Shrutarshi Basu @basus@mastodon.social
Computer Scientist. Currently programming languages PhD candidate at Cornell University.
"There was a great war, the gods died, and the world ended."
"So what's this, a dream?"
"Of course not. It's the world. It's ended lots of times. And then it continues, with fewer gods, and more stories."
"That's not an end."
"It is to the gods."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Looks like major Twitter apps will be dead in the water in months. It's time to get off propietary social networks:
the best java script I've ever seen is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script#Collation
I've been using the Mastodon web interface in a Safari pinned tab so far, but I just switched to the Mstdn client for macOS @Linda_pp. Apart from having to configure JSON at startup, it seems great. My only concern is how much battery it will consume (since it's an Electron app), but time will tell.
EFF Founder John Perry Barlow passed away last night. Please take a moment to read A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.
Note that it is "A Declaration", not "The Declaration". We are still in an age when the Independence of cyberspace must be repeatedly declared and defended.
if you have a personal web log, please reply with the url!
an attempt to collect everyone’s blogs - so as to not let precious non-commercial content go unread and unnoticed - is likely the only time i’ll ever ask:
please boost this toot.
Finally moved my websites to HTTPS using Nginx and Let’s Encrypt using this documentation here: https://certbot.eff.org/#arch-nginx and also enabled Gzip compression as described here: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/lightweight-blog/
Negative, depression Show more
Window management on macOS is so broken that unplugging my MacBook from an external monitor will leave windows with a just a sliver showing on the edge of the screen and the rest off it.
As much as I like to think of myself as a keyboard snob (and have used a variety of mechanical keyboards over the years), I always keep coming back to (& being most productive with) my old Apple wireless keyboard from ~2010.
As much I love the idea of using a configurable, open source operating system on a day-to-day basis, I think I need to start using my Mac as a front-end for everything. More
Maybe some day we can have a professional-grade OS built around FOSS tools, with a well-supported ecosystem, and a solid business model, but today is not that day.
Right now I can’t start XMonad because of shared object file errors, and Evince keeps crashing, making is impossible to work with PDFs/LaTeX. So much for 2018 being the year of the Linux desktop.
If knowledge is power, then the act of teaching, or just showing someone how to do something, is an act of decentralisation, of equalisation.
Mid-afternoon blood sugar crash. Really should keep healthy snacks at my desk.
Picking a new computer:
1998: "Everything's twice as fast as it was last year! So much choice! So many options!"
2018: "OK, so which of these fucking things is the least broken?"
I don't understand people who think that self-improving artificial intelligence will solve all of humanity's problems. We've already got self-improving natural intelligence and all it does is shitpost and be depressed
In Layer 8, the user, a human, dies. As they die, they decompose back into base parts. They become the Physical. They become Layer 1. And, thus, the circle is complete.
This is the OSI Layer Model.
Only the parts of geek culture that I'm not very interested in have become mainstream.
Gaming? Yeah, I don't do much of that. Science fiction and fantasy? I don't read or watch much fiction. Maker movement? Electrical engineering without the engineering. Growing up, I was the kind of geek who liked science, took apart electronics and learned how to code.
21st century "geek culture" is cultural appropriation. The stereotyped traits of a group are being used as light entertainment.
