Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 27

Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2019 00:05:56 EDT Ben Zanin

Oh my god, the SPCA was monitoring the shooting and somehow they allowed the carbon monoxide asphyxiation of a rhesus monkey‽ (Not to the point of fatality, but to unconsciousness) What the fucking hell

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 23:53:19 EDT Ben Zanin

That didn't age well but I wish I had watched it decades ago! I could see its influence in the set design of Star Wars, the third act tension in Alien, the power loader design in Aliens, the design of Citadel Station in System Shock, the mood and setting of Portal and Portal 2, the unusual pacing of Jurassic Park (though that probably makes sense given that they share an author); its set designs really drew on 2001...
Man. What a great experience.

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 21:35:02 EDT Ben Zanin

Phone off, lights down, disc ready.
All right. Let's do this.

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kit (kit@oulipo.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 21:01:05 EDT kit

oulipo as main is basically playing mastodon on "immortal"

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The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 20:38:38 EDT The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

A prof in my department who was on my thesis defence committee said hi to me as we passed on the street today
And then he made the effort to come back and say, "Sorry, hi Doctor—" just because he knew it would make me happy
And it was so sweet

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 19:47:36 EDT Ben Zanin
- neville park
@nev
NOT
EVAR
#dlws

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kaffe 💜 (cozykaffe@snouts.online)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 18:50:41 EDT kaffe 💜

them clime

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 19:33:12 EDT Ben Zanin
- Eugen
@Gargron I hope you get a chance to take some time for only yourself soon. It's been a rough little while.

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Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei: (jacethechicken@chickenfan.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 14:29:48 EDT Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei:

so a while back, TD Bank fucked me over. There was a big 100-somethin dollar charge that I said I didn't know; they reversed it, then like a month later un-reversed it. and added overdraft fees.
I've been fighting with them for a while, but they won't budge. Anything y'all can spare would be super appreciated; I'm trynna get a job for the summer, but it's not coming fast enough :/
http://ko-fi.com/jacethechicken
♥️🧡💛💚💙💜♥️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei: (jacethechicken@chickenfan.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 19:42:17 EDT Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei:

in my mind, the ideal beer should taste like alcoholic bread. Dragon's Milk, at 11% abv, aged in a bourbon barrel, and as thick as a milkshake, certainly delivers 🍻

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ranjit (ranjit@friend.camp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 12:24:16 EDT ranjit

Never gonna give you up for eight seconds
Never gonna let you down for two seconds
Never gonna run around and desert you for six seconds
Never gonna make you cry for two seconds
Never gonna say goodbye for eight seconds
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you for two seconds

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Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 13:22:03 EDT Federico Mena Quintero

Preparing the bzip2-1.0.7 release - https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/preparing-the-bzip2-107-release.html

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 14:59:37 EDT Ben Zanin
- Federico Mena Quintero
@federicomena
$ libdir=$(ldd $(which bzip2) | awk '/libbz2/{print $3}') ; grep -H . /etc/debian_version ; uname -a ; echo "$libdir" ; objdump -x "$libdir" | grep SONAME
/etc/debian_version:9.8
Linux sundial 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.144-3.1 (2019-02-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
SONAME libbz2.so.1.0
$

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 13:24:17 EDT Ben Zanin
- Thomas, Computer Wrangler
@thomasfuchs ok but how did it taste

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Nelson Minar (nelson@lgbt.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 11:50:15 EDT Nelson Minar

A Cleaner Emacs Build • Lars went through and fixed a bunch of compiler warnings in emacs https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/06/20/towards-a-cleaner-emacs-build/ #linkblog #emacssoftwarec++buildcompilingtootme
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  Towards a Cleaner Emacs Build
  
  By larsmagne23 from Random Thoughts
  I’m planning on getting back into Emacs development after being mostly absent for a couple of years. One thing that’s long annoyed me when tinkering with the Lisp bits of Emacs is the huge number of compilation warnings. The C parts of Emacs were fixed up at least a decade ago, but this is what compiling the Lisp directory looks like:
  
  For me, this has been a source of having to go slower when coding: I make a change, look at the output from the compilation window, and then do a double take when I see some warning about something I didn’t think I had touched.
  
  And then it turns out to be an old warning about something completely different.
  
  The number of warnings in an Emacs build has been fluctuating, but sort of growing. There were 440 Warning: lines output by the build process, totalling 1800 lines on stderr. That’s kinda a lot to look at when doing a build.
  
  There’s a number of reasons that the Emacs build looks like this, but the most important is perhaps the somewhat unique way the Emacs Lisp code has traditionally been developed: Many of the major modules have been maintained out-of-tree, and often support a huge number of Emacs versions dating back to the 1980s. Not to mention XEmacs.
  
  This leads to there being conditional calls to code that doesn’t exist in modern Emacs, and code that doesn’t use new calling conventions.
  
  The other is that, well, Emacs has a long history, but the Emacs Lisp language is evolving constantly. What was good code in 1993 now uses outmoded idioms, and these idioms trigger compilation warnings.
  
  The development situation has changed somewhat over the last few years: Now most of the code in the Emacs tree is developed in the Emacs git repository, and the external packages are instead distributed using the Emacs package system. So the half-external/half-internal development isn’t as big an issue any more (although there are still (very) significant packages developed this way, like CC mode).
  
  And XEmacs compatibility isn’t a major issue any more for many people.
  
  So I thought now was the time to roll up my t-shirt sleeves and get stuck in to the code and get organisised.
  
  90% of the warnings took 10% of the time: They were easy syntactic changes to bring code up to date with the new Emacs Lisp standards. The next 9% took 90% of the time. And then the last 1% took another 90% of the time.
  
  So there was a lot of questions asked and some new tests implemented to ensure that the changes didn’t break anything.
  
  And a lot of questions answered by all the smart people on emacs-devel.
  
  But now it’s over! That is, there’s one single Warning: left, and that’s being pondered.
  
  The total output from a “make bootstrap” is down from 5200 lines to 2900 lines (on this machine; it may vary somewhat), which is a 40% reduction. Looking at Emacs compiling now is a calmer experience.
  
  I also added some new progress messaging in parts where a single section takes so long that it looks like it’s crashed or something, so it’s not purely a “get rid of lines” project.
  
  Virtually all of the warnings fixed were valid warnings (i.e., they were about things we’d rather not see in the Emacs Lisp code), but some warnings were false positives. For instance, Emacs has a method to mark functions as obsolete, and then you get a warning if you load that code, which is a nice way of letting users know that something is going to disappear in a few years. (And Emacs has a very conservative removal policy; obsolete functions are kept around for like a decade.)
  
  But functions are sometimes obsoleted in groups, so you may have one obsolete function calling another obsolete function in that group, and that will issue a compilation warning… and it shouldn’t.
  
  So we’ve introduced a new macro
  
  (with-suppressed-warnings ((obsolete an-old-function)) (an-old-function :foo :bar))
  
  to make the byte compiler know that we know about this, and not issue any warnings about that. (And there are similar things about the number of arguments to the functions.)
  
  I had to use the macro about a dozen places, which isn’t a lot, percentage wise.
  
  I hope the somewhat less daunting compilation output will help developers, old and new, to get more stuff done. At least a little bit.
Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei: (jacethechicken@chickenfan.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 00:58:16 EDT Jacie "The" Chicken :heihei:

when the moon hits your knees
and you mispronounce trees
sycamore

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Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 10:18:50 EDT Federico Mena Quintero

People from All Distros(tm), can you please send me the output of
objdump -x /usr/lib64/libbz2.so | grep SONAME
Thanks!
(Trying to see if every distro patched bzip2 to produce the same shared object name.)

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Lilou la jonquille de l'espace (baerd@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 06:28:17 EDT Lilou la jonquille de l'espace

A M E N

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Stefano Zacchiroli (zacchiro@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 06:15:34 EDT Stefano Zacchiroli

Dear #lazyweb, what's the largest #cgit instance you know, in terms of hosted #git repositories?
The standing champion is http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ , but I'm confident there are larger instances out there…

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Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2019 13:03:17 EDT Ben Zanin
@feynman @cathal @norikawa no. The groups and people targeted for hatred, exclusion, and harassment by users of Gab and the like do not need to constantly argue for their right to exist. That is a settled topic.
We don't argue policy about phrenology or aether anymore either. We're past that point, and efforts to drag us back there are counterproductive and no longer deserve to be treated as if they were advanced in good faith.

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