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loke

@loke@functional.cafe

Lisp, Emacs, APL and a bunch of other stuff.

From Sweden, living in Singapore.

I always work on a bunch of projects. My current major ones are:

A graphical frontend to Maxima: https://github.com/lokedhs/maxima-client

Kap: An APL-based programming language: https://codeberg.org/loke/array

#lisp #commonlisp #apl #retrocomputing #linux #kap #climaxima #emacs #atari #fedi22

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atomicpoet, to internet
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Hey @gruber, how will #Bluesky be tangibly different from Mastodon?

Because with what Bluesky devs are telling me, defederation with AT protocol should be possible.

It would be incredible on Bluesky’s part if a server couldn’t defederate.

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110328355532624579

loke,
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@aardvark Of course, but that's selection bias. There are always naysayers, and they will always be right whenever something fails.

loke,
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@aardvark I'm not sure it's so easy to say. At the time, google wasn't mostly famous for shutting down projects the way they are now.

loke,
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@atomicpoet You have to understand where he's coming from.

He's very used to attaching himself to something, and then strongly identifying with that thing. This is of course true for the Apple stuff, but for the longest time it was Twitter, until it wasn't tenable anymore.

Twitter really suited him, since it very well matches his blogging style (quite something and add a few sentences of sometimes snarky commentary)

Twitter was definitely part of his "rise to fame" so to speak, since it amplified his blog posts, so being forced off the platform cannot have been easy.

I remember when G+ came out, and he made a single post on there pretty early, with a single sentence where he proclaimed he didn't enjoy it. Note that this was long before G+ actually failed.

So what do you do when your megaphone has been shut off? You go looking for another one. If your replacement megaphone has the property that it can be silenced by a nearby neighbourhood that doesn't want to hear it, you'll be upset.

loke,
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@aardvark Sure, but these days, no one would take any such effort from Google seriously. Back then, things were very different, and for some time G+ had more active users than twitter.

schratze, to random
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So at our new apartment, we have garbage bins that are locked so you have to open them with a key. Which is the most petit-bourgeois German thing I can imagine. It really pisses me off. Imagine locking your garbage bins!

loke,
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@schratze You know what the solution is right?

millihertz, to random

something i just realised:

C only exists because the PDP-11 was byte-addressed

RISC processors are byte-addressed because C demands it, even though word addressing with field modifiers is way more efficient for them

when did the tail start wagging the elephant?

loke,
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@millihertz I'm pretty sure the 360 had byte addressible memory. You can trace a lot of modern CPU design decisions back to the 360, and I think the byte addressing is included in that.

loke,
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@millihertz OK, I see your reasoning. Not sure I completely agree with you, because the 360 influence would still be pretty strong, and most people were still doing assembly on that one, of which C is just a small step above.

jacobtlevy, to random

For the first time since I became a Canadian citizen, I think I am now anti-monarchist.

(It will pass. But, gah.)

loke,
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@jacobtlevy I had a chat with my mother about the coronation of the current Swedish king. It was almost 50 years ago (yes, the king was quite young when he took the throne) and she said that it wasn't nearly as ridiculous as the british coronation.

As best as she can remember, the old king died and then we had a new one. 🙂

mimir, to random

attn: designers: would you like me to throw bricks at you?

  • Yes
  • Maybe later
loke,
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@mimir One variant that just feels even worse is the "ask again later".

jeffjarvis, to random
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I am not going to not post articles from places with paywalls, for I'm a media critic. I am going to start blocking people who complain every time.

loke,
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@jeffjarvis Don't some sites with paywalls have the ability to share links to the full article? In any case, more should have that.

rmi, to random

it’s so creepy and horrifying that we’ve fallen so far and allowed so much poison that mozilla’s moderation rules are being positioned as something exceptional and weird. it’s all so sad and awful.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

loke,
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@rmi it's a remarkable voice of reason. Let's hope they deliver on it.

loke,
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@rmi it's a remarkable choice of reason. Let's hope they deliver on it.

andrewt, to random
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What I mostly don't understand about the is how it's possible to spend £250 million in one afternoon. They already own all the golden whatnot and the venue is provided by the church Charles is head of, so where did all the money go? It's a huge undertaking and I can believe it might cost £20m, but a quarter of a billion pounds? There's just no way that adds up without anyone getting swindled, is there?

loke,
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@andrewt You know, a pound for a coffe here, a haircut there, a few million to paint the carriage and all of a sudden it adds up to real money.

mbanck, to random
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Never say never, there are 64Bit Debian GNU/Hurd packages being built now, thanks mostly to Sergey Bugaev, Flavio Cruz, Luca Dariz and of course Samuel Thibault: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64/Packages

loke,
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@mbanck what? Did y
You hear this @MutoShack ?

welshpixie, to random

Driving past the Nopies shop if anyone wants me to grab them a Nopie

loke,
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@welshpixie they have no pies? What use is the shop?

revk, to random
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Yeh, don’t want any coronation news - I’m taping it and don’t want to spoil the ending…
:-)
:-)
:-)

loke,
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@revk Thanks. I'll flag my coronation related posts appropriately. https://functional.cafe/@loke/110320372992022132

troublewithwords, to random
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Durian to take into battle, or doing battle against durian?

I know which I want.

loke,
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@sohkamyung @troublewithwords Looking at streetview now, it appears to be gone.

I do want some durian now though. I saw some in the grocery store yesterday, but didn't buy.

ne1for23, to random
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tracked journalist via her cat's account

Two days before Christmas, TikTok called London-based journalist Cristina Criddle to tell her two of its employees in , and two in the , had viewed user data from her personal account without her knowledge or consent.


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65126056

loke,
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@ne1for23 The fact that they informed her is interesting. Does google do that?

I mean, I absolutely abhor tiktok, but I wonder if they did better than other internet companies in this case.

loke, to random
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When the Star Citizen kickstarter was announced I put about 35 dollars into it because why not? I'd get the game, and if the project failed I wouldn't have lost much.

What I didn't expect was to still be getting progress updates mailed to me over a decade later.

I wonder if anyone has compared it to Hurd. Someone really should because it's on that level.

loke,
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@jens true. But there is something about SC that makes it significantly more ridiculous. Perhaps it had to do with the ongoing funding campaign that had been going on for a decade?

loke,
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@larsbrinkhoff I'm not sure a single line of code was written on it, but it was supposed to be gule based. It died once Gnome became a thing.

loke,
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@larsbrinkhoff You mean teak? I mean, I'd love to see that too, but at least they haven't claimed it's actually an active project, much less posting regular progress reports. 🙂

monorail, to random
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i feel like we lost something special once game cartridges stopped being just "pins that touch the main bus" but i can't back that up

loke,
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@monorail you are absolutely right. I was never into consoles (in Europe computers were much more popular). Which consoles moved to using a protocol?

_lennart, to random
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Amazon blog post in which they describe moving off serverless and to a good old monolith with a thought through architecture:

"Moving our service to a monolith reduced our infrastructure cost by over 90%. It also increased our scaling capabilities."

Looks like without the flow of free money, some teams are coming back to their senses.

https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90

loke,
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@_lennart oh wow. I can imagine the nightmare architecture where the microservice fanboys had been leaving their mark.

To address this, we moved all components into a single process to keep the data transfer within the process memory, which also simplified the orchestration logic.

Yeah, I can imagine.

Taweret, to random
loke,
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@Taweret I'm very cis and even I can't cope with that.

loke, to random
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Microsoft, can we just... you know... not?

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