Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

I have an irrational affection for the mail drop slots by the elevator banks in old buildings that drop all the way to the basement mailroom. A reminder of another time.

Massive news for #Haskell, its main compiler #GHC will soon have the option to compile to #JavaScript!

This was previously only possible by using GHCJS which was a fork of GHC, a couple of versions behind GHC in features, etc.

https://engineering.iog.io/2022-12-13-ghc-js-backend-merged/ (https://nest.jakl.one/notes/2022-12-14-vnjvp/)

#Security truths

Man, why do I feel like shit?
*sees empty Tupperware container that used to hold 2 dozen holiday sugar cookies*
No, like, what’s really the reason
*sees sleep data on phone indicating weird sleep pattern from eating mostly cookies for the last week*
It’s a complete mystery

Ooo my Mastodon timeline got a lot better after I followed a bunch of hashtags. 🤔✅

I’m going to rebrand “procrastination” as “just-in-time personal obligation logistics”

Possible things to call a group of Mastodon users:

- Mastadonians
- Fedi-heads
- eHerd
- Tusken Raiders
- Pack 'O Derms
- Mast Movement
- Tooters
- Macedonians
- You guys

If you want to shut down AI art, tell it to draw Disney characters in Disney styles.

Might not work, but Disney lawyers vs. Silicon Valley lawyers is a fight where someone you despise loses either way.

Proposal: if you need to cite something on the fowl place, use archive.org rather than direct link. It serves three purposes: avoiding driving traffic and engagement to the original, future proofing against user deleting their account, and future proofing against complete collapse of the platform.

Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)

Someone really needs to build some sort of logarithmic volume filter into linux... a way to keep the normal volume scenes loud enough to hear but reduce the volume on the loud scenes. This way you can listen to a movie in the middle of the night and not annoy your neighbors and not need to keep lowering it everytime an action scene hits.... how is this not a thing already!

@pollak @mindstalk @spfannenschmidt Similar symptoms between the flu or covid will cause people to want to know what exactly they have. Years past I didn’t get tested as I just assumed it was the flu but now I’ll get tested to verify. I’m sure others out there are thinking the same, which results in increased testing.

This makes me wanna get a unicorn....

... and hug Marcia Maeda, the director of the L.A. County Animal Care & Control 🫶

source: https://post.news/article/2Iikz5i0LhMN3KPD0Ql5lDx4S0e

Weekly summary report:

Monday = Dumpster fire express, how may I fuck you?

Tuesday = controlled fuckery dept, how many are dead?

Wednesday = Fuck-around-and find-out line 3, which way you wanna go?

Thursday/tonight - controlled chaos command center, what it do?

Friday = my one day off.

I'm curious if there is any sense of whether #mastodon has or is developing a generational identity?

Anecdotal or data-driven takes welcome, but as a start, indicate your #generation below and boost. Discussion of the assumptions behind this welcomed!

(I had to lump older generations in with boomers because evidently surveys are limited to four choices.) #generation #GenX #genz #millenials #Boomers

A Book Acknowledgment