timorl @timorl@qoto.org

@crypted That's only mostly correct, there are actually *three* buffers, but almost no one uses the third one. I only learned this by apparently stumbling upon the only piece of software that uses it by default.

I don't think there is a convenient way of using the third one anyway, so this correction is a curiosity rather than a tip.

@robryk Good point and very good example! @Yuvalne @tindall@cybre.space

@Yuvalne Turns out if you focus on simplicity and cut off all the unnecessary fluff all the bad parts of culture go first, who would've thought. :p @tindall@cybre.space

Welp, the internet ain't working on the wifi here, that's what I get for visiting my home country. Dx

@njms I don't think there is anything wrong written there, it just doesn't really provide the explanation it promises. I think the points it actually makes, about monads being culturally coded as being more difficult than they are and the circumstances which lead to this, are quite important by themselves.

@njms Casually dropping gender studies citations in a post about monads, cute. <3

Although the explanation itself is somewhat disappointing, the post is definitely about something different than the first paragraph promises.

@midline Nigdy nie miałem.

@profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology It's the only client I found which let me set up a convenient keyboard-based flow of working with emails, other than the gmail web UI. I didn't want to use the latter, to avoid increasing my dependence on Google. Writing emails in vim is a very nice bonus.

I save attachments and then handle them like any other file from the terminal. I don't use it for any appointment stuff directly.

@moonbolt I'm pretty sure that's what USian society has been veeery slowly doing over the course of my entire life. And they are almost done!

@aety Anything by Greg Egan, I would start with any short story collection, or, if you are not into short stories, "Permutation City".

Less 'hard', but always brilliant, Ted Chiang.

If you want to read the hardest reification of the phrase 'Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism' grab the "Culture" series by Ian M Banks. Just _don't_ start with "Use of Weapons".

And a side recommendation for the "Steerswomen" series by Rosemary Kirstein. More relevant than you'll initially think.

I extracted the sxmo notification logic from my other project. So if you want to write #sxmo software in #rust (why?!) now you can using what is here: https://codeberg.org/timorl/sxmotify

@Moon
Oh gods, I _wish_ Google was soulless. One of the things that bothered me most when working there was that there was an actual _community_ of the employees, a pretty well organized one, including quite effective mutual help with various things, many kinds of activism, and, well, just fun for many people. It was heart-wrenching, seeing that such a self-organized (almost exclusively) community can actually work well and having this one as the best example -- one, that by it's very nature is twisted to serve a corporation, and what a corporation at that...

Not even the main reason why I left, but it bothered me quite a bit.
@evelyn

@robryk Hm, fair. Still, it's a very (surprizingly) niche usecase I feel.

@robryk Cool stuff, but kinda seems to miss the point of most people using (to a lesser extent ba)sh -- it's everywhere. If you assume you can install arbitrary software then Python is already kinda an acceptable scripting solution, innit?