Notices by Bobby Moss (bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks)

@sophia wait... you’re saying you don’t like the bit where Eowyn screams “I AM NO MAN!” and shoves a sword through the Witch King of Angmar’s face?!

Or the bit where Sean Bean is a human pin cushion?

Or that ridiculous scene where the giant trees smash up Isengard?

Well, here’s a consolation...

https://youtu.be/uE-1RPDqJAY

Apparently some Elite: Dangerous players successfully executed a daring rescue mission to save one of their comrades from the galactic void. (They’d been there for 3 months with no fuel)

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/02/26/elite-dangerous-player-stranded-for-three-months-has-been-rescued/

@sikkdays @zatnosk tbh Thinkpads get a bad rap because companies often provision really old models at their most basic spec, then pre-load a restricted build of Windows on top of it.

However if you buy one second hand and upgrade it you get a dirt cheap computer that’s built like a tank. 😂

@zatnosk if you have work colleagues, you could ask what they use.

I think corporations make a lot of money & dodge their tax obligations, so have no qualms about asking for what I need. Whether the answer is “yes” is another matter 😂

For my last job writing Java middleware I was given a MacBook Pro to do dev work. For the job I have now I use a Thinkpad because I write docs for Oracle Linux and want to “dog food” that system like the rest of the team.

@zatnosk If work’s buying, get a Mac. You can install most tools through homebrew, and if you miss Linux there’s always Virtualbox.

If this hurts your very soul, a Thinkpad or Dell XPS 13 are solid laptops that should run Linux without any issues.

If you see your patreon heroes yelling “I HAVE NO MONEY PLEASE HELP”, you should probably PayPal them some money.

Yet again, Patreon is paying creators late. They had one job and... they seem to be struggling with it.

@trevdev as I’m a gay dude that might want to get married some day, I’ll take all the “socially progressive” I can get 😂

@switchingsocial were they expecting to die at 50?!

“Curses! Just 20 years away from retirement...”

I saw someone on here say “27 is like turning 30 in advance”, and it *may* have broken me 😭

(I turn 28 in April, and am decidedly not old! *shakes fist at pesky teenagers*)

@js true, if it ever got Matrix support it’d be via plug-in.

I think the closest alternative is XMPP, but of course that doesn’t use ActivityPub. Also Google & Facebook seem to have killed adoption of it stone dead.

@js have you looked at mattermost btw? You might fair better with that than Matrix 🙂

@js I’m also in agreement that implementing this in a single Python process also seems unwise.

When they finally establish what the APIs will look like and how a server should behave it seems a prime candidate for being written in a machine-compiled language. (Or one that compiles to bytecode and makes good use of JVM optimisations)

@js in fairness, it’s still quite early-stage technology. The API isn’t even frozen yet!

https://matrix.org/docs/spec/

@trevdev Thank you for that suggestion! Doing a bit of reading up on the area, I definitely want to book a trip there to take a look 🙂

I'd previously assumed the Ottawa area was probably going to be where I ended up, but Victoria, BC looks like it's in that nice butter zone of not being horrifically expensive while having a good tech scene, weather that won't break me & not being too far out in the sticks. 👍