Notices by Jason Self (jxself@social.bobcall.me), page 2

Computers are everywhere, even in your chargers: https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

With Ubuntu dropping 32-bit support hopefully people will change to GNU Linux-libre: https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
I have no plans to drop 32-bit support and just released Linux-libre 5.4 for 32-bit machines, while Ubuntu did not.

Linux-libre 5.4, which will be a long-term support (LTS) version, is now available in my APT repository: https://jxself.org/linux-libre
Enjoy!

Good morning, peoples of the multiverse.

I have been collecting freely-licensed text-based games and have a bit of them in the Games section of https://jxself.org/git/

I wrote a small thing to grab random words out of the dictionary file on this computer and played a game with myself to make a sentence out of them. It's been fun. The only rule is you have to use all of the words.

It seems to have revealed strange things happening in the world. Like: the coffee and fork are taking a taxi to the tram at sunset.

Also, that the judge played hardware bingo under the carousel with a frog and won. The reward was the icon of a bottle.

Strange mental images indeed.

I can't seem to stop petting the cat. Whenever I do he pushes his head into my hand to continue, as if to say "more please."

@cwebber Lack of standardization is one reason. x86 machine are pretty homogeneous.

I thought of something today: When RMS was in Seattle I bought a copy of his Free As In Freedom book and had him autograph it. According to the published schedule at fsf.org he didn't give any talks after that, so I very probably have the last book RMS signed as President of the FSF.

Ever had your words taken out of context and being made to seemingly say something else? Speak up.

Meanwhile, in an alternate reality: In the 1970s Bell Labs instead arranged to get a copy of MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) instead of UNIX, and Ken Thompson ended up using a PDP-10 as a result. Later: Berkeley ported Pascal to ITS, and it was the start of the Berkeley ITS Distribution instead of UNIX.

I think someone might be starting to realize a problem with proprietary software.
https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/getting-deplatformed-from-appl.html

Hello my fellow programmers. Why are grams always so positive? Because they pro-gram.

Green tea kit kats from a trip to Japan. I had no idea these existed.

I was trying to pet the cat with one hand. This seemed to work until she saw the other hand sitting idle and wanted me to pet her with it so I changed hands. She seemed happy until the saw the first hand, now sitting idle and wanted to be petted by it. This back and forth continued until I was eventually petting her with both hands at the same time. I guess being petted with one hand isn't enough.

Found an interesting program but it's written in C#. Barf.

I picked up some Frango brand of peanut butter chocolates for the office.

I'd like to translate a GPLed program that's written in #Spanish to #English. I don't speak Spanish though. I wonder if there is anyone out there that would be interested in #translating it? No programming experience required. Please boost around the #fediverse.

#translation
#translator
#gpl

Good morning, people of the internet. The cat alarm clock has woken me up once again. It's like she's saying "Are you awake yet? Haven't you slept enough enough yet? I need attention!"

My Linux-libre kernel packages for 32- and 64-bit x86 now support UEFI Secure Boot. More information is available on https://jxself.org/secure-boot.shtml