Luís de Sousa @luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social

Adding insult to to injury, the @protonmail support page is currently unreachable.

There is a new web interface for @protonmail. Unfortunately, it disabled keyboard interaction, arrow keys, ENTER and DELETE can no longer be used to manage massages.

This usability downgrade is untoward. Not at all in line with the previous philosophy of this company.

This #ElonMusk vs. #Anonymous promises to be the best soup operas / action series of all time!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musks-crypto-tweets-have-destroyed-lives-says-video-purportedly-from-anonymous-11623019100

Must confess today I spent far more time than I should enjoying the collective realisation by the #crypto community that the world's richest person (and greatest market mover) actually does not understand the technology. 🙂

Over the weekend #termite was declared obsolete by its developer. By a long shot the best terminal emulator I ever used.

But no need to cry or worry, its replacement is #alacritty, a faster, safer terminal emulator with similar goals. And above all, written in #rust.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite/commit/18de7682e983e6562a87c63a2814c5e39461b081

I am left wondering if I should try a different #Linux distribution. Would #Debian help in accessing more recently packaged software? Or should I consider a distribution like #Arch, based on a different software packaging paradigm?

Please discuss.

The past couple of days I spent quite some time to install a pandoc filter on #Ubuntu 20.04. The filter is not packaged and must be compiled. Problem is: packaged software available for Ubuntu is old, e.g. haskell-stack is from 2018, whereas pandoc itself is from 2019.

I bump into issues like this every now and then. It is great to have all that software packaged for you, but in most cases it is rather old.

[7] Segmentation fault. Core dumped.

[6] R is dying a slow death, but we already knew that. So is Ruby. Good
riddance.

[5] Note to self: have another look at #Lua, there must be something about it.

[4] With languages like #Rust and Pascal, er ... I mean #Go, on the rise, objected-oriented programming is likely to loose hegemony. But don't count on its demise.

[3] #Rust is going #todamoon. I expect it to reach the top tier this decade, and possibly become the programming language of the 21st century.

[2] JavaScript is not going away any time soon (for our sins).

[1] Successful both as a simple systems language and the go-to for data science, Python will soon become the most used language in the world.

[0] New SlashData survey is out, personal takeaways and wild predictions in this thread.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-javascript-has-most-developers-but-rust-is-the-fastest-growing/

#BookReview of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3752678777

Subscribed to #NordVPN some days ago and now I cannot use #Spotify.

Any tips on getting it back to work are very welcome.

Watched this documentary series the past few weeks. Almost fourty years old but still very relevant, it is now an historical document in itself. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjtHMBI1aTxJHeJ2Rqfb3Pw

#BookReview of A Prodigiosa Aventura das Plantas by Jean-Marie Pelt, Jean-Pierre Cuny.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3665972292

#chooseourblackandyellow

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