Brit @kingcons@tiny.tilde.website
see also:
blog - http://blog.kingcons.io
pics - http://instagram.com/kingcons
Hi, I'm Brit. 31, cis/het white male, born into more privilege than even that descriptor signifies.
I write code for money but miss teaching.
Too much is important to me and I still don't know how to best honor myself.
I delight in looking at trees, watching dogs run, reading Milosz and Neruda.
I can soak in headphones for hours seeking beautiful sounds.
I instinctively distrust many social structures but I love people madly.
I'm anxious about change and always changing. <3
Every now and then an emacs user discovers M-x zone for the first time and it's always a surprise and terror and delight
Adventures in lexical analysis of a selected set[1] of Debian manpages, preliminary conclusions:
The third-most-prevalent 4gram is "1 author joey hess"
@joeyh. do you have anything to say for yourself?
Notes:
1. Roughly 9,000 of 13,480 manpages lexilysed.
@dansup When you take VC, you sell the company. No ifs, no buts. We keep getting surprised as the sale usually just takes several years to complete. C’est la “exit”.
This is why VC investment is incompatible with sustainable businesses with social missions. And why I keep harping on about how we must support projects that benefit the commons from the commons (https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/)
Granted, I write NES emulators in Common Lisp and read the compiler's disassembly for fun. 🤷
Keep thinking lately about how to escape day job and become a low-level wizard. I suppose I could try to get an embedded shop to hire me but I've done basically no systems programming ever. Last used C/C++ in college data structures I think?
Reality is I just want to work on emulators and daydream about grad school courses on OSdev and compilers. Why do I imagine loving what I've hardly done? Brains are weird.
Today, we're opening up the great library of source code https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/
Live from @unesco headquarters in Paris.
@swheritage @rdicosmo @webmink
I wouldn't say I've hit burnout but I am in "all these customer complaints are crap, our process is too neglected/non-existent, and working on an emulator in a dead programming language is way more interesting" mode.
Wait...
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Dammit.
“I believe that one ought to have only as much market efficiency as one needs, because everything that we value in human life is within the realm of inefficiency – love, family, attachment, community, culture, old habits, comfortable old shoes.” - Edward Luttwak
LOL my house's HVAC system has given up the ghost good thing it's raining the next few days and there are large trees 😅
All software vendors, 2018:
So then all the customer's data, every tiny detail of their lives, is uploaded into the giant central computer hub located in another country. And your life gets much better! It only costs you $1000 a day. Any questions?
Me:
Uh. um. What, like, stops bad, uh, bad people, all that power in one place
Vendor (laughing):
We knew you'd ask! So we only allow a tiny insular self-selected, rich, social elite to run the giant central computer.
CEO (nods):
Very wise.
Sorry I've been away mastodonians, I had a root canal and work was crazy and I went on a vacation and I bought an engagement ring and thought about synths a lot and dear Lord I've started hacking lisp again (quietly) and why is it so unbelievably hard to make things that are just _good_?
Also hi hi, nice to see y'all. <3
Also, have some #tidallang composed techno: http://shop.conditional.club/album/risc-chip / https://github.com/kindohm/risc-chip
So for him it's AI or bust. Either he makes automated moderation work somehow, or Facebook goes under or has to change in some major way.
I think it will turn out that people moderating their own communities is really the only solution.
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT MASTODON?
lmao - love masto, always open-source
omg - our mod @Gargron
wtf - welcome to fediverse
imho - instance moderation & hosting opportunities
smfh - so many furries here
idgaf - I decentralized; gotta avoid facebook
"Programming is Forgetting: Towards a new Hacker Ethic" by @aparrish (Open Hardware Summit 2016 Keynote)
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
As an early-'80s kid who was enamored by the "Jargon File" and reverent descriptions of Hacker Culture, now too often disappointed by what grew out of it, this talk resonated with me so much. Highly recommended.
Thank you @catonano for the link
periodic reminder that the only reason CSV exists is that someone didn't read the ASCII spec
@joeyh has an interesting postt about "The Futures of Linux Distributions": https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/futures_of_distributions/ and which references another good one by @liw
IMO one reason we've seen such a gulf between language package managers and distro package managers is that many traditional distros haven't had a "local development environment" option. So you have to turn to you language's tooling for that.
Guix and Nix have development environment modes, but maybe it's too late?
I'm very glad that @Chocobozzz is working on PeerTube, a federated video hosting platform. I think there is a lot of, if I may put it, thirst, for a photo sharing platform too. With those superficial differences between how Mastodon works and how Instagram works.
And I mean, you could just fork Mastodon and modify the UI. Or you could build on top of ActivityPub from scratch, like PeerTube does. The possibilities are fascinating. All within one network.
Via @wingo, whom I will just quote from teh birdside:
> neat, SpectrePrime: like Spectre AFAIU but where the dependent operation is a write, not a read, and the cache effect is eviction, not pollution: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pdf
