Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@stevenroose @GrapheneOS @sebsk I'll adopt the strategy of dismissing anything that contains "how hard can it be" or "just"
But maybe yeah, someone do it plz?

#vim tip : CTRL-A and CTRL-X increment and decrement respectively the integer under the cursor.
This is often faster and less error prone to than editing the number.

The Internet is a tool for finding out what happened when someone else had that idea before you did.

@kyozou @ifixcoinops I'd only recommend HP to someone I hated if they didn't know where I lived. Otherwise there's a chance they might leave it on my doorstep, which would mean I'd have to burn the house down and move to another county.

Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating

@marcuse1w @macleod If you like #haskell, #purescript is an option. With #purerl there is also a stable erlang backend. Or #gleamlang I find very exciting in the erlang world (erlang and Javascript backend). Otherwise you might also like #roclang (native and wasm backend) if you are generally into ML languages. I also think #erlang is an extremely nice language. I've never understood what many people have against the syntax. I find it extremely simple and beautiful. Well, I also like #prolog 😉

@kiteless I miss the days of small devices with decent keyboards. I love my #SamsungNC10 and #ThinkpadX220. The former runs #HaikuOS, the latter #Xubuntu. They are both excellent writing machines.

I keep seeing "How can they all give into fascism so willingly, didn't they pay attention in school?" and that strikes me as so unbelievably naive. The fact of the matter is that the last people who actually still witnessed the Third Reich are dead or in the process of dying. The last people whose *parents* still witnessed it are in their 50s give or take a few years. And did school really keep you from smoking? Drinking? Riding your bike too fast? No? See what I mean? Nobody actually remembers!

@worik I'll take that under consideration.

That being said, unhandled errors in CL lead to either a "graceful" crash or a debugger prompt halting the program until intervention (at least without an exploitable flaw in the implementation itself).

In C, all bets are off from the very start.

Mind, CL was just as example. A pure Java implementation would also in theory be fine (though with JIT I'm not so confident of that).

“Palestinians are forbidden from gathering rain water for domestic or agricultural needs.”

– Third Periodic Report of Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

(September 2011)

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-195880/

But, yes, this all started on October 7, 2023.

#israel #palestine #gaza #westBank #occupation #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #water

I tried to host a #GitLab on my #NAS yesterday. It was nice to see it working, but not so nice to see how it eats all available RAM. Then I discovered @gitea )

#selfhosting #selfhosted #synology #SynologyNAS #homelab #HomeServer #git #gitea

I swear, a whole team of professional writers wouldn't be able to make up how absurd this decade is.

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot of @TauriApps, a security-minded toolkit for making desktop and mobile apps at #NGIForum23. "Security is not something you trust. You verify. NGI and NLnet enabled us to pay for the first security audit by Radically Open Security.

"With a new NGI0 grant we are working together with the shelved Servo project from Mozilla on Tauri + Servo. In 2024 you can build browsers with Tauri + Servo. So thank you from the community."

Pouhiou Lafon Roudier of @Framasoft presents @peertube at #NGIFORUM23 "We built a videoplatform based on old internet values such as decentralization. Not one big platform but many small federated platforms." More than a 1000 instances & a million video's. All that in six years and one paid developer. (A 2nd dev recently joined. Yay!)
"With little means we can do a lot in the open source community",

The pure irony of life.

I have a custom cloudflare powered DOH resolver which supports EDNS and is 2 ms to the ping.

I still use my dinky raspberry pi with bind. You know the original DNS resolver aka what the internet was built on. I started using it as a joke/dare while discussing it with @hiway about a decade ago during the pandemic era (it feels like a decade?) and its been that stable.

Like you know the software the internet was built on

A friend posted a link to this article. It seems a young'un has discovered #Plan9 and sees its distributed design as the future of operating systems.

I ran a #9p grid in the 1990s doing distributed computing research, and ran #Plan9, Amoeba, Sprite; so many utopian operating systems. They all were wonderful, and they all are very lonely. It really hurts seeing good ideas completely ignored for something good enough, but I hold out hope that some young buck will rediscover all these ideas, and pretend to have invented them. It really is the best case scenario.

@NatalyaD So true. If you consider what the #software world has accomplished in the mean time, it almost feels like a giant #scam that just exists to waste the amazing increase in #hardware resources that has happened. I find the software world appalling now to be honest.
One important reason why I prefer to work in the #embedded world. Unfortunately, it seems to be sliding down a slope into the same quagmire as well...

@cliffordheath @reyjrar lets see lets see, l1, alu, tpm… ahh v8 soc 😀

I can't help but notice the new Apple laptops rate "Video Playback 22 hours, Web Browsing 15 hours" under battery life.

Congratulations web developers everywhere, it's now more computationally intense to render a webpage than video playback!

@22 The #SQLite syntax diagrams are produced with the #pikchr tool, by the same author as #SQLite and #fossil D Richard Hipp.
"Pikchr (pronounced "picture") is a PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation. Pikchr is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown or similar mechanisms of other documentation markup languages."
https://www.fossil-scm.org/
https://pikchr.org/