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Comic Books are a wonderful refuge for the shy child who doesn't like to interact with others much. And anyone who has checked out the difficult vocabulary most use, has no worries about the reading prowess of any kid raised on them. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comicstrip #comicstrips #reading #developmentalreading #teachingreading #readingisfun #thejoyofreading #joyofreading #mandrakethemagician #mandrake #magician #leefalk #superhero #superheros #amazing #fun #adventure
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Comic Books are a wonderful refuge for the shy child who doesn't like to interact with others much. And anyone who has checked out the difficult vocabulary most use, has no worries about the reading prowess of any kid raised on them. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comicstrip #comicstrips #reading #developmentalreading #teachingreading #readingisfun #thejoyofreading #joyofreading #mandrakethemagician #mandrake #magician #leefalk #superhero #superheros #amazing #fun #adventure
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Comic Books are a wonderful refuge for the shy child who doesn't like to interact with others much. And anyone who has checked out the difficult vocabulary most use, has no worries about the reading prowess of any kid raised on them. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comicstrip #comicstrips #reading #developmentalreading #teachingreading #readingisfun #thejoyofreading #joyofreading #mandrakethemagician #mandrake #magician #leefalk #superhero #superheros #amazing #fun #adventure
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Comic Books are a wonderful refuge for the shy child who doesn't like to interact with others much. And anyone who has checked out the difficult vocabulary most use, has no worries about the reading prowess of any kid raised on them. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comicstrip #comicstrips #reading #developmentalreading #teachingreading #readingisfun #thejoyofreading #joyofreading #mandrakethemagician #mandrake #magician #leefalk #superhero #superheros #amazing #fun #adventure
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Comic Books are a wonderful refuge for the shy child who doesn't like to interact with others much. And anyone who has checked out the difficult vocabulary most use, has no worries about the reading prowess of any kid raised on them. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #comicstrip #comicstrips #reading #developmentalreading #teachingreading #readingisfun #thejoyofreading #joyofreading #mandrakethemagician #mandrake #magician #leefalk #superhero #superheros #amazing #fun #adventure
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Read my poem “Kindness”
Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloomI don’t know what to do.
#creativeWriting #emotionalWriting #literature #originalWriting #poem #poemOfTheDay #poetsOnWordpress #spokenWord #writing
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Read my poem “Kindness”
Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloomI don’t know what to do.
#creativeWriting #emotionalWriting #literature #originalWriting #poem #poemOfTheDay #poetsOnWordpress #spokenWord #writing
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Read my poem “Kindness”
Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloomI don’t know what to do.
#creativeWriting #emotionalWriting #literature #originalWriting #poem #poemOfTheDay #poetsOnWordpress #spokenWord #writing
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Read my poem “Kindness”
Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloomI don’t know what to do.
#creativeWriting #emotionalWriting #literature #originalWriting #poem #poemOfTheDay #poetsOnWordpress #spokenWord #writing
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Read my poem “Kindness”
Give me trauma on a blackboard
I’ll glitter all its owls and tentacles
encircling and stamping the
freakish and rancid record we
have etched on the atoms of our reality.Afterall, we all shatter, hurt, and harm.
Life is an appalling confectioner of pain.
We do it minutely and majorly
tying these cruel ribbons
together over our own coffin.When the good and kind happens,
those cerulean clouds hanging
on the smeared edge of a Bob Ross painting
we wonder how to feel, breathe, and act,
as if happiness were the vaguest whisper.We’re always nurturing doubt,
a mandrake necktie perpetually tightened
by anyone at any moment of any time.
It isn’t nemesis specific
but a negative, shapeshifting terrain.I’m so proficient at the dark
it’s my tallest city, a hades overpopulated.
The rain-colored afternoon is always preferred
and when the system splits and
the jailed trees bloomI don’t know what to do.
#creativeWriting #emotionalWriting #literature #originalWriting #poem #poemOfTheDay #poetsOnWordpress #spokenWord #writing
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@ruisan @manum yo soy mayor y sí, empecé con Red Hat, Mandrake, Mandriva... luego lo intenté con Debian y era demasiado para mí en esa época. Cuando salió Ubuntu estuve yendo y viniendo de Fedora a Ubuntu, hasta que en 2009 con un portátil con Vista en que no se podía hacer nada puse Ubuntu Karmic Koala y hasta hoy. #Ubuntu #Fedora #redhat #debian #WindowsVista #Mandrake #Mandriva
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Das Watt als Zeitkapsel
Dass die Existenz von Rungholt nicht nur ein Mythos ist, konnten die Forscher beweisen. Doch die legendäre Siedlung, davon gehen sie aus, war Teil einer ganzen Kulturlandschaft von Eiderstedt bis hoch nach Hooge, Oland und Langeneß. Darauf deuten die vielen archäologischen Funde hin, erklärt Geografin Hanna Hadler von der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: “Egal, wo man hinguckt im Watt, wir finden immer irgendwas. Wir gehen schon davon aus, dass die gesamte Fläche mal besiedelt war. Aber wie groß die Gesamtsiedlungsdichte war, dazu können wir momentan noch gar nichts sagen.”
Nicht einmal wie groß das Gebiet war, auf dem die Friesen Marsch- und Moorflächen kultiviert haben, ist überliefert. Mit der “Groten Mandränke” 1362 ist die alte Kulturlandschaft untergegangen. Ein Grund für die verheerenden Folgen der Sturmflut: Um die Moorflächen landwirtschaftlich nutzen zu können, haben die friesischen Siedler den Torf abgegraben und so das Land tiefer gelegt, erklärt Hadler.
#Fernsehen #Landschaften #Natur #NDRKultur #Nordsee #OrteRäume #Rungholt #Wasser #Watt #Wissen #Zeitkapsel -
Das Watt als Zeitkapsel
Dass die Existenz von Rungholt nicht nur ein Mythos ist, konnten die Forscher beweisen. Doch die legendäre Siedlung, davon gehen sie aus, war Teil einer ganzen Kulturlandschaft von Eiderstedt bis hoch nach Hooge, Oland und Langeneß. Darauf deuten die vielen archäologischen Funde hin, erklärt Geografin Hanna Hadler von der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: “Egal, wo man hinguckt im Watt, wir finden immer irgendwas. Wir gehen schon davon aus, dass die gesamte Fläche mal besiedelt war. Aber wie groß die Gesamtsiedlungsdichte war, dazu können wir momentan noch gar nichts sagen.”
Nicht einmal wie groß das Gebiet war, auf dem die Friesen Marsch- und Moorflächen kultiviert haben, ist überliefert. Mit der “Groten Mandränke” 1362 ist die alte Kulturlandschaft untergegangen. Ein Grund für die verheerenden Folgen der Sturmflut: Um die Moorflächen landwirtschaftlich nutzen zu können, haben die friesischen Siedler den Torf abgegraben und so das Land tiefer gelegt, erklärt Hadler.
#Fernsehen #Landschaften #Natur #NDRKultur #Nordsee #OrteRäume #Rungholt #Wasser #Watt #Wissen #Zeitkapsel -
Es gibt die perfekte Wanddeko.
#Wien #Albertina #FaszinationPapier #Giant #Bianchi #Cannondale #Mondraker #Lapierre #Scott
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Nostalgic #OpenMandriva installation dual boot windows on 4 Gb RAM. Rome 24.08 version. I tried #WINE to play #NeedForSpeed Most Wanted and success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVWsJQrbleE@openmandriva #linux #linuxindonesia #dualboot #belajarLinux #gaminglinux #OpenMandrivaRome #mandrakelinux
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#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to loveIn the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons... and probably some more I forgot.
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#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to loveIn the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons... and probably some more I forgot.
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#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to loveIn the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons... and probably some more I forgot.
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#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to loveIn the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons... and probably some more I forgot.
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#ScribesAndMakers 12. May: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?
Yes, both TTRPGs and LARPs
I currently have 5 active rounds that meet ca 1-2 per month, with these Systems
* Orpheus - White Wolf - Playing a divorcee Start-up founder - we need monsters to help resolve the drama!
* Unhallowed Metropolis - Zombie slaying neovictorian Widow
* Blades in the dark - we also smuggle, when we are not busy wrecking havoc in the city
* Delta Green - but with a variant of powered by the apocalypse rules - I'm playing a cop in the 90ies
* Brindlewood bay (though we just wrapped this) - a bookclub solving murders - what's not to loveIn the past I've also played
* Vampire - the Masquerade (LARP for 10ish years or so) - we had a legendary posse of Malkavians that held an annual spring ball. It was always a blast.
* DnD - various campaings - my favourite char was definitely my grumpy, lesbian goblin artificer - accidentally turned vampire and now living happily in the future! Didn't die and went to heaven.
* Traveller - Gurps - A rockband with a spaceship
* Arcane Codex - a rat druid that slowly turned into a minor rat deity
* Monsterhearts
* diverse Cthuhulu Themed LARPs set in space, zeppelins, actual ships, 1920ies 1940ies, 1890ies, 1980ies… - my favorites were an impersonation of Jane Franklin (for which I researched doo much of her biography.) and a zeppelin engineer stuck with a Nazi command.
* Some Onepagers: Honey Heist, Lesbian Sword Somethings, Something with Wizards and another with racing racoons... and probably some more I forgot.
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Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake (Alpha 6) on 86Box with Socket 370 [1998]
We’re now back with the sixth alpha of Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, which was released on June 2006! Two months shy of the 20th anniversary of the first Ubuntu LTS release, we are very excited for this experiment on 86Box.
Our focus in this article is testing Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake on an 86Box emulated machine with a Socket 370 [1998] motherboard. You can download it from here.
We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:
We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:
- Machine type: [1998] Socket 370
- Machine: [i440BX] ASUS CUBX
- CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) @ 533 MHz
- Memory: 256 MB
- Video: [AGP] 3dfx Voodoo3 3000
- Keyboard: AT Keyboard
- Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
- Sound card: [ISA16] Gravis UltraSound
- Floppy disk controller: Internal device
- Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
- New hard disk: UbuntuDapper.vhd
- C/H/S: 16644/16/63
- Size: 8192 MB
- Bus: IDE
- Channel: 0:0
- CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B 1007 (48x)
Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Insert the Ubuntu 6.06 installation disc called
ubuntu-6.06-alpha6-install-i386.isoto the CD-ROM reader, then configure BIOS as necessary.You’ll see this main menu where we can choose to installer either to the hard disk, in OEM mode, or as a server. Let’s choose the first option, which is a normal install.
Afterwards, the old-fashioned installer that looks similar to what a Debian textual installer would look like appears.
After we have chosen a language, we are asked for our location.
Finally, the installer asks us for the keyboard layout we need to select.
As soon as we press ENTER, the installer starts looking for the Ubuntu installation disc and load additional installer components after searching for CD-ROM hardware.
After that, the installer tried to find the network adapter. Since we don’t intend to have one installed, because this system is unsupported as of long ago, we have answered No when the installer asked us if we have FireWire Ethernet.
After that, we’re prompted for the host name.
Then, the installer asked us if we need to provide proxy information for Ubuntu mirrors. We left it blank.
Afterwards, the installer started finding hard disks and starting the partitioner.
The installer found an 8 GB hard disk, so we’ve agreed to install Ubuntu to it by erasing the whole disk.
Afterwards, we’re prompted for the full name, the user name, and the password of the new account that our Ubuntu installation will contain.
The installation then started from this stage.
It took a considerable amount of time, especially when it had to do with installing and configuring the desktop packages. After a lot of patience, the installer finally set everything up in the new installation, such as users, and gave us a congratulatory message below.
When we pressed ENTER, the system automatically rebooted to the new Ubuntu installation.
Then, the login screen appeared.
We signed in with our username and password, and the GNOME splash screen appeared with “Dapper Drake!” drawn over it, with “THIS IS NOT THE FINAL ARTWORK!” at the top. Those two writings don’t appear in the final version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, suggesting that this is the pre-release version.
Once the desktop gets loaded, the desktop looks like this:
We can verify that this alpha version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS uses Linux version 2.6.15.
Applications, such as Firefox and gedit, work, too.
#86Box #Linux #Mandrake #news #Retrocomputing #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu606 #update -
@Global_Repercussions @nando161
I'm with you 100% here.
Climate people keep looking at the information content of these articles and thinking "surely this will convince them", but I am convinced this is not how the public thinks of it.
In Dr. Strangelove, toward the beginning, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (played by Peter Sellers) has been told there is a military action going on, but he happens across a radio (most of which have been confiscated) and realizes it is playing entertainment. He correctly concludes that if this were an ACTUAL emergency, the entertainment stations would be shut down and people throughout society would be taking directions about how to respond.
This is what I think about Climate. People do not understand climate talk, though they hear dire summaries waft by and they think "Could this be for real?" Then they see there are fluff pieces around, not just following, but even at higher priority. At this point, they shrug and go "If this were a real emergency, it would have better placement." And that is that. The entirety of the content is ignored because its placement says there's nothing to worry about. Newspaper editors (or TV producers) would surely give it better and more sweeping coverage if it was anything that mattered.
I am sad the public does not get it, but their conclusions are entirely foreseeable. What bugs is journalism. I want to attribute this to laziness and incompetence, but I have seen this played out in movies and know what really happened.
At some point, television (and its internet progeny) became about advertising and lost any sense of its responsibility to audiences. At that point, it was an entirely different beast.
The movie Network, hard to appreciate if you're just seeing it first now because it will seem so ho hum, was eye-opening in its time. Worth seeing for anyone who has not.
Also, many have seen the movie Apollo 13, but there was a limited series made for HBO by Tom Hanks called From Earth to the Moon. In one-hour episodes, it takes you through the Apollo program, telling lots of really cool stuff. You'd expect the episode about Apollo 13 to be a shorter version of the movie Apollo 13, but it is not. Instead it is a telling of a story very like that which is told in Network, of the changing of the guard between journalism that cared about things like truth, perspective, and compassion and a newer guard that only cares about shock, novelty, and grabbing eyeballs. It's worth watching that series anyway, but I personally think of that particular episode as a modern telling of the Network story.
Yes, I appeal a lot to movies to tell stories. There may be some irony in that when I'm talking about the gamification of journalism. But the problem isn't the medium. The problem is the commitment to fact, priority, consequence, etc. Movies allow us to download not just information but a visceral sense of the significance of an issue. It's impossible to watch these movies and not see the problem that ad-driven news coverage has become. It distorts everything. It wouldn't be a total lie to list it as a cause of climate change, right up there as a peer of capitalism, since in fact advertising-driven news is NOT an obvious consequence of capitalism.
In the US, at least, news used to have a legal requirement to operate in the public interest when it was carried over finite bandwidth in broadcast analog space, and carrying real news was part of what it took to get a license. When we went to cable, we gave all that up because there was not a finite spectrum, but we could have kept the requirement just because it was a good idea.
Our society makes choices all the time, and we laud free society for allowing a lot of things to happen that mightn't otherwise. And I'm not anti-freedom. But freedom is also a risk because bad things can happen, both intentionally and unintentionally. To survive, we have to be open to the idea that the bad things still need to be kept in check. We can't just say that any attempt to rein those things in is an infringement of freedom and mustn't happen because they're starting to add up and be toxic.
A balance must be maintained. If not forced, we need to make it important to people to do voluntarily, and to instill in people an understanding that if things like that are not done voluntarily, we'll end up either killing ourselves or realizing a free society is too dangerous.
We seem on the brink of collectively finding out that fact only by going extinct, because so far we insist on collective denial, and that only works for a while. Physics can only be ignored for a while, and after that it takes no prisoners.
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/humanitys-superpower_28.html
#climate #journalism #ClimateCommunication #media #ethics #TechNews #collapse #extinction #ClimateDenial
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What's the longest you have ever had a distro running on your daily driver (servers don't count!!) without hopping, re-installing or reformatting the drive?
I think my record was back in 2004, #Mandrake/#Mandriva for a bit more than a year.
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Several years ago, a friend of mine posted online that he was selling some figures, including this set.
I inquired too late. Someone else had already picked it up.
Years later, I saw it at Mandarake in Akihabara. It was near the beginning of my Japan trip, so instead of lugging it around the country I figured I'd buy it on the way back through Tokyo. When I went back, it had sold.
For the past couple years, I've just been watching eBay. Finally, a decent price came around.
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Just for fun: my friends and I used to get together for StarCraft LAN parties. I was on #Linux (probably Mandrake?), most of my friends were on #MSWindows (probably 98), maybe one or two were on Macs. Guess who had the fewest network / LAN issues? Yup: me and maybe the Mac guys. Pretty much without fail, we would waste an hour while the MSWin guys tried to figure out why they couldn't see anyone or join a game.
That said, I miss the LAN parties. In person is much more fun.
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Hablando con @moribundo y @homer me ha surgido el hacer esta publicación.
Ellos ya lo saben pero para el resto: lo creáis o no, antes las distros de Linux (y resto de cosas) las conseguías en CD porque no había banda ancha regalada para casi todos. Aquí algunos de los olvidados 😉
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Hablando con @moribundo y @homer me ha surgido el hacer esta publicación.
Ellos ya lo saben pero para el resto: lo creáis o no, antes las distros de Linux (y resto de cosas) las conseguías en CD porque no había banda ancha regalada para casi todos. Aquí algunos de los olvidados 😉