R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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Bring blogging back! ✊
Microblogging was designed to be ephemeral purely out of capitalist interests. We need a more permanent solution to share it thoughts, and link people to them.
I see the same points shared in here over and over. Whether they're about racism, or open source, or walled gardens, or capitalism, people keep repeating them because this place has no capability for history.
We're trying to decide the future of the internet but it's as if we had lost the ability to write. Without a permanent medium, there is no history. We're days away from becoming the online version of Göbekli Tepe.
I recall reading an old cyberpunk comic about a city where they replaced dates with "N years ago", and this was by design. Without history, people can easily lose their collective identity, which can easily be replaced by the current day's fads. This is what happened to Twitter. A ban and boom, all your post history is gone. And here we inherit the design faults of that platform. We are writing on the sand, on the dunes of short-lived server caches.
We need to claim our voices back and have permanent, calendared, searchable places to share our written thoughts. Even with activityPub, even with democratized moderation protocols, microblogging won't cut it.
We need to resurrect the blog.
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@derickflorian Unit testing is very worthwhile. Even if you don't use a formal testing framework in C, you can still code methods just for testing your code and use a #define to change the flow of your code to invoke your test functionality.
#define UNITTEST
#ifdef UNITTEST
void assertEqual(...)
{
...
}
main(..) /* unit test main */
{
assertEqual(10,foo());
...
main(...) /* real main */
{
...
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Okay, so holy crap: earlier today @permagriculture recommended this browser extension for Mastodon, and IT IS A GAME CHANGER: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation
One of the more annoying things on Mastodon is if you end up on a page on a different server.
This solves that!
It's fantastic.
I know that some people hate browser extensions, but if you're cool with them, check it out.
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Jack (yes, *that* jack)
This "Why?" is sublime. Just zero self-awareness. Chef's kiss
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"You think twitter should be destroyed for depreciating rss? Who is rss? Are they still ... deprecated now?"
This was a conversation I had maybe 5 years ago, when twitter stopped serving tweets as rss breaking all of my cool electronic devices that pulled text from the internet.
No one understood what the heck I was so mad about. And leaving twitter over it was even more absurd to them.
I'm trying to learn from that uh... failure of communication.
(I'm still mad about the rss)
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beyond "link tax" is "banned for linking" https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817?s=19
What authoritarian governments sometimes dream of-- the BigPublishers are doing.
I think I am in violation-- we will see when it comes.
lets go "protocol not platform"
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@wxheather Buried in the garden? Thrown onto the roof? Taken out with the garbage? Forgotten at a friend's house? Stolen by a "friend"? Gifted to the dog?
@deshipu also, all the foams I know of are denser than air.
@deshipu there are solid foams that would be lighter than air with the air removed now?
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Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.
h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit
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Talk on Zero-cost deserialization in #Rust, by @manishearth
> ICU4X has [gone] all-in on zero-copy deserialization, a technique that ensures that data loading involves fast validation as opposed to slow allocation. To help with this, we have built a suite of crates (yoke, zerovec, zerofrom, and databake) that make zero-copy deserialization easier to work with and more broadly applicable.
re: dating
@enkiv2 Is great to have a diagnosis of what happened in cases like this. So rare.
Wow, is the end of zero covid policy.
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Gotta love open source. I started using an open source code forge called gogs several years ago for personal projects.
Not too long ago it feels.. gitea forked off of it. I believe due to gitea maintainers being unwilling to work with people.
Gitea then went through some big backlash due to deceptive practices of transferring things built by a community to a for profit.
So community forked... and seems @forgejo is now the latest incantation.
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Lisp: 
these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.
Lua:
i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehow
Erlang:
have they found out i run the internet yet
Rust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]
these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.Lua:
i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehowErlang:
have they found out i run the internet yetRust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]
dating
@enkiv2 Is difficult choosing a course of action under uncertainty. Feigning certainty simplifies the cognitive exercise but produces worse decisions. Is an inherent part of human interaction, uncertainty, but especially early stages of romance (as you point out: "intentionally ambiguous"). Is one reason I do not like online dating: multiplies uncertainty, causing cognitive overload.
@enkiv2 look forward to it. send you hugs.
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I've just transliterated another function (without pulling in a dependency on any particular graphics library, dependency injection) from FcFt (https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fcft) into my FontConfig language bindings.
So now it knows to retrieve & render glyphs from a font for a given index. Compiles successfully, none of this is tested yet. I need more infrastructure for that.
So if there's any other functions I want to transliterate Saturday...
https://git.adrian.geek.nz/fontconfig-pure.git/tree/FreeType/FontConfig.hs
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
