l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
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software licensing
Just spotted some blurb on the net and it made me cringe in pain.
> Some people, when they first encounter REUSE, run into a couple of things that are very different from what they are used to. They miss the long legal blurbs at the tops of files, miss the COPYING/LICENSE file in the root of the repository, think that .license files clutter the directory, or find it very strange that even insignificant non-code files get licensing headers.
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And they are fucking right! Software licensing^W lawyering is bullshit and basically a cancer.
My retirement plan is entering postsingularity before running out of funds 
I've heard that Australian media magnates are wild, but this is quite something.
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We don't wish to ruin our own surprise anniversary party, but we'd like to share that we celebrate 30 years of Debian on August 17 of this year. Join us! Plenty of Cheese and Cake to be had. :) Organize your very own Debian Day! https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2023 #debian #debianday
Fragile Allegiance
Tone Rebellion
Age of Wonders
Children of the dead Earth
DikuMUD
Atlantis PBEM
Shenzhen I/O
Like share subscribe and stand on your head
I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
Lean over the feed and go offline
All of you are dead. I am alive.
Finally, the language that wins a majority of the vote in every head-to-head comparison against each of the other languages – that is, a language preferred by more people than any others!
Shoutout to Squiggle, where you can get a reasonable guesstimate for a composite outcome (deadline, cost, etc.) while having slept through your Stat-101 classes.
(1) If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
(2) The mean time to complete a task we know nothing about is actually infinite.
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Could I promise the spacecraft wouldn't eat an airline meal?
Or should I promise I would eat TWO meals, to make it look like a human was in that seat?
Could I declare the model an emotional support spacecraft?
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I've curated a timeline of hardware architectures for functional programming languages. From the foundations of Church and Curry, to modern programmable hardware 100 years later.
Best viewed on a desktop or laptop.
As part of the EPSRC HAFLANG project.
Behold, a $7700 230W Fibonacci¹ accelerator²
¹: And the other functional³ programs.
²: According to https://haflang.github.io/about.html
³: I.e. using graph reduction evaluation
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uh were any of you people who signed up to #threads actually paying attention to the onboarding flow?
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internet meta
Sorry I keep meta posting today and this is kind of a repeat of what I posted a week or two ago about Twitter and Reddit:
It doesn't matter if you have another website to go to. These sites will die.
If you are on Twitter and don't like the alternatives? Twitter dies anyway.
If you are on Reddit and don't like the alternatives? Reddit dies anyway.
If you are on Cohost and don't like the alternatives? Cohost dies anyway.
This is about money, people. These are businesses. And they're businesses all in financial peril. You could have NO other website to go to, NO alternatives, and they'd still die.
So telling me "well I don't see you offering any better options!" doesn't matter! Sometimes there aren't even better options! It still dies whether you like that or not! You don't need another website you like to go to for Twitter to die because Elon is trying his damnedest to crash it into the ground. It dies no matter what. It dies whether you want it to die or not. How much you like it doesn't matter. How much you don't like being on other sites doesn't matter. It's a business. It dies when they pull the plug. And that's usually related to whether or not it's making money.
Fedi isn't immune to this either, if my admins say tomorrow "we're done paying for this, it costs too much, we're done", I can't say "well I don't see you providing me somewhere else to go!" Doesn't matter! They don't have to offer you a replacement to turn the switch off! But it's a much larger issue with social media run by companies, because companies can only pay employees if they can afford it.
This isn't the same as saying that you can't be upset about it. You can be upset that you don't have anywhere else to go. You can be upset that you liked the site you were on. But upset or not doesn't have any bearing on "will this site survive". I don't have to offer you a solution to where you go from Cohost or Twitter or Reddit to tell you that they won't survive. I am not responsible for fixing that problem, in fact I don't think anyone can fix that problem. I can't make them not run at a loss forever, I think it's not financially feasible in the first place and the only thing that can happen is they die. It's absurd to say I can't point this out because I'm not offering you a new website to use that makes you happy.
TLDR: "You have none of it."
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@cwebber Seems like every private platform is trying to one-up each other on just how enshittified they can be. I'm glad I have a safe place here to watch it all from.
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Periodic reminder:
Marginalized people don't owe you shit.
Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.
Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.
Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.
Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.
Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.
Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.
We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.
If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
