Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Black holes swallow all information you feed into them. But information can't be destroyed, instead the information is slowly emitted as hawking radiation, impossible to reconstruct in practice but technically there.

This makes them just like Atlassian Confluence

I saw a video of a parrot mimicking opera singers.

Opera singers are in trouble! We can replace them with these parrots.

And yeah yeah, I know what you skeptics are saying, creativity, novelry, blah blah.
The parrot sound was like 30% different.

Now that we know parrots can sound like that, just imagine in 10 years how better they can be!

Me: Wow, remember that fun movie I watched hundreds of times as a kid? I wonder if that director made anything else I know.

Wikipedia: This universally panned movie not only destroyed the careers of the director and cast, it lost so much money the studio went out of business.

Me: I see.

So ... I was looking at "Zig" again to see where it's headed. And boy does this thing seem Rust-ified these days. Building "hello world" takes forever (but displays a fun tree-shaped animation while it's happening, I guess to distract me from just how long it takes?) and then the executable is >2 MB. I am just too old for this shit! I don't want to futz with Golang because fuck Google, but honestly, what else is there? Nothing is left! There are language monsters with supposedly awesome implementations that do 55,312 things I probably don't want them to do just to compile "hello world" and then there's C. Good old C. Trusty C. Builds fast and generates mostly just the code I want it to generate C. Fuck! Honestly, this whole "modern languages" thing... 🤢 🤮 Someone give me a decent UNIX-ified Oberon compiler for crying out loud.

Just got tagged by someone on Mastodon with what seemed like an organic post that happened to mention me, but in reality it was LLM generated advertisement slop disguised as a blog post aimed at enticing specific individuals by tagging them.

It's like the spear phishing equivalent of marketing. Maddening.

And I can't even publicly shame them because that would just be giving them traffic.

@fabio @programming

I love this quote from the late Joe Armstrong (#erlang )

Joe Armstrong, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009) Peter Seibel , page 213

https://baldir.fr/citation/joe-armstrong-you-wanted-banana-got-gorilla-holding-banana-and-entire-jungle/

5. For currency to work, you have to be able to use it to buy things. To pay your employees, your vendors, your rent, your taxes, your babysitter, etc. And to have all agree on its value. Crypto ain’t that.

Good grief. Just (for reasons) looked at the original RabbitMQ announcement press release. My (at the time) personal email and phone number are in there as the point-of-contact 😅

I've just found fox and swapwm (a minimalistic #Forth and a #WindowManager written in it), and I'm in awe. There are so many cool projects out there!

https://hg.sr.ht/~telesto/fox

"2025-05: GNU Taler v1.0 released – We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.0."

This provide a payment system that makes privacy-friendly online transactions fast and easy.

🥳 https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-01.html

#gnutaler #Version1 #v1 #gnu #taler #switzerland #release #alternative #privacy #friendly #fastandeasy

@crc You argue from a serious point, thus you missed the nonsense.

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @ada@zoner.work snac deals with a lot of JSON strings, all data is stored in JSON files on disk, sent as JSON over network, etc. Handling the data as loosely typed strings most of the time is likely cheaper than marshaling everything into well-typed "objects" and then serializing them back again on I/O. I haven't delved much into the implementation of xs myself, but I used it when I wrote a few patches for snac, and it was acceptable to use. I've been using snac for a few months, and it's much better on resources than any other major AP software I've seen, so I don't have complaints about the performance of parsing doubles :)

I still see snac as "worse-is-better" software, which I don't like much, but at least it's simple enough to start doing meaningful patches within a couple of hours of diving into it, and definitely cheaper for me than having to write a whole AP server from scratch, which I was tempted to do before.

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected