Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
@alex tradition usually has a rooted reason behind it. Maybe somebody from there would know.
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My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.
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Have been handed a Windows 11 device for the first time after ~32 years using Apple devices.
May I just say: if this is how the majority of the world is treated by their computers, I don’t know why there haven’t been more Unabombers.
Trying to teach the native his history? Look up the Madras regiment of the Indian army, founded about 250 years ago. Natives of colonies fighting for the colonizer goes back atleast till the Boer war.
Why would you think anybody would volunteer to fight the colonizer's wars! So, the colonizer didn't force its subjects to fight for it, didn't redirect agriculture to its own ends, and so on? Yeah, lets take the colonizer's history as gospel, even if it flies in the face of common sense.
This is a quite extraordinary piece of misrepresentation.
Why would you even think natives of a colony would volunteer to fight for the colonizer!
The British banned martial arts training, demilitarizing an active populace. It then conscripted people, made them fight its wars, going back to the Boer war 250 years ago. Natives looked to the enemy's enemy.
And why would you think India needed grain, when it has traditionally been an exporter! Bengal is a granary, where do you think its grain had gone!
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@paninid all downhill after Nicea, eh?
Rhetoric is so easy, when you don't have to consider all the facts.
> back when the Nazis were doing their thing
Then, nobody in the colonies knew what Nazism was. India was a demilitarized colony, whose natives were looking to push the colonizer out and trying to learn from the enemy's enemy.
The natives couldn't in time; by the time a native army started taking back the land from the east with Japanese support during WW2, the colonizer stole all the grain to feed own troops, resulting in the Bengal famine killing more people (and livestock) than in Auschwitz and in Hiroshima combined.
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Today I learned that the Alien franchise is owned by Disney, which means that every xenomorph egg that hatches, being a daughter of the xenomorph queen, is technically a Disney princess
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Êñglišḥ rēạlly nēēdṡ dīacritics.
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I think I need to find a job with a company that isn't big enough to have its own Wikipedia article.
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> #Scheme on top of #PreScheme
Ah, you are a minimalist that way. Sort of what #Squeak #Smalltalk does with its VM development (based on C). I'd want the high-level language to do heavy-lifting, so maybe #LispFlavouredErlang on top of PreScheme.
> OS in PreScheme and Scheme
GNU Mes and #Guix must be on that track.
@louis@emacs.ch @craigbro@emacs.ch
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Whenever I see a headline like “Cyber attacks against XYZ industry increase by 2000%” I think, “Oh, they finally started monitoring their networks, huh?”
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@tetrislife It was more of social/economic, in the large, question.
you see people used to do efforts together, to create useful things.. and I feel that now we're all bored by bad jobs, and trying to use our bodies aimlessly.
seems like a waste
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As a #Zig fan, and also unhappy about NIH, yours is a very sobering take. I guess you imply that only code to bootstrap a higher-level language should be written in a lower-level language and #PreScheme is enough for that. But what do you typically use for everything on top of that?
@louis@emacs.ch @craigbro@emacs.ch
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@Oaktag I struggle for the words that will shake people awake. All of these JS excesses were premised on *better* user experiences. The pitch was that they would *improve* sites.
We don't need more than our own eyes to know it hasn't worked out, and that going a different way succeeds more often.
@jnpn you could just go to a nearby small farm and help. Not easy in big metropolises, but not difficult elsewhere?
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2020s: everybody working out for health wasting energy doing nothing and feeling isolated and numb otherwise.
why don't we lift useful stuff together like in the old days ?
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Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text
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@shapr one time this happened to me, and my response was to turn off issues on that repo, since I had no intention of maintaining it years after. I don't think I did open source right 😂
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.
Joined Sep 2021
