Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@sundogplanets Also just the orbital decay leading to however many of them burning up in the atmophere daily is going to completely destroy the ozone layer in a couple of years/decades. So that's nice also.

@sundogplanets Because dipshits want to have uninterrupted, high-speed, low-latency internet at all times rather than working on software that do not need that.

@cnes 👆 The French space agency CNES has the official account @cnes Here on Mastodon. Not Blueskly, Threads, or elsewhere.

Can we help them grow and reach for the stars?

My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.

Have been handed a Windows 11 device for the first time after ~32 years using Apple devices.

May I just say: if this is how the majority of the world is treated by their computers, I don’t know why there haven’t been more Unabombers.

@paninid all downhill after Nicea, eh?

@RickiTarr

Today I learned that the Alien franchise is owned by Disney, which means that every xenomorph egg that hatches, being a daughter of the xenomorph queen, is technically a Disney princess

Êñglišḥ rēạlly nēēdṡ dīacritics.

I think I need to find a job with a company that isn't big enough to have its own Wikipedia article.

Happy 31st birthday, #Debian!

It was not my first distribution, but it was definitely my go-to distro after all those years in my #freesoftware adventure. Here's for 31 more!

Whenever I see a headline like “Cyber attacks against XYZ industry increase by 2000%” I think, “Oh, they finally started monitoring their networks, huh?”

@tetrislife It was more of social/economic, in the large, question.

you see people used to do efforts together, to create useful things.. and I feel that now we're all bored by bad jobs, and trying to use our bodies aimlessly.

seems like a waste

@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.