Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@llewelly @zygoon

Grady Booch proposes continuous integration in 1991
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration#History

Last US nuclear test, 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_nuclear_weapons_tests

Coincidence? That’s what they want you to think

@andrewrk where's the "unsafe" keyword in Fil-C, how am I supposed to get anything done?

SE Radio 650: Robert Seacord on What’s New in the C Programming Language
se-radio.net

https://se-radio.net/2025/01/se-radio-650-robert-seacord-on-whats-new-in-the-c-programming-language/

Have a listen!

I was closing browser tabs and kept hitting Ctrl W to do it. As the last one closed I realized that it contained an unsaved form. Oh no! I restarted Firefox and it came up with an empty tab. But the data wasn't lost because I could use Ctrl Shift T to bring up the last closed Tab and there was my form with all the data in it. Amazing. And I don't have a form saving extension installed.

So… taking a text under copyright and using it to populate a simple Markov Chain and using that to generate gibberish is … infringing copyright? Ethically dubious? None of the above? Asking for a friend.

@jwz @glyph if only people had responded to RMS's cry for help at the time...

@glyph I wouldn't say we're intensely adversarial, but we certainly refused to remove packages that are for use with nonfree software.

@glyph "get out of Emacs" - why on earth would any sane person ever want to do such a thing?

@wegegeld @jwz In defense of this planet's youth I would like to point out, that this planet's major fuckups are designed, engineered and executed by #MyGeneration especially those that identify as "old white men". I have no problem to concede that the young ones can be annoying as hell but they are not the ones in charge.

Can't wait for the next AI winter.

I just love how we've now spent far more computational resources on generating funny pictures and spitting out flawed code than was ever spent on running formal verfication and exhaustive testing on important software because it was thought to be "too expensive".

All these "simple" protocol definitions that aren't "simple" but are instead "underdefined to an extent that prevents effective interop in anything but the simplest of cases". If a protocol spec (or language spec!) doesn't look exasperatingly pedantic, the kind of thing a monomaniac would write, then it's probably shitty

The internet is a distributed, resilient network that runs entirely on Jeff Bezos’ laptop