Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

#DDoS by the fediverse? Suddenly I got a big spike of traffic to my profile page on my web service, all seemingly from #Mastodon crawlers. I don't know the reason but it worked as a nice DDoS attack for a few seconds.

#haskell in 2022: however would we capture closures while serialising arrows?

#erlang, 1989: hold my beer

There’s a common thread in tech that once you make enough money, maybe you’ll “buy a farm” and live out there with more connection to nature. I’ve often thought about this myself — I grew up in the woods and would love to be surrounded by walking paths and trees instead of sidewalks and cars. But the thing that’s missing in a rural setting is community and the intellectual stimulation of culture. Bookshops and even libraries are mostly gone, and there’s no “third spaces” in rural areas to go to.

Here’s more about time banking including a video: https://timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking/
And here’s the “Living the Change” documentary: https://youtu.be/gq9sg397ee8

Hey friends just a note that Mastodon instances are usually run by just one or two people, and generally in their spare time. If you can spare a buck or two a month to support the hardware/internet costs, it sure helps. Check your home instance to see if they're accepting donations!

@requiem the two things I run into is that I don’t have the group or critical mass of people to get ideas working that extend beyond me; and that everything significant requires capital. I can’t even experiment with some of my bigger ideas because of the lack of the two. Which brings me back to community building, even if I’m not particularly good at it.

@mmu_man @requiem

I do.
I have been using this for 17 years.
It's lightweight. I can add comments, tags.

progress on porting plan9 / 9front to MNT Reform https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/fff070f2cbb01b7c0879e9dcb13ee4e3ed2497f0/commit.html

The most obvious way to reduce our agricultural carbon emissions is exploiting fewer animals. But putting aside my vegan biases, instead of messing around with the genetic code of living things, how about using biological farming techniques? Techniques that grow the soil under paddocks, absorbing carbon, and ensuring a sustainable yield in the long term. Keeping farmed animals under less stressful conditions is likely to improve their digestion, resulting in lower carbon emissions per yield.

McCLIM frankly is peak design aesthetique and should never change

@strypey Blockchains, whether by proof of work, stake, space, whatever, substitute cost for trust.

Trustless transactions have interesting applications, but the low transaction cost trust gives you makes it entirely superior for human-to-human and human-to-organization transactions.

Moving from a high-trust society (Sweden) to a low-trust society (Hong Kong) was a real eye-opener for me in terms of how much trust buys you in terms of efficiency, even between fiat-based markets.

@tetrislife
We have a few in France: https://www.chatons.org/search/by-service?service_type_target_id=114&field_alternatives_aux_services_target_id=All&field_software_target_id=All&field_is_shared_value=All&title=
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