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nytpu ‮

Deep from my archives, I have finally recovered the most legendary meme on Fedi (IMO, since most people here nowadays probably haven't seen it)

Screenshot of someone from the now-defunct husk.site instance pinging Eugen/Gargron saying “@Gargron Can you ban this idiot”. Attached is a screenshot of a post from someone on shitposter.club with an image saying “Things you can do with men under 5'11” and a woman lifting a man up with her legs like people sometimes do with babies. Gargron replies “How? This is a screenshot from shitposter.club and you're on husk.site, neither of which is mastodon.social”
nytpu ‮

Received some free #Playdate stickers and noticed…

(Transcription in alt text if it's still too hard to read)

A sticker that is an actual-size image of a Playdate with the playdate wordmark on the screen. The back has the Panic logo and the site play.date and some small text on the bottom
Zoomed in on the back of the sticker, you can see the large “play.date” text. Below it is small text reading “so steve is nervous nobody will know that's a url, so just to be clear, you know how some websites end in .com or .org, well they actually added a bunch of new ones like .condos or .focaccia or .ennui or whatever, and so our website actually ends in .date! that's the real, actual url. play dot date. so believe it or not just type in play.date and your browser will take you to our internet home page on the world wide web. now, one important note, the name of the handheld is just ‘Playdate’, one word uppercase P, please don't think the device is called play dot date, that's just the url, and yea we tried to add a few words up there like ‘visit’ or ‘go to our homepage’ or ‘https://’ but all of them looked kind of horrible. in conclusion we were really excited to get a clean url like play.date but as we're laying out this sticker back art file we're maybe feeling just a little bit of regret. not a lot. please visit our website”
nytpu ‮

Me: “Uggh I never have enough music to fill the time I'm working and stuff”

Screenshot of Quod Libet showing my music library has 4,774 songs totalling 12 days, 18 hours in duration
nytpu ‮

Ah, “MAP”. That stands for “Minor Attracted Pedophile”, right?

Wolf480pl

@nytpu I thought it was "Message Access Profile" ?

nytpu ‮

Theory: is #Emacs being “good enough” why no #Lisp has a fantastically integrated development environment (including GUI toolkit) like every extant Smalltalk implementation has? Because as far as I can tell, Lisp machines *did* have a Smalltalk-like environment, but since Emacs existed nobody bothered to try implementing an equivalently featureful environment after Lisp machines stopped being a thing

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arpunk

@nytpu There are a few efforts that trying to get a similar environment within Common Lisp: codeberg.org/mmontone/mold-des and project-mage.org/

Ethan Blanton

@nytpu That may be part of it, but I think another issue here is that Lisp has never been monolithic like Smalltalk, and the Lisp standard (at least CL) has no GUI toolkit primitives.

Arne Babenhauserheide

@nytpu yes — and maybe that’s because Emacs is a fantastically integrated development environment including cross-platform GUI toolkit that even works on the terminal …

Also Dr. Racket.

nytpu ‮

I love the Fortran website made in the style of modern programming language websites: fortran-lang.org/

Especially since like 70% of the selling points are accurate and yet identical to the ones on the rust website

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amirouche 🌱

@nytpu

I understand why my father was doing research with FORTRAN:

> Natively parallel
FORTRAN is a natively parallel programming language with intuitive array-like syntax to communicate data between CPUs. You can run almost the same code on a single CPU, on a shared-memory multicore system, [...]

/me mouth open, eyes blinking

mhd

@nytpu didn’t someone write a comparison of Go and some related even neater newfangled language, which turned out to be… Algol 68?

I predict PL/M to make a comeback.

Petra

@nytpu you're reminding me that I still want to learn fortran

nytpu ‮

I really dislike the trend of modern programming languages to get more and more special-character-heavy and have dozens of unintelligible modifier symbols. Give me Ada with like five punctuation marks, or any Lisp with everything nice and regular. Ada attributes and aspects are basically equivalent to those modifiers except they actually tell you what the fuck they do instead of being randomly selected APL symbols.

arkywarky

@nytpu i love how verbose forth is :3 it feels more human

Sky UwU

@nytpu I think languages should stop taking these things seriously, discrete units/words/whatever should be up to the interpretation of the text editor you use, not the compiler.

nytpu ‮

Remembering the time the GNU list of “free software code forges” refused to list Sourcehut because they say “Linux” instead of “GNU/Linux” in a few spots on the site, even though the “Linux” Sourcehut was referring to was Alpine Linux—i.e. objectively not GNU/Linux.

Tirifto

@nytpu This post is very misleading. GNU does not have any list of ‘free software code forges’. They have a list of ‘GNU Ethical Repository Criteria Evaluations’, where they rate services for the purpose of hosting their own packages. The criteria include software freedom, but they also include other things they care about.

One of those things is that people shouldn’t be ‘saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux’. Presumably they want people to call Linux (the kernel) ‘Linux’, and call complete operating systems other names (be it ‘GNU/Linux’, ‘UNIX-like systems’, or something else).

Moreover, failing to meet that criterion won’t even exclude you from the list; it’ll just prevent you from achieving the best rating. The reason sourcehut was not on the page for a long while is because updating it takes a long time. It is now listed as the second best option (after GNU’s own Savannah), as others have pointed out.

@nytpu This post is very misleading. GNU does not have any list of ‘free software code forges’. They have a list of ‘GNU Ethical Repository Criteria Evaluations’, where they rate services for the purpose of hosting their own packages. The criteria include software freedom, but they also include other things they care about.

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