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Long read. Fantastic perspectives on programming, software, architecture, teams, computing ... in a Q&A from Forth land
forth2020.org/about-forth

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Erlang achieves Dan Ingalls' Smalltalk goals 

Choice in software systems design seems hampered by the scaffolding needed to use shared memory and message passing between threads and processes. Dan Ingalls: "An OS has the things not there in the language. There shouldn't be one.". It was about but the VM seems to solve that, with shared binaries between processes and transparent message-passing across nodes. Maybe your language and database should run on the ?

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Greetings, people! I am a software developer. Outside of work, I use free/libre software almost exclusively. I am pained that we continue to allow nature and community to get degraded by crony individualism. We can do much better, e.g. the voluntary refugee concept.

I have been chuffed with the almost all of the time I have been on it. There is plenty of food for thought in many a toot out there. I am having to move off @wyatwerp now, and really happy to find a Fediverse instance that ... uh ... federates.

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Alex Schroeder

Scheme man pages? Yes!

https://github.com/schemedoc/manpages

The abundance of man pages is one of the reasons Perl is great. All the packages also serve as man pages!

I miss this aspect in all other programming languages.

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@_elena Personally, I would honestly rather see public institutions offering a variety of ways to access what they publish.

Including easily located full-text RSS feeds through platforms they control. (Minimal third parties in between them and the people who want to access the information.)

And yes, Fediverse and their own web sites.

@aral

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Elena Brescacin

@Amorpheus @aral @_elena @vicfroh About paywalls I'm giving subscriptions systems more possibilities. We must think of it. Writing or creating videos genuinely, cost. So paywalls are a way to work. Then, yes, if you have a clickbait or misunderstandable/false abstract to force you to pay, that's called scam

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Aral Balkan

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms.

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Paco Hope

@clemensprill Wouldn't that be nice? This person has done exactly what the business has asked them to do. By telling them that LLM-generated code is bad, I am doing what company does not want done. I'm the bad guy here.

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adb

#iran #us #israel #iranwar #ukraine #religion #war #usa

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aoei 21, Fool

@cwebber just to throw a fun little counterpoint as devil's advocate: humans are also story machines.

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Yeah, OK, we're more than just that, but it's an interesting thought. See also Zombies (philosophy).

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solastalgia kris

@cwebber

At long last! We have created Skynet from classic sci-fi movie franchise Don't Create Skynet

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"

@NicksWorld @Sarahw

If it were me I'd rather have a planet with oxygen and water to live on but hey you do you, sparky.

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Paolo Amoroso

Caroline Crampton on what it is like to manage and read almost 2,000 RSS feeds.

Somehow, still using RSS, which is a beautifully simple bit of tech from the early days of the web, makes you part of a community of like-minded strangers.

carolinecrampton.com/the-view-

#rss #blogs

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scy

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

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John Regehr

today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

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Mess around Marx

I'd like to propose here that we stop to say "America" when we mean the US.
#America is a great #continent, rich and manifold with excellent people of diverse cultures and a history that proceeds the #US for millennia. We should not confuse this with a terrifying #empire which is spreading #fascism and plunging the whole #planet into a nightmare horror scenario.
#StopSayingAmericaForUS #USempire

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Rachel Rawlings

@jenniferplusplus @zeank There will not be a tourism benefit for far future generations wanting to see data centers.

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Jenniferplusplus

That's part of what makes a capital strike non-obvious, if you don't already know what it looks like. It's not just sitting on the money and refusing to spend it. Because that's the one thing you literally can't do with capital. If you leave those resources idle, especially labor, it just goes and does its own thing. You lose control over it. If you just fire everyone, they eventually start working for themselves.

So, to conduct a capital strike, you have to direct the capital toward useless things. Or actually destructive things, if you can manage it.

And thus, AI had "basically zero" effect on the GDP. Because it's economically worthless activity for the purpose of keeping all the resources occupied so they can't be put to any other use.

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦

@jeridansky @sophiekaz Also worth mentioning delta.chat which is decentralized.

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Brie Mmm
@adbenitez It's just the systemd crowd reinventing the wheel, as usual.
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Florke×64 🏴‍☠️

@adbenitez Debian is stable. But KDE isn't. And no, that didn't change much after Plasma 6...

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@sandstorm doesn't nlnet.nl/fediversity/ look like they are re-inventing ?

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Begasus

Haiku has been accepted in the GSoC projects, read all about it at the following links!

haiku-os.org/community/gsoc

haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/20

haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/20

haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/20

Grab your gears students and head up there, for questions there is our IRC channel at #oftc #haiku, or the forum at:

discuss.haiku-os.org/

#HaikuOS #GSoC #development #opensource #FOSS #ilovefs

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