Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
Ehm... @ekaitz_zarraga...
How can I say this properly?
You are cool! 😉
So far this
https://github.com/JehanneOS/devtools/blob/b773016f92d370239b5b2b67bf2cceb9bdfc4e72/src_chibi/ksyscalls.scm
is much more readable than this https://github.com/JehanneOS/devtools/blob/b773016f92d370239b5b2b67bf2cceb9bdfc4e72/src/jehanne/cmd/ksyscalls/ksyscalls.go
Very nice work.
I think this deserve an #English translation.
Shamar
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RT @Loptr_agond1@birdsite.link
Petit rappel :
Very interesting.
I need to think about this.
Meta: I really think you should write something about this.
Not sure if I understood what you mean, actually. 😕
But, to be clear, I think that we should move beyond this dichotomy.
#WorseIsBetter is collapsing anyway due to the curse of #Frankenstein.
But the future won't be "the right thing".
The future will be #simplicity.
Simplex sigillum veri.
http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html#the-curse-of-frankenstein
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@Shamar With programming, you're creating for a machine that is (theoretically) predictable. Computers are purely intellectual.
With writing, you are creating for an unpredictable reader. You have to simultaneously target several layers of the reader's mind and personality, on multiple fronts, because not all readers have all of your context. You're attempting to evoke an intellectual *and* emotional reaction.
I didn't make a living until I abandoned "programming is writing."
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My #freedombox got here all the way from Bulgaria ! Huzzah I’m excited to start setting it up.
ROTFL! https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.whatsmyip.org/
Btw, actually my website show similar results: https://webtest.app/?url=http://www.tesio.it
Actually that's reasonable: since #uBlockOrigin is a plug-in, it adds an overhead.
I'm starting to think that self containment of #Web sites is a mark of professionalism.
The fact that you have to write more #JavaScript to make your #SPA more accessible doesn't mean that #JS is an accessibility tool, but that #browsers have removed or downplayed #Accessibility.
Think about it: you need to do more work to do something that should work by default.
The fact is that browsers' vendors like #Google, and #Google (who back #Mozilla and control #WHATWG) don't REALLY care about blind and visually impaired #people. At best, they care about their #data.
If you spend, you deserve to exist.
> JS is mature technology, with good sandboxing.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081#c16
> JS ain't going nowhere.
Yeah!
Like the divine right of #Kings!
And what about the #Pharaoh?
I'm amused (not) about the total lack of historical perspective of so many #US programmers.
Guys, if you can't see how primitive is our discipline, you'll always be a good, nice and clean #slave.
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I recently got a message from a webmaster who had no idea their website got their visitors' web browsers to run third-party Javascript from Goggle domains. This is how out of control JS has got. It's time for browser makers to make JS opt-in, so that people who serve it have to justify what it does and why users ought to let it run on their computers. Like they've done with addons, after all JS is just any uglier hack for temporarily adding code to the browser.
#MakeJavascriptOptional
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Today I created a test word document with a macro that tries to reverse connect out to a C2 server controlled by me. The idea was to use it to test our firewall's capability to inspect protocols on certain ports.
I was positive that this would fail, but provide us good data for designing alerts.
It did not fail. Full reverse shell with very little indication on our firewalls.
Guess what I'm doing tomorrow? 😓
I'm not a writer (poetry count? and blogging?) so maybe you are right.
But maybe you are confusing coding and programming.
When you code, you encode something that is known into a certain language.
When you program, you explore a problem to build a solution. With my operating system I've had periods of "writer block". Programming is a deeply creative process.
Shamar
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This morning I want to briefly describe Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). Which suggests that if you model your data correctly you can fairly easily implement collaborative editting without involving a centralized server, no matter frequently or infrequently the updates arrive.
I don't know of any practical applications of this technology, but Google did use it's more complicated predecessor "Operational Transforms" in Docs & the late Wave. Please tell me I'm wrong though!
Joined May 2019
