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i see someone on my home timeline and try to follow them

yeah, what's the condition for showing up there again? oh yeah. following someone.
https://fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109464383231720791




Content warning: youtube mobile tip
you can swipe up/down to enter/exit fullscreen mode.

useful if you have autorotate turned off
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"capitalism breeds innovation"

* every smartphone trying to copy apple

* every social media platform becoming the same

* every web browser trying to be chrome
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concurrency is when you frost a cake while the next cake is in the oven

parallelism is when you have two people frosting cakes
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ok fedilab just kinda deletes some line breaks for some reason...


i wish i could follow threads from fedilab... (and have it actually show up in fedilab notifications)


Content warning: spritely vs plan9
comparing goblins to plan9's distributed programming, the main advancement seems to be garbage-collected datastructures.

this doesn't really do a lot to address what i think is plan9's actual biggest flaw, which is how you have to set up all the namespaces and such. if you want to make a change to your namespace in a reproducible way, usually you end up editing your boot script and rebooting.

all the messing about with creating vats reminds me a lot of the plan9 init dance.
https://fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109462397460776485


Content warning: spritely
just got around to checking out spritely goblins and to be honest...

it really doesn't seem to do much of anything right now.

sure, you have tranactions, but that doesn't seem to be strictly enforced, and such doesn't seem to be majorly useful over just writing code in a functional style.

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https://fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109462374636112724


Content warning: package managers
what's up with me having to manually decide how often to refresh the package index in so many package managers?

emacs gives me error messages until i run package-refresh-contents, xbps has me pass -S.

all of these give weird "not found" errors if you don't refresh the index enough, with no indication of what you need to do.
https://fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109462202518345987




xor linked lists have got to be one of the weirdest datatypes ever.

1. very simple, 2 struct fields
2. simple to implement in low level languages, hard or impossible in high level languages
3. reversing one takes the same amount of time no matter how many elements it has
4. takes up less space than a doubly linked list by literally storing two pointers on top of each other
5. despite doing things that are usually impossible, there is little reason to use it for anything
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if activitypub actually becomes a big thing, using mastodon "lists" will become more important to curate your feed.

imagine if you had old twitter (pre-algorithmic timeline) and a webcomic, mixed into 1 feed. you would basically just have old twitter. the posts would just drown it out.
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hm. might need to turn post mirroring off. i'm most of the local timeline, and there's like, other people on here lol.


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