Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)

Been thinking about maybe doing a secret third thing

@evan monday and maybe tuesday, and the music posts are prescheduled

@evan I'll do that! Probably not until next week tho as I am busy today and intend to be on a social media blackout for part of next week

@evan I would like to propose this poll being at some point followed by a version which explicitly frames things in terms of support for data residency laws

Always remember:

1. This ban happened because successive US Presidents Trump and Biden disliked the speech that was taking place on TikTok. No other reason.

2. Maybe you don't use TikTok. If the US Government can do this to TikTok, it can *and will* do it to whatever thing it is you like. This is true *even if the TikTok ban never goes into effect*. The U.S. now has a loaded, functioning weapon against free speech, and the next person who gets to use it is Donald Trump

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/us-supreme-court-upholds-law-banning-tiktok/

@count @dansup Two TOSes I believe do a good job here are YouTube and Facebook. Neither guarantee "immediate deletion of all user content" on account termination/content deletion—but no one would ask them to, that's a straw man. Both services find reasonable wordings that protect both the user and the company.

See, YouTube license: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#27dc3bf5d9 Short, simple, reasonable.

Facebook license: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/preview/?section_id=section_3 Pleasantly detailed, but possibly too rigid for a small site like Loops

Switch 2 physical design looks worse to me than the Switch 1 :/

I don't really want a bigger Switch, if it were up to me I'd want a smaller one.

The new snap design looks…really fiddly and annoying. I imagine having to do it multiple times to get it dead on every time, and eventually this causing contacts to break. I predict the breaking snaps will be a constant source of net discussion and third party fixes like the Switch 1 joycon sticks. Fixed one problem introduced another.

@bob @inthehands The proposal in the previous post is that browsers allow for textarea elements whose contents are managed by the browser and inaccessible to JavaScript except to extract an encrypted version on teardown.

This problem I'm trying to solve right now would be so much easier if I were okay with my program suffering a drop in performance if the process stays running for more than 32 years

"We have the Internet at home"

The Internet at home: 192.168.0.0/16

Imagine that in 2009 someone told me "sir you win, you are awarded one Internet". Exactly where do I go to redeem this

Trying to get better about setting up my source control repos so there is no default branch (for git heads this means "no branch named origin"). I'm either pushing to "upstream" or I'm pushing to "mcclure" and I should force myself to always specify which!!!

For a long time I was like "well I never have push access to upstream, so it doesn't matter if I accidentally try to push there?" and then one day Tusky gave me push privileges without telling me LOL

@amszmidt @suetanvil Specific things I'm curious about but don't find explained on the .macro page on a first read:

- Can macros invoke other macros? Can macros invoke themselves recursively?
- Can a macro take a macro name as an argument and then invoke it?
- Is there a way to "stringify" a macro (IE convert an argument into an ASCII byte sequence)?

@amszmidt @suetanvil If I search for a gas manual, I find this page https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/index.html

But if I search the table of contents for "macro", I find sections for `.macro`, `.altmacro`, and `.noaltmacro`. I find no high-level documentation (except under sections specific to dead platforms such as MIPS).

Are you aware of any "conceptual" documentation for either gas macros, contemporary x86_64 asm in gas, or ergonomic gas programming in general? Or should I just read the ".macro" page?

What if I wrote assembly language programs and for my macro language I used Eleventy

Like, the blog SSG language

I would finally be able to write assembly language with inheritance

Is there an assembly language abstraction that's like, one step beyond macros, or once you do that are you just talking about A Programming Language

I wonder if anyone in the world uses TCL as an assembly macro language

@suetanvil yeah, what worries me is I want to (eventually) try a few different ASMs, and the GNU macro assembler seems not well documented, and might not have cross compatibility with the Clang one (which might be what I need to use on ARM)

Transgender people: You're excused, you don't have to read it, take a break, do something that relaxes you. If taking a nice walk is an option do that, if eating is a positive thing for you maybe eat something nice. If you would enjoy watching a video where a band performs a pop song in Sega Master System Box Art Space watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMeJx1jP2C0

(cis people: this post was not directed at you!! you are not allowed to click this link!! unless you called your congressperson first)

Quote from a bsky post:

"hi, cis folks! meet S.9. it's the senate sports ban for trans athletes that matches what passed the house & they'd love a bill for trump to sign day one.

short call scripts for democratic & GOP senators follow. if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time."

This is a first step to broader rollbacks of trans rights. This bill *needs* Democratic votes to pass, so our first step is to prevent those peeling off.

https://legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/2025

@dalias @gsuberland So is App Ops your recommendation to my original question? Also I think Graham is saying that App Ops may work but the targeted app may stop working if you use it.