Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

Due to inflation a picture is now worth eleven hundred words.

4. Federated moderation

It's likely we won't have time for this in our current sprint, but I'd personally love to collaborate with groups thinking about how we can more easily opt into blocklists. For example, if you run a distributed press instance, it should be useful for all the sites on your community to opt into a blocklist instead of having to moderate everything on their own.

A hyper object is an object that is real and exists, yet we can only ever indirectly interact with. For example: capitalism is a hyper object.

Most interesting imo is the idea of false hyper objects. Even if you’re not aware of capitalism, you still feel its presence in interactions with other objects. But that presence can be incorrectly ascribed to something else, which is potentially unreal. For example: meritocracy seems like a false hyper object.

@strypey I think it's learnt helplessness.

When I was involved in starting a volunteer-run community newspaper in the late 1990s we built and maintained our own website, which contained full copies of all our issues. How did the web get so mystified and inaccessible that community groups - and even businesses - now rely on FarceBook and other corporate providers to host their web presence?

#web #WWW

@resonancewright @nazgul I feel like we could do without the kind of people who would've followed him to Mars tbh

@nazgul aren't you glad we saw the bastard run Twitter before anyone followed him to Mars?

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

@joshsusser this might have been true for smalltalk, but i don’t think it was true for C++, where a virtual table lookup has runtime cost. Composition can also have runtime cost, but only if you compose via pointers, which isn’t actually typical in C++. The performance argument is slightly stronger for java, where composition must use pointers. All around, though, i think this was just a statement about smalltalk performance

@tetrislife @nytpu Cuis Smalltalk seems to be really cool. Looks great on HDPI too.

No matter how much I play around, I seemingly always come back to #AwesomeWM.

@joeyh@octodon.social

FSF: "So do you actively try to destroy people's lives and reputations based on allegations, just because you don't agree politically or because they're socially awkward?"

joeyh: "Why yes I do, there's even public proof!"

FSF: "I'm sorry, you're not the kind of person we're looking for"

We are paging all #tlaplus & #pluscal users. Let's rebuild our community here. Please respond and boost for reach.

Did you know you could use Mastodon as a comment platforms on your blog? I blogged about this 2 years ago https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ but since there has been a lot of newcomers recently, it might be a good idea to share it again 😜

#Zoom: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my mine too.

Zoom is a proprietary service. You can't download the Zoom software, set up your own Zoom server and host a Zoom conference. Their software is theirs. Yet they use dozens of software packages developed by the Free Software community to run their service:

https://explore.zoom.us/en/opensource/source/

They value Open Source, because it saves them money, but not the software freedoms of their users.

#SoftwareFreedom #ProprietaryServices #OpenSource

TIL of a new #Emacs function `balance-windows` that balances the size of windows.

Discovered it when I hit `C-x +` by accident. `global-command-log-mode` helped me find what happened.

the ultimate benefit of split keyboards