B Slade
@beslayed.bsky.social
Various hats, linguist as my topper (formal semantics & historical linguistics; esp. lgs. of South Asia). Interests in other types of meaning (poetry, decipherment), emacs, lisp, lists and other formal structures.
https://github.com/emacsomancer
https://github.com/emacsomancer
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"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.
arstechnica.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Google declared that starting next year no-one can develop Android apps without first registering centrally with Google, requiring
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions
- Providing government ID
- Uploading the app’s private signing key
oppose:
keepandroidopen.org
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions
- Providing government ID
- Uploading the app’s private signing key
oppose:
keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
keepandroidopen.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Google declared that starting next year no-one can develop Android apps without first registering centrally with Google, requiring
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions
- Providing government ID
- Uploading the app’s private signing key
oppose:
keepandroidopen.org
- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Google’s Terms & Conditions
- Providing government ID
- Uploading the app’s private signing key
oppose:
keepandroidopen.org
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September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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A few days ago, I coded a floating-point package for the CP1610 processor, and then I made a brand new BASIC interpreter for the Mattel Intellivision ECS because I wasn't satisfied with the speed of the original 🤪✌️ #retro #retrogaming #intellivision nanochess.org/ecs_basic.html
Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025
Developing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025 for replacing the very slow Mattel ECS BASIC for Intellivision.
nanochess.org
September 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A few days ago, I coded a floating-point package for the CP1610 processor, and then I made a brand new BASIC interpreter for the Mattel Intellivision ECS because I wasn't satisfied with the speed of the original 🤪✌️ #retro #retrogaming #intellivision nanochess.org/ecs_basic.html
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September 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Mindblowingly cool breakthrough - we made it so all existing Pebble watchfaces/apps now automatically scale up to fill larger and higher resolution Pebble Time 2 display!
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Mindblowingly cool breakthrough - we made it so all existing Pebble watchfaces/apps now automatically scale up to fill larger and higher resolution Pebble Time 2 display!
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🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
September 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
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Got plans tomorrow night? Like stories? Browse ifcomp.org/ballot and pick something that fits your mood and schedule! Do that just 5 times before Oct 15, leave a rating for each, and you’re officially an IFComp judge.
September 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Got plans tomorrow night? Like stories? Browse ifcomp.org/ballot and pick something that fits your mood and schedule! Do that just 5 times before Oct 15, leave a rating for each, and you’re officially an IFComp judge.
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Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
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'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola".
That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).
The part '-cello' is only a suffix.
Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).
The part '-cello' is only a suffix.
Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'Cello' comes from 'violoncello'. This Italian word has a funny literal meaning: "little big viola".
That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).
The part '-cello' is only a suffix.
Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
That's because it's a double derivative of 'viola':
viola > violone (big viola) > violoncello (little big viola).
The part '-cello' is only a suffix.
Here's more about it, 'violin', and 'fiddle':
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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN
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windows is an operating system in the same way that docker is a game engine
April 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
windows is an operating system in the same way that docker is a game engine
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Here's a late entry for #HillfortsWednesday, an aerial of Castle Ring on Harthill Moor, one of Derbyshire's lesser known and more enigmatic sites. Never been excavated, is it really a hillfort? About half a hectare with a bank, external ditch and counterscarp
her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...
her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...
April 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here's a late entry for #HillfortsWednesday, an aerial of Castle Ring on Harthill Moor, one of Derbyshire's lesser known and more enigmatic sites. Never been excavated, is it really a hillfort? About half a hectare with a bank, external ditch and counterscarp
her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...
her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR...
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mmmm me every time I use chatgpt. now I'm hungry
April 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
mmmm me every time I use chatgpt. now I'm hungry
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I’ve been laughing about this all morning
![ChatGPT:
Q:
A father and son are in a car crash. Sadly, the son is killed. The father is rushed to the hospital and as he is laid down on the emergency room table, the doctor looks down and exclaims, "I can't operate on this man, he's my father!" How is this possible?
A:
This is a classic riddle that highlights unconscious gender assumptions.
The answer is: [bolded] The doctor is the man's other father. [/bolded]
This suggests that the son had two fathers, making the doctor his other dad.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2i5lkhcqi62xv3edolwvj4j/bafkreif5icmzbfsu5rcvk552stlcay67cymzsgjfxuibvr76vvqrb4bfja@jpeg)
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’ve been laughing about this all morning
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Thank you, @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for the wonderful set of postcards, received today! Each one features a different church door. These are 2 of my favorites.
April 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thank you, @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for the wonderful set of postcards, received today! Each one features a different church door. These are 2 of my favorites.
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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Portrait with Wolf is choice-based Inform work inspired by the IF art shows of old. Bleak, poetic, nonsensical
even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you
I made it for Spring Thing
www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...
even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you
I made it for Spring Thing
www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...
April 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Portrait with Wolf is choice-based Inform work inspired by the IF art shows of old. Bleak, poetic, nonsensical
even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you
I made it for Spring Thing
www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...
even if it's not for everyone, it could be for you
I made it for Spring Thing
www.springthing.net/2025/play.ht...
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And what was that all-female space mission 60 years ago?
That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)
That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)
April 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
And what was that all-female space mission 60 years ago?
That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)
That would be Vostok 6, which had Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova doing a three-day solo flight (during which she, you know, actually operated the spacecraft)
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you fuckin' tell em, bobby eggers
April 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
you fuckin' tell em, bobby eggers
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The Zilog Z280 microprocessor. Able to address 16 megabytes of memory, and with MMU for 64k code area and 64k data area. It wasn't so popular, so it ceased manufacturing, but for some reason, Zilog sent all datasheets and manuals to oblivion. Check bitsavers. #zilog
April 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The Zilog Z280 microprocessor. Able to address 16 megabytes of memory, and with MMU for 64k code area and 64k data area. It wasn't so popular, so it ceased manufacturing, but for some reason, Zilog sent all datasheets and manuals to oblivion. Check bitsavers. #zilog
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Blessings from the ብሉየ፡ መዋዕል፡ ("The Ancient of Days")!
Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart
Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart
April 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Blessings from the ብሉየ፡ መዋዕል፡ ("The Ancient of Days")!
Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart
Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart