RE: https://mastodon.social/@PatrickoftheG/115596093774912002
WHAT IS HE ON ABOUT
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.
1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.
1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.
1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
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that being said mastodon has a woeful lost-in-the-sauce to regular poster ratio compared to bluesky so it all evens out in the end
Tom Friedman:
"If Ukraine is forced to surrender to the terms of this “deal”, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday. It will become a day of thanks that victory in Putin’s savage and misbegotten war against Ukraine’s people, which has been an utter failure, was delivered to Russia not by the superiority of its arms or the virtue of its claims, but by an American administration."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-negotiations-trump-deal.html
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I once drunkenly slept with a housemate who then decided to make home life pretty toxic. To avoid this I spent most of my evenings at my work desk watching shite on YouTube. I was given two promotions in just over six months.
C'est un trick de manipulation mentale ultra-basique, ça s'appelle le pied dans la porte, ça consiste à engager la conversation par une question anodine à laquelle il est difficile de dire non.
L'idée c'est qu'une fois qu'on a répondu oui une fois, ou même qu'on a répondu tout court en fait, il est plus difficile de refuser ensuite. Et ça marche *qu'on en soit conscient ou pas*.
L'idée est de toujours laisser clairement flotter la possibilité d'un refus dans la conversation.
Il peut y avoir des variantes genre « le magasin est fermé ? » alors que la personne voit très bien que le magasin **est** fermé.
Attention, c'est pas forcément malveillant, 'est même pas forcément conscient. Par exemple, c'est une technique que beaucoup d'enfants apprennent très tôt sans s'en rendre compte.
RE: https://jawns.club/@karschsp/115587483751106608
First #deGoogle, then #GoEuropean, now #NoAI
And #Tuta ticks all the boxes. Just saying. 😉
Pax is very tired after putting in a full day of shenanigans. Time to sleep.🥱💤
Goodnight, or good day, to all our friends! Enjoy the weekend and be safe.💖
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Every couple of months, a couple of us come together to write down what we've been working on behind the scenes. The last time we did that was June. There are many exciting things (for us, at least!) that have happened since; you can read all about them in the update that we are sharing with you today:
https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-upwards.html
Thousands of hacked Asus routers are under control of suspected China-state hackers
So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/thousands-of-hacked-asus-routers-are-under-control-of-suspected-china-state-hackers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Trump has now set a deadline for Thursday next week, where he demands Ukraine signs an agreement to meet Putin’s demands:
— No NATO membership
— A reduction of its military to just 600,000 troops
— Accepting the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
— Forcing Ukrainian elections within 100 days
While Russia will
— Reenter the G8
— Have all sanctions lifted
This is not a peace agreement. This is capitulation.
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Four days left until @nsmckinnon and @Louisa get on their trivia horses, and Noah already owes you three pics of Clark and two of Minerva, which is just about the best problem we could be having.
We're just about two-thirds of the way towards our goal . . . so there's still a dramatic reading of a poem at stake! Take the next two hours, gente, and get those numbers up!
@dlakelan yeah just seems like a fever dream
@hipsterelectron @dlakelan Trump is a simpleton who only understands strength and television presentation. He sat there and saw the campaign signs and that one TV spot where Zohran was looking real fine and charismatic at a desk right before the election and all he was thinking was "wow... this Zohran guy... might have what it takes for TV..." All he ever was is a simple conman. He isn't invested in any ideology besides fascist might makes right. He just sees a guy who won and its like a magnet. Meanwhile in that pic he's grinning at Zohran like an agitated baboon while Zohran looks like his nervous system is trying to physically climb out of his body.
@inthehands actually that one works two different ways 😂
1) the smol Strings optimization means we *never* have to allocate for <= 15 bytes of UTF8
2) appending to an empty String will indeed just return the argument (special case in the code), which is a constant in the binary
…or possibly the argument is also smol, I forget how we emit that. It works either way here.
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing.
Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral & @fabio told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there.
I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there.
But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools.
Today, the platform’s banned me!
@joynewacc @aral @fabio that's awful :/
De mon temps on enseignait les vrais savoirs fondamentaux aux enfants.
@swf has announced the Social Web Devroom at #FOSDEM2026 - with three formats for various size projects to showcase ActivityPub protocol or API services; advocacy efforts; libraries, toolkits, frameworks... if it's Fediverse related we'd like to hear from you!
Submissions are open through Dec 1, see:
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
I have loved following the amazing photography of @CatherineBabault.
So yesterday when I saw this generated image (pic 1) of how her awesome photo of A BEAR could look as a poster, I got worried that she would get in trouble for not adhering to the server rules by disclosing that THE ROOM was generated.
So I messaged her (pic 2).
To my surprise, Cathrine then blocked me — maybe she thought I was accusing THE BEAR of being generated.
I really wish she knew, I was talking about THE ROOM.
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