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brokenix, 3 days ago to Lisp

This is a #lisp machine for network protocols. Initially in pursuit of a social forum focused on link sharing.
as #startups and free projects alike rush to implement some #IETF RFC adding only 'but on the web'. I aim to define a modular protocol server which can support an arbitrary number of network protocols as a network daemon. Our POC in this endeavour will be to build an #NNTP -like protocol daemon which gateways to #IPFS storage. The content held in this system can be consumed by arbitrary clients; a web application presenting #reddit -like services would be just one of many potential clients, although it is likely that Gnus for Emacs will be the first one.
https://codeberg.org/fade/callisto

louis, 5 days ago to emacs

Today marks the 555th day of uninterrupted uptime of our Emacs.ch instance. 🥳

That's also 555 days of admin work and a spending of roughly $1200 for IaaS. Donations of our users make that much more sustainable.

With consistently well over 400 monthly active users, we established a friendly and supportive Fediverse community in the Fediverse united in a passion for the world's most humane "text editor". And you helped to make that happen. 🎈

Emacs is not just a program, it is the incarnation of freedom, self-development, respect, tolerance and companionship in the software world. It will never go away and will never turn against its users.

Let's continue to grow and strengthen our community! If you'd like to contribute, please visit our donation page: https://liberapay.com/emacs-ch

Together, we can keep the spirit of Emacs alive and thriving for years to come. Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey! 🙏

#Emacs

thomasfuchs, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

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phranck, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random German

Hat wer Lust das #Repo meiner „#Amazon Alternativen“ Liste zu uebernehmen?

Bitte teilen oder bei mir melden. Danke.
:BoostOK:

https://codeberg.org/phranck/Amazon-Alternativen

mythologyandhistory, 11 days ago to philosophy

Did you know that #Roman road design included #safety features?

In the ruins of #Pompeii, you'll notice small white stones interspersed with the large paving ones along the extensive roads.

Those white #stones are 'cats eyes', i.e. gems that have a single line of inclusion of crystals of another mineral inside.

Upon light reflective on them (from the #moon), they enable the walker to see that they are still on the right path!

https://youtu.be/74n6TgXbgAQ?si=56oPfp7mG1ENxflN

#history

Crell, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...

(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)

julesh, 23 days ago to random

Someone should write "mathematics for the working category theorist", to teach a bit of algebraic topology to those of us who started out in functional programming

zyd, 26 days ago to random

meaningless words

• simple
• minimal
• powerful
• expressive
• modern

What am I missing?

brokenix, 27 days ago to haskell

quoting @prophet
mli files are mostly used to constrain the visibility of definitions whereas hs-boot files are about allowing mutual recursion between modules (which OCaml doesn't support, even with mli files!)
But the mechanism by which they achieve their goals is nearly identical even though the perception of it is so vastly different.

I guess the conclusion to draw from this is that both sides are wrong: IMO, mli files are not nearly as good as OCamlers think they are, but hs-boot files aren't as ugly as Haskellers think either.
-- prettySrcLoc and prettyCallStack are defined here to avoid hs-boot
-- files. See Note [Definition of CallStack]

Backpack's design is primarily driven by compatibility considerations (“how do we build upon GHC's existing foundation?”), rather than elegance. In particular, Backpack doesn't eliminate those ugly .hs-boot files, it just automates and hides their generation and processing.

For all their faults, Standard ML and OCaml have pretty good support for modular programming. And, as the Modular Type Classes paper you linked shows, type classes can be built elegantly on top of a good modular foundation.
#ocaml #haskell
https://cohost.org/prophet/post/3251638-it-s-really-interest
https://haskell.fi.muni.cz/doc/base/src/GHC-Exception.html
https://twitter.com/lexi_lambda/status/1172629363730333697
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11371130

brokenix, 29 days ago to random

Endlessh is an #SSH tarpit that very slowly sends an endless, random SSH banner. It keeps SSH clients locked up for hours or even days at a time. The purpose is to put your real SSH server on another port and then let the script kiddies get stuck in this tarpit instead of bothering a real server.
https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh

alcinnz, 3 years ago to random

I finished reading World Wide Waste by Gerry McGovern. I'd consider it essential reading for anyone working with computers!

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/

It's well cited (though I still need to check those citations) & uses maths effectively to make it's point.

That computers + (surveillance) capitalism is actually worse for the environment than the predigital era. That we can and must move slow and fix things, and fund that vital work directly.