Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@qoto.org

@peterdrake
I agree in general with your sentiment.
Except for one thing:

> 'Saying it's up to individual users to block things they don't want to see feels a bit privileged.'

We don't mind other instances blocking other instances. The problem is that the toxic ones do so for the wrong reasons. Like blocking others because they don't block the same instances as they do, and then trying to convince other instances to block the same.

If one instance wants to block half the Fediverse, that's up to them. Totally. They can be a walled garden for all I care. But then to spread their blocklist and say 'this is the one true safe blocklist' seems ... well, they basically become the very people they hate.

@freemo @Gargron @stux @QOTO

What can we do to work towards a much more diverse and anti-racist Mastodon? https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

introducing lispPackagesLite: Common Lisp in pure Nix, no Quicklisp. I need help with makeScope.

https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

#lisp #nixos #programming

I added an extra server to the #QOTO cloud. This should speed up our services, in particular gitlab and discourse were using up too much cpu, but now they are fine. Those services should run much smoother now.

禁断の果実。Forbidden fruit. #followfriday #apple #photography

Are their any fellow YNAB users out there in Mastodon-land?

#ynab

Haven't usef the language, I find the language nice, but the amount of effort to avoid calling things by their names and all the work to invent new syntax to work with #monads dissapoints me. Let's see what this all evolves into.

v0.25 - Introducing use expressions! – Gleam
https://gleam.run/news/v0.25-introducing-use-expressions/

#erlang #beamVm #gleam #gleamlang #fp #plt #programming #programmingLanguages #functionalProgramming

As a Sunday side-project, I'm going to start following this tutorial on making a roguelike game with Rust and Specs 💫

I've always wanted to learn more about Rust, ECS and Roguelike-dev, so this tutorial is a perfect combination! I'll try to slowly finish it and let you know about the results weekly 🤓

On this day of the Fall Harvest Feast in the US, I'll share one of my highlights of the year: Grand Entry at the 41st Annual Kamloopa Pow Wow, hosted by the Secwepemc people of the Tk’emlúps Nation, by the site of the Kamloops Residential School where 215 unmarked graves were discovered last year. The pow wow came back after 3 years off, with 20,000 visitors and 1,500 dancers over 3 magical days. #Powwow #FirstNations #Indigenous #BIPOC #BC #Canada

@derickflorian You might also be interested in this: https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/6-thanksgiving-myths-share-them-with-someone-you-know and https://indiancountrytoday.com/tag/thanksgiving

There is no Thanksgiving without farm workers. Thank you & Solidarity!

It's ripe for abuse. The intention is good, but there's no way to shield it from abuse and money.

Check the thread, some even suggested:
1. a scoring system for accounts (a.k.a. China's National Social Credit system) (federated or local)
2. labels (federated or local)
3. If a server doesn't block a user, the server should defederate, or the other admins will block the entire server
4. Algorithms

Etc.