Jason R. Fruit @JasonFruit@mastodon.social
I'm a Primitive Baptist musician, computer programmer, and stay-at-home father. (AMA? Sure.)
Tried the Brave browser (on Debian). Perceived speed is excellent, even though I've only used it over ssh. The UI is unsurprising, and all the usual sites look right.
I want to make one thing very clear regarding #fosdem2018 #fosdem
A conference on freedom-and-human-rights-respecting technology should not have a titan of #SurveillanceCapitalism like Google as sponsor. The good people in our community shouldn’t have to choose between having a platform to meet up at and having their legitimacy usurped by association to whitewash such companies. I’m attending under protest to meet and chat to some lovely members of the community.
Google doesn’t belong there.
If your "alternative internet" is built on wanky bitcoin tech it probably sucks
Write more compiler or try to teach my kids so they're not dolts. Hmm, hmm, hmm. (The question is which is more likely to accomplish anything.)
@scott I am going to build a new instance, call it vim.social
It will be one where you will never work out how to exit from
So apparently writing compilers is a lot of fun, and I've been missing out. Writing one for ISO Pascal.
jordan peterson looks like if you took peter capaldi and squeezed all the joy away
Cannot stand the term "copyleft". It's juvenile and expressive of nothing.
computers shouldnt look pretty, its dishonest. you need to design computers to look horrible, since they are horrible. ibm probably had the right idea
I wrote a thing about writing compilers for .NET and now I'm not even sure I like me. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1227239/Building-a-Simple-NET-Compiler
Them: hey, we should leave governance to algorithms!
Me: …
(https://qz.com/1188170/google-photos-tried-to-fix-this-ski-photo/)
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/S3M6aMtsOkYzpzoMVJ4
On the one hand, I wish there was a polite way of pointing out to people when they're committing a logical fallacy.
On the other hand, if there were, it'd easily consume all my time on social media.
Just learned about the Kessler effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome) — never thought about that. Thanks, rando Hacker News person.
Finally got OmniSharp, Mono, and Emacs to work together so I can write icky C# in Emacs on Debian. (Actually, it's a really good language, but I have to talk down Microsoft to be all 1337 haxx0r.)
this function name is extremely relatable https://linux.die.net/man/3/explain_vsnprintf_or_die
I can think of no greater indictment of the ridiculousness of following ROBOTS.TXT than the fact that the REASON the Internet Archive follows ROBOTS.TXT is due to a 1998 agreement between libraries who were getting into web archiving, back when it looked like web archiving was going to be something everyone did....
...and the only place you can view that agreement is in the Wayback Machine.
chocolate milk is delicious and very important
