2026-10-08T21:57:40Z https://njump.me Alex McLean https://njump.me/npub1hay5cntueyse6wfywneynylqd2d7ycuzpwztcyqqyhfuf5j8kucqhx5kw2 https://post.lurk.org/system/accounts/avatars/000/000/003/original/af4b86c144d3956c.png https://post.lurk.org/system/accounts/avatars/000/000/003/original/af4b86c144d3956c.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfwetpp7tc6eylla7j52j7qcr3sp0xkq3vc7peegf7mkrc5k9sk8gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqx8xrzj Well, the [@haskell_foundation](<a href="https://mastodon.social/@haskell_foundation">https://mastodon.social/@haskell_foundation</a> ) has elected an outspoken transphobic, homophobic accelerationist to its board. That&#39;s a good thing that they avoid &#39;touchy topics&#39; though.<br/><a href="https://discourse.haskell.org/t/controversy-surrounding-anduril-industries/10253/65">https://discourse.haskell.org/t/controversy-surrounding-anduril-industries/10253/65</a><br/><br/>*edit* it seems the haskell foundation board wasn&#39;t aware of this person&#39;s hate posting, and are now taking steps, hopefully to eject them. 2026-11-03T14:24:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyudf54dagwuwkwf424aafltchpvaq37dnmwh67pshel40jf9zemszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqy0gqr8 176 proposals for <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hev8aru6ascm6ux0ndw0n85tyhmywxkln3jpsxzat3fju2etn6dshg0w28" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Alpaca Festival</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hev…0w28</span>)</a></span>, blimey. Some very tricky decisions ahead .. 2026-11-02T09:19:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvxj28hlmgsl90atccl05ze36n95mwk8jk7yqtm06c3ff3qf6kf4czyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqk3mh0s Final call for proposals to the Alpaca Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts!<br/><br/>Alpaca is a festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts comprised of live performances, workshops and conference talks. We aim to bring people together who value deep, human curiosity into patterns. We hope this call excites you whether you are exploring patterns in heritage crafts or contemporary algorithmic art (but not AI).<br/><a href="https://alpaca.cc/call/">https://alpaca.cc/call/</a><br/><br/>#weaving #textiles #braiding #livecoding #algorithmicart #origami #juggling #opencall <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hev8aru6ascm6ux0ndw0n85tyhmywxkln3jpsxzat3fju2etn6dshg0w28" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Alpaca Festival</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hev…0w28</span>)</a></span> 2026-10-30T13:26:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdr27w3hx3pw9mj6ufldjl4405xrl8w0z2eyxt9fjptdwq2xgm2zszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqafsq06 I don&#39;t know who Jacob Collier is but reddit keeps showing me this and people really hating on it in different subreddits <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DezZtbSOhr_/">https://www.instagram.com/reels/DezZtbSOhr_/</a><br/><br/>It sounds really fun to me, I can understand why some might not like it but why hate it? am I missing some context? 2026-10-29T12:16:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszjfm7kkhftkgs8v3ugtyp56ekvpkgpr596nmt9xjpepvsm4292rczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqsjc042 Some redditors seem very angry about what seems like a very mild software development policy to me, if they actually read it..<br/><br/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/strudel/comments/1xexepq/strudels_postai_humane_policy_on_software/">https://www.reddit.com/r/strudel/comments/1xexepq/strudels_postai_humane_policy_on_software/</a> 2026-10-25T14:01:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstcj76d7jl6eljfxh7mf83zsp7evxn4gd7866m8jaklplkxs979tczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqk4tstp If you&#39;re interested in experimental weaving, community building, and unusual free/open source software, then this opportunity might well be for you:<br/><a href="https://unstable.design/work/community_manager/">https://unstable.design/work/community_manager/</a> 2026-10-21T10:27:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqcfagt7h4lfawjc0w8hk7hxt897gfq6dyp4s3hxyfhrew05n8qsczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqe86kfx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsphegs4jkqw2xyyfke4vhwhakqh4l7ggzlx9ed53n2lrhyzc2w4jqjvelf4'>nevent1q…elf4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>FWIW, Algorave Lyon hierarchies do feel very collapsed, they take place in grnd zero ( <a href="https://www.grrrndzero.org/index.php/gz-bohlen/manifeste">https://www.grrrndzero.org/index.php/gz-bohlen/manifeste</a> ) , and the plurality of live coding languages and approaches represented is awesome. We have a lot to learn from them I think! 2026-10-21T09:32:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsphegs4jkqw2xyyfke4vhwhakqh4l7ggzlx9ed53n2lrhyzc2w4jqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqg5kswu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0z0dywqdzr4myqpr2y5vrze0nna4vdqu0d28g22thcpklj3ksa5c4pa5pj'>nevent1q…a5pj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m in clearly a bad mood but was referring mainly to lyon being called out at the top of the thread and this felt like competitive posturing. I&#39;m probably reading too much into it though sorry 2026-10-21T09:27:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyh3dkt8xsmcjvvkgnld4whmw3uygw4zxa8j04yczarngayh30w0gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqmnp6h9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf3rv2ttqgdurcxxqap4dfk7dkpd3t3x8k5pzg0elg9lz5eus6j8chnyhu2'>nevent1q…yhu2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think if you&#39;re calling out other communities you have to be prepared for some counter-criticism. 2026-10-21T09:20:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0aclmjq2m2jvnpgcdg473k4ectf9yp700s02qa55tja93sqv78tqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqqk3z9j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp5j69ml9zmcys0aa439x8c6q90j0hdwmux6czluntwx54w08d9qswh07cm'>nevent1q…07cm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While calling out other communities apparently at random 2026-10-21T09:13:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2hyrxcpgyy7y654rppgnz77wtepxmw2cm5fu69tklu35g9jfj5jczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqend8hj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw596gcsllt3r7djsuy5n20fj8tkn6zfvhzz5htkuetcx2d4zaz4quxfy5s'>nevent1q…fy5s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this is a bit of a weird competitive vibe coming from London tbh 2026-10-21T09:01:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqzxtuw26n4f0vwg9p70tcx7zac036zq85j0mj7wwd3scff6m2slszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqq2fyhz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs09n4ezjg285xdy5dgp7kej4env44d26hu7t79e5tmpqtudc6axvgqym0g6'>nevent1q…m0g6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hope <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1phcntee5e9q70qs59j2t6jx3he9dd76s4vtkgrf4wnynu22qxz6s6cr9fj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Richard Devine</span> (<span class="italic">npub1phc…r9fj</span>)</a></span> is forwarding yours 2026-10-11T14:54:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf07yu0ngez2372ggm9320f79nggesjfcc5esqv2l8g72agkmpqeqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqqqjwzv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstl92zpzgw4lp5f7ceyewlga5ajp0nkkva3afu2dz48p8mcdxhxnggy89cq'>nevent1q…89cq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No-one ever wrote documentation, built a support network, gave up toxic social media, stopped being toxic people, or found meaningful work, lets give up 2026-10-08T18:08:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstl92zpzgw4lp5f7ceyewlga5ajp0nkkva3afu2dz48p8mcdxhxngzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqssjpq2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5yv9qdus5g88x5cz66v8szdc0p5fqgdt56qk8qs6a85dacaakwg5uxrdd'>nevent1q…xrdd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>good point let&#39;s do nothing 2026-10-08T18:03:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9puhxlrk208m7jg0adyj5cud92dlw62mej4k8pjjg3nrrzsx5ddgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqqch4n4 If LLMs make us stupid because you can just pay them to do stuff without thinking, does that mean rich people have always been stupid 2026-10-07T09:27:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy3v670qnq54ar8k34mjpm5kv9l060qnxayf5hqnrrmvvrpkhjkvszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq3watfv I&#39;ve been wondering, what if we think about LLMs as a solution rather than a problem?<br/>like, there are problems with LLMs, but consumers are paying for them because they genuinely solve problems. Maybe it&#39;s better to focus on the problems they&#39;re solving?<br/><br/>The kinds of problems I&#39;m thinking about:<br/><br/>- lack of documentation<br/>- lack of support network<br/>- lack of time, e.g. due to attention economy<br/>- too much choice (e.g. javascript framework choice paralysis)<br/>- lack of working examples<br/>- centralised support forums dying (stackoverflow etc) without decent living alternative<br/>- software engineering community being toxic to a lot of people pre-AI<br/>- the same situation, post-AI<br/>- lack of meaningful work due to focus on extrinsic rather than intrinsic rewards<br/>- &#39;let me google that for you&#39; culture<br/>- people forced to just try to get by without the privilege of making meaningful work<br/><br/>I&#39;m thinking about alcohol here - some alcoholics find it useful to think of alcohol as a solution, rather than a problem. If you think about drinking being the problem, you just have to stop drinking, but that&#39;s probably not going to happen. If you think of it as the solution, you can start to think about what the problems are, and address those, and with a lot of work it becomes easier to stop drinking.<br/><br/>(edited from conversation with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1h8hhyjfdj2ajht4zd0xrsjj0phdrj5sa9zhh82fwr6xrh75k2xdsunvmly" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lu wilson</span> (<span class="italic">npub1h8h…vmly</span>)</a></span> ) 2026-10-05T08:46:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9sd3zud307fcfk5s6hl5z32jjf8cuayzwwacryr7epx8ffqudjuszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqckpusp Am I losing my mind or is the website and code for littlefedi very much LLM-generated?<br/><a href="https://littlefedi.org/">https://littlefedi.org/</a><br/><br/>The website says it&#39;s made by hand, but the copyright holder says they didn&#39;t write the code, a group of people called the &#39;little computer people&#39; did, and then trasferred copyright to him. This group is anonymous and extremely productive, but don&#39;t use version control, and there is no change log at all. The &#39;little computer people&#39; are completely anonymous, and don&#39;t seem to use the littlefedi instance at all. The website copy and code comments look very much AI-extruded.<br/>Yet there&#39;s loads of people who don&#39;t seem to recoil at this and are taking it at face value, despite having very anti-LLM profiles? The copyright holder is also reposting anti-LLM stuff while totally ignoring people pointing out the very vibey nature of his website.<br/><br/>I guess it&#39;s at least expected that there will be LLM-generated fedi server software, but I&#39;m finding what seems like _very_ weird gaslighting around littlefedi really disturbing. It makes it really hard to trust reality around this project, and to some extent the fedi in general, at all. Is that the aim?<br/><br/>I really don&#39;t understand the motivation for this and it&#39;s freaking me out a bit. 2026-10-05T07:48:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswyav06v60v9t03h2742e7fdgyyzch7uw4ej8ugqr4a4mrfuqqy5qzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqwkm9xl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst7d2zdfy88ztfj3a4xm33d4kzxyh8gt2vdc5tym2pqa8ygc9uyxctr7nzj'>nevent1q…7nzj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why are you pretending this isn&#39;t LLM generated? 2026-10-03T18:58:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdnnugx0nnx44zeczgx5zh6p0skjkl0ug7x40077xs4z6fp9fvz0czyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqxa6w7v How cool would it be if glastonbury festival ended.. it would create room for SO many smaller, more interesting festivals in the UK, creating a massive wave of creativity.<br/>You could replace &#39;glastonbury festival&#39; with any long-running institution that&#39;s overgrown way beyond it&#39;s former radical roots<br/>e.g. how amazingly cool would it be if Oxbridge ended, just imagine.. 2026-09-08T08:31:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgc7uwc7l429y58670k595re50a4de55qctzenwaee8pjpchh894szyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqsv0pce In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs98yuv27tq3ny739kdkd5z0ufsr32awhhx7ypf7kjyen6a3364pkcy0tkal'>nevent1q…tkal</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel that I&#39;ve contributed far more to music tech by steering waaay clear of western music theory. I was a research assistant on an optical music score recognition project once and still managed to avoid learning how to read musical scores myself. I honestly think you can&#39;t unlearn that crap 2026-08-31T18:56:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf4qkhxyp2effhctpzdnl5rz7e6r68hw8q4hpe6uehs36zu49f2yczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq9vzspv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxrkfwph06rsr0c0nc47y8w0upvvyapl3ru4n4emjn4ldt7qv7cwsfsw7km'>nevent1q…w7km</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes we (sheffield pattern club) have been talking with them about being an early adopter, we hope to have our clone up for Sheffield before the year is out! 2026-08-18T15:11:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs20dt32n5688vp5nrhj76w6yx9wnwmzznrsw8ursxxqx6s0tv26mgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq8ehvhz I&#39;m going back to that London for a party &#34;algorave decelerate&#34; on 16th Sept 2026, it&#39;s going to be really good<br/><a href="https://gel.now/events/849">https://gel.now/events/849</a><br/><br/>Top lineup of live coders! Too many in fact so we decided to make some software to switch between them automatically so we stay EXACTLY on time, 20 minute sets each.<br/><br/>Then this still felt a bit boring so we decided to constrain the tempo for the night, going from super fast to super slow, to search for life beyond techbro accelerationism.<br/><br/>[∞ bpm] Todepond + Jane + 2xAA + Perambulator <br/>[210 bpm] Liimxa + hellocatfood<br/>[180bpm] Mags + illo<br/>[160bpm] nadya via proxy + Seasonings<br/>[130bpm] MYNA + mah:alias<br/>[110bpm] Pondskater + v21<br/>[80bpm] James Walker + deaxmachina<br/>[55bpm] SYNTӘL8 + CHΛU<br/>[30bpm] epiploke + devendork<br/>[20bpm] digital selves + Seasonings + Todepond<br/>[0bpm] we stop<br/><br/>It will all be dance music but will start with techno nosebleeds and get very wacked out towards the end. Life moves pretty fast, if you don&#39;t slow down and look around once in a while, you could miss it.<br/><br/>We thought about having a fixed number of beats per person, so that later sets would get longer.. But it was hard to do without early 5 minute sets and late sets going for hours.<br/><br/>Anyway join us in Peckham, it&#39;s going to bit a lot of fun. Tickets are only £5+ (pay what you can afford):<br/> <a href="https://gel.now/events/849">https://gel.now/events/849</a> 2026-08-18T15:01:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdp4us3n7lgm97uae78n82rh8674t4wlt2dekh28kq2xzusn0h3fgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqdgq4ls What&#39;s your favourite music with five or fewer supporters on bandcamp? 2026-07-29T15:14:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf4xdwn0946vf2lqjrldtdwqsyz5ck2lmrx3ynyuvqxkqdvra8ewczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqhr3ys2 Thinking of hosting a &#39;permacomputing meetup&#39;. What&#39;s a permacomputing meetup and what happens at them? 2026-07-22T16:42:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9wnqhr53ve86z2d26zvzc8gvkfjtymwnqr7vazghvd0qww9gxggszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq9vq3z3 Google are using <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1t2kf5enqdvzzgqmhtw4530apckx2cd72up50a8368yhjpehxqtpq3wdp2g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>strudel</span> (<span class="italic">npub1t2k…dp2g</span>)</a></span> to advertise deepmind, here under &#34;Create music through real-time collaboration: See how Gemini 3.5 Flash coordinates multiple agents to create a song using the Strudel music library.&#34; <a href="https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/flash/">https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/flash/</a><br/><br/>They&#39;ve made it sound really awful ! The timing is totally off. Also the music is awful with bad energy.<br/><br/>I&#39;m surprised google employees are allowed anywhere near strudel and its dreaded AGPL license.. <a href="https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy">https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy</a> 2026-05-21T15:33:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0t0a6dpkyu500sq6sjyquyhkvjg7gj36xkjuu4t2f72p90mj3xhszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqz8t5kz If the best known result from a given research field is always wrong, what is the best know result of the live coding field, and in what way is it wrong?<br/><a href="https://slab.org/2011/12/21/best-known-and-wrong/">https://slab.org/2011/12/21/best-known-and-wrong/</a> 2026-05-10T09:28:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqr96nkf9su8nv4a38eg8ngu5ncq3kykk4t3m4s922a62pxuzq8rczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqvvgwlf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5waeydxy89ght2hrdclc9jpw6dwhmvvcnm36kn5vmh6tma9sy4s7q662p'>nevent1q…662p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I haven&#39;t really looked into them but surely they are designed, built and controlled by people? The people making them are all about power, so don&#39;t know why they wouldn&#39;t use their ownership of LLMs to change political opinion etc. Musk has talked about this a lot 2026-05-06T13:28:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswl9vlle926rymrhdv2k9x2exvaxqjzarpk7vz5clrrrtageje2fczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqwxzaex In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfs3y4l85rf4fjsvr8636n9rvwldx6a8yz84t8sxpls3krp29ncessdtpw7'>nevent1q…tpw7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yep I&#39;d generally push back on LLMs being described as algorithms, if noone can see how they work there&#39;s no algorithm to talk about, it&#39;s just black box statistics. I think here though they are just talking about algorithms in terms of systems/machine-making in general, and LLMs fit that. 2026-05-06T12:59:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsydhlt340g8d8vemn7w0y70p3gm7g0yqkafacm3scsww7cqvvpgqszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqmxsjjn This from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren&#39;t losing skill as &#34;the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism&#34;?<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/527/347/587/058/763/original/c7db0e4f7a625f86.png"> <br/> 2026-05-06T11:21:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgprzuhpqvxhweakwx09kads97qryr7jcd3ku8q93kxhe3fx92umczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqredfcw I hear strong rumours that the next Alpaca festival on Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts will happen 6-9th May 2027<br/><a href="https://2027.algorithmicpattern.org/">https://2027.algorithmicpattern.org/</a><br/>[@blog](<a href="https://2027.algorithmicpattern.org">https://2027.algorithmicpattern.org</a> ) 2026-04-02T13:17:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyg48gskjtynl8z4lh98kjlf7vdmlll3nnyeljvaywdpg0wdgzjcqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqlhx3vg I was really pleased with the range of <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1mzxs5exg4nnrq8pzqrnemhuuaa7cec7aeuwl3n8ud7wk40ahscaq25hw6y" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>uzu</span> (<span class="italic">npub1mzx…hw6y</span>)</a></span> microgrants, although it was uncompetitive - we were able to fund all the proposals that fit the open call and had enough detail to evaluate.<br/>Crowdfunding for free/open source at this level is tricky because people do it for fun and intrinsic value, it&#39;s hardly possible to fund at a market value, and underpaying while placing expectations on what you do (via bounties or whatever) can be a huge demotivator. We came up with a plan for one option on the open call where people could just ask for some money - not as a payment, but just for some recognition for work they&#39;ve already done - not to say please do this, or to compensate for the weeks and months poured into the project, but just to say thank you. It&#39;s still a bit weird that you have to apply to an open call to be thanked though.. 2026-02-10T09:37:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyp23z9vqgmn432j9y9fhyjyk99gluf9ql3cus0pcgjvfzt6f9ygszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqxdv2aw Live coding from scratch stream is live, currently from Bogota <a href="https://live.eulerroom.com/">https://live.eulerroom.com/</a> 2025-12-06T20:36:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgte6j642wscrmc38ax55a8n76nz8dxwvqgalngv4hnglwr0e47jczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnql6j48l I really want to be interested in this &#34;dark forest theory of the internet&#34; but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn&#39;t get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn&#39;t really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don&#39;t have spare cash? Then went into crypto and I tuned out but there was something about tax..<br/><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/115662439422697358">https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/115662439422697358</a> 2025-12-06T11:21:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx57k038y4wxlj2e59vvrxh42cwntjmuyx8utr5qd6rwxtxqjlssqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq972pxm Just released &#34;Compassion through algorithms volume III&#34; - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your price!) and bandcamp will waive their fee. <br/><a href="https://algorave.bandcamp.com/album/compassion-through-algorithms-volume-iii">https://algorave.bandcamp.com/album/compassion-through-algorithms-volume-iii</a><br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/665/900/434/036/606/original/4e91ea6b59c4c30a.jpg"> <br/> 2025-12-05T08:02:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrnlyf6etxv8qjecjdqnjynu7hjry8urnkslac76yhcat5ffvep3gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqkth09y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszrlutqfglafakyvg3xsv6xstcz20xaptd09lkfsr0samrfqkazvqwwnecu'>nevent1q…necu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Seriously though the rest character in tidal&#39;s mininotation was ~, and noone pointed out how terrible/impossible that is to type on non-gb keyboards for years, and just suffered. pretty strange really 2025-11-25T18:22:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsywednl9hp5rmqwyxazp6f2xga9gyccnra0y36d7e03pz6t5rjaeczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq6flk70 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw22juzmqna39x2tpl7hty4xz2jzp9stjtflyq33qd2j9jzn0n3gc5uyylf'>nevent1q…yylf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh google<br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/611/344/569/499/788/original/74914ae989fb07b1.png"> <br/> 2025-11-25T16:45:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxsvttw2frnyslhxywfvk2eu66tpk8md4c8f726d44lcexg0mhx0gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq20spe6 Excitingly, we now have a new home for <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1tfhcev8x9muvw80xn7c543usx49m4ruj9t6v8jvylu9enzunlp0sgxd6d8" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Pattern Club Sheffield</span> (<span class="italic">npub1tfh…d6d8</span>)</a></span>, more central and with multiple rooms. We might even have space for more people so lmk if you&#39;re in Sheffield and are after studio space! 2025-11-01T09:22:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr3uv9hjmh5v87zxq6gktujx3qkknwyl75w7d97c5cqklf7dxk3zszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqwhygzl Strudel&#39;s audio engine is SuperDough (2023) mostly by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1r50fuz2huc54h630amv9uv57e5305l0c7n60q7ll078c6frl35qsmqt66n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>froos</span> (<span class="italic">npub1r50…t66n</span>)</a></span>, which is based on SuperDirt (2015) mostly by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1g53alf95ssdr8chm0vc832uwr6hdgcuf2hmdkfltf8nll76z0kssfu3akf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>telephon</span> (<span class="italic">npub1g53…3akf</span>)</a></span>, which is based on &#39;dirt&#39; a sampler made by me and originally called &#39;datadirt&#39; (2005), but very heavily based on MSG (2001) by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lw7c9lgtngdme9szae3c0w6y7m97t8pwk5g6zjc9m9vgp76xqyvs0s39h7" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>adeward</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lw7…39h7</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>Some of MSG&#39;s features got lost in translation, like line hum (configurable 50Hz or 60Hz) and hiss, and a weird synth controlled by a four-character string, here&#39;s the docs for that:<br/><br/>&gt;make [name] from [synthcode] speed [rate]<br/>Creates a new (or, if it already exists, modifies an existing) synth<br/>using the four-digit synthcode. The first digit defines the waveform:<br/>s for sine, t for triangle, q for square and r for random. The next<br/>three digits range from 0.0 (a) to 1.0 (z) and define, respectively, the<br/>pulse width, pulse amplitude, and waveform decay. Thus, using only<br/>four letters, any number of FM-like synthesis sounds can be generated.<br/>Here are a few examples:<br/> &#39;qaaa&#39; - solid square<br/> &#39;qaaz&#39; - sharp pulse (square with maximum decay)<br/> &#39;qmmz&#39; - sharp pulse with 50% resonant pulse<br/> &#39;tilt&#39; - triangular with sharpish edge synth<br/> &#39;slub&#39; - smoothish sinusoidal waveform<br/><br/>* MSG: <a href="https://cors.slab.org/MSG-1.10.tar.gz">https://cors.slab.org/MSG-1.10.tar.gz</a><br/>* datadirt: <a href="https://cors.slab.org/datadirt_1.0.0.tar.gz">https://cors.slab.org/datadirt_1.0.0.tar.gz</a><br/>* dirt: <a href="https://codeberg.org/uzu/dirt">https://codeberg.org/uzu/dirt</a><br/>* superdirt: <a href="https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt">https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt</a><br/>* superdough: <a href="https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel/src/branch/main/packages/superdough">https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel/src/branch/main/packages/superdough</a> 2025-09-26T13:25:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyamdmfu8n7cesgpdwf4km2qxpck6njdqy2m7kz4epw6ugdguz2uqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqcfxhp0 and one by one, the humane computing orgs pivoted to AI 2025-09-23T16:02:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqg4d80lfqgq2jr0ckw9nxnpt9yztnq96rhlv5wuv5qu9y9nzpwgszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqae4eln Alpaca 2025 (<a href="https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/">https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/</a>) is going to be great!<br/><br/>Running a new event about a seemingly niche topic like &#39;algorithmic patterns&#39; across all the creative arts was a risk. We&#39;ve had no media coverage so far, have paid social media tech oligarchs no advertising money, but through the power of email and word of mouth there&#39;s been loads of interest. <br/><br/>For the festival in Sheffield I&#39;m especially surprised + happy that most music ticket sales are for full weekend passes. I thought we&#39;d included too many festival workshops but they&#39;re nearly all full up already. The Sheffield pattern club org team (Lucy + <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub16n0jaat6cpe8069maf4slwf5kqv3lmct3snlfsxxfyah646rynpqm6dxve" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>ray</span> (<span class="italic">npub16n0…dxve</span>)</a></span> + Hazel + me) has come together to make it happen and if we manage to pull this off with half the funding we were expecting, we can do anything..<br/><br/>For the conference it&#39;s lovely that it&#39;s become a multi-hub extravaganza by mistake. Folks in Berlin (at UdK), Barcelona (at <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub15pjrezttllmwg8jgpv592kuyeujznclsh5n7du33kdwzwpw05szsun2awk" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>axolot.cat</span> (<span class="italic">npub15pj…2awk</span>)</a></span>) and Linz (at <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1gh5cdxwmt5zda0g2ecfpmwk9aesderexwahktnst2mtzafg4q6qqym7fge" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>servus.at</span> (<span class="italic">npub1gh5…7fge</span>)</a></span>) decided to put on &#39;watch parties&#39; and they&#39;re going to add a lot of flavour to the online conference part. Because the conference is free/open access, there&#39;s no real financial barrier or institutional power to stop people doing it. The Berlin one will be a full-blown hub with loads of talks streaming from there including the keynote. We&#39;d have melted a lot more glacier otherwise, something nice to build on! 2025-09-07T10:07:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp02nywrl5rk33kxkcuklepcfkgmt43qh5zucn57arap8029garggzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqzevl8d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9k6tp84kg8t2xm3x4huarcp76ngh8xrkg458j7wsrxt6kvllj36qq67s9k'>nevent1q…7s9k</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Of course it&#39;s fair to criticise specific institutions for specific reasons as Bartov did, but not to call for all holocaust memorials and museums to close. Treating all Jews as culpable, including those killed in the holocaust, is antisemitic. 2025-08-09T16:19:40Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8zgjkr9ms0r5pulttuv8zy3lutp5na3njrd8sfjm4p7cegcg058gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq2f4jcf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0w5m25f0k498uf7hem2sha00pu36qtndhpcjrdqkuvr30d93e4nq82ujhd'>nevent1q…ujhd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Er, <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1s9uc08n58mxqk5umvapqulwzng0sja635q86r36d8n4rr9r9ygaskjdnmu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Fabio Manganiello</span> (<span class="italic">npub1s9u…dnmu</span>)</a></span> is the one distracting from the genocide. He totally misrepresents Bartov here - show me where he supports Fabio&#39;s antisemitic argument that European holocaust memorials should close.<br/><a href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/A4bFM">https://ghostarchive.org/archive/A4bFM</a><br/><br/>Lets spend our time focussing on Palestine-led initiatives like BDS rather than defending intellectually dishonest posts from random techbros. Especially when those techbros are apparently proud to break that boycott by working for companies high on BDS list! Bonkers.<br/><br/><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-stop-profiting-war-crimes">https://bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-stop-profiting-war-crimes</a> 2025-08-09T15:50:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd5emku9tju30ea73qged6q9z2ddrgl7m6wr5h8h2qnpwzlzk6daszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqew98lx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8sp7zuqutwvs6spx8h3f794jwzvs8djarzelywn36a8vuc2njqhq9utpgh'>nevent1q…tpgh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes I guess the word &#39;academic&#39; is a strange term that stands for a lot more than &#39;employed by a university&#39;.. Of course there are some really good academic researchers around but the culture looks pretty strange once you&#39;re on the outside. 2025-07-13T09:07:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvq6kfu0vjmen70xne8jwpzw2k6x5qqts68lafv8hxddrvd4q38egzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqck2lz5 An incomplete list of people excluded from &#39;international&#39; conferences that are in-person only and aren&#39;t streamed or recorded<br/>- People with caring responsibilities<br/>- People with disabilities<br/>- People with health vulnerabilities<br/>- People who don&#39;t fly in recognition of climate emergencies<br/>- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies<br/>- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos<br/>- People who only engage with fully open access scholarship (if you have to travel+pay to watch a talk, it&#39;s not at all open access, even if a related publication is)<br/>- People who can&#39;t leave their country for fear of not being let back in<br/>- People who can&#39;t get visas<br/>- Unfunded/underfunded people<br/>- People with unfavourable exchange rates<br/>- People who have limited holidays off work<br/>- People who can&#39;t afford it<br/>- etc..<br/><br/>I guess you end up with rooms mostly of academics with travel budgets who are too senior to really do research any more, and research students with stipends. That&#39;s fine but the perspectives can feel limited, ungrounded and underinformed.. with a huge environmental cost. 2025-07-13T08:50:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsru0d0elfulaerl7nhst6q4dswdfk89xu4eelu2rlxs6rtep8uatszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqymc97f I&#39;m no expert, but some UK-oriented suggestions for things to do in response to ongoing genocide and famine in Palestine:<br/><br/>- Change your bank account, there&#39;s a UK list of complicit and non-complicit banks here: <a href="https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/israel-deadly-investments">https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/israel-deadly-investments</a> - e.g. it seems Barclays, HSBC, JP Morgan, Lloyds, NatWest, and Santander are using your money to finance the military and settlements<br/>- E-mail your MP <a href="https://www.map.org.uk/campaigns/stop-uks-complicity-to-end-israels-atrocities-a">https://www.map.org.uk/campaigns/stop-uks-complicity-to-end-israels-atrocities-a</a><br/>- Donate, I&#39;m not sure what&#39;s best but maybe to a mutual aid organisation like the Sameer project <a href="https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project">https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project</a> or Dahnoun <a href="https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid">https://chuffed.org/project/115245-dahnoun-mutual-aid</a><br/>- Boycott e.g. Google, Amazon, Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Teva, Chevron, Intel, Dell, Siemens, HP, Microsoft, Carrefour, AXA, Reebok, Disney+, Sodastream, Re/max <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott">https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott</a> 2025-06-30T08:22:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9u5pt84qekm7mw7c3p03cssg53k72kq3q5xrxaxra0vdm2pl6g2qzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq3lpntl I was happy be involved in passing <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1xygjdzvp43znc940z2x2s6j2d03krl8m3983qsekjhesywea5t4scga6ef" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>cephasteom</span> (<span class="italic">npub1xyg…a6ef</span>)</a></span> PhD in his viva yesterday! Check out his live coding environment for exploring quantum computer music: <a href="https://zen.cephasteom.co.uk/">https://zen.cephasteom.co.uk/</a> #livecoding 2025-06-19T14:53:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszlwnsm09yfzve8gqjvsqzmjdzdny5dp0wpsvneju77wqy0f886qgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqclacml &#34;Today is a beautiful day to embrace being cringe.&#34;<br/><a href="https://letter.visualgrowth.com/p/cringe">https://letter.visualgrowth.com/p/cringe</a><br/> <img src="https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/335/751/140/161/528/original/f5c5501a254ce47c.png"> <br/> 2025-04-14T10:06:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqldz3vrw6wc8khu43l0sethm8z2stlrcg82nsy7zfzm4ydyl4zzqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqs0mkav It&#39;s really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don&#39;t support corporate social media and you don&#39;t get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren&#39;t what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..<br/><br/>Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.<br/>The call for talks/papers is now open, please see our website for details: <a href="https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/">https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/</a> 2025-03-10T08:20:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyrn0va9kwag5yhlg3yu9tnt8xcamzuswk4tx5h57v8g4daudmgwczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqyvke2g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxhfyzh3y5kwd3wpfhhcagl6jlfj07sk2usdmfx6w5a4eynk3s5gcdrrw58'>nevent1q…rw58</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One thing I love about the fediverse is that my blog has now started to have comments again, like the old days! <a href="https://slab.org/2025/02/01/tidal-a-history-in-types/">https://slab.org/2025/02/01/tidal-a-history-in-types/</a> 2025-02-10T09:24:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsffr2w20zqaf08lwfhx6jd4z6a8wpfa8jrqskp386r7yh4slc2wfgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqp6ags0 Academic fields can be SO DISAPPOINTING<br/><br/>Oh, a &#34;critical digital heritage&#34; conference, right up my street! <br/>But the topics are: VR simulations of ancient buildings, Mobile apps and public engagement, Virtual museology and exhibitions, Computer-generated reconstructions of historic sites, etc...<br/><br/>Ooh, a &#34;live electronics&#34; performance! But that just means doodling with max patch parameters and no live soldering AT ALL.<br/><br/>What exciting-sounding academic fields have you been disappointed by? 2025-02-03T13:15:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdkkh86llvhgs9xsgg0g7pyvnygd9hqrgefmw4eevahnh9cp98drgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq0gyyy5 Turing: &#39;The ... question &#34;Can machines think?&#34; I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.&#39;<br/><br/>Every computer scientist ever since: &#34;Turing said we can prove that machines think by making them trick people.&#34; 2025-01-19T16:00:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgne32633uang2uespfke0mlnc49srn4fvt2lchkuszxklvp9csxczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq3mn7hs I&#39;d love to accept conference submissions (like the equivalent of 2-4 page papers) in a modern form that can be rendered primarily for the web (for reading on screen with rich/interactive media), and ideally also as a PDF (for printing out and adding to a pile, or whatever people do with them.. ;) ).<br/><br/>In the past I&#39;ve accepted markdown submissions, which went well but required people to invest time learning commandline tools (pandoc) which might be well outside their comfort zone, and didn&#39;t support interactive figures. <a href="https://slab.org/2015/07/06/how-to-publish-open-access-conference-proceedings/">https://slab.org/2015/07/06/how-to-publish-open-access-conference-proceedings/</a><br/><br/>More recently I&#39;ve accepted submissions via the &#39;pubpub&#39; platform, which was actually close to utopia, but it was a bit temperamental, and is now &#39;in transition&#39; to a different business model so basically out of scope for 2025 conferences.<br/><br/>I really think there should be a better option for this, easy enough to learn to not exclude people, preferably with a web-based interface that supports collaboration, is free/open source and isn&#39;t TeX. Am I missing something? 2025-01-07T17:29:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswpx6kgrcgvl2hslrr38ejrr5v5c8q424mpmpu5u6yrs830fgcdcgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqqmhdem In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0495uv7n4s7m0e43g3ynj2h90u3xdj4usattsmac3h4p0j23ennszha3tv'>nevent1q…a3tv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It would be a bit more practical in an ideographic language like orca, maybe it&#39;s already been done <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z8rjwhwhg8dna3cq0uz6hded2rdqlegj7lrvcs7s0zd56yj9fdasfgmrq6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Devine Lu Linvega</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z8r…mrq6</span>)</a></span> ?<br/>I do like the impracticality of having to coordinate to make words though! 2025-01-02T10:57:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0495uv7n4s7m0e43g3ynj2h90u3xdj4usattsmac3h4p0j23ennszyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqedu6c7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94dqjlfdcn3lvksfp4yq7w9t2jtr7dx54pvarfm8g63t85hw6ljqsgp29h'>nevent1q…p29h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You could potentially have a backchannel where the &#39;audience&#39; tries to coordinate but I like the idea of trying to communicate ideas silently only through action, like in the magic maze board game. 2025-01-02T10:54:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs94dqjlfdcn3lvksfp4yq7w9t2jtr7dx54pvarfm8g63t85hw6ljqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqr5m5wk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs800tvpqtqywechr08kpa3087dcsntp53r2778qc8ll4q0rahjflqqpx6yd'>nevent1q…x6yd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It would mostly be pretty boring to be the `c`, but you can imagine the X moving up to a scrollY instruction and the Y noticing and moving down. Then if the `c` gets really bored it could head off to a comment, the rest of the line might follow (in a flo[c]k!), and then try to reassemble into a meaningful instruction at the start of it.. then the slash characters might move to bring that instruction into play.. 2025-01-02T10:53:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs800tvpqtqywechr08kpa3087dcsntp53r2778qc8ll4q0rahjflqzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq4j96g3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ry82hs2zd6ham8ms5447ktrh7f9wgu0nzymln0mchyz44ya033s5289nt'>nevent1q…89nt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yes it would be a total nightmare, but I just love the idea. It&#39;d be really interesting to see what collective tactics people come up with. 2025-01-02T10:49:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0c6wtrmf9vkgxxgnhcykupcqej8t2y7y4e9cux9gn8au4el6xdhgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqcl08mc Idea that&#39;s been in the back of my mind for years: flok but only one live coder (the first person to join) has control of the cursor - moving it around and adding/deleting letters as normal. Everyone else is an ascii character symbol. When they join a session they enter a queue and every time a live coder types a letter someone pops off the queue and becomes that letter (or space or punctuation symbol or whatever). They can move the letter around the screen unless/until they get deleted by the live coder and go to the back of the queue.<br/>Basically this is audience participation where each audience member participates as a character on the screen. <br/>I think it might work quite well. Major troublemakers would just get deleted (they&#39;d try to run away from you, but your cursor could search for that letter and then &#39;ride&#39; around on them before deleting them). Slashes would work together in pairs to enable/disable different lines. <br/>The only problem is that you&#39;d need an audience of 500 or so to make a complex, well-commented pattern, but could have fun with a lot less. 2025-01-02T10:32:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsts4qdzlrc253z8lpgtdvy0w7dgd9002wfrxpl2la2yzghxaccszgzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq3va8um I travelled down to Cambridge University to give a free talk a few weeks ago. Their procedure to reclaim travel expenses is an absolute joke, involving reading and processing three different documents with overlapping info, then sending information they already have to another email address manne which turned out to be manned by the same person who asked me to send it, to register with their system. Two weeks later nothing has happened so I can&#39;t even start the actual claim process which looks awful. I feel completely ripped off and disrespected by one of the poshest institutions in the world. 2024-11-15T07:55:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsyc080tp77wxu4vffl4ryzdg9ueysmgm97twswne30scvq8mhs8egzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqz8wft9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgwa3usszzxe4fjdgqjxqmq9lj7j6ckjyw84nrd8lzjusgqr26ekggcypvp'>nevent1q…ypvp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>heh sorry 2024-10-16T14:58:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsraa6tcczvf9x432ck2yspzyrqlhcf8zdjdkddh3lvker0w3kzepczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnquc29zy I keep on coming back to the total absence of discussion AI in my corner of mastodon, apart from the occasional bit of snark. Someone pointed out the almost total absence of AI at the fairly huge [@emf](<a href="https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf">https://social.emfcamp.org/@emf</a> ) meeting of technologists. AI still seems front and centre in academia though, although it seems hype is waning in some fields too. How is it where you are? 2024-10-16T12:28:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv27gfe9twzwpn52kg4v6hetd20ylcjs5lpewdlslyyj2jmck6nfczyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnqv7w6xu I&#39;ve been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report. 2024-10-16T10:13:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxxhxwuez0mjlqhtvjs32utdsrep72ce3sr72udnkjqpmf25ewv3czyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq9c2z0g Academic publishers like Taylor and Francis and Routledge are now selling their back catalogues to Microsoft to train their AIs, increasing their already astonishingly high profit margins even further. A good choice for publishing your work if want to destroy your IP as well as the environment.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.informa.com/globalassets/documents/investor-relations/2024/informa-plc---market-update.pdf">https://www.informa.com/globalassets/documents/investor-relations/2024/informa-plc---market-update.pdf</a> 2024-09-30T14:19:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsd4grrr9ytcescd23j42sgfdscawsrzthsmmwszsq4ed3jkdejr2gzyzl5jnzd0nyjr8fey360yjvnup4fhcnrsg9cf0qsqqja83xjg7mnq0zasx4 Grouse moor burning season is around the corner.. Time for the ultra wealthy to poison us all for a few months while committing ecocide so they can pretend they&#39;re hunting tame pet birds <br/><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/1fqyb60/grouse_moor_burning_season/">https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/1fqyb60/grouse_moor_burning_season/</a> 2024-09-28T09:55:11Z