Let this serve as a warning, to any C coder who dares look at C++ with desire.
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20100718
Me? I’m already guilty of having created my own string class¹ in C++. But don’t we all have some regrets from our teenage years?
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software: Get off fb, goog, amazon, apple and msw!
I don't normally beg for boosts, but this is worth sharing with your IRL friends via email and w/e else. Older Mastodonians pretty much know most of these. I hope?
Why Google helps other search engines compete: https://youtu.be/eOZFnMwkjV8 / from TechAltar YT channel / #fz_webVideos #AttentionEconomy #InternetBusiness #SEO
I love Mastodon’s “Describe for the visually impaired” feature for images.
I don’t know if the web client does this, but Tusky prompts you if you forget a description. The result is that all pictures I’ve seen here, bar just three in the one day I’ve been here after my Mastodon hiatus, have a neat description of their contents.
I’m not even visually impaired. Yet. It just feels good to know that this content will be accessible to me if I live long enough for my eyesight to become a problem.
It is proven! I am ankitpati on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ankitpati/sigchain#f18f592306a712e15a358fb7f0b9aab7d650183817b9a5f9b788aead0df046220f
Stop using letters that you don't know the pronunciation of. You can't just use them as fancy versions of the Latin alphabet.
Via https://cabloom.tumblr.com/post/190812377451/to-people-who-use-%C3%BE-as-an-aesthetic-p
To anyone out there who is reading this: I am @ankitpati now.
Previously, I held Mastodon identities under the same username at mastodon.cloud, and mstdn.io, and both of those identities are no longer functional.
I switched to this instance after a long hiatus from Mastodon as this seems to be the most popular, and well-maintained one, in no small part due to the tireless efforts of @Gargron.
State. Science. Love.