Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

@liaizon Right now, what HTTPS calls with what data go over the server-server and the server-client connections, and what the semantics are; What further actions a server/client should take when sending/receiving those calls. More specifically, some kind of minimal compliant Fediverse server would be nice.

Rewrote chapter 19!

There are some things I still didn't like, but it's too late now. But progress was made!

#amWriting

#ShowerThoughts using a VPN in China is morally equivalent to using a #BitTorrent client back home, to watch TV shows under ARR copyright. In both cases I'm technically breaking the law of the land, but as an act of civil disobedience against laws I ses as unjust and oppressive. Why should I accept being denied access to the full public internet, or to audio-visual entertainment that used to be broadcast free-to-air, and costs nobody anything if I download a copy instead?

First known proof that it's possible to multiply two integer numbers in nlogn at https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a29514208/faster-way-multiply/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/dfzzh6x3qd #freepost

not everything has to be fast. not everything has to be efficient.

write in a language that sparks joy. don't want to figure out a clever algorithm? don't. your program is eating ram like a motherfucker but it gets the job done? that's okay

you don't understand recursion? don't use recursion. you don't understand how to manually allocate memory? don't use a language that makes you do that

there's time to learn all of that. or don't! people have worked hard to make it so you don't have to!

just make things

THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF CODE IS TO BE READ BY HUMANS

Imposter syndrome is the belief that because you are capable of the virtue of doubt, you're somehow less prepared for the challenges of life than the many hubristic arseholes who lack the sense to recognize any consequences of their own poor judgment.

The world doesn't need more overconfidence. It needs more folk comfortable with doubt, of themselves, of their practices and institutions. Questioning our ability or preparedness to do a thing is not the same as being unable to do that thing.

@rejcx honestly? people with interesting lives that don't involve combat

I'm talking like, musicians with tumultuous careers or scientists with theories that are going to upend what people have accepted. Conflict and stakes, but not immediately or directly physical violence.

Its something I think games HAVE gotten better about, but they could always stand to be doing more

Very little of what a programmer expresses in a program ever, upon compilation or interpretation, is performed by the computer.

Instead, the computer performs a series of operations conceptually unrelated to most everything the programmer has written, which happen—only through their formulaic arrangement by the compiler/interpreter—to kick off (via the mechanical contrivances of hardware) chains of side effects which the human programmer interprets as performance of the task they programmed.

this possibly comes from a place of privilege but it's very hard for me not to feel optimistic even though the past four years have been awful. all the recent demonstrations in hong kong, chile, ecuador, and so on give me hope. the decentralization of tech gives me hope. the push toward greater inclusion & diversity gives me hope. people pushing fash out of their subcultures give me hope. even seeing black flags fly in different fucking continents gives me hope.

You can tell Google to fsck themselves with their "payment policy" by simply installing Wireguard from F-Droid which I've been doing since version 1 https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/10/16/2215248/google-ejects-open-source-wireguard-from-play-store-over-donation-links

Also tons of other cool #android apps on F-Droid, all open-source, carefully checked for privacy violations and built from source.

OMG, at 2024 lines of written text, it's finally done.

For the impatient, just skip to the section labeled "Design 5".

Behold, the history leading up to and including the current I/O architecture definition for the #Kestrel3 and future #KestrelComputerProject machines.

http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/wiki/On%20Kestrel-3%27s%20I/O%20Architecture

All data types are just arrays of bools

RT @fasterthanlime@twitter.com

what idiot called it "machine learning" instead of "bias automation"

Anyone know why Apple provides their appstore link HTML as a background image on an A tag rather than as an IMG tag wrapped in said A tag? Seems... needlessly complicated (and apparently breaks embedding in newsletters via RSS).

EyeD3 is excellent for managing ID3 tags, especially since it can be fired directly from cmus or mc!
https://eyed3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Updated my notes for ElementaryOS.
https://github.com/neauoire/elementary-notes/blob/master/README.md

Dropped runtime from 20 hours to 20 minutes by caching the output from the Finite State Transducer.

Stellar!

This will not get old for some time.