Rob Dickerson @SPLASH @robd@types.pl

Entering the US public domain in 2023: Fritz Lang's silent film science-fiction classic *Metropolis*.

More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/ #PDin2023 #film #metropolis

This modified version of the famous ‘turn #chatGPT into a pretend Linux system’ prompt is also my prototype for a product that will sell millions.

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

Didn't we train for this our entire childhood?

This week, LastPass, and its parent company GoTo, both published blog posts about their recent data breach: http://tcrn.ch/3ucMvBx

But if you search for GoTo's blog post in Google, you won't find it, because GoTo hid its breach notice from search engines using "noindex" code.

Pong is 50 years old today.

Little known fact: Pong has no code. Pong doesn't even have a microprocessor. Al Alcorn hardwired the game with transistor-to-transistor logic. (See Henry Lowood: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5223982)

Hi, we're a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use #payphones in #Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!

We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.

For more info, check out https://philtel.org

#introduction

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

ty google translate, very helpful

As an app-only walled garden, Hive Social is not a part of the World Wide Web in any meaningful sense. Anyone letting it get their hooks into them is making a familiar and terrible mistake. We've been here before. Don't let it happen again. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/03/instagram-hates-the-internet/ https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1595530261533319168

Most of SPLASH 2022 is less than one week away, but the virtual talks at OOPSLA are happening *tomorrow* (or today, depending on your timezone)! Join us at V-OOPSLA and watch some exciting talks from your home/office! https://2022.splashcon.org/track/splash-2022-v-oopsla#program

Burroughs' bookcase, Lawrence Kansas 1986
Amazing obsessive analysis of it:
https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/chris-steins-photograph-of-william-s-burroughs-bookshelf/

@eniko @thephd We’ve recently been rewriting the Swift parser, and have some opinions on how to do this well: good parser primitives (“expect this”, “match this”, “don’t go beyond that”, etc.), no diagnostics from parsing itself (represent all issues as missing/unexpected nodes in the tree), and handle diagnostics in a post-pass. The result is really nice and is easy to extend to@new grammar terms. See https://github.com/apple/swift-syntax/blob/main/Sources/SwiftParser/SwiftParser.docc/ParserRecovery.md