@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"
But I would like to support the project just because I really want it to continue existing. Because "person with a dream actually made a whole computer" feels like the hardware version of how I approach software (see screenshot + alt)
But if I ever got one, I feel the moral obligation to build a whole new ARM64 version of GoboLinux to run on it. I wouldn't use it any other way!
I've never really used a trackball. I mean, I've played with them in kiosks and whatnot, but I never sat down to actually use a computer with a trackball.
Does anybody here use a trackball in a non-retro-computing environment? What are your impressions?
@mntmn imagine building your own computer down to the motherboard PCB and then having the *distro* have the gall to tell you you can't use the keyboard any way to like aaaarrrggghhhhasdsfhjgdsjsaoeuiuehekdbdqwertykduegqwertzwixhdbgsazertykduegeb
Day 0 - being a Pascal and Lua fan, I prefer 1-based counting, but as usual for an eurotrip from Brazil, it actually starts the day before. Just flew POA-GIG. Flight departed a few mins late, which made my tight-ish connection even tighter. But the GIG-AMS flight had a similar delay, so all is well!
Two people have already complimented my Firefox T-shirt.
Day 2 - woke up way too late, lunch in Amsterdam (to the sound of Brazilian bossa nova!), then train to Brussels with Jack, where I ran into @catwell 's brother (a sign that it's a small world when we FOSS people get together!). Dinner with friends and we finished the night at the Delirium, where I had at last a pint of Red. Typing this from the bus on my way to hotel and I'm making way too many typos...I hope I'm not hung over tomorrow for the conference! Looking forward to the morning waffles!
Day 1 - Arrived in Amsterdam. On the train to my hotel, I spotted a young British couple, and she was actually using a paper map (one of those touristy ones you get at a kiosk or hostel). That was a nostalgic sight, from back when I used to rely on those to find my way around! Google Maps is convenient, but less poetic.
I guess I need a new profile picture (or a haircut? 😆), because @Gargron didn't recognize me at first, but he definitely did when he asked to see my profile pic (just kidding! ...plus it was a lot easier to recognize him in front of that banner!)
@salva_pl ...and if @ActionRetro would like to play with a vintage GoboLinux for a future video, I think we can dig a version from around 2003 or so! Paging @lucasvr :)
@aperezdc I'm also getting worried that more and more the answer to "information X can be found at..." is so often archive.org. I love archive.org, and the work they do is great, but that's a sign they're becoming a single point of failure for a lot of stuff, which also inevitably makes them more of a target too.
Still coding free software — Created htop, Teal (typed dialect of Lua), LuaRocks package manager, GoboLinux distroPhD @ PUC-Rio, interested in dataflow, PL ∩ HCIstay tuned for occasional music and cat contenttoots in pt_BR: hisham@masto.donte.com.br