Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

I restarted doing dyne:bolic. 100% free and live nomadic as always, easy to boot, use and share freedom. Planning to feature Guix as package manager (with GNU repos). The main target groups are media activists, teachers and journalists as usual, but also people recycling old PCs and young rebels escaping corporate mind control. If you are a free software activist: give a spin to this alpha and let us know, your opinion is valuable https://fed.dyne.org/post/95333

@Sempf @codinghorror Jeff created SO to be a crowdsourced upload of his mind to the internet.

One weird trick that apparently I do a lot, because I've been told this a lot: I don't answer the question you asked, I answer the better question you didn't ask. You're welcome, by the way.

#militaryindustrialcomplex #military #army #navy #airforce #bombs #memes #meme #classwar #ausgov #politas #antimilitary

@codinghorror it's hard to know how you'd react to crazy adversity until you find yourself confronting it yourself.

A collegue general pracitioner asked about having a simple instant messaging system in his work place. It should be cheap, simple to install, functional in an rdp session, and run exclusively in their intranet behind a firewall.

I recommended plugging a Raspberry Pi with an IRC server into the net, and install HexChat on the Workplaces.

That was two days ago. Today I got an email: installed, up and running! Yay!

#irc #floss

Finally! A new episode of "The Search Space"!

#6 - Adam Smith on Answer Set Programming
https://thesearch.space/episodes/6-adam-smith-on-answer-set-programming

#Prolog #LogicProgramming #AnswerSetProgramming

Oh man wow I am not into sports but I'd definitely pay to see this. Shut up and take my money dot gif

Awkward.
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Just don't do an opt out thing in the fedi. I know it is technically possible, but too many came here to avoid that and the cost of the social friction isn't worth it.

Just learn about consent. It might help you in the rest of your life too.

People talk a lot of crap about #lisp but then litter their code with parenthesis because they don’t understand how operator precedence works in their language. #programming

a "141 minute mistake"? Dude, you're a 64 year long mistake as a movie reviewer!

Build small, simple, inspectable programs.

Build them this way so others can understand them; so Future You can fix them, even when you're tired, when the duties of life rest heavily on your aching shoulders, when it would be easier to let the breakage lie.

Build simple things because fulfilling duty and taking responsibility is more important than automation.

@Jermolene If you can't have coffee without a milk frother then there are too many dependencies in your codebase.

No coffee yesterday morning because my milk frother refused to work, with a flashing red light and an unusual noise. I took all the bits apart, and cleaned them, but nothing coaxed it back into life. Then this morning I tried rebooting it, and of course it worked straight away.

Chastening that I forgot that even a stupid milk frother is now a bug-ridden computer system, with all the inscrutable malevolence of a printer...

The one question to ask yourself when reviewing PRs:

Is this change an improvement over the current state?

The goal isn’t perfection, it’s improvement.

Feel free to make suggestions for improvement, but clearly distinguish them from the actual blockers.

Good news, everyone! After a few minutes of Google searching, I have found an article that justifies the self destructive behavior I am currently engaging in! I am now awarding myself this medal, because I deserve it 🥇

started looking into squeak/smalltalk and it's just amazing!
there's this tool called method finder which let's you type in arguments and what you expect them to produce and it lists you all possible methods that could have produced the result.
#smalltalk #squeak

Most open source projects are understaffed, especially given their relevance within the whole software ecosystem.

For projects such as k8s it's of course even worse because their target audience is basically Google/Amazon etc (if you are a normal company it's probably a massive overhead for you) who outsource that relevant work hoping the community likes to work for free while learning the skills Google/Amazon/etc need.

Software complexity is a scam by big tech.

https://mastodon.social/@tcurdt/111839427860786689

​Capitalism is remaking the world on the basis of two spatial models: The airport & the camp. Airports act as securitized spaces of circulation & consumption for the wealthy & well-documented. The camp is abandoned & at times has war waged upon it, serving as a resource & a dump.