On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift)....
I feel this is a bit of a moot point from the White House. Memory-safe languages have been around for decades. I feel like the amount of C/C++ out there isn’t so much that people think having dangerous stuff around is good, but more that nobody really wants to pay to change it.
I honestly find it worrying that someone would think it’s some sort of deeply ingrained human trait when it’s clearly not culturally universal (eg. small hunter-gatherer tribes wouldn’t exist otherwise) and not present through all of history.
I think “growth” is a strong signal for people to put faith and trust into something. And that these emotions have influenced our behaviour for a long time.
Why did the Roman empire keep expanding? What made them want more? I’m not a historian nor an anthropologist (far from either!). But this feels like “line go up” behaviour. What would it mean for those in power to communicate that some part of the empire was receding? Even if, overall, the empire was objectivetly huge relative to other organised groups?
One thing I think about is there could be eroding confidence and trust of those in power by colleagues and the general population. If people lose faith, the powerful lose power; they lose ability to influence behaviour. Growth is obsessed over because it’s a means to capture influence over the means of production (and capture profit).
The line has to go up because the current economic system demands it has to go up
What about outside of economics? Even metrics on fedidb.org: shrinking numbers are coloured red. Growing numbers green. Green = good, red = bad.
Another thought. The other day I was at a cricket match. Grand final. Because the home team was losing, the stadium started to empty. It wasn’t about enjoying the individual balls/plays. Supporters were not satisfied with coming second (an amazing achievement, much “profit”!), it needed to be more.
To stretch this shitty metaphor further, when the supporters (investors?) lost confidence in their ability to deliver more, they just abandoned the entire match (enterprise?) altogether!
Again: I’m not stating anything here as fact. I’m just absolutely dumbfounded as to why “line go up” is, as you say, such an obsession. I hear you when you say that it’s a consequence of how the modern economy works. That makes sense. I guess I wonder what would happen if we snapped our fingers and we could start again. I wonder what the economy system would look like. Would we still be obsessed with growth?
Australia is bigger than some people overseas imagine.
So here's a quick comparison of Australian states to their US counterparts.
Tasmania is Australia's smallest state, with a total area of 68,401 square kilometres.
That's bigger than West Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, or Rhode Island.
Australia's second smallest state is Victoria, at 227, 444km2.
It's larger than Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine, Florida, or Pennsylvania.
Fun fact: Victoria is larger in area than Indiana and South Carolina combined.
Now on to the ones that might surprise you.
You know how Texans love talking up how big Texas is?
New South Wales is bigger than Texas.
And by quite a margin. NSW is 801, 150 sq km compared to 696,241 sq km for Texas.
South Australia is bigger than Texas, and Michigan. Combined.
SA is 984, 321 sq km.
Texas (696,241 km2) plus Michigan (250,493 sq km) is just 946, 734 sq km.
Queensland is bigger than Alaska.
Queensland is 1,729,742 sq km, compared to 1,717,854 sq km for Alaska.
That also means Queensland is bigger than Texas and California. Combined.
Texas (696,241 km2) plus California (423,968 km2) is 1,120,209 sq km.
You can add in Michigan too (250,493 sq km) and it's still only 1,370,702 sq km.
That's right kids. Texas, California, and Michigan combined are 359,040 sq km smaller than Queensland.
That leaves Western Australia. It's 2,527,013 square kilometres.
How big is that? Well, the combined area of Texas and Alaska is 2,414,095 sq km, so pretty bloody big.
The other fun one is that the continental US (AKA everything except Alaska) is just about the same size as Australia. Then when you consider that there’s 49 states versus Australia’s 7, you can see how the numbers come about.
Depends how you look at it! Here’s me accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email: lemmy.world/post/11020167I’ve written a a couple more prototypes to connect one to the other. If anyone is interested I could write up more about how it works or do a more public demo
I recently wrote a command-line utility lemmyverse to find communities indexed by Lemmy Explorer. A quick count shows almost 14%(!) of all communities indexed by lemmyverse are junk communities created by a single user @LMAO (reported here):...
Ah ha makes sense now! The “Replying to comments” section of that article explains exactly what’s happening. If I understand correctly the community itself (!privacy in my above example) is not notified of my reply from Mastodon. If the community did know, then it would broadcast a notification of the activity to whoever else is subscribed to !privacy.
For me, I don’t actually interact from Mastodon per se. I wrote a couple of read-only Lemmy & Mastodon clients. One for a weird text editing environment I use (lemmy.sdf.org/post/1035382) and via email (gts.olowe.co/). To reply to or create posts, I use a write-only Mastodon client I wrote.
My idea is to exercise the fediverse. In principal I don’t think I should need separate accounts for Lemmy, PeerTube, Mastodon, Kbin, Akkoma, etc.
Right now I’m replying from an account on lemmy.sdf.org as I can’t reply from GoToSocial (Lemmy and GoToSocial don’t work well together right now) and my Mastodon server (hachyderm.io) has a post limit of 500 characters.
lemmyverse: search lemmy communities from the command-line. Thanks to the data HTTP API from lemmyverse.net! This is not really as polished as I like but, hey, in the interest of having a lively Lemmy I thought I’d share anyway :)...
With Github so popular now, not everyone is aware of the workflows that git provides out-of-the-box for collaboration. Thought this may pique some people’s curiosity :)
The one for reddit is :rdx.overdevs.comI think nitter was like this too ? Not sure as i have never used it or is just a site to see the posts sent to you ? I think piped works in this same manner for youtube so going to link a client too : f-droid.org/packages/com.github.libretube/ . I know barinsta used to be a thing until zuck...
An OpenBSD developer and the one-man-band behind Pushover gives some advice after 10 years of running a public HTTP API. It’s interesting as big companies are happy to publish articles about all the fancy stuff they developed to run some API, but you don’t always hear from a sole developer running a service for such a long...
Lemmy uses the packages olowe.co/lemmy (source), which provides a io/fs filesystem interface to a Lemmy instance, and 9fans.net/go/acme to interact with acme. What you get is an Acme Mail inspired program for Lemmy. As you can see, it’s a work in progress!...
Coming to you from my iPad and my old mechanical keyboard plugged in via a USB-C adapter! Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Hardware keyboards Finally select the language then scroll down to Colemak!...
White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe (www.whitehouse.gov)
On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift)....
Third time's a charm (lemmy.world)
My struggle from a UNIX background in the modern "cloud" world (www.srcbeat.com)
💰➡️✝️ (lemmy.sdf.org)
Does email (SMTP/POP3) count as a member of the fediverse?
i think it might in theory
Deleting >4000 junk communities by @LMAO
I recently wrote a command-line utility lemmyverse to find communities indexed by Lemmy Explorer. A quick count shows almost 14%(!) of all communities indexed by lemmyverse are junk communities created by a single user @LMAO (reported here):...
Rejected automation? (www.srcbeat.com)
Let’s share stories where your automation efforts have been rejected and you can’t quite understand why! Here’s mine.
Unexpected comment behaviour between Mastodon and Lemmy
My replies via Mastodon to Lemmy posts don’t get distributed as expected. For example:...
No sir (lemmy.world)
lemmyverse: find communities from the command line (git.sr.ht)
lemmyverse: search lemmy communities from the command-line. Thanks to the data HTTP API from lemmyverse.net! This is not really as polished as I like but, hey, in the interest of having a lively Lemmy I thought I’d share anyway :)...
git-send-email.io - Learn to use email with Git (git-send-email.io)
With Github so popular now, not everyone is aware of the workflows that git provides out-of-the-box for collaboration. Thought this may pique some people’s curiosity :)
Any apps or sites that scrapes web pages and gives much better privacy respecting web pages or apps than the official ones ?
The one for reddit is :rdx.overdevs.comI think nitter was like this too ? Not sure as i have never used it or is just a site to see the posts sent to you ? I think piped works in this same manner for youtube so going to link a client too : f-droid.org/packages/com.github.libretube/ . I know barinsta used to be a thing until zuck...
Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (jcs.org)
An OpenBSD developer and the one-man-band behind Pushover gives some advice after 10 years of running a public HTTP API. It’s interesting as big companies are happy to publish articles about all the fancy stuff they developed to run some API, but you don’t always hear from a sole developer running a service for such a long...
[Praise] Small app size!
I’m in Indonesia at the moment and my internet connections are poor. So having an app that weighs just 20MB is fantastic!...
Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey (2011) (www.infoq.com)
One of my favourite talks on programming. Just wanted to share for others who haven’t seen this before.
Lemmy: experimental Acme program to access Lemmy (www.olowe.co)
Lemmy uses the packages olowe.co/lemmy (source), which provides a io/fs filesystem interface to a Lemmy instance, and 9fans.net/go/acme to interact with acme. What you get is an Acme Mail inspired program for Lemmy. As you can see, it’s a work in progress!...
Anyone subscribe to Crikey?
www.crikey.com.auHow is it?...
(mac)OStalgia (www.youtube.com)
There's something about the consistency that is missing nowadays.
RFC 9512: YAML Media Type (www.rfc-editor.org)
This took a while! 😅
Colemak on iPadOS
Coming to you from my iPad and my old mechanical keyboard plugged in via a USB-C adapter! Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Hardware keyboards Finally select the language then scroll down to Colemak!...
What next for a hobbyist documentarian?
TL;DR Seeking any advice on making documentaries about things around me!...