Joseph Stiglitz explained why he and others got the Nobel prize.

... economists used simple economic models that assumed that information was perfect – i.e. that all participants have equal and transparent knowledge of the relevant factors. They knew that information wasn't perfect, but hoped that a world with moderate imperfections of information would be akin to a world with perfect information. We showed that this notion was ill-founded: even small imperfections of information could have profound effects on how the economy behaved.

Sophisticated Linux key remapper. Supports per-device and per-application settings. Wayland and X. I should look into this.

A difficult part of technology instruction is not that things are unknowable, but that no one is ever starting at the beginning, not in 2024.

⁂ is called an asterism. In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations. We suggest that it’s a very fitting symbol for the fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected spaces which is decentralised and has an astronomically-themed name. It represents several stars coming together, connecting but each their own, without a centre.

En aprilo la japana entreprenisto Etsuo Miyoshi leteris al eŭropaj parlamentanoj kaj la prezidanto de la Eŭropa Komisiono kun propono igi Esperanton unu el la oficialaj lingvoj de la Unio. La prezidanto de la Komisiono en sia respondo atentigas pri la graveco de plurlingveco.

twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

Gitlab power tricks

iScape, short for information landscape, was something interesting, lost in time because it was commerical. It offers users to manage their information in a 3D space, creating a digital palace.

The iScape world is a multi-modal, multi-user, collaborative 3-D virtual environment that is interconnected with standard web pages.

This paper presents iScape, a shared virtual desktop world dedicated to the collaborative exploration and management of information. Data mining and information visualization techniques are applied to extract and visualize semantic relationships in search results. A three-dimensional (3-D) online browser system is exploited to facilitate complex and sophisticated human-computer and human-human interaction.

I had similar ideas, twenty years later, but never actually started implementing them because it's damn hard.

Another thinkpad post for my collection.

Любопытно такое читать.

A NodeJS application that aggregates items from your RSS and Atom feeds into an E-book.

The archivist's web crawler: WARC output, dashboard for all crawls, dynamic ignore patterns

“The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.”

It stayed the same.

Also mentioned here: https://gmb.21x2.net/archive/202202/22214308.html

Author's write-up: https://adactio.com/journal/18862

A computer manufactured by a craftsman.

Japan operates with an Island metaphysic, where resources are finite in space (Japan is an island nation) but infinite in time (by virtue of natural regeneration). The West operates with a Faustian metaphysic, where resources are infinite in space (by virtue of conquest) and infinite in time. It's interesting to see these metaphysical realities manifest in something as ordinary as tool manufacture.

Our motto, ARMA ACRI FACIENDA VIRO, comes from Book VIII of The Aeneid when Vulcan commands the cyclopes to "Forge arms fit for a hero".

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Cool system, though I do not understand it fully. I especially like the Gestku the author posts on the Fediverse.