Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- aka
- earboxer
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Joined May 2019
@passthejoe Using and developing *free* software, I hope you mean 😉.
If everyone becomes a developer, but they're still slaves to proprietary SW, the free software movement has failed.
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
boosted
After a decade of waffling I finally started using NoScript. It's interesting. I mostly allow scripts, but make myself do so manually. And it's interesting to be aware of javascript usage on different sites. Like a geiger counter.
@juliobiason Is there a federated stackoverflow yet?
I mean, it's nice and all that they license the content under creative commons, but still would be good to have an option for self-hosted new communities of answers.
@lgehr step 5 was notably the most difficult, as there were a number of things I tried, but they didn't work (regarding creating and importing packages). Don't take these instructions as indicative of standard practice among go developers, I have no clue what other devs do to change go stdlib. So, this is what worked for me.
@lgehr
1. Motivation: had recently experimented with using a emoji clock in shell prompt
2. aerc documentation pointed to go's time.Time.Format
3. go's documentation pointed to a file called src/time/format.go
4. `sudo find / -path '*time/format.go'`
5. copied file, bind-mounted copy over original
6. Made code change (as seen in github PR #45394), compiled aerc to test
There was a post on gemini lately about how we shouldn't use ⓒⓔⓡⓣⓐⓘⓝ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 in our writing because #a11y. My hot take is that as long as the characters being used aren't used improperly (accents/foreign characters), we should just fix our TTS software to pronounce things as the author intended.
@kelbot one of the difficult things about the command line interface is that it doesn't help much if you forget the name of a command. Maybe I need to keep a printed cheatsheet for the 5000+ commands in my path. Distro maintainers take this advice.
I used an iPhone for 3 days
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
boosted
@technomancy @mdhughes @GeoffWozniak Thing is, there isn't always an alternative to C. If you want to target unpopular OSes and architectures in constrained environments, "modern" langs like Rust won't work.
If you know a lang that can produce small + fast binaries for a vast array of non-mainstream platforms (x86, ARM, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows are the mainstream ones), I'm all ears.
There are three reasons why C works on just about every platform under the Sun:
1. It's standardized, which makes writing a new compiler/backend much easier.
2. It's slow-moving, which makes it easy to maintain said compilers
3. It's old, so it has a lot of compilers/backends already built.
Achieving the first two of the above three qualities are quite essential to "replace" C.
If you know a lang that can produce small + fast binaries for a vast array of non-mainstream platforms (x86, ARM, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows are the mainstream ones), I'm all ears.
There are three reasons why C works on just about every platform under the Sun:
1. It's standardized, which makes writing a new compiler/backend much easier.
2. It's slow-moving, which makes it easy to maintain said compilers
3. It's old, so it has a lot of compilers/backends already built.
Achieving the first two of the above three qualities are quite essential to "replace" C.
I want to learn awk so I can do cool efficient text pipeliney things (like start printing on match, stop printing on another match, or run such and such command on a subset of the stream), but everytime I look at a tutorial for it, I think "these aren't practical" or "this makes no sense".
#plan9 #MIT licensed, copyright transferred to Plan9 Foundation
@lastfuture How many fans do they have?
Under the sales model, they'd need 1 album every two years, and 120 fans willing to purchase that album for comparable income.
@kline And can you do that without being accused of censorship?
Zach "earboxer" DeCook
boosted
Hypothesis: posts that are outliers in engagement metrics (comments, score, etc) are more likely to be low quality/controversial/damaging to communities.
@apt yeah, like how do you add notes. I've tried clicking , control-clicking, right clicking, pressing buttons on keyboard, etc.
- zachdecook@librem.one
- gemini
- gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com
- aka
- earboxer
- distro
- alpine linux
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
Joined May 2019
