"And in 14th-century Italy, the scholar and poet Petrarch made even stronger claims about the effects of accumulating books: 'Believe me, this is not nourishing the mind with literature, but killing and burying it with the weight of things or, perhaps, tormenting it until, frenzied by so many matters, this mind can no longer taste anything, but stares longingly at everything, like Tantalus thirsting in the midst of water.'" https://aeon.co/essays/google-didnt-break-your-brain-a-history-of-distraction
OMG IT ME!! :blobcat_ohnoes:
"And in 14th-century Italy, the scholar and poet Petrarch made even stronger claims about the effects of accumulating books: 'Believe me, this is not nourishing the mind with literature, but killing and burying it with the weight of things or, perhaps, tormenting it until, frenzied by so many matters, this mind can no longer taste anything, but stares longingly at everything, like Tantalus thirsting in the midst of water.'" https://aeon.co/essays/google-didnt-br...
After reading a post by @ajroach42 about Whisper (transcription software you can run locally), I'm now running it on a podcast episode of mine. It's super slow but it seems to work. I guess in winter this can replace heating… I'm starting to wonder whether I should have done this myself. I also saw that https://www.podcasttranscriptionist.com/rates has "$1.50 USD per audio minute for 1 speaker". That doesn't sound so bad. Except that I'm doing my part for free so it feels weird to pay others. Then again, I paint for free and pay others for the tools I need, so perhaps it's fair after all. All this money changing hands is weird. Perhaps I'll time myself transcribing a podcast manually. Let's see how fast I am… 😆
After reading a post by @ajroach42 about Whisper (transcription software you can run locally), I'm now running it on a podcast episode of mine. It's super slow but it seems to work. I guess in winter this can replace heating… I'm starting to wonder whether I should have done this myself. I also saw that https://www.podcasttranscriptionist.com/rates has "$1.50 USD per audio minute for 1 speaker". That doesn't sound so bad. Except that I'm doing my part for free so it feels weird to pay others. Then...
"In these circumstances, acting in the real of the purely physical - buying things with cash, reading secondhand books, getting your news from the newspaper, listening to analogue radio - is almost subversive.
I felt this quite keenly the other day when I finally set up the 1970s hi-fi I inherited from my late father and started playing some of his old records. Like anybody else, these days I mostly get my music through Spotify or YouTube. Listening to an Aretha Franklin album on vinyl I was struck not just by the feeling of once again hearing music unmediated by a digital device, as was normal not so long ago, but also by the feeling of freedom it engendered in me. I was listening to this music alone in the house and nobody else knew it." https://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2022/10/on-not-being-logged.html
"In these circumstances, acting in the real of the purely physical - buying things with cash, reading secondhand books, getting your news from the newspaper, listening to analogue radio - is almost subversive.
I felt this quite keenly the other day when I finally set up the 1970s hi-fi I inherited from my late father and started playing some of his old records. Like anybody else, these days I mostly get my music through Spotify or YouTube. Listening to an Aretha Franklin album on vinyl I was struck...
Did you know about the Software Heritage project? I think I like it, sounds like the Internet Archive, but for repos, and entire software forges. I just submitted a request to my own "forge" (cgit serving all my public git repos).
«The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software Heritage archive is growing over time as we crawl new source code from software projects and development forges.» https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
Did you know about the Software Heritage project? I think I like it, sounds like the Internet Archive, but for repos, and entire software forges. I just submitted a request to my own "forge" (cgit serving all my public git repos).
«The long term goal of the Software Heritage initiative is to collect all publicly available software in source code form together with its development history, replicate it massively to ensure its preservation, and share it with everyone who needs it. The Software Heritage...
@kensanata Well, I hope they hire someone who care to make sure to future-proof their own archive because it doesn't render well at all on anything that is not a modern web browser.
«This made us wonder, why do we not practice to read code aloud? In the same way that reading text aloud helps to understand meaning, so could reading source code! We call this idea code phonology. Settling on a phonology could be challenging than you think, even for simple statements. For example, how should we pronounce an assignment statement like x = 5? Is it “x is 5”? Or “set x to 5”? Or “x gets 5”? And what about an equality check? Is it “if x is is 5”? Or “if x is 5”? Or “is x is equal to 5”?» https://www.felienne.com/archives/5947
Via @raboof
«This made us wonder, why do we not practice to read code aloud? In the same way that reading text aloud helps to understand meaning, so could reading source code! We call this idea code phonology. Settling on a phonology could be challenging than you think, even for simple statements. For example, how should we pronounce an assignment statement like x = 5? Is it “x is 5”? Or “set x to 5”? Or “x gets 5”? And what about an equality check? Is it “if x is is 5”? Or “if x is 5”? Or “is x is equal to 5”?»
Sometimes I feel weird about posting so many pictures on Mastodon, where they'll be deleted eventually, instead of creating little online albums. Perhaps that's because the online albums never get any comments (you'd have to send an email as there is no way to comment directly), and because it's trickier for me to create and upload (needs a laptop, the laptop needs wifi) where on the Fediverse, I can just open the Mastodon web front end and upload pictures in batches of four. I still feel like I ought to create those other static albums but usually I don't – I posted the pictures on the Fediverse, after all. I'm feeling low-key conflicted.
Sometimes I feel weird about posting so many pictures on Mastodon, where they'll be deleted eventually, instead of creating little online albums. Perhaps that's because the online albums never get any comments (you'd have to send an email as there is no way to comment directly), and because it's trickier for me to create and upload (needs a laptop, the laptop needs wifi) where on the Fediverse, I can just open the Mastodon web front end and upload pictures in batches of four. I still feel like I...
@kensanata what about using something like Pixelfed, which can be accessed from Mastodon users?
I'm asking myself the same question but I feel like making small groups of photos is more what I want than a linear timeline in the Instagram fashion...
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