@kushal literally any talk by its late lamented inventor Joe Armstrong should do the job, they are so compelling.
@eniko yes unfortunately people do in fact live under these conditions, just wait till you have to write launcher dot json files lmao
@slyecho i am on windows. as for cmake, one thing i want out of an ide is not having to use fucking cmake >_>
@eniko and they like it
@tootbrute its a mix in my case. @ work #TiddlyWiki works fine (takes advantage of Sharepoint's #WebDAV support). Personal notes on the phone are also on a TidfkyWiki in the #Tiddloid app but not syncing it anywhere.
#emacsconf day 1 wasn't 100% smooth, but it was 100% fun, and people rerouted around all of the tech hiccups. I think we've figured out the color issue (needed to update mpv from 0.35 to 0.38), I updated my scripts to take the video files from the cache directory instead of other directories that I forgot to update, updated the checklist to have the right URLs, enabled case-fold-search on the other Emacs, and added random package mentions to the countdown screen. I forgot to let zaeph know I edited one of the videos, so next time I should flag that somehow. I'm not 100% sure about our BBB setup; a couple of people's computers crashed. On the plus side, this year, sooo many people helped out with captions and quality checks. Improving little by little! :D The important stuff got done: people got to see things and chat with other people!
My currently pending changes for Haiku:
- custom baudrates support in serial port drivers (I need it for high speed communication over usb serial with my Amstrad CPC)
- improvement to ps/2 mouse-touchpad multiplexing detection (my laptop keyboard controller advertises support for it, but doesn't implement it correctly)
- automatic enabling of VESA BIOS live patching to inject custom video modes in video cards BIOS
1990s technologies don't want to disappear from modern hardware!
@codinghorror Goldeneye. I will not be taking questions.
@brennen @alex Isn't this inevitable with unmetered Internet connections available to "everybody"? Isn't the only way to make clients/peers pay the server/peer per access? Micropayments ... that failed, but cryptocurrency hasn't :-( maybe #BraveBrowser is on to something.
@chrisamaphone spot on, but ... bog-standard devs want tools, they don't seem to mind using materials as crude tools. They'd probably happier with 4GL or the like, but they are stuck with libraries and frameworks?
I think only a minority of devs want materials, and there probably is enough of that in #Lisp or #Smalltalk or #Prolog or #Forth alone!
The other day I was at an overstock/cheap discount stuff store... and I figured, hey, this is a good time to grab some nearly-worthless earbuds to replace the ones I got for free on an airplane flight ten years ago that finally just straight up broke. I prefer the ones I use at work to be as dumb as possible for hardware supply chain reasons.
All of the ones they had on sale were Bluetooth wireless AirPod knock-offs. All of them. It's that hard to get a dang headphone plug set now.
@icerunner_origin I thought #SyncThing was de-facto for this (no intermediary service required)
I'm making big progress on the #tauri version of #deltachat_desktop
So far it only takes 38 mb 📦 (78mb installed) in package size instead of the 150mb 📦(323mb installed) of the Delta Chat Desktop #electron version.
I'll keep you updated in this thread.
Thanks to #nlnet & #ngi0_entrust for funding this project: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/.
@treefit I am convinced that such a bot can do exactly what an app server does in a web app, except it can be run "on a desk" letting the e-mail/chatmail server do the Internetting.
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.