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HTML Author: Josuah Demangeon <me@josuah.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:31:26 +0100
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@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________
Before the era of smartphones, laptops, before Windows
and Apple, there were pioneers who took the fun of
- computers from the hands of the the few who could
- afford computers, and shared them massively so that
- mere individuals could afford it.
+ computers from the hands of the few who could afford
+ computers, and shared them massively so that mere
+ individuals could afford it.
- An ocean of creativity sprout. Art of all kind were
- made on these new toys, that were permitting to many
- to try on its own, or enjoy a tune of 8-bit music, a
- demo scene, a play of video game, an ASCII art...
+ An ocean of creativity spread. Art of all kinds were
+ made on these new toys, that were permitting many to
+ try on their own, or enjoy a tune of 8-bit music, a
+ demo scene, play a video game, ASCII art...
Offering these pioneers a one-way ticket to enter the
legend, 8bitlegends.com builds a corner of peace,
- making some room into our heart for the 8bit heroes.
+ making some room in our heart for the 8bit heroes.
https://8bitlegends.com/
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
I hope, this increases the listening experience.
All recommendations, especially about more auto-
- generated music, is welcome. We need to escape the
+ generated music, are welcome. We need to escape the
copyright mafia trap.
Sincerely yours, Chief Music Manager (CMM)
@@ -74,38 +74,39 @@ ____________________________________________________________
physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going.
By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer
- more resource to software makers, allowing to build
- more ambitious projects. The computer performance
- discipline sure have been worked up thoroughly.
+ more resources to software makers, allowing them to
+ build more ambitious projects. The computer
+ performance discipline sure has been worked up
+ thoroughly.
If the software comsumes all the extra computing power
for its own goal, then we are conjointly building very
fast snails.
- This conquest for aa better cost/performance balance
- is one direction for evolution of computers, but it as
- well possible to imagine a race for better reliability
- and durability instead.
+ This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is
+ one direction for the evolution of computers, but it
+ is also possible to imagine a race for better
+ reliability and durability instead.
- Ploum offers a vision of what a computer maximizing
- durability of the hardware, but also the software
- ecosystem, so that a computer built today still be
- useful in 50 years without upgrades (not preventing
- upgrades to happen).
+ Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when
+ maximizing durability of the hardware, but also the
+ software ecosystem, so that a computer built today
+ still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not
+ preventing upgrades to happen).
An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be
sharpened over again to be able to cut long after it
- was built. Can it be the same for computers?
+ was built. Could this also be true for computers?
https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/
- End Year Meeting 2021 Recordings Online 20h
+ Year End Meeting 2021 Recordings Online 20h
____________________________________________________________
- For everyone not able to join into the end year
- meeting of 2021, here are the recordings:
+ For everyone not able to join the 2021 year end
+ meeting, here are the recordings:
gopher://bitreich.org/1/end-year-meeting/2021
@@ -120,35 +121,36 @@ ____________________________________________________________
100 years of radiodiffusion tgtimes
____________________________________________________________
- Internet existed forever: books and printed press have
- always been around for communicating ideas and
+ The Internet existed forever: books and printed press
+ have always been around for communicating ideas and
information, and evolved progressively to become what
- Internet is today.
+ the Internet is today.
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses,
postal train, or airplanes. Long-range communication
- evolved from here slowly for a lot of time, but
- accelerated a lot on these recent years.
+ evolved slowly for a long time, but has accelerated
+ rapidly in recent years, until today extreme.
+ bandwidth and latency.
The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics
- permits a new way to communicate information on a
- long-distance, with a lighning-fast adoption all
+ permits a new way to communicate information over a
+ long-distance, with a lightning-fast adoption all
around the world:
- 1919 wireless telegraphy and music transmission on
+ 1919 wireless telegraphy and music transmission in
Germany, Netherland and United-States
1920 daily radio programmes in England, United-States
- and URSSR
+ and USSR
- 1921 radio broadcasting on Eiffel Tower with a 900W
+ 1921 radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W
power intensity
- 1922 foundation of BBC and arrival of 2000W
+ 1922 foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W
broadcastings
A few years before, the long-range communication tool
- was paper. A few years after, the telephone and
+ was paper. A few years later, the telephone and
television started to develop.
@@ -182,18 +184,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________
giant? What if one of those giants had the curiosity
of looking down on our world, watching all our tiny
activities, our tiny trades, our tiny farming, our
- tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives.
+ tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives?
E.O. Wilson was one of these giants, looking at the
- ants: the real ones, the insects ones: An
- entomologist, someone dedicated to the study of
- insects.
+ ants: the real ones, the insect ones: An entomologist,
+ someone dedicated to the study of insects.
+
+ After 92 years of empassioned life, E.O. Wilson is
+ fading away, joining the soil, which he spent his life
+ observing. Closing his own book, while at the same
+ time inviting everyone to open their eyes, and look,
+ carefully, at this world of tiny creatures.
- After 92 years of passionated life, E.O. Wilson is
- fading away, joining the soil, which he spent its life
- observing. Closing its own book, while at the same
- time inviting everyone to open their eyes, and watch,
- carefully, this world of tiny creatures.
@@ -247,7 +249,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
The web is well-known for its drift toward platform
effect: reproducing the features of the underlying
- operating system from one of its application, in this
+ operating system from one of its applications, in this
case, the web browser. This is largely made possible
through javascript, and the advent of WebAssembly can
only contribute more to this.
@@ -275,7 +277,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
>> Currently, there are ports (not all are complete)
for GBA, Nintendo DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita,
- Raspberri Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, iOS, STM32,
+ Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, iOS, STM32,
STM32, IBM PC, and many more.
https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
@@ -308,12 +310,12 @@ ____________________________________________________________
The UNIX calendar(1) command tgtimes
____________________________________________________________
- It is probably there sitting on /usr/bin, the
+ It is probably there sitting in /usr/bin, the
calendar(1) command can offer you a fair dose of
- flexibility that lack to web-based or smartphone-based
- calendars.
+ flexibility that web-based or smartphone-based
+ calendars lacks.
- By storing events on a single file of text edited by
+ By storing events in a single file of text edited by
hand, calendar(1) brings the comfort of your existing
text editor to manage events with a simple syntax:
@@ -335,7 +337,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
tomorrow are printed (with more choice of durations
using flags), giving a digest of what is upcoming.
- A command line flag permits to send the calendar
+ A command line flag permits sending the calendar
digest to all users by email, making it a complete
suite to use as a calendar.
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________
of synchronising a single file.
By adding a few more custom syntax rules, a rather
- pretty digest can be written with very few effort.
+ pretty digest can be written with very little effort.
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