Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@louis @craigbro Rust, Zig, Go, Nim, Hare, Virgil, and now C3. Seeing so many languages try to replace C is a little frustrating. I wish people could collaborate more on a smaller number of languages, rather than just try to re-invent a whole language from scratch. Although I know why it happens: people disagree on implementation details, especially syntax schisms form in communities, and it is so easy to start making your own programming language (not at all easy to make it a good language). Schisms also happen for political reasons, or because a big business is suffering from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

My systems programming language is PreScheme, because minimalism and lambda calculus are eternal.

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 ?

Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text

#pollution

@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 😂

@itsmeholland @MisuseCase @clive @ashar That's how you appeal to cold-hearted capitalists, though. That and pointing out that content and healthy workers don't typically take to building guillotines.

FreedomBox 24.17 has been released, adding two new apps!

- Feather Wiki for Personal Notebooks

- TiddlyWiki for Non-linear Notebooks

https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/freedombox-24-17-released/3190

#FreedomBox #FeatherWiki #TiddlyWiki

I can't find good data about uses of operations research these days. Is it dead ? or academic only ?

Random thought. The older I get, the more sense #RichardStallman's absolutist stance on free software makes to me. If you can't inspect, or have someone inspect, the source of software you've paid for, then you own nothing. You have no idea what's going on under the hood. You wouldn't buy a car if the dealership told you they were the only ones allowed to perform maintenance or modifications, so why do we tolerate that behavior from proprietary software vendors?

#OpenSource #GNU #FreeSoftware

The nice thing about working in older programming languages:

There are books.
Books are cheap.
After you go on a holiday, the language is still the same.

An old employer of mine used ChatGPT to write their mission statement.

This tells you everything you need to know above my old employer, ChatGPT, and mission statements.

in logic programming the program and the spec are ~one

in mainstream programming you have doc, spec, code, tests

surely there's a blind spot

Tilda Swinton does not naturally blink, but has learned to do so while acting to make her roles more believable.

@rbreich

MAGA VS. WOKE

@atomicpoet that's not how I see it. They still have 90%+ of the desktop market. Their mobile OS bombed because carriers hated microsoft and did anything they could against them (I was working in telco land at the time). The server market is very uneven, I believe you're thinking about the cloud. Hyperscalers found it a better investment to spend money on the Linux ecosystem rather than pay the windows tax. Small and medium businesses to this day use way more windows.

@atomicpoet hmmm yes can’t wait for SCOTUS and Trump 2025 to make this all pointless

…let’s really hope it ends up having a positive impact…

maybe i should say nothing i don't really do other country's politics and stuff

i just know some of the patterns the control grid uses and some of the game theory.

any protest has a first-mover loss so its in the interest of your side not to be perceived as the bed shitter. however the state loses if a protest continues peacefully, and the state loses more if they are seen beating everyone. if the protestors are seen as the bed shitters, then the state wins.

thus the state's strictly dominant strategy is to have agents provocateur in front of a camera so the protestors are seen as the bed shitters, and the state gets the excuse to bring its weapons down (which is the only thing the state is actually good at.)

that has been political nerd shit with some random ginger idiot on the internet

derailing a thread by talking about the original topic

🆗

@cstross @stevel Intel survived the amd64 transition because their tiny Israeli team saved their bacon (pun intended) by turning Pentium M into the Core architecture.

IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️

(Boosts appreciated)

The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230

The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.

Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1