Found this mechanical calculator at a garage sale the other day. Oiled it up, made a replacement for a missing foot, and now it's crunching numbers like it's 1960.
Make computers ding again.
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Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
@JoBlakely Feel free to use any of this that you want.
I'm the maintainer of it; it's openly licensed, and pretty current.
Accessible tips for people to protect their privacy
Free public domain audiobooks
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I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices!" In response, I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of 17 of those variables to consider.
https://www.scottsantens.com/17-key-variables-that-determine-ubis-inflationary-impact/ #BasicIncome #UBI
Will universal basic income cause inflation? Will the prices of everything rise? I get asked that all the time. Here's the deal about UBI and inflation: it all depends.Can UBI be inflationary? Sure, if we do it in a certain way in a certain context, but no, not in
@JoBlakely @MHowell @tezoatlipoca EFF also has some great documentation on privacy and security. https://www.eff.org/pages/tools
EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them.For those with design, programming, and/or...
The Problem With To-Do Lists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWMfQmZarUo
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autistic #Neurospicy #Neurodiversity
Quote from Buffy ^.^
A5 watercolour paper, £25, postage included :)
Thinking about the self-hosting movement, and what I build for myself, vs the crafting industry, and where the boundary for pushing the state of the art vs personal expression vs just recreating the wheel lies.
There's no glory in hacking Apache files yet again, and there are tools for generating HTML, but I want to see a resurgence in exploring the edges of the media, and in personal art and connection vs just forwarding on other's thoughts and memes.
OMG this is so good. 😹
“‘A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but . . . they don’t really.’ Such is the view of David Rees, a self-styled ‘artisanal pencil-sharpener’ who, at the time of this short film’s release in 2013, had sharpened some 1,500 No 2 pencils for paying customers.”
(9 minutes)
https://psyche.co/videos/theres-joy-in-doing-a-job-right-just-ask-this-artisanal-pencil-sharpener
‘A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t.’ A guide to doing it right, by an artisanal pro
Perhaps this is worth a try?
Documentation for Spacebar: a free open source selfhostable chat, voice and video discord-compatible platform
At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”
It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.
Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.
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Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging? 🤔
Wow, that is quite a clever deception to downplay sea-level rise in the DOE climate report.
In response to my last post, a reader asked Please evaluate their Fig. 7.6 graph of the 30 year trailing rate of Battery sea level rise. The author’s comment is that “NOAA’s projection is remarkabl…You have to read the vertical axis label in their graph and understand what “trailing trend” means. StatisticianTamino explains it nicely in his blog.
These folks just have no honest arguments.
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/sea-level-rise-in-nyc/