Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

It now seems likely that "WebAssembly" is going to be widely used beyond web. Maybe it needs a less web-focused name.

I suggest renaming it "Conway" in honor Mel Conway who is likely the first (1958) to describe the design of a universal intermediate language.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368924.368928
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368892.368915

@shriramk @WSJ The headline should have been 'booty'. Imperial Booty has a nice ring to it.

I like Emacs because it is an immediately useful programming environment (a text editor) that grows with you for decades. There is always something new and interesting, something social because other people contribute stuff, helping each other to adapt the tool to our human needs and not some big corporation. Of course it’s weird to a lousy web browser in your text editor – but it’s also a programming tool that can be used to modify itself until it reads mail, browses the web, is a chat client, music player and what not. And that is empowering in that small way that makes me happy. It doesn’t help me overthrow the capitalist world order but it helps me disappear from the surveillance capitalist hamster wheel.

@mononcqc Is this post about AI or fracking?

@mononcqc

We are releasing the well-poisoning machine, because if we don't do it first, someone else with even worse morals might do it faster.

By being the first people to poison the well, we can know exactly what kind of toxins will be in the water such that we understand the symptoms when we inevitably make the whole village sick from it.

Of course this has prompted our competitors to fire their ethics people and also poison the well even faster, but such is the inevitable march of progress!

#solarpunk #gamedesign idea:

Survival game where you learn to be a part of an ecosystem and slowly abandon your unsustainable "tech tree" replacing it with sustainable, local solutions.

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A lot of games are trying to replicate very expansionist core loops, be it Minecraft's Factorios and so on, which see the player as a force acting on the environment / ecosystem, not working together with it.

Why not change it?

#game #gameidea

How many #Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

No

(I hope the two of you who got the joke enjoyed it)

@b33fpebble Wile it's easiest conclusion it gives consumers a wrong hope that EU with their GDPR is some what superior in handling their data, which is wrong corps do not need data per se, what they need is metadata to train their models so as long as they never store data that being automatically collected by networking systems and only use to train models to predict your next move they are fine. Your data/metadata is only safe in your own hands. #privacy #selfhosted

Hey, this is for everyone who nearly got into a pointless online argument but thought better of it and let it go: Good job, you did great!