❦ Billy Blaze ❦ @ckeen@mastodon.social
Programming simpleton
See my blog at https://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/blog/ or the recent gopher service : gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/1/ckeen/index.gph
I am a programming simpleton. I babble a lot about #gopher lately, I am running #OpenBSD on most machines I own, I build #keyboards in my spare time and I have a fetish for niche programming languages.
I am happy to help you if I can. I leave you with the rest to figure it out...
This is my daily driver at work: https://mastodon.social/media/1MVtrd7nQ4kDy9-Dc7g #keyboard
@craigmaloney it is this one, although with different caps now. #keyboard https://mastodon.social/media/JKJeEiiM-i-50GOavvA
https://mastodon.social/media/uOZSRMPyuWArXc-ns3I Some people say I have weird hobbies https://mastodon.social/media/dpjO84qAHxTPCY5KG8k
In other words, to disagree well you must first understand well. You have to read deeply, listen carefully, watch closely. You need to grant your adversary moral respect; give him the intellectual benefit of doubt; have sympathy for his motives and participate empathically with his line of reasoning. And you need to allow for the possibility that you might yet be persuaded of what he has to say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opinion/dying-art-of-disagreement.html
good 🍍 morning
@lain is just an everyday normal guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw
Next medium post will be an exclusive from @lain 's inner circle, including outragous photo material
I turned my big "Computers should be more user centric" thread in to a blog post: http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
@ckeen so I'm about a week late but here's a few links I've stumbled on that were interesting:
A BBS style gophersite:
gopher://gopher.su:70/
A homepage:
gopher://gopher.ddnss.de:70/
This is a chan-board on Gopher. Pretty terrible for the obvious chan-reasons, but funny to see on Gopher of all places:
gopher://gopher.su/1/board
@ckeen
I shop locally, mostly, but sometimes, for hard copies, bookdepository.com is suitable. For ebooks, smashwords.com, lulu.com, drivethrurpg.com.
For music, bandcamp.com.
Not sure what else Amazon sells, but whatever it is, I probably don't need.
So what are your alternatives to amazon? While everyone is mad at google et al. They do know what you are shopping for, what you watch and what you read...
Large BBC sound effects library is now available for free download for personal, educational, research & non-commercial use
There are about 16,000 clips
Smells like rain...
Started reading Data + Algorithms = Programs by Niklas Wirth and it kinda respikes my interest in pascal again.
Also on the software development discourse nothing has changed since the 70ies it seems. All the arguments then are still valid.
Ok, now there are terminal emulators written as an electron application: wtf
https://zeit.co/blog/hyper2
#ch4r0
Your first reaction to any problem should be to open your debugger. Getting a divorce? Open the debugger! Cut yourself badly? Open the debugger!
If, on the path to enlightment the buddha stands in your way, debug him.
toki pona li pona tawa mi kin !
toki pona li pona tawa jan ale lon ma ale.
o jan ale, o kama sona e toki pona !
lon toki Inli
http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/learn.php
lon toki Kanse
https://www.jchr.be/tokipona/index.htm
lon toki Epelanto
http://tokipona.info/
@tomasino There's something peculiar about your gopher setup which triggers an error in my client that I'd like to investigate. I will get back to you with details later. Just in case you are wondering about all these access attempts...
Actually, I have been thinking about the 'slow' #mastodon client. Yes, it would work like an RSS reader. There already are rss feeds. Are there more user specific feeds as well? Such as notifications and such? So a new client might not be needed at all...
What you have published is published. All this talk of 'control' just makes the impression that data can be taken offline. That's not the case in general in a federation. Deletion is hard. Proof of deletion impossible in general.
https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
"What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data."
The last part is most misleading. I have seen it applied to the #fediverse as well. Yes you can extract a copy of your data out of the system. But is that 'control'? In scuttlebutt as well as in AP systems once the data leaves your system (a copy!), it is out there. There is no mechanism to delete it. You might tell your server to delete a post but will all servers?
Radiohead’s "Creep" Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument Dating Back to the 6th Century https://goo.gl/5wXkAm https://t.co/3EKfitCK23
I wonder how long it takes to come up with these:
"In this bleak age when search engine algorithms dredge up
shoddily-assembled HOWTOs and pass them off as authorative
documents, providing for the next generation of sysadmins
is one of the most vital tasks that we face as profession."
-- @mwlucas 'Ed Mastery'