bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Fedi be like.

The vibe on Bluesky is classically leftist/socialist, so the boostrappy libertarian message of federation (don't like the rules in this house? Go build your own house) is reaaaaallly rubbing people the wrong way. I'm glad those conversations are happening, frankly, bc that's an ideological barrier I don't think the apostles of federation anticipated.

Attack goose on the loose

#soupposting

Despite its widespread adoption, some notable programmers have criticized the C++ language, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Joshua Bloch, Ken Thompson and Donald Knuth.

As expressed by Joshua Bloch:

"I think C++ was pushed well beyond its complexity threshold, and yet there are a lot of people programming it. But what you do is you force people to subset it. So almost every shop that I know of that uses C++ says, "Yes, we're using C++ but we're not doing multiple-implementation inheritance and we're not using operator overloading.” There are just a bunch of features that you're not going to use because the complexity of the resulting code is too high. And I don't think it's good when you have to start doing that. You lose this programmer portability where everyone can read everyone else's code, which I think is such a good thing."

Donald Knuth (1993, commenting on pre-standardized C++), who said of Edsger Dijkstra that "to think of programming in C++" "would make him physically ill":

"The problem that I have with them today is that... C++ is too complicated. At the moment, it's impossible for me to write portable code that I believe would work on lots of different systems, unless I avoid all exotic features. Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste."

consider:

💬 Warum #ARD???

ACHTUNG:
👉 Google-Tracking beim
Mastodon-Server der ARD
https://ard.social

Wir sollten das NICHT einfach so hinnehmen!

#ÖRRbewegen #Tracking #NDR #ÖRR #Google #Mastodon #Fediverse

I was one of the candidates nominated to expand the FSF's board.

I didn't make it past the first round.

The only thing the board asked me about related to my signing of https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

Here are the candidates who made it to the next stage. I note that none of them signed the letter.

https://www.fsf.org/news/announcing-the-fsfs-board-candidates

#nostr

✔️ chicken pen almost complete (trim work needs to be finished). These girls don't know what hit them they get so much sunshine in the house and it's kinda funny to see them sitting on their perches looking out the transom .

THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME

https://nevermoremedia.substack.com/p/there-is-nothing-more-powerful-than