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Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 02:34:39 EST 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? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 15:35:27 EST 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. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Oct-2021 22:43:35 EDT Alexandre Oliva funny thing, when I read stuff aloud, it's like DMA, it doesn't go through the CPU, and I can't recall what I've heard. I only retain what I read if I read it quietly -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Monday, 25-Oct-2021 18:50:16 EDT Alexandre Oliva nah, it was entirely fictional AFAIK. Eureka was the fictional city of genius inventors in the series. no amount of internal motors could enable a ball to dynamically change its weight. though mass is energy, in day-to-day life you can most often assume it's conserved, which is why I found it so creative and amusing -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Sunday, 19-Sep-2021 13:11:32 EDT Alexandre Oliva I'm not superstitious, but this works even if you don't believe it :-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 01:58:45 EDT Alexandre Oliva .oO it's software freedom day!
it feels a little ahead of the right date, but I'm not one to pass a free software celebration
let's make it a fortnight-ish freedom fest, from today through to Sept 27 (GNU launched, FS coined), and on to Oct 4 (FSF founded) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo)'s status on Sunday, 02-May-2021 10:19:46 EDT Alexandre Oliva the greatest challenge of automation for a capitalist economy is that machines don't produce surplus value, only human labor does