Derick Florian (he/him) @derickflorian@social.cleverlibre.org

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#chiptune #electronic #electronica #experimental #synthwave https://music.litui.net/library/tracks/11668

@peterdrake
I agree in general with your sentiment.
Except for one thing:

> 'Saying it's up to individual users to block things they don't want to see feels a bit privileged.'

We don't mind other instances blocking other instances. The problem is that the toxic ones do so for the wrong reasons. Like blocking others because they don't block the same instances as they do, and then trying to convince other instances to block the same.

If one instance wants to block half the Fediverse, that's up to them. Totally. They can be a walled garden for all I care. But then to spread their blocklist and say 'this is the one true safe blocklist' seems ... well, they basically become the very people they hate.

@freemo @Gargron @stux @QOTO

What can we do to work towards a much more diverse and anti-racist Mastodon? https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

introducing lispPackagesLite: Common Lisp in pure Nix, no Quicklisp. I need help with makeScope.

https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/hraban/nixpkgs/tree/feat/lisp-packages-lite/pkgs/development/lisp-modules-lite

#lisp #nixos #programming

I added an extra server to the #QOTO cloud. This should speed up our services, in particular gitlab and discourse were using up too much cpu, but now they are fine. Those services should run much smoother now.

禁断の果実。Forbidden fruit. #followfriday #apple #photography

Are their any fellow YNAB users out there in Mastodon-land?

#ynab

Haven't usef the language, I find the language nice, but the amount of effort to avoid calling things by their names and all the work to invent new syntax to work with #monads dissapoints me. Let's see what this all evolves into.

v0.25 - Introducing use expressions! – Gleam
https://gleam.run/news/v0.25-introducing-use-expressions/

#erlang #beamVm #gleam #gleamlang #fp #plt #programming #programmingLanguages #functionalProgramming

As a Sunday side-project, I'm going to start following this tutorial on making a roguelike game with Rust and Specs 💫

I've always wanted to learn more about Rust, ECS and Roguelike-dev, so this tutorial is a perfect combination! I'll try to slowly finish it and let you know about the results weekly 🤓

On this day of the Fall Harvest Feast in the US, I'll share one of my highlights of the year: Grand Entry at the 41st Annual Kamloopa Pow Wow, hosted by the Secwepemc people of the Tk’emlúps Nation, by the site of the Kamloops Residential School where 215 unmarked graves were discovered last year. The pow wow came back after 3 years off, with 20,000 visitors and 1,500 dancers over 3 magical days. #Powwow #FirstNations #Indigenous #BIPOC #BC #Canada

@derickflorian You might also be interested in this: https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/6-thanksgiving-myths-share-them-with-someone-you-know and https://indiancountrytoday.com/tag/thanksgiving

There is no Thanksgiving without farm workers. Thank you & Solidarity!

It's ripe for abuse. The intention is good, but there's no way to shield it from abuse and money.

Check the thread, some even suggested:
1. a scoring system for accounts (a.k.a. China's National Social Credit system) (federated or local)
2. labels (federated or local)
3. If a server doesn't block a user, the server should defederate, or the other admins will block the entire server
4. Algorithms

Etc.

I was chatting with a very senior colleague last week on improving disk IO utilisation and he modelled the system as an M/M/1 queue to evaluate the impact of the idea we were brainstorming. This was so cool and got me quite excited!

It also got me very curious about other real world examples of applying queuing models. I am considering going back to the textbooks to relearn queueing theory.

[I would appreciate a boost to get as many real world examples.]

I wanted to apologize to anyone who may have mistaken my pronouns in my profile as an intent to mock the use of pronouns.

The intent was always that I am happy to use whatever pronouns a person wishes that they feel best represents respect shown to them. Likewise I asked for pronouns to be used for me that also shows respect. It was intended to be a two way street not a mockery.

I have since added a note to my profile to make it quite clear my pronouns are not intended to mock.

There have been many questions about server blocking #fediblock

On Mastodon.world we don't block many servers (yet). I don't block a server because other instances do.

We block a server when they host many accounts which breach our rules, and no moderation is done against those accounts.

If there's a server you just personally don't like, you can personally block the domain for your account.

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