Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 10

tfw implementing a FAT32 driver

@mntmn yeah. ARM-the-architecture is decent, but ARM in practice is really rough

@mntmn I joke, to be honest, ARM is, uh... mostly better than x86_64, at least

@mntmn I can put on a blue hat and ramble on stage about all of the problems with ARM for an hour if you want

@mntmn "if you all look under your seat, you'll find a printed and bound copy of the ARMv8 hardware reference manual, now if you'll line up one at a time to place your copy on the pile we'll just have a quick ritual burning..."

Machine learning is a technology that I can only see making the world worse. Not because of silly doomer AGI fear mongering, but just because it sucks and most of its applications are about replacing expensive, competent humans with cheap, crappy robots. And I don't think it'll get better. Add capitalist garbage and military use and you have a steaming pile of turds.

@mntmn https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sbase/commit/ee0336bc3b6f55839785427d6184e6f897055e31

text editor!

Reminder that your GDPR consent dialog has to have a one-click opt-out or it's illegal

And that "legitimate interest" is horseshit

Looking for someone with space to talk about some traumatic shit I need to get off of my chest. Better someone I know online than with my IRL friends. Anyone got room for it?

Is there a term in CS for "a <thing> should do the least possible <stuff> to solve its goal"? I like principle of least action for this but it's a category error of sorts

https://writefreesoftware.org

Introducing Write Free Software: A comprehensive educational resource for the free software community

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/introducing-writefreesoftware.org/

#freesoftware #foss

Right. I'm burnt out. Life has been too much for too long this year.

Going to take a break.

The Free Software Foundation is dying

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html

Does anyone out there in the wild run a third-party SourceHut instance with billing enabled?

@mntmn try nmtui with a pretty terminal theme and a good dose of self delusion

@mntmn I only like the left shift key but I really dislike keyboards that get creative with the layout

FOSS projects don't compete with each other; the FOSS ecosystem as a whole competes with proprietary software

Need good TUI calendar software for Linux with CalDAV support

Now excuse me while I add yet another stupid fucking environment variable for Go

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/commit/71c7fe0eb1e502edec3947a06cf84556c80df50d