bitzero

bitzero, 1 month ago to Lisp

Every expression has a value, because in life every action has consequences
#lisp

bitzero, 1 month ago to random

“The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon. Conventional, mass-marketed, profit-driven social media such as TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat should not be available to teenagers until they reached 18, it found”.

Per The Guardian.
Please note the definition of mastodon as an ethical social media.

bitzero, 1 month ago to random

New little accessory. I think everything looks better if covered with some kind of skulls.

bitzero, 1 month ago to random

“Neofetch is dead” is also “uninstall neofetch” before some clever bad actor uses the repo to distribute bad things you don’t want on your machines. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon (cit).

bitzero, 1 month ago to linux

• Decides to install X
• Downloads X.tar.gz
• Creates dir
• Moves X.tar.gz
• Unpacks files
• Modifies $PATH
• Thinks about those who "Linux is ready for desktop it's just that normal users are morons haha lol" #linux

bitzero, 1 month ago to random

Functional programming requires a mindset that I seem unable to build in my brain

bitzero, 2 months ago to random

So, essentially Beijing is saying that "authorized" CPUs for use by locals are now mostly ARM, with a little space for Risc-V and just one or two low-end x86 processors. All stuff made in China, so goodbye Intel and Amd and so on. Approved OSes: three linux local distros.

This reminds me a little of when Russia pushed for a wider local adoption of Elbrus SPARC processors to balance western embargos of x86 CPUs.

Let's see what happens now.

http://www.itsec.gov.cn/aqkkcp/cpgg/202312/t20231226_162074.html

bitzero, 2 months ago to random

I've quickly become addicted to this https://freeholdgames.itch.io/cavesofqud

bitzero, 3 months ago to linux

Things you should not do at the end of the day

#linux

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

Yeah, sure. Convince people to be just passive users of any technology, so they cannot understand when you’re trying to fool them.

Being able to code will be an act of resistance.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-ceo-predicts-the-death-of-coding-jensen-huang-says-ai-will-do-the-work-so-kids-dont-need-to-learn

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

... things I forgot and I should remember: Pico CMS doesn't work if you just follow the official instructions... yes... let's go on...

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

Modern capitalist IT is a vicious circle where things get more and more complicated so people/companies has to spend money to use/manage it and tech vendors' shareholders get richer. In this perspective, stuff thet "just works" is bad, because it doesn't generate value.

Having to work in this environment, like me, one actively tries to avoid too shitty stuff and, in personal pet projects, looks for specific - and mostly useless, I swear - niches where to have fun again with tech. Good news: it's easy.

No, I'm not actually trying to make a point here. All this is a matter of fact most of you already know. I'm just thinking out loud because it's friday, I'm trying not to do real work and so I'm wondering which new niche I'm going to explore. So many ideas, so little time.

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

08 pm: meh it looks like a boring evening
09 pm: waiting in ER room with friend

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

Anyway, as usual there's nothing really new under the sun. AI enshittification of the media space will drive most of us to have - correctly - doubts about everything. Problem is, if nothing is probably true then everything is probably true. It's the perfect base for 1984's doublethink. ("1984" the book, not the Apple ad).

bitzero, 3 months ago to random

AI for stupid SEO articles on the web? Why just that? Scientific publications too! https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

bitzero, 3 months ago to VisionPro

With all due respect for those who are now working with Apple Vision Pro (which seems, huh, quite good btw)... I guess the more immersive is a VR app, the better. Why should I have gigantic calculators and calendars in AR in a living room?

Am I missing something?

#VisionPro

bitzero, 4 months ago to random

No, you don't necessarily have to be a productive and "successful" member of your society. Calvinist ethos is overrated.

bitzero, 4 months ago to random

Apple changed policy for web apps in EU: devs are not forced to use webkit engine only. Now some devs are complaining.

Per The Register:
“What happens if someone in the EU runs into a bug that isn’t happening in other browsers?" pondered Jason Grigsby, co-founder of Cloudfour (...) "How do we troubleshoot it? (...) The closest I can come to is the earliest days of mobile when the Android browser was different on each carrier. But even then, I could go to a carrier store to test and/or buy a phone if I needed more time with it. What do I do now?"

My humble answer: stop making web apps. They're bad.

bitzero, 4 months ago to random

A Risc-V board with Micropython on t, to emulate a NES system... ooh the rabbit hole I'm now looking at

#risc_v #nes

bitzero, 4 months ago to random

The Солнечная Вспышка collective is imaginary and does nothing. But it's nonetheless revolutionary: in this age of estreme productivity, doing nothing is the ultimate form of revolution.

Do nothing, comrades.

@5tern1 @THOMSOTRON

bitzero, 4 months ago to random

"Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels"

What could possibly go wrong when ClippyAI manages your uranium cores?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/microsoft_nuclear_hires/

bitzero, 5 months ago to random

RIP Niklaus Wirth. I spent many and many hours with Pascal and Modula-2 and both gave me satisfaction and, well, some money. Pascal in particular was one of my first dev languages and gave me a real sense of agency on my first “serious” computers.

bitzero, 5 months ago to space

“For All Mankind Is the Best Show You Aren't Watching, But Why?” asks Gizmodo.

Because space exploration has become the plaything of fascist billionaire techbros and we’ve unfortunately developed a reflex against it.

Space isn’t a new frontier anymore. It’s just another thing techbros want to monetize. Sad sad sad.

#space

https://gizmodo.com/for-all-mankind-apple-tv-joel-kinnaman-krys-marshall-1851113542

bitzero, 5 months ago to random

Infrastructure as a form of resistance

bitzero, 5 months ago to linux

Comrades, my faithful i7 laptop has to be reformatted with a new linux installation. Honestly, I made more than a mess with the old one and making a tabula rasa of everything is the simplest thing to do.

What distro should I use? This will be a work-ish laptop used mostly for programming and maybe a bit of arduino-style board hacking.

Should I play safe with a major stable distro? Risk with an unknown linux flavour? Tell me what you would do in the shadows... So many secrets, so little time.

#linux