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A discussion of race and racism, with an all-black roster of guests. What’s interesting is that they all reject the popular liberal oppression narrative but still disagree on various things.

Points made include:

• Opportunity is hoarded by rent seekers and thereby made artificially scarce, which causes racial friction even though the real war is between the rich and the poor rather than between ethnic groups.
• There are cultural issues that black communities need to solve in order to take advantage of the opportunities they do have.
• Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have much to offer with regard to fighting actual inequality.

A Haskell library for handling errors in an ergonomic way.

Learn how computers work by assembling one from NAND gates all the way up to programming a game for it.

A split, concave ergonomic keyboard.

A Quarkus extension that enables the use of OmniFaces. Since OmniFaces does some pretty magical stuff, the extension is needed to make the magic work in the rather magic-resistant Quarkus runtime.

The official Quarkus extension for Apache MyFaces. Brings JavaServer Faces (JSF) to Quarkus.

An FRP library for Haskell that encodes clocks at the type level, preventing the mistake of combining data sampled at different rates.

Also has a Gloss backend.

Object capabilities in hardware.

Object capabilities for UN*X.

A Markdown-based format to describe argumentation maps, which are a way of visualizing arguments.

Open this on your phone and enter the dimensions of a cube and you can then use it to gauge the size of objects in AR. Useful when ordering furniture or equipment for your living room.

A build.rs library to compile C or C++ code within a Rust Cargo project.

Contemporary architecture is jarring, confusing, and lifeless. No vegetation, no ornaments, no loveliness.

Read books, study vocabulary: A website that gives you SRS decks for a large selection of children’s books.

Beginner-friendly Japanese stories.

A group of five hypotheses of second-language acquisition developed by the linguist Stephen Krashen […].

A free online 図鑑 (illustrated textbook) for Japanese children.

Books on Japanese culture, some bilingual.

Bilingual.

While the Corona-Warn-App on Android is open source and free, it uses the Exposure API, which is provided by the Google Mobile Service (GSM). Hence, the Corona-Warn-App cannot be used on a Google-free android, e.g. LineageOS without Google Services. CoraLibre tries to reimplement the Exposure API and create a libre version of the Corona-Warn-App. There’s been significant progress reimplementing base functionality of the Exposure API using unit testing. The Corona-Warn-App hasn’t been adapted yet. It looks like, this will take some more time.

Radio feature about the Bakunin Hütte refuge founded by anarcho-syndicalists in southern Thuringia in the 1920s. The refuge became famous, when Erich Mühsam paid a visit. Nowadays, there are two clubs keeping the heritage alive.

Yotsuba&! is a series of manga that are said to be funny and a good fit for beginning Japanese readers.

A comparison of programming language implementations with regard to power consumption.

The top five: C 1st (surprise!), Rust 2nd, C++ 3rd, Ada 4th, Java 5th. Lisp in 8th place, Haskell 12th, Go 14th.

EhonNavi is a website where you can read lots of Japanese children’s books for free, but only once each.

This page lists the books sorted by recommended reading age and lets you record which ones you have read already.