Notices by Brion Vibber (brion@mastodon.technology)

Starting a story with "long long ago..." may cause portability issues on 32-bit platforms without a 64-bit time_t.

$ flatpak help
error: 'help' is not a flatpak command. Did you mean 'kill'?

Boy, that escalated quickly...

@gudenau cert expired, it's broken everything until they deploy a new one and re-sign everything :(

Hey fediverse folks -- is there a good model for handling closed or semi-closed 'discussion groups' that retain a poster's identity across instances?

People over in FB land use groups *a lot*, and I'm unclear how to model that in my mental map of how mastodon/etc work in an activitypub world other than separate local instances with closed timelines.

I should read up on current stuff though. :D One of these days thinking of making a tiny single-user instance app as a learning exercise.

If you use Linux and a GNOME desktop, and have bucks to spare, don't forget the GNOME foundation accepts money donations as well as code. :) This helps fund development, which is good!

I finally got off my butt and set up a recurring donation.

https://www.gnome.org/support-gnome/

Apparently IBM briefly made PowerPC-based ThinkPads in the mid-1990s, which could run Windows NT, AIX, or Solaris (!)

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-thinkpad-power-series-850/

(found via osnews.com)

Interesting... Mozilla is thinking seriously about consolidating Firefox build process to use clang on all platforms to avoid juggling clang, GCC, and MSVC-specific C++ hacks and to enable some LLVM-specific things like cross-language inlining in LTO.

https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2018/05/29/when-implementation-monoculture-right-thing/

C warnings are like ... "optional" errors.

Where the project whose library you're using might have different "options" from the project you're using the code in.

Is there an easier way to put flatpak-installed tools into my shell PATH than making little scripts or aliases like this?

#!/bin/sh
flatpak run io.atom.Atom "$@"

Hmm, I guess https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1188#issuecomment-351963471 is halfway there, but still wants an alias for a convenient name.