When #Mozilla created their new logo with :// in it, the team behind reached out to me and asked if I had any objections since #curl already was using :// in our logo.
I did not object - I approved of it. I think it validated our logo choice and I am jealous they have a name that can hold :// integrated the way they do.
Blocking somebody? Baller move. You’re in charge of your account. You decide who has access to you.
Telling someone, “I’m blocking you for that!” immediately before blocking them? Baby move. Your dysfunctional obsession with getting the last word in is showing.
@taylorlorenz Wait, so she's just straight up denying the existence of trans people now? What happened to "I know and love trans people"? What happened to "all I'm saying is sex is real"? Guess the mask finally came off.
I know I've been a bit checked out lately, but I saw some diagram about Python packaging the other day and I literally recognized none of the words written down on it.
@fasterthanlime lived in London nearly 5 years and have never encountered a station that didn't support tap out. That's wild, I wonder how they would handle oyster cards, since they wouldn't support that machine.
for the love of the internet: DO NOT USE TINY URL OR LINK SHORTENERS UNLESS YOU OWN THE SERVERS AND PLAN TO KEEP THEM RUNNING BEYOND YOUR DEATH
the amount of dead links on my pre-2015 tweets it absolutely painful. there's no way to salvage any of it: Twitter won't include the actual URL in the data dump they give you.
i know people use them for metrics but for what you're paying them, get a blog with ActivityPub (ohai Wordpress) and push your toots from there. voilá! now you have metrics
Things at Automattic are going just fine. Is listing out a bunch of alts you may or may not want associated with you "doxxing"? I dunno, but I gotta say that Rita is really good at coming up with alt names lol
@nyquildotorg what the actual fuck. Setting aside the doxxing for one millisecond, is the CEO seriously just going around bullying people who say they're done with tumblr?
This whole Signal "user name" thing sounds like absolute incomprehensible chaos. And you still can't use the service without giving them your phone number.
@jwz@Extra_Special_Carbon because you don't think E2E encryption matters for casual messaging apps? Or because none of the current solutions are good enough? Genuine question, not snark. I don't really have a dog in this fight either way
There’s subtle little-but-big paradigm shifts in the user interface for Vision Pro that make me pause and smile.
Take password entry. The password never turns into ••• dots — you can see every letter or number of a passcode you enter, because… only you can see it.
Companies should heavily support and invest in open platforms.
Sure, getting some crumbs from the EU on the DMA might have some short term benefits. But you should take charge of your future.
Put your money where your mouth is: fund (and fund with passion, not just a few dollars here and there), support, and make opensource- based mobile and desktop operating systems your top priority.
Otherwise, you are just another capitalist swine fighting for a larger portion of slop from the trough.
Reading about the malicious compliance from Apple today and feeling exhausted. I don't want to have an elaborate take today, I just have an overwhelming feeling of fatigue, like being swept along in a riptide and resistance being pointless.
If a regulator says "preventing X is not allowed, you must allow X" and a company being regulated can reply and say "sure sure, yes, obviously preventing X was unfair. now anyone may pay ONE MILLION EUROS to do X", what is even the point.
For me, X is "sideload an IPA onto an unjailbroken device", whether it's downloading via safari or transferring from a PC. I don't want to have to go through any third party, even one I theoretically trust.
@nixCraft today minus 6 months or so. Which is particularly embarrassing because for years I definitely NOTICED that the most "successful" employees were the ones who were better at APPEARING good and diligent but not actually being so. And I was constantly asking "why" and kept coming to the wrong conclusions.
Meanwhile, the inventor of the .webp file extension actively tries to defend himself on social media. Use the wget or curl command to avoid any browser or CDN converting .png to .webp on fly when downloading the file. No need to blame the inventor. Even windows has the curl command installed by default now apart from linux and unix. People are just lazy 😂 it is easier to get mad at someone online these days
Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."
So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).
I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?
C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.
@eichin@nedbat I was trying to write out a post explaining exactly this but you put it so perfectly I'm not gonna bother.
Basically I don't take the sentence literally. "Learn how the computer really works" to me means things like the kernel and syscalls (which ALL languages interface with), not the actual CPU. "Learn C" mostly means (as you've said) learn one abstraction down.
@b0rk there's no such thing as "origin main". It's two separate arguments: the first is a remote and the second is a branch.
There is a very particular scenario where the first actually refers to a ref: when you do git remote set-head -a origin, it will pull down the remote HEAD and set it as a branch named origin/HEAD locally. This happens by default when you clone, but not when you fetch, so it won't work for everyone, leading to some very confusing results.
It’s very awkward to talk about the important political objects in DNS. Everybody thinks “top level domain (TLD)” means “the thing you registered” but formally correctly a “TLD” is just like, .com or .uk. Even .co.uk is not “top-level”. The unfortunately-quite-informal category that .com and .co.uk share is “public suffix”, and there is just a list of them at https://publicsuffix.org, not some flag in DNS that lets you know you are looking at one.
