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

Half of web users are running ad blockers.

With your support and help, we can get that number higher.

My favourite thing about C/C++:

Given foo(int x)

Did you know all of the following will decay into an int without a cast?

foo('a');
foo(42);
foo(3.5);
foo(true);
enum { a, b, c }; foo(a);

@nova my companion team is hiring a #kubernetes engineer. The broader team is really cool plus people get to hang out with me which I think is neat

https://jobs.zendesk.com/i/us/en/job/R21903/Senior-Software-Engineer-Compute-Platform

So in my sparetime I have been writing this open-source game, a mmorpg called a MUD (no graphics in the typical sense, all ncurses based).

Anyway, I never would have thought the most complicated part of writing the game engine would have possibly been the handling of pronouns! The number of variations you have to consider is astounding when you really try to catalog all the different types.

I think I finally got them all covered though.

#Ruby #MMORPG #Game #Games #GameDev #Aethyr #Programming #MUD #MUDs #Development #GameDevelopment

@derickflorian I'd send you some bitcoin to cover it, but I seem to have lost my wallet...

@derickflorian
Can't beat a cup of tea and a slice of cake. 🍵🍰

@trinsec @derickflorian (Don't want to intrude but have to recommend rooibos/red bush tea and fynbos honey.)

@derickflorian I absolutely love me some acacia honey in my teas. So much so that I just can't stand the default flower honey anymore, heh.

In fact, I'll go make me a simple ceylon tea now with lots of the good acacia-y stuff.

Oregon’s treasurer wants $90B pension fund to drop fossil fuels

https://www.klcc.org/environment/2022-11-16/oregons-treasurer-wants-90b-pension-fund-to-drop-fossil-fuels

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #climate #Oregon #USA #US #COP27

The reception to Vivaldi Social has been unreal. So many people of different nationalities and groups. We're overjoyed to have you all here!

The Japanese community seems to have been especially quick to join us here. ようこそ、参加ありがとう！

To show everyone how cool Vivaldi users from Japan are, we'd like to share with you a story about Popogami Po and his marvelous set up for a keyboard only Vivaldi Browser experience!

https://vivaldi.com/blog/power-user-popogami-po-chooses-vivaldi-for-keyboard-only-browsing-and-more/

TVA aims to build 100MW solar installation on retired coal site in Kentucky


Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a $216 million program to ex...
Article Source: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/11/14/tva-aims-to-build-100mw-solar-installation-on-retired-coal-site-in-kentucky/

#installations, #policy, #pv, #coal, #markets, #scale, #utility

Using a Raspberry Pi Pico and a
Pimoroni RGB Keypad base as a 16-way MIDI channel mute switch.

#RaspberryPiPico #MIDI #Pimoroni #Keypad
@Raspberry_Pi

https://diyelectromusic.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/raspberry-pi-pico-midi-channel-muter/

This toot thing is pretty cool. I installed it with

```sh
pip3 install toot
```

It doesn't seem to handle Markdown formatting well, it takes 3-7 seconds for `toot timeline` or `toot notifications`, and it inserts newlines into media URLs when it displays them (but it does display them).

And although it is *mostly* CLI-controlled, it does occasionally have uncontrollable fits of interactivity, like in `toot timeline`:

```
Continue? [Y/n]
```

So it isn't the instantaneous responsivity you might hope for from a CLI app. But it does work and you can presumably run it easily from an arbitrary cloud VM over ssh.

https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-infosec-mastodon-without-bypassing-csp

Worth a read if you run a Mastodon install

Okay, #Introduction time!
I am a just over one-year-old broken egg #TransWoman living in #SantaRosaCA
Over the years I have been many things but most enjoyed #Parenting #CityCouncil #Activism #Linux #HamRadio and so much more.
Technology has always fascinated me and I got my feet wet by building my first real computer, an 8088 with two 5.25" floppy drives. Later I would get involved with #Linux using #Slackware and kernel 0.89a.
I refuse to feel or act like I am expected to for my age as I feel like I have a new lease on life, especially after coming out.
#Activism has always been a part of my life as I participated in many political demonstrations while growing up in #SantaCruzCA including the walk-out protest of the Iraq war in 1991. My focus of late is advocating for #LGBTQIA and especially #TransRights. I made a bit of a splash in 2021 by calling out a bigot in #AberdeenWA, where I was living at the time. Google me!
I am also into #EDM and I #DJ as #DJEmBass and I hope to be spinning live very soon. Find out more about my #DjLife at https://www.djembass.com/.
I love #Photography and will definitely be posting pictures here as well as links to my blog site https://www.meskis.net/tiesa when I post just about anything.
Earlier this year I committed to writing a book and while I was #Writing that one, I started another on a completely different subject. The first is a #SciFi #Fantasy novel set on a moon with magickal secrets and gender-inclusive characters. The second is going to be a bit of an #Autobiography where I will be writing about my experience of #GrowingUpTrans.
There is a lot more to know about me and in a very un #Scorpio like manner I don't mind sharing a bit here and there, and I am excited to share a lot more here.
Now that you know more about me #TellMeAboutYourself

I want to put #slackware on my Laptop as second OS.
Decided to ditch the two Geoinformatics courses and go for NLP course instead. The geoinfo things both would have required me to install heavy-duty, insane GUI, lots of clickies, programs. I love looking at maps, but hell with that clickediclack. I like legible, understandable code, my brain works worse in GUI-fourth_submenu-world.

Btw: any opinions on #CleanLinux ?

Man, toot (cli) and @tut (tui) work together SO dadgum well.

I can be in the middle of writing a status in tut, then think, "Hey what was that username again, I want to tag them), then pop open a new terminal and type "toot search foo"

Just perfect. :)