Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 40

me at bugs in your software: darn heck friggin' crap

me at bugs in my software: look at these bespoke errors really feels hand made

Hi, I do software development and stuff. Quite like Rust and Nim, mostly actually work in Java. Currently doing a weird outside my day job project that might one day be a platform co-op or end up in my github/lab graveyard and that's in Kotlin/spring.

likes: co-ops, sleeping, metric (both the band and system of measurement)

dislikes: anything which hinders the above, wasps, mushrooms, commuting

avatar tbc

#introduction

The word ‘sweet’ can be traced back to the Old English ‘swete’, an adjective that meant, ‘pleasing to the senses, mind or feelings’. Its origins are Proto-Indo-European (‘*swad’, Sanskrit svādu) which makes the word over 5000 years old.

'Sweet’ was used as a noun to mean ‘beloved one’ from 1300, as something easily managed from the 19thC , ‘the engine is more responsive and sweet than its predecessor’, and as an intensive from the 20thC , ‘sweet nothing’.

https://thecopy.team/blog/origin-word-sweet-copy-team-etymology-series/

Well, the local timeline is _on fire_
Feels good to see so many new people!

Ps. To all new users who want to take matters in their own hands: don't forget social.coop is a #cooperative and you can be an active part of it!

my problem with #patriarchy is not that men are on top, it's that there is a top at all

The origin of the word ‘play’ is unknown- English adopted the word ‘pleien’ meaning to ‘dance, leap for joy, and rejoice’ from Dutch in the later Middle Ages, which was adapted as ‘pleg(i)an’, ‘to exercise, or frolic’.

To ‘play’ also adopted the meaning to amuse or divert, ‘and young and old com forth to play on a sunshine Holyday’ (c. 1638). A ‘playmate’ was used to describe children’s friends from 1642. The sexual connotation was used from 1954.

https://thecopy.team/blog/origin-word-play-copy-team-etymology-series/

To objectives of Open Source Ecology: Develop a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist); develop a modular, scalable platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – including blueprints for both physical artifacts and for related open enterprises. https://www.opensourceecology.org/

The other day I was pondering about rebuilding my brother's websites on top of #ActivityPub, and also moving my blog over to the result too. Now, there's a catch: content may be much longer than 500 chars, which shouldn't be a problem for ActivityPub, but people following the thing might meet with big walls of text.

Not quite sure what to do about that yet.

How is Pleroma different from Mastodon?

@mayel Good call with Elixir. I use Go in my dayjob and appreciate both its concurrency and lack of robustness. Having a process not crash the whole system, and choosing Elixir over more popular languages, makes it clear that you're prioritizing robustness. That's a refreshing change of pace.

There's no ethical consumption under capitalism but it literally takes 5 minutes to find the same Amazon stuff on other smaller websites for almost the same price

@privacylab "Oh you want to disable location tracking?

I'm sorry, I cannot let you do this, Dave..."