Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

You're all complaining about C and C++, but no one listened when I said we should have stuck with Borland Pascal

Haiku releases R1B5 today, read all about the improvements done in the period after R1B4 at: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta5/release-notes/ and grab your torrent or iso from https://www.haiku-os.org/ Enjoy!

#HaikuOS

@FluentInFinance don’t we already have a wilful ignorance problem?

Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.

You're allowed to say, “I don't know enough about this to have an opinion on it.”

"A Native American group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto, opens new tab and BHP, opens new tab from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world's largest copper mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running case pitting religious rights against the energy transition."
https://www.reuters.com/legal/indigenous-group-asks-us-supreme-court-block-rio-tintos-arizona-copper-project-2024-09-11/

Mining 1 ton of copper causes 180 ton of toxic mining waste.

Green Transition is based on Green Sacrifice Zones on Indigenous lands.

Greed Transition

“It’s been said before but the second Greta started making connections between climate change and capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism the media coverage came to a screeching halt.”

https://www.jphilll.com/p/gretas-growth

The media is complicit in the destruction of our environment. They benefit from it, as the media has benefited from colonialism and imperialism, racism and genocide. Very often throughout history, it has been the media who brought out the mobs.

It’s amazing how many LinkedIn posts say some variant of ‘remote work is bad because remote teams can’t do {thing remote teams have been doing successfully since IRC was the state of the art in communication for remote workers}’. And what they mean is ‘I don’t know how to manage remote teams’. It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that just because you can’t do something that other people have been doing for decades, that thing is impossible.

@ainmosni In particular it is very important that they don't get to consider because of whom and why they're actually in that situation, yes, indeed.

@xahteiwi

@larsmb @xahteiwi

The trick is to give people just enough that they think they have something to lose, but not enough that they have time to stop and think about more than their personal situation.

@ynom BTW, Lem's codebase is super clean and a joy to explore.

For now this "#deltachat_web" project is merely meant as proof that the deltachat desktop frontend/UI has no dependency on electron anymore.

And also for desktop developers to use other browsers dev tools to improve #accessibility for example and to bring back automated ui #testing.

Last but not least this serves as a stepping stone to make a #tauri version of #deltachat_desktop

Stay tuned for the #nlnet funded #delta_tauri project.

https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/

Looking into my server logs and pleasantly surprised that in the last 7 days more than 250 people read my #Fortran surprises article:
https://www.draketo.de/light/english/fortran-surprises

#code #software #development

Finally it happened to me as well: developers complaining that the behavior of my OSS libraries does not match what ChatGPT explains to them. 🤦‍♂️

Obfuscated code contests celebrate ingenuity but offer little to learn as the code is impenetrable to most.

We also need clear code contests. They should reward code that is so well designed, obvious, self documenting, and properly formatted it needs little or no documentation or comments other than the author details.

#programming

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction