Posts by alecui@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #AXWwK1oTeGoIyUFAEC by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-09T21:24:57Z
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@icedquinn unrelated: thank to you I am now watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgD5WRzcy4
(DIR) Post #AXXAh4QXUkH56GvcLQ by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:07:23Z
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@freemo aren’t you missing one small crucial detail? https://youtu.be/OvcYjG0Sq1I ;)
(DIR) Post #AXXAtb4PxDG7ofYQEq by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:09:13Z
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@icedquinn this is really cool, thanks
(DIR) Post #AXXBwN3Yc6o9Ay2RSS by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:18:15Z
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@icedquinn @freemo if you’re a Dem and decide one day “yeah, I’ll be a fash… ahem, conservative”, were you a Dem? I find that bullshit, Republicans have gone way more extremist since Trump than Dems have ever been. Want proof? Bernie, a hardcore Dem, lost to a neolib (and he’s probably one of the rare times when socdems have been popular), while Republicans are actively spewing at least alt-right shit out in the wild, full mask off.All recent Dems have been exclusively neolibs. US politics is so pathetic, y’all think it’s left vs right when you’re voting for center right vs far right. You’ve been gaslit into thinking Dems are actually left wing holy shit. Artificial dichotomy and manufactured consent. Want to see real left wing parties in mainstream media? Look at us Europeans, we’re doing a way better job. Capitalists took y’all for absolute fools.
(DIR) Post #AXXCHc7fnBddz75pDc by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:25:12Z
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@freemo last time I checked Dems aren’t the ones with the racist rhetoric… Just saying 🤷♂️Neither of them are the good guys, news flash, but I’d rather have Dems succeed so I don’t have to see the fascist charisma black hole DeSantis in power. Lesser of two evils cuz they’re both right wing in the end, people who believe the Dems are left wing are insane (I think I know one such party at least). The Dems are only left of the imaginary center in auth right.
(DIR) Post #AXXDF6wYqRgmevGXYm by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-09T11:12:29Z
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I have quite a lot more followers than I did when I first wrote my introduction, so it’s only fair that I’m writing a new one, bump up the major version.#introduction #intro #introductionsHi! o/I am Ștefan (ș as sh, I also accept Stephan or the equivalent in your language). I’m 21 years old, ♑, he/him, proud #leftist and soon to graduate CS @ UVABc. Sort of proudly living in #romania. My native language is Romanian, fairly proficient at English, slowly learning #finnish (and #italian).Tried a lot of programming languages in my childhood up until now, a non-chronological list of ones that stuck with me for one reason or another being: VB6 (that’s what I started on at 8 years old), #pascal (+ #freepascal and #delphi), #perl (+ #raku), #tcl #tcltk, #lisp (usually #scheme, on a good day #elisp #emacslisp and #commonlisp), #elixir, #php, #forth, #lua, #oberon, #modula-2, #cpp #c++, #ocaml, #fsharp, #smalltalk (+ #squeak #pharo #self), #ada, #powershell, #dart, #matlab, #rlang, #zig, #nim, #cobol and #julia. I don’t claim full proficiency in all of these, but I’m familiar enough with these (+ some others not mentioned here) that I could get along just fine with 2 weeks at most of studying and looking through cookbooks and examples). I’m flexible in learning new languages and technologies if needed.I also do #sudoku and #math for fun (especially functional equations and number theory problems, sometimes calculus and geometric algebra). I am interested in #linguists, #conlangs (#lojban and #esperanto) and #nlp, contemporary (post-‘45, usually post-‘89 for me) history, #balkan history, lower-level stuff (I like to learn about how tools around me work, I’m most interested in #compilers, #emulators and #microcontrollers), #typography and #latex, #linux + #bsd, #msdos, #amiga, #oberon, #plan9, #philosophy, #astronomy (especially in a worldbuilding context) and #philosophy, along with other less notable interests.I engage in #politics relatively often irl, although I’m not inserting it in absolutely every scenario in my life. As I mentioned, I’m a #leftist and #progressive (or… um… #woke) (Nazis and fascists can have a merry fuck off, DNI with me). I am also a spiritual person, a #deist (if you really want to put it that way, an agnostic, although it’s not quite true) and I find #astrology and #tarot interesting (I’ll let you guess my moon and ascendant, let’s see how close you are).With that being said, I hope I’m welcome here, you can pick your subset of things that interest you from this list, you have plenty of options. :P Quite a bit longer than last time, but oh well…
(DIR) Post #AXXDRdhsrEd1kPNI3c by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:04:48Z
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@TruthSandwich interesting how you’re presenting tweets with bullshit highlighter on from one specific account. Gtfo outta here you goofy ass conservative
(DIR) Post #AXXDRf61gxXC3Zg5KK by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T00:30:10Z
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@TruthSandwich part of the left, huh? Your account says otherwise. Also, wanna define what’s the “sane left”, lib?Americans are pathetic, you’ve been gaslit into thinking that the Dems are actually left wing when over here in European politics which are more sane you’d be a pathetic milktoast center right party. You’re not even part of the left, you’re at most an “enlightened” “”"”centrist””””. Or I guess not wanting to kill minorities is too Marxist for you?
(DIR) Post #AXYHbdi6IFfjd3SZPs by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T12:56:23Z
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@kaia accidental wing…woman?
(DIR) Post #AXZDfFEZ25JsDU4GyO by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-10T23:43:53Z
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Dear #journalists of #fediverse:Can you explain to me the specific style you’re using to create your news/article titles? Is there a style guide you’re following when writing? I am interesting in the… literary (I suppose) or linguistic aspect of journalistic writing.Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AXZIkOfPt5Wygvu71M by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-11T00:47:02Z
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@louis NASA still uses Forth in space and in telescopes :)
(DIR) Post #AXemfsQyo35iHmSEwy by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-13T01:37:30Z
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I might get more responses over here:Invoking all #bsd people (or rather, some :P) (I guess some specific tags are useful, so #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd and a bunch more)I am, for the time being, a Linux user (cringe). I want to make a lightweight desktop environment (but it could be any non-trivial project). I had a talk with myself and realized that if I want to make my project cross-platform across all Unices, I have to care about BSD (and I want to reduce the burden on someone who wants to port my project, that might one day be myself so I might as well be smart about it).I’m well aware I can’t have dependencies on Linux-only things like systemd or PipeWire (I can make an abstraction layer over the different kinds of OSs I’m targetting). What else should I take into consideration? And no, no “make a VM with *BSD and try it there”, that’s obvious, I have {Free,Open,Net,DragonFly}BSD VMs already. I am interested in what to avoid and generally how to reduce the friction of porting. Might be an useful resource to other devs too, because I believe we should encourage BSD compatibility (too many Windows/macOS/Linux-only apps…)Bonus, as an interesting question: what do BSD developers have to take into consideration when porting to Linux? Thank you!
(DIR) Post #AXemftoPgPQiYkQT7A by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-13T08:28:30Z
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@netbsd looks like OpenIndiana runs MATE by default, so it seems Solaris enjoys other desktop environments too, a good sign for me.If I really wanted to be strict with myself, I could do -Wall -Wpedantic too, now THAT would be a lot of “fun”.As for feature detection… At least OpenBSD will be difficult since I want pledge and unveil (if possible) support too (although an argument could be made that I can avoid those syscalls altogether, but you know :P). I think the slight difficulty I am facing (one among them, anyway) is that I can’t rely on porters (although they sure are more than welcome) to specialize my program. In my particular case I can rely on Xorg being a thing on all Unices (I hope), and standard Free Pascal units.On NetBSD specifically is there anything I should take into account? I’m sure there has to be more about it than “that BSD that runs on a toaster”, especially on a technical level.
(DIR) Post #AXemfvGoGJjr56if0y by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-13T10:51:15Z
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@netbsd your hardening measures are different from OpenBSD or FreeBSD or Linux’s measures. Don’t I need to have #ifdef guards everywhere essentially for code that directly interfaces with the OS? Unless there’s something I’m misunderstanding
(DIR) Post #AXemfwdXBJVhJsMK4e by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-13T12:24:29Z
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@netbsd and how does one do feature detection? I can’t find anything with the keywords I’ve used
(DIR) Post #AXfrimRaED2dVMttVQ by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-14T04:44:16Z
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Another day, another seemingly cool person I find on Fediverse that’s actually a huge chud. This time is special: his instance has a Soapbox frontend (fork of Gab’s UI, interesting origin story :blob3c:), plus he’s a tech YouTuber. A Threads bootlicker too, which is not surprising.Why are so many tech YouTubers and technobros the ultimate chuds? It’s a worrying trend. If you really think about it, shouldn’t the tech space be more inclusive? Who the fuck cares if someone behind the screen is gay or trans if they’re under a pseudonym anyway? Code is code, nerds are nerds, anything like gender, sexual orientation etc. shouldn’t even come into discussion. But I guess Musk pog keanu reeves reddit wholesome +100 karma so trans bad. Or crypto good because no gov regulation thus Twitter pog because of “free speech”?We need more left-wing (not even lefties since they probably won’t catch the attention of your average normies) video content creators (yes, libs are good too and not just in .so form). We need to contrabalance chuds like DistroTube (leaving this absolute gem right here), Mental Outlaw, Luke Smith, Root BSD (I’ll give him credit for making banger DnB mixes and good OpenBSD content) etc.
(DIR) Post #AXfrl0CS3Sw0kOsl4y by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-14T04:47:36Z
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@freemo Of course you’d be interestedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQ-ZY460WQ
(DIR) Post #AXfsZAhVHrgHnJKTFw by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-14T04:56:41Z
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@freemo iirc he’s on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2I think he was banned a couple of years ago from Mastodon (and imo rightfully so). He also had an attempt at his own instance through DistroToot (now permanently down). He’s now over at @ distrotube on fosstodon.org (I don’t want to tag him). Looks like he’s active too.
(DIR) Post #AXfsgzKZRaW0qdKVLU by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-14T04:58:03Z
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@freemo wow, him calling anything not right wing “communist”? color me surprised, especially after his unhinged takes that he keeps having every now and then
(DIR) Post #AXfssKzJGPoTCYnSwi by alecui@qoto.org
2023-07-14T04:58:24Z
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@icedquinn how the hell do you do quote toots?