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@maiyannah @purplehippo Teenage mutant ninja quantum bugs?
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@purplehippo @maiyannah That's kind of how I feel about governments. Whatever it is, whoever is in charge, if you're a common plod you're screwed. The only difference between good and bad governments is how much effort and creativity they put into finding new ways of screwing you.
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@maiyannah The link problem occurs on desktop and mobile for me. Also on classic interface. But qvitter does have weirdness with newlines not being recognized which seems related to the awkward contenteditable div thing
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Antirez' position on master-slave makes sense: it's first and foremost a poor choice of words because of technical reasons (other words convey the intended meaning better) but it's legacy now and the gains don't justify the effort to remove it. But in newer project it's better to use a more modern variant. Personally I wonder if the master-slave analogy ever really made sense, I mean even in the classic case of PATA peripherals the master didn't so much control the slave as that it had priority, so primary and secondary seem to be a better fit.
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http://antirez. com/news/122 (again, remove spaces in url) Nihil sub sole novum. Disagree with me, I'm going to call you a fascist even though your family suffered under the fascists. Protip: don't toss around the word nazis willy-nilly in countries that suffered under the Nazis (and yes, that includes Germany, plenty of Germans in the camps) and fascist in countries that suffered under fascism.
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The 8087 chip co-processor approach is at the same time interesting and horrifying. Because the only communication between the processors is through main memory there were subtle race conditions where, if I understand correctly, if you weren't careful you could write a float to a value, read it as an int and depending on DMA timing would get either the old or the new value. I had always understood strict-aliasing as purely a performance feature but reading about this makes me suspect the C standard made it undefined behavior because under certain circumstances using a float pointer as an int pointer gave actual unpredictable results on the hardware.
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@maiyannah Yeah, people tend to give up if nobody listens anymore. And if they make new accounts their local instance admin will usually be willing to step in. The worst I've seen of this part of the fediverse is an occasional bit of drama between personalities but that's about it.
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@maiyannah Fair enough. I agree that in the common case (the common twat) a public post strikes the right balance between the safety of the accuser and the interests of the accused.
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@maiyannah Yeah, I prefer this system as well. Though I don't really see how there is a difference in anonymity, in both cases only the instance admin knows who's accusing.
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@maiyannah Which suggests to me that something is wrong in the design of the software UX if such a spam deluge is too hard to deal with. But then, it's Mastodon, who needs good UX when you can get good $$.
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So I read a bit about the wilw/masto fubar and I have come to two very unsurprising conclusions: 1) wilw is a very special actor, most actors would have to turn up their obnoxiousness to play Wesley Crusher, he has to turn it down and 2) Mastodon is a clusterfuck spawning pool.
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@maiyannah Ah, rejecting people over what instance they're on.
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Post on HN on a Haskell topic warning people away from Haskell because it doesn't have a central authority to enforce CoCs or something like that. You couldn't have made a better advertisement for me. :P
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Emacs can be complicated, but sometimes, all that complexity pays off. I wanted to insert a range of numbers in hexadecimal at the start of a line. Turns out all I have to do to append increasing hex numbers from 0x20 is to select the lines and `c-u c-x r N` then enter #x20 for the initial value and 0x%02x for the format string.
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Come to think of it a common thread in a lot of stuff that's happening now is the abandonment of the principle of Equal Justice Under Law. The law doesn't need to be fair, it's only fair that it's not fair because if it applied equally that would enable the freeloaders/oppressors/nazis. The fact that this principle is so important to our society that it's literally hewn in stone seems to elude people in their quest to remake the world to be a better place for themselves.
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@purplehippo Oh, it gets even better. Asking all the copyright holders is too hard, so they just relicense because "the MIT license allows sublicensing" and when pressed on it say that anyone who objects can have their code cut out. Err, not how it works. I guess you could change the license on your own contributions to include the extra clause similar to how a work with GPLed parts and MITed parts is effectively GPLed but you cannot change the license on code you do now own without the explicit consent of the copyright owner. That kind of shit is what CLAs were invented for.
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Project bans use of code by companies that work with ICE such as MS. Project is hosted on Github. You know, owned by MS. Consistency? We've heard of it.
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@maiyannah Found the problem. It's when I post something containing a link. Get back an error `{"error":"Class 'oEmbedHelper' not found","request":"\/api\/qvitter\/statuses\/update.json"}`
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And of course this one goes through without a hitch.
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