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3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using , and . It turned out great!

ethanwiner.com/BTU_BOOK.PDF

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Read our latest update about the Freedom Ladder campaign, and how we plan to create introductory free software resources that keep people moving forward on their journey to freedom. u.fsf.org/3h9

Awww my fireteam included Zavala, Crow, Ikora, Caiatl, Cayde-6, Mara and Ghost! They can take some credit. :D

The player base is infuriating with how they’re always bored. They have the funnest, largest (lore and more), most innovating FPS shoot-loot MMORPG ever made, and if they don’t have a campaign that takes years to make to play at every second, every day, all year round, they’re bored.

Absolute spoiled brats with no curiosity or adventure who take everything for granted.

There is no intrinsic boredom in this vast content. THEY (players) are the boring. They bring it themselves.

I like seeing iBook references in modern media. Spotted a tangerine iBook inspired laptop in a dating visual novel I’m reading on Switch.

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Travel

I have to go on a trip in like 4 hours for visa reasons and this is how im feeling right now T_T

Will still draw my daily comics but itll be on my iPad with procreate and im not very good at that so the quality will be lower sadly

Don't mind me, just teaching AI how to git gud at using Commodore VIC20 computers.

(Slides show the work in progress and learning confirmation.)

I could have split hairs and had it replace the word "delete" with "scratch", but I used the word "delete" in my prompt, so I'll let it slide. :P

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Once again, Business As Usual has produced exactly what we have come to expect — another month of record-breaking heat.
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Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heat waves. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

"This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate," said the service director, Carlo Buontempo.

This was "inevitable" as long as humanity kept adding heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, he said.

Scorching heat has blanketed swathes of the world from India to Saudi Arabia, the United States and Mexico in the first half of this year.

Relentless rain, a phenomena scientists have also linked to a warmer planet, caused extensive flooding in Kenya, China, Brazil, Afghanistan, Russia and France.

Wildfires have torched land in Greece and Canada and last week, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane on record as it barrelled across several Caribbean islands.
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FULL STORY -- phys.org/news/2024-07-june-hot

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

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technicallywewrite.com/2024/07

WordPerfect was a powerful desktop word processor that ruled offices throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Here's a fond look back at WordPerfect for DOS, including some sample laser printer output.

I admit as I wrote this article, I forgot how much power was in WordPerfect's styles.

When you've remade your bed with fresh linen, is the reward to take a nap in it right after?

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@tillybridges
I've been asked in the past if I'm an LGBTQIA+ ally, and I always say it's not for me to apply that designator- all I can do is show I am an ally by words and actions, as far too many "allies" are anything but.
@timo21

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I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this:

While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world.

Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true.
It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence.

It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis.

Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true.

And so do the rest of us.

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