clacke

@clacke@libranet.de

Flawesome. GNU/Linux is my daily driver OS since 1995. On Fedi since 2008. Working in Racket, Tcl, Python, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. A dad. Freddie Mercury is my spiritual advisor.

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Every post of mine is an open invitation to advice or information or critique or disagreement unless I say otherwise. Fire away. If I don't appreciate your contribution, I'll let you know.

My soundcloud is hackerpublicradio.org/correspo… and my patreon is sfconservancy.org/donate/ .

I don't represent Software Freedom Conservancy in any way, I just like what they do with the money I give them.

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clacke, to random

"Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport. You are not waiting for “the one” who is absolutely perfect."

With this metric, is even marriage like marriage? Do people believe there is exactly one person out of seven billion that is your soulmate and you have to find them?

Tangent from:

mstdn.social/users/sandlapper3… @sandlapper37

clacke,

@sandlapper37 The destination of the bus is in writing, and generally more reliable. 😅

clacke, to random

Otherwise accomplished and interesting youtuber doing a deep analysis and review of a game mentiins a minor Japanese influence on the game and pronounces "yaoi" ... "yowie".

clacke, to random

The company that employs me is today 160 years old!

This is pretty cool, but also highlights one of the problems with corporate personhood.

clacke,

@xurizaemon Corporations are powerful, immortal reptilians/AIs.

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Oh my Dog, @baldur yet again hits multiple nails square in their heads:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

🔥 🔥 🔥

> Tech management will sacrifice technological progress – performance, design, and general product effectiveness – if it disempowers labour.

> If you’re unlucky enough to have to use any of this garbage we’re shipping and calling ‘software’, now you know why it all feels a bit shit.

> This is what unions were made for

🔥 🔥 🔥

clacke,

@sun "You can argue about productivity and “progress” all you like, but none of that will raise you back into [Baldur's] good opinion." 😊

clacke, to hongkong

#hongkong has a well-oiled machinery when it comes to weather events.

HK Observatory issues weather warnings: Amber rain, red rain, black rain, monsoon, typhoon T1, T3, T8, T10

Schools, employers, government and private services have well-documented standards for when they'll be open, be closed, offer limited service etc, depending on weather signal and timing.

The city thankfully made a decision relatively early on, before adding millions of people, to invest in separate systems for rain drainage and waste sewage. The drainage has margins for even the most extreme weather events.

clacke,

All of this is very impressive, but then it also makes it all the more surprising when you encounter the gaps.

Today is just red rain, but some pretty recently built and nice-looking malls have dripping leakage from the roofs and put out security tape and rubbish bins to block off the affected area and contain the leak.

Some recently built and nice-looking walkways are flooded by several centimetres because they weren't built with the appropriate tilt and drainage.

clacke,

There are people in the city who have decades of experience with civil engineering in this rainy region, but I guess nobody asked them to have a look at the plans before investing billions in construction?

Compared to building entire malls and bridges, making sure this skylight is properly sealed and this walkway is five centimetres higher at that point over there doesn't seem like a huge expense.

Some_Emo_Chick, to random
@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social avatar

Grace Jones was filming the James Bond classic 'A View to a Kill' in the adjacent studio at Pinewood whilst Tim Curry was filming 'Legend' during 1984. Jones used to hang out with Tim whilst he was having his prosthetic makeup applied for the character of Darkness. Tim's makeup took up to six hours to apply and the two would chat and pose for humorous Polaroids together throughout the day.

clacke,

@TheBreadmonkey @Some_Emo_Chick Very 80s surreal music video. 🥰

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=nAerTAjLpF…

Was this amount of boobage allowed on MTV? Or was there an edited version for the US?

rephlex00, to random
@rephlex00@beige.party avatar

Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

clacke,

@argv_minus_one @darwinwoodka @rephlex00 gestures at world events

"ability to observe and reason" is not always evident in brains.

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

clacke,

@firebreathingduck @baldur This is the explicit purpose of Go.

gamingonlinux, (edited ) to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

I want to do a test on how much traffic and resources the Mastodon embed takes on my server, so boost this plz

Edit: all done, you can stop sharing now lol

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/

clacke,

@gamingonlinux @rdnielsen Had your post already been shared widely before?

clacke,

@fritzy @gamingonlinux They do have live Mastodon comments on their page. I will not dig deeper to see if there is anything of generated server-side.

The mentioned a CDN, but maybe that's media only and the page is live and dynamic.

clacke, to random

A colleague always says "let me see if you cannot see my screen", clearly trying to avoid the noise of "works for me" from multiple people.

It never works, there are always some people doing it anyway. 😃

popey, to random
@popey@mastodon.social avatar

🍿 https://aux.computer/

clacke,

@AngryAnt @buonhobo @popey No matter how Aux turns out, I hope people are also aware of Guix, which shares a past, has largely overlapping goals, and has explicit governance and a contributor covenant.

clacke,

@popey Fair! 😅

Honestly, I know core people are very much aware of Guix and collaborate on things, but I don't know how the average Nixer fairs, I'm out of touch for years.

My main point is that GNU has had leadership issues and therefore Guix has actively disentangled itself from that years ago and got things right. I haven't looked at how Aux governance looks.

@AngryAnt @buonhobo

clacke, to random

The Princedom of Pontecorvo was a short-lived client state of France during the Napoleonic Wars.

Napoleon took it from the Papal State after becoming King of Italy, created it as a princedom and made one of his Imperial Marshals the Prince of Pontecorvo.

The Marshal, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was soon headhunted by the Swedish establishment to become Karl XIV Johan, the new King of Sweden, and gave up the princedom. His dynasty formally rules Sweden to this day.

Pontecorvo today has a population of ~13000, the same size population as the bunch of towers on top of a shopping mall where I live.

clacke, to random

Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.

Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.

Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.

Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.

Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present

‌prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/6374…

clacke, to random

Time to bring this up again. Ever heard the term "sea lioning"? This is the origin of the term:

wondermark.com/c/1062/

/by @malki
Patreon: patreon.com/malki
Merch: topatoco.com/wondermark

/via mastodon.online/ @Adam_Cadmon1
/via social.sdf.org/ @mjgardner

clacke,

Cue the comments inventing scenarios and interpretations outside what's in the strip itself to try to recontextualize and justify the sealion's obnoxious and antisocial breach of boundaries.

clacke, to random

The terror balance between
Fear of publically committing to a deadline you might fail to meet
And
Fear of not finishing anything because you didn't publically commit to a deadline

clacke, to random

One of kid's classmates had a surprising anti-gay opinion, so he's been asking around a bit where people stand. Thankfully, that kid seems to be the outlier.

Made me remember that time half a life ago when I accidentally "came out" to a friend ... I admitted my interest for a woman with an ambiguous nickname and hilarity ensued.

My friend's response was so overwhelmingly excited and supportive that I promised that if I ever discovered I was gay, I was sure to go to him first with the news. 🥰

clacke, to random

It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.

I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?

Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.

clacke,

@hypolite I always forget to come back here and report them when I see them, except now!

Example: mstdn.ca/

clacke,

Search-fetch failure: defcon.social/

@hypolite

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