Vincent Tunru @vinnl@mastodon.social

Programming protip: positional arguments can be hard to understand at the call site. So instead of:

serialise(data, true);

prefer

serialise({ arg1: data, arg2: true });

It's here! I'm hoping this will be my reason to get back into #Rust.

@PINE64

Might this kickstart a second wave of RSS? 🤞

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/an-experiment-in-helping-users-and-web.html

More than a week later, and #Mastodon still doesn't detect that I've set up this account as an alias for my new one — guess I'll be staying on mastodon.social for the foreseeable future :/

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong migrating from one #Mastodon account to another?

Both instances are on version 3.3.0, I've added my old account as an alias for my new account, but then when I go to my old account's settings to move it, it says it's not an alias.

Turns out it might take up to 24 hours before Mastodon sees that I've linked the two accounts, so I'll try again tomorrow...

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/15462

It's time — I'm going to try to move to #Fosstodon. Crossing my fingers that all goes well and everything transfers over properly.

In case things do not go as smoothly as I'm hoping, you can follow my new account at @VincentTunru.

There's now a #Trunk list for people on Mastodon interested in #SolidProject, courtesy of @noeldemartin.

Join or subscribe here: https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Solid%20Project

Sure, add it to that folder, I don't care. Next.

Create a desktop icon? Well why not, just get on with it and give me the app! Next.

Install the Ask toolbar? Adopt a purple talking monkey? Sell my soul to the devil?

Next. Next. Next.

Remember when installing an app involved blindly clicking "Next" a bunch of times?

"People want more relevant ads" sounds reasonable, until you realise that "more relevant" means "tailored to influence your specific behaviour".

For example, showing you articles about the futility of voting if you're likely to vote a certain way.