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June 9, again ** 3 FreedomFlotilla.mp4 deadman's switch video from activists on "Madleen" ship.
June 9, again again - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKqZI6roHfj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
June 9, again - an example of what can be done with a link to prepopulate an email.
Email governments whose citizens have been kidnapped in international waters!
This link generated at https://www.sender.net/mailto-link-generator/.
June 9 - testing creating a link that prepopulates an email for a visitor to this web site when they clink on the link.
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June 7 - sad to see that Bill Atkinson, a great hero of developing the software that made
the original Mac work, has died. This quote is on top of the Hacker News thread:
From Walter Isaacson's _Steve Jobs_:
> One of Bill Atkinson’s amazing feats (which we are so accustomed to nowadays
that we rarely marvel at it) was to allow the windows on a screen to overlap so
that the “top” one clipped into the ones “below” it. Atkinson made it possible to
move these windows around, just like shuffling papers on a desk, with those below
becoming visible or hidden as you moved the top ones. Of course, on a computer screen
there are no layers of pixels underneath the pixels that you see, so there are no
windows actually lurking underneath the ones that appear to be on top. To create
the illusion of overlapping windows requires complex coding that involves what
are called “regions.” Atkinson pushed himself to make this trick work because
he thought he had seen this capability during his visit to Xerox PARC. In fact
the folks at PARC had never accomplished it, and they later told him they were
amazed that he had done so. “I got a feeling for the empowering aspect of naïveté”,
Atkinson said. “Because I didn’t know it couldn’t be done, I was enabled to do it.”
He was working so hard that one morning, in a daze, he drove his Corvette into a
parked truck and nearly killed himself. Jobs immediately drove to the hospital
to see him. “We were pretty worried about you”, he said when Atkinson regained
consciousness. Atkinson gave him a pained smile and replied, “Don’t worry,
I still remember regions.”
He made this happen on a 128_K_ machine at 1984 speed-in assembly language. "the empowering aspect of naïveté".
June 2 - a new month! Don't have any pithy words of wisdom rn though.....