Notices by Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social)

@jwz I guess it's thematically appropriate that it would be on the hellsite but it doesn't make it any less of a bummer.

@jwz I'm here for this kind of pedantry. Also: after watching the anime _Akuma Kun_ on Netflix a few months ago I also fell down a rabbit hole of medieval demonology. Mine was centered on The Lesser Key of Solomon, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon#Ars_Goetia (the sigils are pretty sick!)

@tess What are some of the most important considerations when designing C++ APIs at the boundaries? I'm a few years removed from actively writing C++, but I always struggled with that. It didn't help that the big C++ codebases I worked in (e.g. Gecko) all seem to have homegrown interface systems.

@Polychrome @dysfun having been there while that was happening, unfortunately it was fucked from the start because they let mobile carriers call the shots and the carriers wanted dirt-cheap devices so the user experience was awful on the phones that actually managed to ship.

@navi @fasterthanlime counterpoint: dynamic linking is a nightmare.

@navi @fasterthanlime I fully agree that build.rs is a nightmare. Everything else you describe is the standard tension between project developers and distro maintainers that is as old as time. 🙂

@inthehands I listened to the first season of the Startup podcast from Gimlet, which is Alex Blumberg narrating his attempts to get funding to start Gimlet Media itself, and he mentions this exact thing—VCs disdainfully calling the idea of a small, sustainable business a "lifestyle business". It's really fucked, and I think venture capital has done way more harm to our society than good.

@mcc We're proud to announce the creation of the Torment Nexus Foundation, a non-profit organization that will ensure that the Torment Nexus remains available for humanity for the forseeable future.

@cstross I hadn't considered Apple's puritanical stance on porn as one of the things that might cause the Vision Pro to fail, but there it is: https://www.404media.co/a-3-500-chastity-belt-early-apple-vision-pro-adopters-alarmed-to-learn-vr-porn-doesnt-work/

@cdevroe it's so weird that "newsletters" are the hot thing right now but they're functionally just hosted blogs with a list of subscribers?

@paoloredaelli @mhoye A lowdown hoochie coocher: https://youtu.be/8mq4UT4VnbE (this song is not at all a helpful answer to your question)