> [...] 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.
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.
Snow! βοΈ
@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.
An update on leap seconds
Tony Finch
https://dotat.at/@/2022-12-04-leap-seconds.html
@Yujiri
See other reply
https://qoto.org/@torresjrjr/109355952588722622
π Hello Fediverse! π
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc
- Co-runs the open source revival of the original Habitat: https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/
- 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!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE
- 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!
@captainepoch
There's *a lot* to unpack and explain, but basically,
This thread on leap minutes and hours got me thinking
https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2022-November/thread.html
And this post made me think and disagree
https://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2022-November/007444.html
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.
https://docs.harelang.org/time/chrono#timescale
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.
Gek β The stack-based stream editor
https://gek.johngebbie.com/
Very impressive voice control system for Linux that someone emailed me about the other day:
https://numen.johngebbie.com/index.html
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.
In praise of Plan 9
A friend at the local hackerspace surprised me a while back with this custom-embroidered harriet #harelang
#introduction Hello! I work on free software. Trying out Mastodon again.
Here are some projects I'm working on at the moment:
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios
@Pixificial
I have heard of YaCy. Search engine decentralisation is a very tricky thing to achieve. I don't know how effective YaCy is.
Libre software engineer with physics background.
Maintainer for @hare date/time.
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