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> I want to write something to the effect of "all control flow is goto in disguise"

Well, sure, it always boils down to "jump" or "jump and keep track of return address" or "pop return address", but language constraints can be helpful. But I think you understand the point.

> most importantly, you should get shit done, which is something I think we agree upon.

"Get it working, get it working correctly, get it working fast." or "Real artists ship." or "A good plan violently executed now whichever guy you like, there's a quote. This is one of the commonalities you can get from any of the really good hackers from this field's brief history, and is a rare case of the really good business guys and product guys also saying the same thing.

> It's that they don't like microblogging.

Fedi feels more like mailing lists used to feel; "microblogging" is more of a UI concern than an interaction style. (Just thinking aloud, not trying to get you to drag people here.)

(I still think an IMAP/SMTP interface to fedi would be workable. It might end up much more usable.)

> Thanks fam. IDDQD Magazine is a zine for guys who either use the 4chan blue boards, or would if they knew about them. That's the culture that informs it. It's interest-based, but it's still filled with the right personality types, i.e., ours. Or rather, the parts of our personality types that overlap. There is a particular focus on /tg/, though.

Oh, right, I had been meaning to ask you about Paranoia. It seemed like a lot of fun but there was some soulless corporate interference in a couple of editions and then the original team bought the rights back but then licensing issues made the entire thing impossible to get again. Apparently it didn't get popular enough for the novels to arrive on TPB or Libgen, but it's one of the more credible dystopias and actually dystopian.

> get you to write it in a way that a clever automechanic could read and comprehend it without it reading like Newsweek slop.

Oh, yeah, I've had a lot of non-technical clients. I think I get what you mean.

> Or why Paladins past AD&D 2e are literally demonic and you don't realize it because you're not a theologian.

Ha, sounds like an entertaining zine.

> And none of this is made-up. We already ran all that shit. And who knows what next. I literally paid my mortgage shilling this shit mid-2023 out of Vegas punk rock shows.

That is awesome!

> That's exactly the kind of experience I had, but I will admit I was trying to overcome it in this case specifically so I can get scrobbles off the ground on instances other than my own. And it worked. I won that battle.

Nice. I think I've seen them around, ryona.agency had them, I think SPC had them.

> I'm not sure what client you're using, but if you're using the Baest website, you'll see my scrobbles on SJW's fork of PleromaFE.

Oh, yeah, it's bloat. (Local on-device bloat; I use FSE's bloat when FSE's up as a dogfooding measure but for the moment, if I'm not hosting bloat, I can just use it locally.)

I can figure out how to get at the metadata from the client side if it comes down when you fetch a profile; what's it look like on the other end? Something cmus-fm might be able to do (or get hacked to do)?