Gray’s Music: Over the Telegraph
Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.
By: Matthew Wills
technology
#lispyGopherClimate #valentinesDay Morning in Europe #peertube #live #programming #technology #podcast .
#archive https://toobnix.org/w/wzDqaQke9raTSTxVDHTemo
Oldschool versus newschool
#lisp #versus #CLOS in #commonLisp
(basically me monday morning quarterbacking myself from the Tuesday-night-in-the-americas hosted by Ramin)
I will at least try push-button running *this article* which factors into the long-delayed current log I am writing. https://screwlisp.small-web.org/software-individuals/sandewalls-sat-solver-implementation-example/ which feeds into the other topic.
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#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast hosted by @ramin_hal9001 https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html this week!
https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX
My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b <- visit
@kentpitman 's poem
Repudiating the #ai #llm hype!
And #environmental damage #climate
#commonLisp #lisp #typeTheory #coalton common lisp static typing DSL https://coalton-lang.github.io/ ,
#ELS 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.
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Resolve Libvirt Error Unable to Find EFI Firmware
A step by step guide on how to fix the Libvirt Error Unable to Find EFI Firmware by updating the paths in the virtual machine’s configuration.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/resolve-libvirt-error-unable-find-efi-firmware/
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
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#technology #training #socialjustice #equality
I thought this interview with Jay Graber was pretty insightful. Ignore the dumb headline; I'm excited for what's next for the open social web. #Technology https://werd.io/2025/bluesky-is-plotting-a-total-takeover-of-the-social-internet
💻 📚 **How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers**
“_Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real._”
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Fake #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon @ai @bookstodon
They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/
#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky
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I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.
How do we do burst the bubble?
How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?
How do we popularize digital media critique?
What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?
On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.
I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.
Free attendance! Register here ⬅️
#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse
Tesla Robotaxi Terrifyingly Jerks Wheel Back and Forth While Carrying Passenger
Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode. Listen in full!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/molly-white-sxsw-2025/
#DotSocial #OpenSocial #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Flipboard #SXSW #FediverseHouse #CreatorEconomy #Creator #MollyWhite #Internet #Tech #Technology
Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology
If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries
The Poison Book Project tested books and drew up a list of titles which are potentially harmful to humans.
By Pauline McLean
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2y9xq58no
Poison Book Project:
https://sites.udel.edu/poisonbookproject/
According to a new analysis, AI isn't even close to coming for everybody's jobs, and it's not exactly making workers more productive, either. Via @Futurism. #AI #Chatbot #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/DO7dx2
curl libcurl
Just in case you have forgotten how to curl a file from a server here's a extensive howto with screenshots
`-L` redirect
https://everything.curl.dev/http/browserlike.html?highlight=-L#redirects
`-o` filename
https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/url-named.html#download-to-a-file-named-by-the-url
`-C -` resume
https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/resume.html#resuming-and-ranges
`curl --verbose -C - -L -o lp_someband_some_name_disc1side2.flac archive.org/download/lp_someband_somename-v/disc1/lp_someband_somename_disc1side2.flac`
#curl #get #programming #technology #fetch #networking #https #http #ftp #OpenSource #POSIX #BSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #openBSD #Linux #win64 #mac
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Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.
#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government
If you believe what you see on social media, the entirety of Los Angeles is overwhelmed by violence. In fact, the protests have been largely peaceful and small — and much of the false information has been fueled by misleading videos and false claims. @CBSNews breaks down the misinformation that's circulating, from a video game clip purporting to be news footage to conspiracy theories about George Soros supplying protesters with bricks.
https://flip.it/G_w012
#SocialMedia #Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #LosAngeles #Protests #Tech #Technology
Picked up this book from the used bin of my local bookstore yesterday: You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Written in 2010 but very prescient and relevant to our current techno cultural world. It examines the ways in which software and technology shape thought and society.
#BookStodon #nonfiction #technology
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Talking with Machines: Computer Programming as Language
The proliferation of different types of computing machines in the 1950s enabled—or perhaps forced—the creation of programming languages.
By: Danny Robb
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
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The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
#News #Tech #Cybersecurity #Technology #Microsoft #Government #Data
The internet was supposed to set us free, but as Cory Doctorow reveals, it’s been hijacked by monopolies that lock us in, strip us down, and sell us back to ourselves… though the fight isn’t over yet.
"The Internet is Crack" Podcast.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/0N3q-qHVdg8
@pluralistic #monopoly #bigtech #podcast #theinternetiscrack #antitrust #tech #technology #information
Vivaldi 7.5 for mobile is here! Bugs have shipped off on a one-way cruise to give you a smoother, speedier browser that works your way. ☀️
#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/
I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.
If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.
How water-based clocks revolutionised the way we measure time
For the vast majority of human history, we’ve relied on the Sun to tell time – a reliably unreliable method, given the body’s tendency to disappear behind clouds and the horizon.
https://aeon.co/videos/how-water-based-clocks-revolutionised-the-way-we-measure-time
Water clocks at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=water+clocks
![An early 19th-century illustration[31] of Ctesibius's (285–222 BC) clepsydra from the 3rd century BC. The hour indicator ascends as water flows in. Also, a series of gears rotate a cylinder to correspond to the temporal hours.
The illustrator was probably w:John Farey, Jr. (1791–1851). The principal engraver for the encyclopedia was Wilson Lowry (1762–1824).[1] - Abraham Rees (1819) "Clepsydra" in Cyclopædia: or, a New Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Diagram of a fancy clepsydra, this type being an automaton or self-adjusting machine. Water enters and raises the figure, which points at the current hour for the day. Spillover water operates a series of gears that rotates a cylinder so that hour lengths are appropriate for today's date. The ancient Greeks and Romans had twelve hours from sunrise to sunset; since summer days are longer than winter days, summer hours were longer than winter hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock#/media/File:Clepsydra-Diagram-Fancy.jpeg](/proxy/post_attachment/768617/e4121f805e.jpg "An early 19th-century illustration[31] of Ctesibius's (285–222 BC) clepsydra from the 3rd century BC. The hour indicator ascends as water flows in. Also, a series of gears rotate a cylinder to correspond to the temporal hours.
The illustrator was probably w:John Farey, Jr. (1791–1851). The principal engraver for the encyclopedia was Wilson Lowry (1762–1824).[1] - Abraham Rees (1819) \"Clepsydra\" in Cyclopædia: or, a New Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Diagram of a fancy clepsydra, this type being an automaton or self-adjusting machine. Water enters and raises the figure, which points at the current hour for the day. Spillover water operates a series of gears that rotates a cylinder so that hour lengths are appropriate for today's date. The ancient Greeks and Romans had twelve hours from sunrise to sunset; since summer days are longer than winter days, summer hours were longer than winter hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock#/media/File:Clepsydra-Diagram-Fancy.jpeg")