Collaborate Disseminate
For the last thirteen years the Free Software Foundation has published its Ethical Tech Giving Guide, notes a recent FSF blog post. “The right to determine what a device you’ve purchased does or doesn’t do is something too valuable to lose.”
Or, as t… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Publishes Its 2022 ‘Ethical Tech Giving Guide’
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December 1st is much anticipated among those who like programming puzzles. It is time to start collecting stars by solving small puzzles on the Advent of Code website with the goal of amassing 50 stars by Christmas Day, December 25… Continue reading ‘Advent of Code’ Has Begun – and Other Geeky Daily Programming Challenges
Since 1955 the U.S./Canadian operation that monitors North American airspace with radars and satellite to maintain air sovereignty has also, at Christmas time, been tracking Santa.
And this year their trackers received additional support from the U.S… Continue reading How Astronauts on The ISS Got a Visit from Santa
Ananda Sharma, founder of the app Gyroscope, describes to a local TV station the monolith he discovered during a Christmas-morning jog under a candy-cane red sunrise.
“I think I smelled it before I saw it…”
He spotted a double rainbow and wanted to… Continue reading How San Francisco Got a Very Special Monolith on Christmas Day
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: At a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia, an angry customer in the drive-through lane threw his drink at the pregnant fast-food worker who had served him. “She was crying and covered in ice and soda and syrup…” remembe… Continue reading A Stranger Crowdsourced $1,700 For a Mistreated Fast-Food Worker
Nathan Myhrvold is a former CTO of Microsoft, co-founder of the equity company Intellectual Ventures, and the founder of “food innovation lab” Modernist Cuisine (which among other things resulted in book of remarkable food photography).
But he’s now … Continue reading Nathan Myhrvold’s Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Advent of Code isn’t the only geeky tradition that’s continuing in 2020. “This is going to be the first full year with Raku being called Raku,” notes the site raku-advent.blog. “However, it’s going to be th… Continue reading The Geeky Advent Calendar Tradition Continues in 2020
For 108 years Americans have helped their postal service perform “Operation Santa.” But this year’s program will be fully digital and nationwide, reports CNN:
The program allows children and families to write letters to Santa, which will then be proce… Continue reading US Postal Service Announces a Nationwide Digital ‘Operation Santa’
America’s national health agency “halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.”
The Wall Stre… Continue reading The U.S. Health Department Tried to Offer Early Vaccines to Shopping Mall Santas
Prorammer Rick Brewster has worked at both Microsoft and Facebook. But this Christmas on Twitter he shared the story of his long-lost videogame creation “that somehow — like some kind of lost, drunken cat — finally found its way home on Christmas Eve… Continue reading In 1994 A 12-Year-Old Programmed a Videogame. It Turned Up on Twitch Monday