Vertigo @vertigo@mastodon.social

If you're the type of person who posts memes or wishes of ill-intent upon people's homes and livelihoods, just block me now; for, if I find out you post that kind of shit, I will without warning or concern block you immediately upon seeing it. If I deem it severe enough, I'll also report you for hate speech.

"If you are not a ________, fuck off." (Insert your favorite adjective in the blank provided.)

When I read this, especially on the Fediverse, I get pissed. What did I do to warrant fucking off for, when I never met or interacted with you in the first place?

Shit like this results in an instantaneous block from me. I don't need supremacism, however unintentional or jocular, in my life.

"It's just a joke!" Yeah, that's what the nazis said too, remember? Go pound sand!

Since this was such a huge problem on Twitter recently, I thought I'd make a similar announcement here on the Fediverse.

I'm just going to put this out there loud and clear right now.

If you are the kind of person who thinks that Dennis Ritchie is a somehow GOD, who can do no wrong, who has made no mistakes ever, including wrt your beloved C programming language, BLOCK ME NOW.

Hey fediverse bot authors, this is for you.

Instead of having a bot that blindly follows someone, then having a pinned toot or description that reads, "DM me "unfollow" if you don't want me to follow you any more", how about you do something sensible like looking at a user's profile and discovering whether or not they have #nobot in it first?

Because if you write bots that don't respect #nobot, you're no better than a spammer.

Don't @-me.

#cats #mastocats #BlackCatAppreciationDay

Guardians of the Bird.

(Behind the door, a screaming conjure.)

Cheese so sharp, you can bring it to a knife fight.

We don't deserve 5-year aged cheddar. But, yet, here we are.

attn @EdS -- thought you might be interested in this.

I just finished the new assembler's "section" abstraction. This abstraction is responsible for keeping track of the location counter, #BCPL global vector initializers, and for producing its own hunk-format image.

http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/dir?ci=5594d490f946dfa4&name=dev/src/bcpl/assemrv

Despite #BCPL's quirks, I'm actually finding it rather enjoyable to use; even more than C, but not quite as much as #Forth.

Still honing my techniques in the language though.

Wrote my first unit test in BCPL today. That was ... exciting.

ABWH.

That is all.

(I suspect probably only @djsundog would understand, but that's OK.)

I made a number of patches to my local copy/repo of #cintsys and #BCPL build scripts. In theory, it ought to build out of the box on any 64-bit POSIX-like environment that runs Bash and GNU make. It will *probably* run on other makes and shells too; but, these configs are not tested.

Awaiting feedback from Dr. Richards on how to best contribute my changes back.

These *might* help solve some of the problems I'm having when building #Cintpos (#Tripos) as well. Again, untested.