Notices by Tsundoku Psychohazard (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe), page 5

cyberpop: virtual reality
cyberpunk: amphetamine psychosis

cyberpop: augmented reality makes the city into a wonderland of useful information
cyberpunk: augmented reality makes the city into a hellstorm of unskippable popup advertisements

cyberpop: "information wants to be free!"
cyberpunk: "I might have some information; who wants to know?"

@akkartik

OSMIC is a system for branching revision control on arbitrary byte sequences. Every revision has a unique address (a sequence of positive integers), and you can navigate between any two revisions with only the diff structure itself & a single revision with a known address. (This is a little more impressive than it sounds because of the branching: you absolutely could need to do a long sequence of fast forwards & rewinds.)

@freakazoid @natecull @deejoe @Lexi

@freakazoid @natecull @deejoe @Lexi
One idea from Xanadu (and probably elsewhere too):

1) your undo stack is literally branching revision tree

2) that revision tree is permanent and you can point at a particular world state configuration

@Lexi @natecull @deejoe
This is the thing. We need to separate big computing from small computing.

If you're getting paid for it or someone gets hurt when it breaks, it's big computing and should be bulletproof. (Throw TDD and formal methods and everything else at it.)

For everything else, it's small computing, which should be as fast and loose (and flexible and expressive) as possible.

Big computing is ADA and small computing is LISP.

This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer's specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

There's a lobste.rs mirror on #gopher: gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/julienxx/Lobste.rs/

@strypey
(If you've got a hundred bucks to spare & that sounds good to you, I recommend grabbing a cheap pair off Adafruit. Those are the most normal looking and also the most comfortable, because they're mounted in cheap sunglasses.)

The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community

Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/

I feel like I'm repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires

tired: "drama"
wired: "hypercare"

Software only becomes 'enterprise grade' if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.

Against Facebook https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/

To distribute or not to distribute? Why licensing bugs matter | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/25/to-distribute-or-not-to-distribute-why-licensing-bugs-matter/

@Azure
not nearly enough mermaids who owe me money for my taste tbh

@natecull
web squirtles

If you're concerned about Microsoft taking over Github for even irrelevant reasons:

Take this opportunity to migrate your repos to git-ssb or git-ipfs, instead of moving to another temporary host-tied third party thing like gitlab or bitbucket.

Your commits are already identified by hashes, so why not switch to hashes entirely & use an NDN/DHT system?

@thegibson @Elizafox
The term 'meritocracy' first appeared in a satire that was specifically pointing out the way such a formulation would reward people who are already unfairly privileged by screwing over everybody else.

So this is a thing that happened once:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002696910266773505.html

Life hack: find the video in your youtube recommendations you're least interested in watching, click on it, turn off your speakers, and leave your house for a week.