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Adolph
https://codeberg.org/husky
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Adolph
Status update, December 2022

https://adol.pw/2022/12/15/status-dec-2022/
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@captainepoch

> [...] an important announcement: I will migrate all my repositories and projects from Sourcehut to Codeberg in the following days (including Husky). Over the last year I tried to make myself comfortable with the email workflow, but over time, I felt that workflow is not suitable for me.

Awh... All that contributor frustration! I understand you just want Husky development to progress.

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musl libc

musl libc is now on the 'don!

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Albatross

Okay, fine, actual #introduction . I've been on the Internet or social media by the handle Albatross since 1977.
In 1983 I created the world's first #MMORPG company, GamBit MultiSystems, and our franchisees went on to start some big-name game companies.
In 1991 I helped co-write the Internet Gopher protocol, RFC 1436.
I've been in infosec since 1996 and I'm heartily tired of keyboards.
I've written books and plays and shoot pictures. I have 3 terrific adult kids.

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Snow! ☃️

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@dheadshot @apps
Yep.

Also, shouldn't the "Edited at .." thing be more attention grabbing? Maybe keep it small, but give "Edited" a strong colour, jet pink? To mitigate edit abuse.

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An update on leap seconds
Tony Finch
dotat.at/@/2022-12-04-leap-sec

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@Yujiri
See other reply
qoto.org/@torresjrjr/109355952

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F. Randall farmer

@cwebber @spritelyinst

👋 Hello Fediverse! 👋

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

My co-founder at @spritelyinst (he's Executive Director, I'm CTO) now has an account on the fediverse: @frandallfarmer

Randy also:

- Co-invented JSON with Doug Crockford and Chip Morningstar
- Co-founded the world's *first* major massively multiplayer game / virtual world: Lucasfilms Habitat on the Commodore-freaking-64! (Also the place where the technical term "avatar" came from (borrowed from Sanskrit by Chip, I think)) Watch this wild video youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jy
- Co-runs the open source revival of the original Habitat: frandallfarmer.github.io/neoha
- Co-founded Electric Communities. Electric Communities Habitat is where the E programming language came from from which much of Spritely is based. Watch this hilarious but mind-bending video from p2p virtual worlds... in 1997!!! youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyv
- The compression pass to my expansion pass of communication in the Spritely Networked Communities Institute. Any time things have gotten wordy, you can bet it's from me; any time they're terse and concise, you can bet it's from Randy. Usually we try to combine our skills.

Welcome Randy!

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@captainepoch
There's *a lot* to unpack and explain, but basically,

This thread on leap minutes and hours got me thinking
pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/l

And this post made me think and disagree
pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/l

Resolving ambiguous or nonexistent UTC timestamps is a much easier and encapsulable problem when the shifts and deltas are within 1 second. The domain of applications which handle UTC leapsecs are niche (scientific, military, fintech), and when they do, it's fairly simple, or can be with good design.

The @hare standard library separates the concerns of 'civil' timeshifts (timezones, DST) and timescale timeshifts (leap seconds), going as far as to include a 'timescale' type.

docs.harelang.org/time/chrono#

The proposed alternative leap-minutes or leap-hours make a lot civil time software needlessly complicated, blurring 'civil' and 'timescale'. The same clusterduck of problems with timezone shifts and DST would now be part of UTC itself.

Then there's also the Earth's phase and velocity of rotation, drifting noons and midnights, politicians and dictators chiming in, forward compatibility, etc. It's a charged topic for sure.

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I think I've changed my mind; UTC leap seconds should *not* be abolished.

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Gek — The stack-based stream editor
gek.johngebbie.com/

@mnmlsm

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Drew DeVault

Very impressive voice control system for Linux that someone emailed me about the other day:

numen.johngebbie.com/index.htm

It's modal and maps syllables onto commands in a way which allows for very efficient computer use without having to use a keyboard. It lets you be a power user even if you have accessibility needs, which is a really important and underserved niche in accessibility imo.

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Drew DeVault

In praise of Plan 9

drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-

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Drew DeVault

A friend at the local hackerspace surprised me a while back with this custom-embroidered harriet #harelang

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Drew DeVault

#introduction Hello! I work on free software. Trying out Mastodon again.

Here are some projects I'm working on at the moment:

sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut
sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare
sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios

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@Pixificial
I have heard of YaCy. Search engine decentralisation is a very tricky thing to achieve. I don't know how effective YaCy is.

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@Pixificial

I'd love to use P2P chat app Briar[1] all the time and for everything, but my battery drains very quickly. Seeding is resource taxing. It's P2P design is impractical and thus unsusable for casual use.

Web engine and Javascript bloat is another topic.

[1] briarproject.org/

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