Sorry to bother u, @neauoire, but I'm looking for a link to the tetris like game, with the frog sprite that shoots a tongue out, it's not here:
Was re-reading, the _Story of Mel_ the Real Programmer (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html) and saw the line —
“If a program can't rewrite its own code”,
he (mel) asked, “what good is it?”
And was reminded of the optization critique of _uxn_. @neauoire can you share a reference to that argument against code that can do self-alteration and the technical description a friend of yours gave?
The number of people impacted by the floods in Pakistan right now is the size of a small country:
Bert Hubert created #googerteller, a small programme which sonifies the data collected by #Google while we browse online.
https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller
So I decided to give it a short test-drive.
Of course, the set of Google IPs can be configured sonify leaks to other service providers. Hubert himself suggests pointing googerteller to Meta.
So far, it only works on #Linux, but it's a really quick compile, so have a go at it:
I love how revealing of the hardware limitations this game is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHOqKYB1Cs
Morning coffee and a little time with, my ‘new’ slide rule and this manual, https://www.sliderule.ca/manual.htm thanks to @rek & @neauoire.
@neauoire heading towards you from Mathews point
Full-sail on our way to ActivePassive Festival to see @furiousgreencloud
https://www.activepassive.ca/
“That is to say, cyborgs [snip] raise all the questions of histories, politics,and ethics that dogs require.” (P.21) thus Haraway positions _The Companion Animal Manifesto_ as a super set of the Cyborg Manifesto.
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.