(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)

"I keep bouncing off the #Scheme language"

https://www.sicpers.info/2026/05/i-keep-bouncing-off-the-scheme-language/

( #Lisp )

with interesting discussion in the HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233398

'Scheme was invented as a consequence of Sussman & Steele’s discovery that lexical closures in the lambda calculus had essentially an identical implementation to a fully elaborated version of Hewitt’s actor model.

I do wonder what a language with the same “taste” and minimalism as Scheme but embracing the actor model would look like. Erlang?

Even better if someone could figure out how to harmonize them in the same language: “There are exactly two ways to do it, and they’re interchangeable.”'

to which a reply referencing @spritely@social.coop #SpritelyGoblins:

'> I do wonder what a language with the same “taste” and minimalism as Scheme but embracing the #ActorModel would look like.

There is Spritely Goblins: https://spritely.institute/goblins/ '

(and a third reply:

'A 98-page PDF on language design for distributed objects in a capability security model? Made my day, thanks!')

‘It’s broken English’: MP’s attempt to speak Jamaican in Jamaica's Parliament sparks language row

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/21/jamaica-parliament-language-english-patois

Burchell, the opposition spokesperson for culture, creative industries and information, approached the microphone and began to speak.

“Madam speaka, mi git up dis afta noon fi mek mi fuss sectoral speech, pan me portfolio …”

The Speaker of the House, Juliet Holness, immediately cut her off. “Hold on, hold on, hold on! Standing orders, and I think you are fully aware,” said Holness, who is the wife of Jamaica’s prime minister.

The regulation to which Holness referred was the rule that only English – and certainly not Jamaican – is allowed in parliament. “If I have to stop you again during your presentation, you will not get any additional time,” Holness told Burchell as parliament erupted into protest, with someone chiding “broken English”.

#Patwa #Jamaican #LanguagePolitics

[cf. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73609 ]

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

#Wine #Gaming

(of course, these will downstream to Steam's #Proton &c.)

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating - #Microsoft plan to fix #Windows 11 is gas-lighting

[HN. disc. ]

Microsoft just announced a 7-point plan to fix Windows 11, and the tech press is treating it like a redemption arc. Pavan Davuluri, the Windows president, admitted in January 2026 that "Windows 11 had gone off track"
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this "fix" announcement only makes sense when you see the full damage list and realize that the worst offenses aren't even part of the repair plan...
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The Copilot invasion started September 26, 2023, when Microsoft pushed their AI chatbot into Windows 11 ahead of the formal 23H2 release. The icon appeared between your Start menu and system tray, you couldn't move it, you couldn't remove it through normal settings, and it hijacked the Win+C keyboard shortcut....
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On April 24, 2024, Microsoft shipped update KB5036980, which injected advertisements into the Windows 11 Start menu's "Recommended" section. These showed up labeled "Promoted" and pushed apps like Opera browser and some password manager nobody asked for. And the Start menu was just one surface, they also placed ads on the lock screen, in the Settings homepage hawking Game Pass subscriptions, inside File Explorer pushing OneDrive, and through "tip" notifications that were thinly veiled product pitches. The "fix" promises "fewer ads." Fewer.
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The privacy angle is where this gets dangerous. When Windows 11 launched in October 2021, Home edition required a Microsoft account during setup. By October 2025, Microsoft had systematically hunted down and killed every single workaround for creating a local account, the oobe\bypassnro command, the BypassNRO registry toggle, the ms-cxh:localonly trick, even the old fake email method. Amanda Langowski from Microsoft stated it plainly: they were "removing known mechanisms for creating a local account in the Windows Setup experience."
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....right now, Microsoft is about to force 240 million PCs into the landfill. Windows 10 hit end of life on October 14, 2025, and Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, specific CPU generations, UEFI Secure Boot, hardware requirements that excluded roughly 20% of all PCs worldwide. Perfectly functional machines, rendered "obsolete" by arbitrary software restrictions. If you want to keep getting security patches on Windows 10, Microsoft will charge you $30 per year, paying for patches to an operating system you already bought a license for. Enterprise customers pay $61 per device for Year 1, $122 for Year 2, and $244 for Year 3, with the price doubling each year.
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Windows 11 Home and Pro, you cannot fully disable telemetry. Setting AllowTelemetry to 0 in the registry on non-Enterprise editions gets silently overridden back to 1. Only Enterprise and Education editions can actually turn it off. The operating system you paid for reports data about you to Microsoft, and the setting to stop it is a lie on consumer editions. Also not in the fix plan.
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/executive-dysfunction/ - Doctorow on blowtorching the frog, Ukraine, Twitter, Bluesky

good article by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic@mamot.fr ) on using #RSS and generally making the web bearable (with some historical context)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/

(And I indeed read Doctorow's blog post on using RSS via my rss backend #Miniflux, using the wonderful Capyreader app (@_jocmp@mastodon.social ) as the frontends on Android/GrapheneOS - and indeed on a black background with white text in a pleasant font (Vollkorn - http://vollkorn-typeface.com/ - one of Capyreader's built in options).

#Irish in #Jamaica:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72972

...the linguistic history is more complicated, as the Guardian article explains:

For Hubert Devonish, professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of the West Indies, the popular narrative needs careful correction. “There are four main sources of English from the British Isles that potentially affected Jamaican speech,” he says, pointing to the speech of indentured servants in St Kitts and Barbados in the period before the English captured Jamaica in 1655; that of indentured servants from south-west England and from Monmouthshire in the 17th century; and the later recruitment of Scots overseers.

He says: “There is no record of significant numbers of Irish coming to Jamaica in these formative periods that I know of.”

The linguistic evidence, he adds, “points to a concentration of regional features from Somersetshire, East Anglia and Monmouthshire, in that order”. […]

With that said, Devonish does not deny that similarities can be heard. “The features Jamaicans pick up as similar are vowels, notably that in ‘cake’, the vowel in ‘cut’ and sentence intonation, with sentence endings not having the falling pitch normal in other varieties of English,” he says.

The more intriguing question, he suggests, is why these comparisons resurface so powerfully. “One version of the Jamaican mythology is that of ‘out of many, one’, and a disproportionate desire to connect with the European part of their heritage,” he says. […]

From Bruce Schneier: "All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:

I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission….

Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled.

Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say “this is not satire.” For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.

These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

#LLM #Veracity