Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

"The privacy invading feature that was patched into your browser and silently turned on by default was announced on our browser's blog 2 years ago so why are you so mad?"

My dude I'm probably in the top 1% of humans alive advocating for your product and I have never read your fucking blog because even I think "keeping up on the blog of the browser I use" is a fucking weirdo move

My new System76 Merkaat mini PC with Linux Mint is now running all the essentials such as Medley Interlisp.

#interlisp #lisp #linux

“Our ancestors burned the oil of Earth madly and wilfully. They destroyed its coal recklessly. We despise and condemn them for that” —Asimov, The Martian Way, 1952

#Reading #SciFi #Asimov

#hiring
Experimental Devboard for a Frugal Smartphone
(2 years, gross monthly salary from 2695€)

We design a #LowTech smartphone with a one-week battery life.The goal is not to optimize a conventional smartphone nor to design a marketable product but to create an experimental platform that will enable future research in #FrugalComputing.

The engineer will design an #OpenHardware devboard built around a microcontroller.

http://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/Research/Students/2024-fiche-poste-smolphone-hw-EN.pdf

Spread the word :)
#lownum #permacomputing

@b0rk have done rcs, cvs, svn, baz, arch, tla, bzr, hg. i like git!
- no operation requires net access (except push/fetch/pull ofc)
- fast
- simple, conceptually: there are only commits, branches, blobs, refs, the index & trees. just a DAG. i can fit it into my head. (though, merging is a black box.)
- rebasing is pretty good. not magical, because i do get lost sometimes and find myself aborting the rebase rather than fixing. but good enough
- gitk is good and fast!

@cuchaz@gladtech.social And with the development history of Gecko's attempts at becoming portable and embeddable into other applications and web browsers, Servo may overtake it for usability from a development perspective sooner rather than later ​:cat-tears-of-joy:​

My mission: keep using #Firefox
My obstacle: whatever the fuck #Mozilla is doing

@gohlisch that's just C’s problem but with objects 😆

@tymwol
#cpp - what if everything was a footgun?

@revoluciana I am working on the poster proofs for a climate hope conference, the pak choi and peas I grew on my balcony are lined up for dinner, and the informal network of downtown urban gardening fun people bartering our veggies and extra greens and gleaned fruit is just cheerfully getting bigger.

At least around here, acting as if I'm in the generous universe brings it halfway into being. Or at least does the good work of lighthousing for everyone else who's into it?

WebUSB and WebSerial exist so now they should make WebPCIe too

how else would I access my Thunderbolt device from a webpage?

Simon Dobson @simoninireland posted a blog series on Lisp debugging. He presents typical use cases of features and tools of the SBCL Common Lisp debugger with Emacs/SLIME.

The series is a practical resource that showcases the interactive style of Lisp development.

https://simondobson.org/2024/07/05/debugging-lisp/

#CommonLisp #lisp #debugging

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

If you ever want to explain latency to someone, just say “imagine you’re trying to change the water temperature in the shower…”

at the library with the kids and found a “high performance react web sites” book in the fiction section

@jesus if you can write assembler which is more performant than the code a modern #Lisp compiler produces, you're doing well.