Nostr notes by Daphne Preston-Kendal

Justine Tunney

2026-09-08T13:32:11Z

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Justine Tunney

Speaking of people whom MIT should probably have stopped ...

2026-09-02T14:46:05Z

Speaking of people whom MIT should probably have stopped employing long before they actually did …

Carl Hewitt, of actor model fame, at least in his later years was notorious within his own part of the CS community as a crank.

He claimed that the actor model was more general than Turing machines and could compute things normal Turing machines can’t.

Does anyone know when he started claiming things like this? At least by the 2010s he was saying this kind of thing but I’m curious for how long.

RE: https://phpc.social/@dgoosens/117133686047360400 who’s this ...

2026-08-21T14:28:43Z

RE: https://phpc.social/@dgoosens/117133686047360400

who’s this ‘he’

if my computer isn’t being fixed by a trans girl wearing animal ears i don’t trust it to actually get fixed

quoting
note13vy…vs0r

OMG... this is so spot on

Guile will optimize this during peval to remove the list ...

2026-08-17T21:25:31Z

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Guile will optimize this during peval to remove the list allocation and the ‘apply’:

(let-values ((x ((lambda () 0))))
(apply f x))

Chez will not optimize this, at least not during cp0

Maybe it spots this optimization possibility later? Dybvig originated this kind of list allocation avoidance in his lambda* paper with Hieb, but when lambda* itself failed to get traction, I don‘t know if regular lambda/apply got the same optimization …

Back to extensible-match hacking! Very much running up against ...

2026-08-17T21:20:31Z

Back to extensible-match hacking!

Very much running up against Dybvig’s assumption that the Chez Scheme compiler is typical of programs that will be compiled with Chez Scheme

Dybvig doesn’t do cursed things with multiple values nearly as much as I do

I once heard an astrophysicist on Radio 4 opine that if alien ...

2026-08-12T19:38:43Z

I once heard an astrophysicist on Radio 4 opine that if alien species did exist and had interstellar travel, like in science fiction, then Earth would be famous throughout the galaxy for its solar eclipses; beings would come as tourists to Earth to behold this marvellous cosmic coincidence: a single moon which is exactly the right size in the sky to cover the solar system’s sun, leaving just a tiny ring of light while all around, the sky goes dark

First dose of mpox vaccine tomorrow morning Get a vaccine! Mpox ...

2026-08-09T19:29:03Z

First dose of mpox vaccine tomorrow morning

Get a vaccine! Mpox transmission is nothing like STI transmission! You can be infected just by cuddling! Protect yourself and your friends!

Entirely in character, as the original Symbolics was, in ...

2026-08-05T19:50:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…v65d
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Entirely in character, as the original Symbolics was, in practice, very much a rule-based expert system grift

many such cases ...

2026-08-05T13:11:09Z

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many such cases

really makes u think ...

2026-08-05T12:30:36Z

really makes u think

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2026-08-04T14:56:19Z

your preferred hacking clothes:

@npub18zk…45sm there was a truly excellent meme about this: ...

2026-07-23T20:18:23Z

elilla&, fibre crafts arc (npub18zk…45sm) there was a truly excellent meme about this:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jeffmcneill/116883381330226207 new ...

2026-07-09T07:50:25Z

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jeffmcneill/116883381330226207

new title: ‘mandarin of Codeberg’ 😌😎

RE: https://chaos.social/@dpk/114518290970221599 evergreen toot ...

2026-07-08T16:05:29Z

RE: https://chaos.social/@dpk/114518290970221599

evergreen toot

quoting
note17es…ya58

It’s not nostalgia if the world really has been getting worse for all of your adult life

Honestly impressive considering we’re mostly on medications ...

2026-07-03T13:11:04Z

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Honestly impressive considering we’re mostly on medications that usually have a side-effect of reducing libido that we’re also known in general to be such incredibly horny people

Advice to free software projects: If you have any kind of ...

2026-06-20T13:12:03Z

Advice to free software projects:

If you have any kind of long-term low-level issue with the legal entity/entities who have any involvement in your software (hosting, trademarks, personnel overlap, etc.), get your ducks in a row, and make sure you’re absolutely clear about what your current relationship is and what it will be in the future, *before* the Cyber Resilience Act comes into force.

You need to get serious about deciding where legal responsibility lies, and be happy with where it is.

It’s not really relevant to much, but I feel like I need to ...

2026-06-17T02:58:05Z

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It’s not really relevant to much, but I feel like I need to know: Is ‘Catty’ Mircea Leon? I feel like it’s heavily implied (one drone with distinct dress, known by a name, maybe has more autonomy than other drones, apparently able to sabotage one day of Rowan’s training, and the ‘overjoyed to bend himself to Aphrodite’s desires beyond his own’ thing), but who Catty is and what actually happened to Leon are technically still left open

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2026-06-06T09:22:35Z

what

Looking at the clothes other lasses at GPN have on and yeah, I ...

2026-06-05T07:48:03Z

Looking at the clothes other lasses at GPN have on and yeah, I should have packed significantly sluttier

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because ...

2026-05-30T08:20:50Z

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into carpentry, hostelry, or subsistence farming

someone i know was fired from LowRISC today for refusing to use ...

2026-05-27T13:07:31Z

someone i know was fired from LowRISC today for refusing to use ‘AI’

But all of the pro-US rage comments seem to be gone, leaving only ...

2026-05-21T17:07:41Z

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But all of the pro-US rage comments seem to be gone, leaving only comments complaining about the pro-US rage comments. (I’m not logged in to the site, maybe they were hidden for logged out users? That site employs all kinds of weird moderation tricks I don’t understand)

Happy fourth birthday to this Mastodon pull request, a basic ...

2026-05-20T08:27:22Z

Happy fourth birthday to this Mastodon pull request, a basic trust and safety feature which keeps getting kicked down the line https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18468

💭 claiming a religious exemption from a requirement to use ...

2026-05-19T08:40:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…6csa
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💭 claiming a religious exemption from a requirement to use LLMs at work

Oh hey, the Pope is turning his sermon against artificial ...

2026-05-19T08:39:32Z

Oh hey, the Pope is turning his sermon against artificial intelligence into a full encyclical. Looking forward to it
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html

the real is never so compelling as the

2026-05-16T15:48:16Z

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the real is never so compelling as the

A Lisp machine is not necessarily a machine that runs Lisp; ...

2026-05-06T15:25:59Z

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A Lisp machine is not necessarily a machine that runs Lisp; ‘Lisp’ in this case is a stand-in for any high-level, memory-managed language in which things can still be inspected and modified at runtime. Smalltalk counts too, for example; even JavaScript in the browser is a bit like this

The classic criticism of this model in the internet age is that it’s insecure, but Jonathan Rees demonstrated in 1995 using lexical scope as a capability security mechanism in a Lisp OS https://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/

Though to be fair, if you read the original GNU manifesto, what ...

2026-05-06T15:14:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…cm4q
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Though to be fair, if you read the original GNU manifesto, what Stallman wanted was a Lisp machine with a Unix kernel. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I still want that, and it is probably still the best outline of a way out of this mess

The tendency is to assume that software freedom is meaningful in ...

2026-05-06T15:13:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…kxht
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The tendency is to assume that software freedom is meaningful in the sense that you can actually do anything you want with your computer, when the reality is more like you *could* do anything with it – if you had the time, the skill, and the inclination

(This is connected to why I think taking Unix and C as the basis of our free OSes has actually been counterproductive to users’ ability to meaningfully make use of software freedom)

So it’s an obscure feature that probably very few people want. ...

2026-05-06T15:11:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…rxas
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So it’s an obscure feature that probably very few people want. My options:

1. spend the time to implement it myself
2. file a bug an hope somebody thinks it worth their time; wait in the meanwhile, and expect that someone will probably close it as ‘not planned’ because it’s so weird
3. live without it
4. pay someone to develop it for me

When the cost is only $5, I’ll take number 4 thanks

This behaviour is weird enough that Apple completely dropped it ...

2026-05-06T15:09:34Z

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This behaviour is weird enough that Apple *completely* dropped it with Mac OS X, not even providing an option for the old way, despite a significant user base that was used to it.

If there’s anything weird here, it’s that the market for this feature is even large enough that selling it for $5 is even a vaguely viable business model. By the time it came out in 2020, the functionality had been gone for nearly 20 years already.

And sure, maybe the point was that if standard window managers ...

2026-05-06T15:07:05Z

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And sure, maybe the point was that if standard window managers did support it, it would be gratis.

But the fact is they don’t. This is a pretty niche feature request, bringing back behaviour that was roundly mocked in the original Mac OS where it comes from. (e.g. Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/24/user-interface-design-for-programmers/#:~:text=Sit%20down%20at%20a%20Macintosh – Front and Center at least fixes the bug where clicking a window brought its application forward, but not the window itself)

I was once mildly mocked by someone in an online chat because I ...

2026-05-06T15:05:15Z

I was once mildly mocked by someone in an online chat because I use https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/. The criticism was that this ‘simple window manager feature’ costs $5.

I would like to sit that person down in front of a Linux box and ask them to get themselves this feature there. I will inform them, xkcd 951-style, when the amount of time they spent on it vs paying $5 for an app to do it means they are working for less than minimum wage.

Von wem wird das entschieden?

2026-04-28T20:52:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…wsy9
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Von wem wird das entschieden?

They made a declarative grammar, and the language it describes is ...

2026-04-02T19:39:49Z

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They made a declarative grammar, and the language it describes is regular, and the spec doesn’t assume a particular application. That’s more than WHATWG has ever managed

Ah, crud, unfortunately there is a part of URL resolution which ...

2026-04-02T18:36:58Z

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Ah, crud, unfortunately there is a part of URL resolution which will break both . and .. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.4

How much will people hate me if I make /./ a significant ...

2026-04-02T16:21:30Z

How much will people hate me if I make /./ a significant component of Hasgit’s URL design

Isn’t it curious how Apple has brought out its cheapest laptop ...

2026-04-01T10:37:21Z

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Isn’t it curious how Apple has brought out its cheapest laptop ever at a time when hardware is otherwise at its most expensive in a long time? It’s an underpowered client for cloud services

Welcome to the future of computing. The ‘thin client’ dream of the 90s is here!

Cloud providers will have identified self-hosting, ...

2026-04-01T10:35:08Z

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Cloud providers will have identified self-hosting, community-organized services, and digital sovereignty campaigns as a threat, in the same way Microsoft identified free software as a threat in the 1990s and 2000s, and they will want to stamp out that threat. Keeping prices high to make self-hosting uneconomical is one way to do this

The cloud providers and the AI companies are the same companies, ...

2026-04-01T10:32:29Z

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The cloud providers and the AI companies are the same companies, and what they have learned is that they can tie up all the high-end hardware for themselves and make it unaffordable for plebs

The hardware companies in turn will be happy to keep prices high even if raw materials are ever more easily available again and demand is (somewhat) lower

The hardware shortages and prize hikes are not going to end with ...

2026-04-01T10:28:16Z

The hardware shortages and prize hikes are not going to end with the AI bubble

Anyone have experience with employee buyouts of small businesses ...

2026-03-31T06:12:12Z

Anyone have experience with employee buyouts of small businesses in Germany by any chance

I don’t foresee any problems there, but I‘m not deep in the ...

2026-03-27T18:56:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…evd0
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I don’t foresee any problems there, but I‘m not deep in the technical issues of federation. Perhaps n0toose (npub1yru…hgt9) could say more, although I suspect that sort of thing is still a way down the development roadmap

(This thread reflects only my own views and not those of the ...

2026-03-27T18:17:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…khzx
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(This thread reflects only my own views and not those of the remainder of the Codeberg presidium, board – nor (most importantly) does it reflect the views of the members of Codeberg as a whole, who ultimately make the decisions.)

So no, we don’t offer massive CI resources, unlimited repo ...

2026-03-27T18:17:04Z

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So no, we don’t offer massive CI resources, unlimited repo quotas, etc.

What we offer is different: if self-hosting isn’t for you, but you still want to know that your repo hosting is not at the whims of Microsoft’s bottom line, Codeberg is for you.

If the Codeberg service you depend on goes away, it won’t be from one day to the next in order to boost our income. We will warn you about the reasons, ask you and the other members what you think, and you’ll have a chance to change things.

Codeberg is different. Codeberg is a non-profit. Moreover, it is ...

2026-03-27T18:13:18Z

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Codeberg is different.

Codeberg is a non-profit.

Moreover, it is a *democratic* non-profit. You can (and, if you actively use Codeberg, should) become a member and you will have an equal vote and a fair say in the running of the association, and in any decisions we make about what to offer and what not to offer.

This democratic right is guaranteed to you not only by our constitution, but by German law, which guarantees that the membership as a whole has the ultimate decision-making power.

Microsoft’s shareholders are probably very pleased about this. ...

2026-03-27T18:10:12Z

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Microsoft’s shareholders are probably very pleased about this.

But if Microsoft needs to please its shareholders and turn the revenue dial up a bit again (say, because they’ve got themselves tied up in a huge economic bubble, and need to bolster the bottom line after it pops), they might choose to take away some of those free goodies.

In fact, it’s not just a hypothetical – they started doing that just recently. https://web.archive.org/web/20260223084443/https://github.com/resources/insights/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions

Those changes are ‘postponed’, but assume they will come.

Microsoft is a for-profit company. They have attracted a lot of ...

2026-03-27T18:05:04Z

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Microsoft is a for-profit company. They have attracted a lot of projects to them by giving away free goodies, like an immense amount of computing power for CI, and over the years have increased the amount of stuff you get for free. (Not long ago you had to pay for personal private repos …)

By continuously sweetening the deal for smaller users, then getting orgs to pay once they start needing collaboration features, GitHub built up over a billion dollars in revenue per year (as of 2022).

Apart from that, many people listed things that GitHub provides ...

2026-03-27T17:55:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…hz7d
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Apart from that, many people listed things that GitHub provides for free which Codeberg doesn’t provide or requires self-hosting for. The biggest one was CI, but there were other things too.

And I think the only way I can respond to that is by talking about the fundamentally different organizational models that GitHub and Codeberg have – not to plead on our smaller size, but to plead on principles.

(If someone’s forge were hosting completely objectionable, ...

2026-03-27T17:46:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…axzn
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(If someone’s forge were hosting completely objectionable, hateful content we might choose to turn their OAuth support off. But, for example, you can have as many private and non-free repositories as you like that way. More on that in a bit though …)

(Furthermore, this thread reflects only my own views and not those of the remainder of the Codeberg presidium, board – nor (most importantly) does it reflect the views of the members of Codeberg as a whole, who ultimately make the decisions.)

Forge federation is something we’re actively pushing for ...

2026-03-27T17:45:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…lffc
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Forge federation is something we’re actively pushing for because of this. Full federation support is still a few years ahead of us, probably, but you can already set up your own forge in a way that minimizes inconvenience to users by using Codeberg as a single sign-on provider for a self-hosted forge.

https://git.madhouse-project.org/, which hosts the Iocaine project, is a great example of this. If you set up Codeberg as SSO for your own site, almost all of our content rules are irrelevant to you.

We are much more excited by the idea of creating an ecosystem of ...

2026-03-27T17:44:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…ggdq
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We are much more excited by the idea of creating an ecosystem of forges (and different forge software) than in becoming the new one place where absolutely everything is hosted.

I am, for example, very pleased that even while switching to Forgejo, Fedora decided to keep on self-hosting rather than jumping to us.

To be clear, we’re open for everyone who needs us, especially individuals working on their own smaller projects. But other forges are our friends, not our competition

To begin by addressing what seemed to be a misconception ...

2026-03-27T17:38:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…jqjq
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To begin by addressing what seemed to be a misconception underlying a lot of the comments:

Codeberg, the website, does not aim to replace GitHub. We poke fun at their recent foibles in our PR sometimes, but we do not want to become them.

We do not want to replace one single point of failure with another! (Admittedly, I think Codeberg.org, run by a non-profit, as SPOF would be better than GitHub.com, run by Microsoft, as an SPOF, but that’s not the goal!)

(This thread reflects only my own views and not those of the ...

2026-03-27T17:36:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…vc8a
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(This thread reflects only my own views and not those of the remainder of the Codeberg presidium, board – nor (most importantly) does it reflect the views of the members of Codeberg as a whole, who ultimately make the decisions.)

There was an article about moving to Codeberg on the orange ...

2026-03-27T17:34:56Z

There was an article about moving to Codeberg on the orange website yesterday, and out of interest to get an impression of what average programmers think of the idea of moving, I took at look at the comments. (Yeah, I know …)

I’m going to write here my thoughts on a general impression of the comment thread as a whole. (Rather than respond to individuals.)

‘Herr’ in German doesn’t have the same effect, although ...

2026-03-06T16:49:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…75jx
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‘Herr’ in German doesn’t have the same effect, although it’s admittedly basically calling God ‘Mister’

I find Christian prayer in French somehow unseemly (e.g. ...

2026-03-06T16:48:50Z

I find Christian prayer in French somehow unseemly (e.g. ‘Seigneur’ as an address for God just sounds unaccountably silly to me), but Duruflé’s short setting of the Lord’s Prayer goes incredibly hard

Kernel security bugs are fixed three times faster when fixed by ...

2026-03-06T11:46:57Z

Kernel security bugs are fixed three times faster when fixed by the same person who wrote the bug https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2

Applying this result to a world in which devs aren’t the authors of ‘their’ own (slop) code left as an exercise to the reader

What do you do when describing the timeline updates of users with ...

2026-02-18T12:17:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…xmx5
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What do you do when describing the timeline updates of users with ‘they/them’ pronouns to users who have their language set to a language without a gender-neutral personal pronoun?

Another thorny accessibility-adjacent problem: You have a web app ...

2026-02-18T12:17:06Z

Another thorny accessibility-adjacent problem:

You have a web app like a social network where there’s a timeline that describes recent things people have done. ‘Alice updated her profile’, etc.

Users can choose the pronouns the site uses for them. ‘They/them’ is one of the options available.

But you want to make the site available in multiple languages. Some languages only have two gendered personal pronouns.

This evening, Andreas Shimokawa and I are talking to the Berlin ...

2026-02-03T09:04:37Z

This evening, Andreas Shimokawa and I are talking to the Berlin Permacomputing meetup about Codeberg’s history and future.

19:00, /rosa (Heidelberger Straße 28, 12059 Berlin)

Come and join us!

(Boost appreciated!)

Help out your local FOSS nonprofit: Smash a fucking piledriver ...

2026-01-04T19:59:02Z

Help out your local FOSS nonprofit:

Smash a fucking piledriver into the skull of a nearby AI entrepreneur

It’s a semiprime Will this do

2026-01-01T13:00:09Z

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It’s a semiprime

Will this do

Reminder to everyone on the TL for 2026: It’s going to be ...

2025-12-29T16:58:38Z

Reminder to everyone on the TL for 2026: It’s going to be another tough year. Don’t forget to have some fun, and don’t feel guilty for it. You need it to survive.

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/

2025-12-16T11:06:48Z

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/

Still a great idea to hold conferences in the US. Furthermore, ...

2025-12-12T11:48:50Z

Still a great idea to hold conferences in the US. Furthermore, nobody could have predicted this 12 or 18 months ago, so it’s entirely reasonable to continue with plans that were made in 2024

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

2025-11-21T18:27:41Z

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

I can recreate the Darwin behaviour on Linux (NixOS) by setting ...

2025-11-02T18:16:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…ps5w
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I can recreate the Darwin behaviour on Linux (NixOS) by setting LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, but not the opposite

What’s your $LANG set to on those?

2025-11-02T18:12:29Z

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What’s your $LANG set to on those?

He also thought really hard about how to ask the right question ...

2025-11-01T08:33:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…yrce
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He also thought really hard about how to ask the right question about sex/gender on his 2010 colour survey (because, unlike literally everyone else who thinks your biology is any of their business, he was actually interested in something to do with the Y chromosome), at a time when most people thought trans people didn’t really exist.

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/06/sex-and-gender/

I think Randall Munroe deserves more credit than he gets for ...

2025-11-01T08:28:30Z

I think Randall Munroe deserves more credit than he gets for making his comic, a touchstone of internet nerd culture, strongly against the culture of nerd sexism from its earliest days https://xkcd.com/322/

But the real way C:S hides the consequences of car-based urban ...

2025-10-28T09:45:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…7wvc
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But the real way C:S hides the consequences of car-based urban development is with ‘pocket cars’. You don’t need to consider car parking, because if there isn’t space to park their car, citizens will simply make it disappear – fold it up and put it in their pocket. Where parked cars do appear, they’re essentially eye candy to make the city look more ‘realistic’ – but the game mechanic actually makes it unrealistic, because you don’t need to turn the nice overhead view of your city into this:

First, because you have a high-up, overhead perspective of the ...

2025-10-28T09:38:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…kwvr
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First, because you have a high-up, overhead perspective of the city, you don’t get more than an abstract sense of how the four- and six-lane roads you built really affect what it’s like to live in the city. There’s an attempt, with the concept of ‘noise pollution’ that makes citizens sick, but it’s pretty weak.

The emphasis on car-based design is also strong because you can’t actually really ensure that capacity of public transport is sufficient to make it a fully viable alternative to driving.

Cities: Skylines, despite being made by Europeans, not only ...

2025-10-28T09:34:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…dgjc
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Cities: Skylines, despite being made by Europeans, not only copied the exact same ideological decisions* – but reinforced it with car-oriented planning which simultaneously makes traffic management a disproportionately large aspect of building a city, but also hides the consequences of this.

* a choice I think was made mostly out of a nostalgic desire to create a graphically updated clone of similar gameplay to the early SimCities

I was working on an essay once on the political ideology of city ...

2025-10-28T09:32:30Z

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I was working on an essay once on the political ideology of city builder games.

For example, Will Wright is an American conservative, and the early SimCity games pretty strongly encode that ideology – not only in policing, as in Kay’s example, but in taxation. Citizens will always hate higher taxation no matter how good the public services you provide are.

Alan Kay’s critique of SimCity games ...

2025-10-28T09:29:48Z

Alan Kay’s critique of SimCity games

Fascists in mainstream politics: mock a leftist concern exactly ...

2025-10-03T08:41:14Z

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Fascists in mainstream politics: mock a leftist concern exactly until it looks like they might start winning elections with it, then adopt that exact concern but blame immigrants for it (ongoing example: eco-fascism)

Fascists in tech: mock a technology created by trans people, women, academics working in unfashionable and underfunded subdisciplines of CS etc. until you notice it actually works for building working software, then use it to build software that kills immigrants

I am not going to sit down and watch some self-satisfied ...

2025-10-03T08:31:28Z

I am not going to sit down and watch some self-satisfied [reference to a specific programming language community removed because i don’t actually know where this is coming from originally] tarnish the whole of functional programming as some kind of fascist conspiracy all along, wtf

An early unit of computational power was the ‘kilogirl’. ...

2025-09-27T12:17:01Z

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An early unit of computational power was the ‘kilogirl’. (Pictured: 0.006 kilogirls)

Margaret Hamilton is 89 years old

2025-09-27T11:41:20Z

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Margaret Hamilton is 89 years old

Some things I have learned about women in computing history ...

2025-09-27T11:40:39Z

Some things I have learned about women in computing history today:

There is a *photograph* of the Countess of Lovelace

Whenever I see another round of the C++ community’s war against ...

2025-09-25T14:21:33Z

Whenever I see another round of the C++ community’s war against guaranteed memory safety, I think of Tony Hoare’s Turing Award lecture where he said that if computer engineering were real engineering, memory safety bugs would be considered criminal negligence.

He did not mean this as hyperbole. If you ship software and it fails in the real world due to a memory safety bug, they should find out who put their engineer stamp on the software and prosecute them criminally.

Alas, no: there are only nine pre-programmed ‘region’ ...

2025-09-01T18:06:38Z

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Alas, no: there are only nine pre-programmed ‘region’ settings (four of which are for specific cities in Japan, and the rest of the world has to share the other five)

Going to investigate later if the range of options is large ...

2025-09-01T08:50:21Z

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Going to investigate later if the range of options is large enough that e.g. one could use it for cooking on Mars or the Moon

It may not surprise you to learn that the default is set to Japan

2025-09-01T08:27:17Z

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It may not surprise you to learn that the default is set to Japan

Fiancé has discovered that his very fancy kitchen scale has a ...

2025-09-01T08:24:50Z

Fiancé has discovered that his very fancy kitchen scale has a programmable option to set the value of g for your location on Earth

Storing in each entry the key, value, and the hash value of the ...

2025-08-12T11:16:46Z

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Storing in each entry the key, value, and the hash value of the key, rather than just the key and value. If you don’t store the hash value, you have to call the hash function again on every key when the hash table is resized

Results from an initial survey: Every non-Scheme hash table ...

2025-08-12T11:09:22Z

Results from an initial survey:

Every non-Scheme hash table implementation I’ve looked at (Python, Ruby, OpenJDK) caches the hash value for each entry.

Every Scheme hash table implementation I’ve looked at (Chez, Chibi, Guile) doesn’t cache the hash value for any entry.

🤔

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic ...

2025-07-31T09:16:11Z

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

cc Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (npub1z7x…q5jf)

https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831

What did they want? I’m guessing this wasn’t a philanthropic ...

2025-07-05T19:51:15Z

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What did they want? I’m guessing this wasn’t a philanthropic pitch

But as long as conferences are held in person, holding them in ...

2025-07-03T13:06:18Z

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But as long as conferences are held in person, holding them in countries like the US, Russia, PRC etc. is particularly irresponsible

FWIW, my personal view is that we should also be reducing the ...

2025-07-03T13:02:46Z

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FWIW, my personal view is that we should also be reducing the number and significance of in-person conferences in general.

Not only because conferences are inherently exclusionary – even if held in a country with an ideal and egalitarian visa policy (no such country exists), travel and accommodation costs restrict participation – but also because of the massive environmental cost of so many people travelling to the same place to see papers they could have read or listened to online

ULT. Do not host international conferences in countries with ...

2025-07-03T10:26:58Z

ULT.

Do not host international conferences in countries with totalitarian regimes.

Do not host international conferences in countries with totalitarian regimes.

Do not host international conferences in countries with totalitarian regimes.

(And if you do, don’t come later with crocodile tears about ‘academic freedom’.)

It’s not nostalgia if the world really has been getting worse ...

2025-05-16T15:47:25Z

It’s not nostalgia if the world really has been getting worse for all of your adult life

Actually, it’s possible that someone else with admin access saw ...

2025-04-18T17:16:29Z

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Actually, it’s possible that someone else with admin access saw this toot before me and fixed it themselves

r6rs.org and r7rs.org

2025-04-18T17:13:37Z

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r6rs.org and r7rs.org

Okay, now I’m very confused because I checked and those are the ...

2025-04-18T17:07:59Z

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Okay, now I’m very confused because I checked and those are the details I used for domains I set up earlier this year

Did you mean 19 April 2024 or some other year? 19 April 2025 is ...

2025-04-18T14:35:03Z

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Did you mean 19 April 2024 or some other year? 19 April 2025 is tomorrow 🤔

Was there ever any year where web design was better than it was ...

2025-04-16T12:26:28Z

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Was there ever any year where web design was better than it was in 1999? I mean just look at this stuff. Unbeaten tbh https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/all-websites/year-1999

Some have asked whether an ECtHR appeal could have any effect. ...

2025-04-16T11:21:32Z

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Some have asked whether an ECtHR appeal could have any effect. This particular case could probably not be appealed – the Scottish government hasn’t had its human rights violated; it would need a trans person affected by this ruling to make the case, aiui – but actually, on reflection, I think maybe yes. This decision, taken in the full picture of the current legal situation for trans people in the UK, completely shits on the resolution of Goodwin & I. v. United Kingdom

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This evening, Andreas Shimokawa and I are talking to the Berlin ...

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Reminder to everyone on the TL for 2026: It’s going to be ...

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/

Still a great idea to hold conferences in the US. Furthermore, ...

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

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Fascists in mainstream politics: mock a leftist concern exactly ...

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An early unit of computational power was the ‘kilogirl’. ...

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