Human folly for 02015-11-06

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• When software offends the pantyshot package controversy (zdnet.com):

  The author of libupskirt, who was a woman who spoke English as a foreign language, quit #free-software development (temporarily?) because of #language-policing.

• Gsbode (jagger.berkeley.edu):

  #pdf #paper of Gunter Stein’s Bode Lecture on #cybernetics and in particular on unstable control, citing the X-29 and Chernobyl as examples.

• P (dspace.mit.edu):

  #pdf #paper on #cybernetics, “Design of Feedback Control Systems for Unstable Plants with Saturating Actuators”, from 1988.

• Control theory (en.wikipedia.org):

  Previously known as "Cybernetics".

• More welfare or more weekend (intergalacticproletarian.blogspot.com.ar):

  a summary of #basic-income happenings up to 2015-11.

• Rawcode (lobste.rs):

  commentary on a shell-oriented pastebin site called “rawcode.io”.

• Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the National interests Obama (ctvnews.ca):

  #Obama rejects #Keystone-XL #oil #energy pipeline to save the #environment. The Republicans are all in favor.

• Tinycode (reddit.com):

  #smallisbeautiful code.

• Nanochess (github.com):

  #smallisbeautiful chess in 400 bytes of machine code.

• Small chess program bootchess nanochess (kernelmag.dailydot.com):

  different #smallisbeautiful programs from Olivier Poudade and Oscar Toledo.

• Cwf6J08 (reddit.com):

  interview with the pro-#gamergate head honcho #Yiannopoulos shows he’s a fake gamer

• La sorprendente Familia Toledo (unocero.com):

  the Familia Toledo.