Daphne Preston-Kendal
@dpk.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Chair of the Working Group for R7RS Large, the next revision of the standard for the Scheme programming language.
Codeberg presidium 2025–7.
Indo-Europeanist.
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Codeberg presidium 2025–7.
Indo-Europeanist.
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🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://chaos.social/@dpk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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chaos.social
‘There is no guarantee that a future generation will build on the moral achievements it inherits. Nazism was an awful warning. But neither are there limits to what humans may achieve if they are faithful. So utopias are banished – but it is only a provisional pessimism: there is always a hope […]
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#police : c’est une pratique très connue des milieux #hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné. Mais cette fois, il n’est en rien question de sport : c’est la police nationale qui reprend cette mise en scène, en posant fièrement avec […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#police : c’est une pratique très connue des milieux #hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné. Mais cette fois, il n’est en rien question de sport : c’est la police nationale qui reprend cette mise en scène, en posant fièrement avec […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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I have a blog now!
http://computingthedetails.org/
There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos.
Subscribe with atom or RSS!
http://computingthedetails.org/
There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos.
Subscribe with atom or RSS!
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I have a blog now!
http://computingthedetails.org/
There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos.
Subscribe with atom or RSS!
http://computingthedetails.org/
There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos.
Subscribe with atom or RSS!
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Die DGB-Bundesfrauenkonferenz hat heute einen Beschluss zu #sexarbeit gefasst: "Sexarbeit ist Arbeit - Für eine selbstbestimmte Erwerbsarbeit". Ein guter und wichtiger historischer Schritt. Ich bin sehr froh, mit meiner Stimme als Delegierte der GEW- […]
[Original post on ohai.social]
[Original post on ohai.social]
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Die DGB-Bundesfrauenkonferenz hat heute einen Beschluss zu #sexarbeit gefasst: "Sexarbeit ist Arbeit - Für eine selbstbestimmte Erwerbsarbeit". Ein guter und wichtiger historischer Schritt. Ich bin sehr froh, mit meiner Stimme als Delegierte der GEW- […]
[Original post on ohai.social]
[Original post on ohai.social]
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“You are not worse than the kernel hacker, the compiler engineer, or the game engine programmer. You, too, can build whatever you want to build. All software is just software. It's time we treated it that way.”
https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer
https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer
The Overly Humble Programmer
jimmyhmiller.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“You are not worse than the kernel hacker, the compiler engineer, or the game engine programmer. You, too, can build whatever you want to build. All software is just software. It's time we treated it that way.”
https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer
https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer
Does anyone know of an actually technically competent Apple Authorized Service Provider in Berlin? My SSD seems to be falling off the front edge of the bathtub curve. Still under AppleCare. My recent Apple Store experience suggests that the ‘geniuses’ are now trained monkeys regurgitating […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Does anyone know of an actually technically competent Apple Authorized Service Provider in Berlin? My SSD seems to be falling off the front edge of the bathtub curve. Still under AppleCare. My recent Apple Store experience suggests that the ‘geniuses’ are now trained monkeys regurgitating […]
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I think Apple missed their opportunity to change the name of Xcode to 26code.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I think Apple missed their opportunity to change the name of Xcode to 26code.
Hat jemand noch Zugang zu einer Kopie von der Sendung mit der Maus vom 27.03.2022 (die Ausgabe mit der trans Frau)? RStV-Blödheiten halt …
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hat jemand noch Zugang zu einer Kopie von der Sendung mit der Maus vom 27.03.2022 (die Ausgabe mit der trans Frau)? RStV-Blödheiten halt …
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: https://bsky.app/profile/python.org/post/3m46nxmereb2b
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: https://bsky.app/profile/python.org/post/3m46nxmereb2b
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In a culture that is brutal in its suppression of #sexwork, including disapproval, punishment, debanking, and every other means of devaluing the people who do it, to see #ai companies pivot to “horny" is even more awful than many of their other industries.
Let me get this straight: it's okay to […]
Let me get this straight: it's okay to […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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people are like "don't put all of your infrastructure on github, if github is down it will stop working!!1" but i put all of my infrastructure on codeberg and now that codeberg is down it stopped working. please advise
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
people are like "don't put all of your infrastructure on github, if github is down it will stop working!!1" but i put all of my infrastructure on codeberg and now that codeberg is down it stopped working. please advise
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wait, the bear that's on the flag of california is extinct?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
California grizzly bear - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
wait, the bear that's on the flag of california is extinct?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
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Zur Erinnerung und ohne Angela Merkel verklären zu wollen: Es gibt auch Konservative, die keinen gefährlichen Stuss zu Migration und „Stadtbild“ abgeben.
Die Aussage von Kanzler #Merz ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht vieler Menschen. Er sollte dafür um Entschuldigung bitten.
Die Aussage von Kanzler #Merz ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht vieler Menschen. Er sollte dafür um Entschuldigung bitten.
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Zur Erinnerung und ohne Angela Merkel verklären zu wollen: Es gibt auch Konservative, die keinen gefährlichen Stuss zu Migration und „Stadtbild“ abgeben.
Die Aussage von Kanzler #Merz ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht vieler Menschen. Er sollte dafür um Entschuldigung bitten.
Die Aussage von Kanzler #Merz ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht vieler Menschen. Er sollte dafür um Entschuldigung bitten.
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this actually looks like a legitimate DoS attack more than anything; the query options are of a kind that would cause cache-busting
@dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently
@dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
this actually looks like a legitimate DoS attack more than anything; the query options are of a kind that would cause cache-busting
@dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently
@dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently
Considering whom I would like to nominate for the Scheme Steering Committee and noticing again how, even by the standards of tech, Scheme has a truly terrible level of participation by women.
I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least […]
I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least […]
Original post on chaos.social
chaos.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Considering whom I would like to nominate for the Scheme Steering Committee and noticing again how, even by the standards of tech, Scheme has a truly terrible level of participation by women.
I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least […]
I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least […]
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New entry for the Historical #dictionary of #sciencefiction: "Encyclopedia Galactica", prominently (though not originally) in Asimov's Foundation series, but also in HHGTTG, Carl Sagan, _Contact_, & more. We love reference works of all kinds! […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New entry for the Historical #dictionary of #sciencefiction: "Encyclopedia Galactica", prominently (though not originally) in Asimov's Foundation series, but also in HHGTTG, Carl Sagan, _Contact_, & more. We love reference works of all kinds! […]
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So about vibe coding being a kind of teledildonics?
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115374704926691451
All shitposting aside, this is absolutely fucked. Displacing actual sex workers with a bullshit machine not only violates sex worker rights, but also sets up for someone to get hurt […]
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115374704926691451
All shitposting aside, this is absolutely fucked. Displacing actual sex workers with a bullshit machine not only violates sex worker rights, but also sets up for someone to get hurt […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So about vibe coding being a kind of teledildonics?
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115374704926691451
All shitposting aside, this is absolutely fucked. Displacing actual sex workers with a bullshit machine not only violates sex worker rights, but also sets up for someone to get hurt […]
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115374704926691451
All shitposting aside, this is absolutely fucked. Displacing actual sex workers with a bullshit machine not only violates sex worker rights, but also sets up for someone to get hurt […]
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🇪🇺Your browser's #donottrack signal is now legally binding: As of today, enabling DNT means no more personalized political ads (and no nagging consent banners about it). Keep an eye on Meta & Co. Are they complying? Report any violations! […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🇪🇺Your browser's #donottrack signal is now legally binding: As of today, enabling DNT means no more personalized political ads (and no nagging consent banners about it). Keep an eye on Meta & Co. Are they complying? Report any violations! […]
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Die Hausarztpraxis ist jetzt ein MVZ. Das scheint ein Trend zu sein. Kennt sich da jemand aus? Warum haben die das gemacht? Was bedeutet das? (Ehrliche Frage)
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Die Hausarztpraxis ist jetzt ein MVZ. Das scheint ein Trend zu sein. Kennt sich da jemand aus? Warum haben die das gemacht? Was bedeutet das? (Ehrliche Frage)
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Manche frustrierte Bluesky-User*innen gehen lieber zu Fascho-Meta-Threads als hierher ins Fediverse zu kommen ... Ich finde es schon irgendwie lustig, wie sehr man diese Milliardäre unterstützen und reicher Machen will, nur um sich nicht 3 Minuten lang mit der Funktionsweise des Fediverse zu […]
Original post on ohai.social
ohai.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Manche frustrierte Bluesky-User*innen gehen lieber zu Fascho-Meta-Threads als hierher ins Fediverse zu kommen ... Ich finde es schon irgendwie lustig, wie sehr man diese Milliardäre unterstützen und reicher Machen will, nur um sich nicht 3 Minuten lang mit der Funktionsweise des Fediverse zu […]
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O joyful light
O holy glory
the eternal Father’s
heavenly, holy
blessed Jesus,
the Christ!
Now comes the hour
the sun is set
we hymn our God
the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit
At every hour
glad voices hymn
the Son of God
the Giver of Life
’tis meet and right
for all the world
O holy glory
the eternal Father’s
heavenly, holy
blessed Jesus,
the Christ!
Now comes the hour
the sun is set
we hymn our God
the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit
At every hour
glad voices hymn
the Son of God
the Giver of Life
’tis meet and right
for all the world
March 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
O joyful light
O holy glory
the eternal Father’s
heavenly, holy
blessed Jesus,
the Christ!
Now comes the hour
the sun is set
we hymn our God
the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit
At every hour
glad voices hymn
the Son of God
the Giver of Life
’tis meet and right
for all the world
O holy glory
the eternal Father’s
heavenly, holy
blessed Jesus,
the Christ!
Now comes the hour
the sun is set
we hymn our God
the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit
At every hour
glad voices hymn
the Son of God
the Giver of Life
’tis meet and right
for all the world
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Scheme is a really good programming language – the only things it’s bad at are iteration, recursion, and conditionals
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Scheme is a really good programming language – the only things it’s bad at are iteration, recursion, and conditionals
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Changed "social media" in this instance's description to "social networking", because that's what we called it back when *we* made it, back when it was fun and exciting, before it got locked into the corporate world and all went to shit.
September 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Changed "social media" in this instance's description to "social networking", because that's what we called it back when *we* made it, back when it was fun and exciting, before it got locked into the corporate world and all went to shit.