…I think everyone should learn at least a little bit of computer programming, so they can learn to hate computers at deeper level.
"Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime." -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 21:18:11 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Some of us still do that - make the content the most important thing on the page, rather than the chrome and the flash and the bling... -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 20:35:27 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
remember when web site designers worked really hard to cut down the amount of nonsense on the web page so it would spend fewer server, network and client resources, and would load faster? those were the days. that was before surveillance capitalism took hold, I suppose.
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