Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

I can't quite put my finger on why Teams is so awful. It's kind of just ambiently unusable, somehow.

In fact, the closest thing we have to an ActivityPub *Reference Implementation* is the Express ActivityPub Server, which hasn't been updated recently and is only a *partial implementation*:

> https://github.com/dariusk/express-activitypub

I probably don't need to make the following point if you are a coder, but for the peanut gallery: Every substantial and mature protocol comes with a *Reference Implementation* as a testbed. And, by extension, this means ActivityPub is neither substantial nor mature.

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Today I came across ECaml (https://github.com/janestreet/ecaml) - a project that allows you to write #Emacs plugins in #OCaml. While, I don't have any issues with Elisp, I'll definitely check it out at some point. I'm guessing Jane Street are using it for their internal Emacs plugins.

I remember *years* of people saying Tim Sweeney is an idiot, the whole Fortnite mobile thing was just greed, etc. He took down Apple and Google's entire payments regime. Neither was saved by the courts. What a heck of a legacy. https://www.theverge.com/news/793610/google-epic-android-supreme-court-stay-denied

@eniko 100% this. Local control was why forums were great too, and BBS’s before that. Every attempt to make a global unified community fails because it’s not a community if it’s all ultimately controlled by Big Centrist With Growth Ambitions

IIRC I told you that last week we celebrated the GNU anniversary at the GNU Tools Cauldron singing "Happy Hacking to GNU"

but it has just occurred to me, inspired by Douglas Adams, that now I know what the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything is.

how old is #GNU?
the answer is 42

it even rhymes!

@aj I believe you are describing the “Tinkle-Down” theory: the rich get the money and piss on you. Seems to be working.

This is the overview article I needed on Typst. It concisely explains how the document preparation system works, in what it differs from LaTeX, and why it may be a suitable replacement for LaTeX.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577

#typst #TextFormatting

Mastodon's bizarre overly complex quote post implementation is so bogus there should be an organized campaign against it called Quote Control

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon/statuses/115187078125939270

Some of the many things that I've supported since long before Dave created them...

It's been a long winter for me, but spring is here again!

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-confirms-alexandre-oliva-to-board-of-directors

@timbray

I do have to chuckle a bit when one of dependencies they list in their minimal, disciplined list is Electron — a behemoth of a black box with more complexity than some entire operating systems.

This #emacs meme made me laugh. 😆
(Seen in r/emacs)

Reading the news at 4am

There’s a large shift in perspective that hasn’t yet happened in the US. We’re still all in it for ourselves.

It shakes me when I get complimented for “altruism.”

Or fighting the good fight.

They don’t have the time.

The truth: you have to help other people if you want to survive.

We are incredibly codependent. Our fates are determined by what all of us do. It’s always been this way actually. Somehow we got pretty far without having to face this. The myth is we all live on the prairie fighting for survival and not able to depend on anyone else. Yet in reality we can’t survive without lots of people coming through for us.

I want to believe, but in the middle of the night I want to give up more. It’ll probably be better when the sun cones up.

Which is reality? I think more and more that believing in other Americans is crazy.

@gabrielesvelto @eniko "The economy" has been inimical to human interests as long as there have been economists.

@eniko My favorite hypothesis about why everyone is so *extremely* on board with the AI hype train despite all logic is: the US economy is in serious trouble, all numbers are down, the only reason it hasn't affected the stock market yet is ... the AI bubble