Sam Lavigne @sam@everything.happens.horse

Screenshot dump November 2022! https://lav.io/notes/screenshot-dump-nov-2022/

do people have multiple mastodon accounts? just realized I have another one on mastodon.social and not sure if I should merge it here or just leave it alone...

thank you to sysadmin @ingrid for successfully updating the everything.happens.horse server!

Going as spooky Jeff Bezos for Halloween

Just dropping by to post about my twitter haters

I have just learned that "Until the 1980s, both the Patent Office and the courts resisted the patenting of software programs, primarily on the ground that they constituted “mathematical algorithms” and thus unpatentable “phenomena of nature.”

YES, when I make a website it is in fact a phenomenon of nature!

I made some updates recently to my p5.vscode extension - adding some new p5 contributed libraries and fixed a long standing bug that would break auto-complete. More to come soon!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=samplavigne.p5-vscode

anyway, what a terrible week!

Figure 29 illustrates the vanished status of the workman

Figure 13 schematically illustrates a vast association of the whole nation

Figure 10 schematically illustrates the French criticism of the bourgeois State

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the first conditions for emancipation

Figure 3 schematically illustrates a certain stage in the development

Years ago I made this text generator that transformed the Communist Manifesto into a patent application: "Figure 1 is an isometric view of the progressive historical development of the proletariat", and so on. Out of curiosity I ran some of the text through dalle - it's pretty much nonsense but sort of fun:

On real deepfakes, fake deepfakes, cameo, and my new project "APD Decruitment":

https://lav.io/notes/deep-fakes-real-deeps-fake-reals/

this is such a useful website for understanding the command line!

https://explainshell.com/

Here's a write-up about using Videogrep as a Python module, and integrating it with spaCy to do stuff like pattern matching: https://lav.io/notes/videogrep-and-spacy/

integrating spacy pattern matching into videogrep to search for things like "adjective+noun" combos... https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep/blob/master/examples/pattern_matcher.py

Love living in the Tim Hortons surveillance regime! https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2022/nr-c_220601/

What mobile mastodon client are people using?