Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@georgetakei I get so exhausted by people saying "First Amendment" when they mean "Freedom of speech" and completely ignoring that "Freedom of the Press" is the same amendment.

Fox is free to stop publishing someone's words. It's their press. It's their platform.

(And that's assuming one accepts Carlson's speech freedom is violated, when it's clearly not; he just posted up a reaction video to his firing this week).

@lauren My parents owned an incredibly spooky cat who had at least three secret places in the house.

One was in the top-corner of their closet; she'd get up there by making three rapid jumps, two from the shelves and one from the army of suit jackets my father owned (they were heavy enough that she could catch herself and rebound before they swung away).

One was a secret nook in the garage.

We never found the third one.

@debcha "Lace Card" is such a good hacker name. Gotta remember that one for a Cyberpunk / Shadowrun campaign.

@denny Sure does.

Every six seconds I get six more seconds.

@mimsical That's the beauty of the Internet:

... nobody knows you're a brain-damaged pre-adolescent dog on coke.

@3psboyd Said in the exact same tone of voice as "I should buy a boat?" ;)

... that having been said, I'm 100% in favor of porting every algorithm to Rust on principle alone, and the act of porting is always a good opportunity to discover new insights on how to optimize something (though I often trip over my own feet if I try to do the porting step and the optimization step at the same time...).

When you see `//clang-format off` in the codebase.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2-gM-WB59b1uNQ1n_T7XbpELLA9FgfWW

Google: "The problems introduced by macros are especially severe when they are used to define pieces of a C++ API... As a consequence, we specifically disallow using macros in this way."

Also Google: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/src/idl_gen_text.cpp#L223

@lauren @craigmaloney "It's been revoked!" ;)

@lauren Yeah, my reading of the tea leaves is that Fox became deeply concerned that something worse than "We have to admit we were wrong as part of the settlement" was waiting in the discovery phase (secret phone call with a Trump operative about how it would be super-cool and neat if they pushed a narrative that the voting machines were hacked because it'd really help Trump out and second-term President Trump would help them out, maybe?).

@urusan Charles Stross's "Accelerando"

In which I beat up React to dynamically control (and make interactive) pieces of a statically-rendered SVG image.

https://blog.fixermark.com/posts/2023/beating-up-react-for-fun/

@K3n_5s @SwiftOnSecurity

@Froggo There was, shortly before and during my lifetime, a sea-change in what was considered "acceptable dress" for a work environment.

... and a big part of that change came purely from the people who could build robots and program computers being the people who wore cat-ears and T-shirts, and when someone has a skill you don't, and you need them to do it for you, you just can't tell them what to wear while they're doing it.

@Teri_Kanefield And honestly, the fact that Fox also declared as part of the settlement that they made false statements is huge. For immediate practicality, we can now tell everyone who believes otherwise that we have from the horse's mouth that they were wrong. And in the meta-analysis: truth is always an affirmative defense, and the fact that they couldn't take that defense to court and expect to win means they were *really* wrong; there wasn't a rational framework in which their statements could be *construed* as true.

@urusan The human, in much the same way as a human accounting on an abacus or tracking tallies using a bag of rocks is who solved the problem.

... math is symbols and the manipulation of symbols. The symbols only have meaning in that humans assign it to them.

@wikipedia I think I've heard of this.

@caseynewton Cool, cool.

... so how do they plan to enforce that?

@MU_Peter When you swear an oath on Pale Blue Dot, Ann Druyan hunts you down if you break it.