Vítor De Araújo @vbuaraujo@mastodon.social

you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. your final grade in Equestrian Mind Control is a C

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"To improve security, rotate your passwords frequently"

Right, so, Mastodon. Can I live without Twitter? Probably not..

Can I use Mastodon more instead? Yes.

Web design in 1993 versus web design in 2022.

Both accomplish the same goal: display a text with an article.

One does it right. The other one doesn't.

German court rules off-site resources like fonts violate GDPR https://twitter.com/FascinatingTech/status/1487342734906171393 | https://lobste.rs/s/y0yzg4 #privacy #web

The TODO List

myth: capital will respond to demand by making more things that people want

reality: marketing under capitalism has taken the most advanced technology the earth has ever seen and dedicated all of it to specifically finding things that hurt, upset and enrage human beings and amplifying them in a darwinian evolutionary process in order to maximize our own boundless unending torment

A nice side effect of regular profiling: you know which parts of your code are cold.

For example, difftastic's display logic is very cold, so I can do additional linear scans to align content without perf worries!

“Why isn’t the new year on the winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

Like, seriously, people notice "OCTOber" and "DECEMber" and say, "hey, those mean 'eight' and 'ten', but they're the 10th and 12th months, what's up with that?".

If you've got a little more history, you'll know that July and August are named after Julius and Augustus Caesar, and think, "oh, they added those two months and bumped the rest of the months back."

Nope. The Romans were way, way worse at calendars than that.

https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce

Devious regexp trick I've not seen before: [^]

Negating the empty set matches any character, which lets you emulate DOTALL (i.e. a . matches newlines too) on older regexp implementations.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47317639/509706

Worf: Here's a plan. What if we don't worry about whatever comes next?
Miles: I'm not sure--
Worf: Miles! Stick to the plan.

my favorite evidence of the existence of god is the fact that richard dawkins invented a word that meant “idea, as an entity subject to selective pressure” and now everyone knows it and uses it to mean “picture with words on it”

How to bluff your way thru any conversation about which programming language is best: a guide

One thing caught my eye on the "Programming Language Energy Benchmark" report: https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/

Imperative languages use less energy than OO and functional languages.

It doesn't surprise me, 'cause all my life I saw that CPUs are imperative: Read memory from position X, move value read to register, add 1 to register, move value in register to memory and so on.

For other programming paradigms to use less energy, I bet the CPU instruction would have to focus on that paradigm.

Also, one could expect that a compiler could turn all those objects and monads and functors into imperative code, but I guess that's not really simple.

(Also, scripting language are, basically, a CPU emulation layer: They convert the script language into CPU "language", which is then converted in the real thing.)

We filed a lawsuit today against Vizio because they fail to fulfill even the basic requirements of the #GPL. You can check out the complete materials here:
https://sfconservancy.org/vizio