Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@nblr I can forgive the newline being required, but the failure being silent is unforgiveable.

several people reporting lately that #deltachat has become their main app: They are now spending more time in the chats, also with web apps, than in any other app. It may be a turn to more private communications when social media has become more toxic, obnoxious and dangerous in many places?

#deltachat and #chatmail.is indeed about being readily available when other forms of communications become unavailable or dangerous like in Iran or Russia but also in western and other countries.

I’m not at all susceptible to ads and hardly spend any money on non-essentials, my biggest vices of the moment being secondhand books and ramen noodles.

Yet everyone online is falling over themselves to have my data to send me targeted ads for things I definitely will not buy.

The economics make no sense. My data should be worthless, as it does not convert into sales.

Either I’m extremely atypical or there’s advertising fraud going on at an enormous scale, both of which could well be true.

principles of software distillation:

Old software is usually small and new software is usually large. A distilled program can be old or new, but is always small, and is powerful by its choice of ideas, not its implementation size.

A distilled program has the conciseness of an initial version and the refinement of a final version.

A distilled program is a finished work, but remains hackable due to its small size, allowing it to serve as the starting point for new works.

Many people write programs, but few stick with a program long enough to distill it.