Notices by Sean R. Lynch ☑️ (seanl@social.literati.org), page 3

It occurs to me that between its ad networks and the Play Store, Google could be the single largest purveyor of malware in the world.

@tuxmachines Still waiting for Purism to ship me a single piece of hardware. I've ordered 3 things from them over the past 2 years and not one has shipped yet. Maybe they should focus on one project at a time.

They say the Internet killed the #BBS, but they really just changed form. Facebook, for example, is just that lame chat BBS full of nothing but drama.

@kaniini Possibly, but they'd blame the problems there on interference from the US.

@HerraBRE @sir But the speedup from speculative execution IS from parallelism. We're just asking the CPU to find it instead of the compiler. So couldn't you move the smarts into the compiler?

@Fuego @rysiek The original blog post is way better written than The Reg's breathless ripoff of it.

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table

@djsundog @vertigo It's 12 keys instead of 8, and there are modifier keys on the top intended to be worked with the thumb, but it does have your depressable thumbstick.

https://twiddler.tekgear.com/

@josemurilo By using & supporting Google Maps we're literally letting Google own the planet. Support open projects like OpenStreetMap instead.

@schestowitz Sorry, should have included (correct) link: https://lwn.net/Articles/30048/

@schestowitz Linus made it perfectly clear back in 2003 that "Linux" was perfectly OK with #DRM no matter what the community thought.

Everyone remember how in 2001 we all realized the Internet was just a fad?

Yeah, that Internet thing was so stupid.

@sikkdays @djsundog Oh yeah, it was indeed second person. I wonder if any of them survived the Great Garage Flood and all of my moves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure

Anyone in the San Jose area who's interested in collaborating on a community network?

I'm thinking: group leasing of big pipes to a non-consumer ISP along with meshed wireless, both high speed for Internet access, and low speed 900 MHz as an SMS replacement. And of course hosting of various kinds of community services.

@h @natecull @akkartik @vertigo Yeah I would not design a language for existing programmers. A lot of assembly language programmers had no interest in Fortran when it came out. In fact, all the new languages tended to be adopted by people who weren't already programming in one of the older ones.

@natecull @akkartik @h @vertigo Could have nested expressions in cases where an expression's value is used only once, arrows where it's used in multiple places.

One cool thing about visual programming is that you can avoid naming variables much of the time. Not that that would impress @h since they like Forth :)

@natecull @deejoe @clacke @h @vertigo It's all about which specific properties you value. If you value ease of indexed access over compact representation, you use a fixed-width representation like UTF-32. But you're always engaging in some sort of compromise. Unless you're Terry Davis.

@paulfree14 I really need to get better at using #hashtags.

@djsundog
Just waiting for them to try this with my instance. With a gag order telling me not to tell myself about the order.

Tries to read an article on Mashable about how Mastodon can't survive. Got scrolled back to the top repeatedly as various extraneous elements loaded. Then got scrolled back AGAIN when a "read this article" button popped up and blocked my way, as if visiting the wasn't enough to indicate my desire to read the article. Then I couldn't actually find the end of the article because scrolling just brought me a bunch or irrelevant articles.

Yet Lance Ulanoff thinks it's Mastodon that's going to die.

Speaking of federated, self-hosted open source software, GitLab is apaprently working (slowly) on federation: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013