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Chris Charabaruk // coldacid.id / keybase.io/coldacid

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coldacid··on Homebrew Social Networking
There definitely could be better protocols. I've seen plenty of complaints about AP from various corners regarding the protocol itself. But it's better than the OStatus protocol it supplanted, and one day someone will come around with something better that various fediverse instances will adopt.
coldacid··on Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds
Someone actually went and created patches and installers to work with modern Windows for both SimCopter and Streets of SimCity.

http://krimsky.net/patchers.html

coldacid··on [dead]
If there's a Toronto office for Twitter, then I wouldn't need to move. The commute sucks, but I'm already dealing with that at my current employer.
coldacid··on [dead]
Yes, with the caveat that I don't have to move to do so.
coldacid··on Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
>With WSL2 I got rid of VM's for local development.

No you didn't, you just let Windows hide them from you. WSL2 is essentially a Hyper-V VM running Linux with some programs bridging between it and the Windows host -- or two such VMs with some additional bridging (for Wayland and audio) if WSLg is enabled.

coldacid··on Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California
I'm less concerned about the social and political aspects of governance and labour by AI, and more the big gaping spiritual hole it'd leave us with.
coldacid··on GitHub CTO – Biggest architectural mistake was going full microservice
Which is probably how he got the idea of microservicing everything at GH
coldacid··on Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un...
coldacid··on Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California
>barring some kind of sci-fi AI that manages everything for us

At which point we'd need a Butlerian Jihad.

coldacid··on What ever happened to webrings? (2015)
s/offer better user experience and discoverability/have better marketing and SEO/

FTFY.

coldacid··on Louisiana man tells joke online, gets arrested by swat
/Schenck/ and /Abrams/ were overturned via the Brandenburg v. Ohio decision of the Supreme Court of the US in 1969.
coldacid··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
And for KPMG.
coldacid··on Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act
Okay, now RTFM to understand why that paragraph of the proposal is a joke.
coldacid··on Zeal OS is a modernized fork of the Temple Operating System
So Protestantism has finally hit TempleOS?
coldacid··on Foam, a personal knowledge management and sharing system using VSCode and GitHub
I'll just warn you that the experience isn't for everyone. But if LISP and the feeling of living in a terminal window's your thing, I think you'll enjoy!
coldacid··on Foam, a personal knowledge management and sharing system using VSCode and GitHub
Why use Emacs? Why use Org mode?

For the first, because some of us like that we don't have to change applications just to do different tasks. Yeah, kind of a silly reason, but there you go, why Emacs has packages for almost anything you can think of.

Why Org mode? Because it's good and it's already here, and like Emacs itself, it covers everything. Once you've used it for a while, every other way of organizing information looks like half-baked attempts to provide maybe a third to half of what Org already does.

Also, I'm primarily asking the question because it's something that always comes up whenever these kinds of productivity tools get posted on HN. It's essentially a meme. Foam does look pretty interesting, although porting everything in Org over to it would be somewhat frustrating...

coldacid··on Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
It doesn't need to be anything else.
coldacid··on Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
I blame CADT.
coldacid··on Foam, a personal knowledge management and sharing system using VSCode and GitHub
As always, the question must be asked: Why this instead of Org mode?
coldacid··on Mastodon’s eternal September begins?
Hugboxes go both ways. mstdn.social is as much a hugbox for the left as Gab and Truth Social are hugboxes for the right. They're all anathema to free speech.
coldacid··on Doomed Facts About the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (2018)
Does any one know where the love of God goes / When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
coldacid··on Mastodon’s eternal September begins?
Sorry not sorry. I felt that it was just too funny to not make this joke.
coldacid··on Mastodon’s eternal September begins?
>can Mastodon (the real one) nodes protect themselves against "compromised" ones?

Yes, you can always defederate from other instances if you want. In fact, a lot of fediverse instances do just that to protect their hugboxes from the rest of us who actually value our ability to communicate with each other. And there are certainly a number of instances that defederate from others on technical grounds rather than social ones.

coldacid··on Mastodon’s eternal September begins?
I would expect that Google would quickly get the Gab treatment if they decided to go fedi (that is, everyone preemptively blocks/defederates from them before they even have AP support enabled).
coldacid··on What chroot taught me about containers
The filesystem-in-a-file was to produce the contents of the root tarball that was extracted somewhere (in /opt per OP) and chrooted into.
coldacid··on Programming with DOS Debugger (2003)
I'm afraid to ask why that particular command is so well memorized for you, but at the same time I'm curious...
coldacid··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Given that the ntfy Android app is available through F-Droid, I strongly doubt that Google Play Services is used at all.
coldacid··on Mastodon DOI Issue: Dots and slashes break hashtags
Pretty sure that dots and slashes break hashtags on almost everything else that supports hashtags. This is a feature request disguised as a bug report.
coldacid··on Janus-UAE (Amiga Emulator)
Well, the goal of running 68k Amiga programs on non-68k Amiga OS clones (AROS, MorphOS) at least.
coldacid··on Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
To be fair, systemd started when Poettering was at Red Hat. He was EEEing Linux even before he was at Microsoft :^)
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