Notices by Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)

Linux users,

Why don’t you use btrfs?

Why do you prefer ext4 or even ZFS?

Boost appreciated!

@whitequark It says ‘Official Firefox account’ in the bio but admittedly that’s not much in terms of verification

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115865205690182389

Always good to know that browser developers learned ‘today’ about HTML syntax

Help out your local FOSS nonprofit:

Smash a fucking piledriver into the skull of a nearby AI entrepreneur

I’m thinking of organizing a fun, informal dinner one evening during FOSDEM for cool Scheme and Scheme-adjacent people! Working title: ‘Schemers and Dreamers’

Would you be interested? If so, what evening could you come (Friday/Saturday/Sunday)? Just reply to this toot and let me know :-)

[stomping around stage yelling with sweat patches under armpits] developers developers developers developers

We’re trying an unintended experiment to see if Rodinal can still be used for stand development when it’s that brown; the FX-39 has probably had it already, though

photon goes in, electron comes out, that’s what Bad Saarow Photochemical Concern is all about

:-(

It did develop a very very faint image, but far too faint to do anything with

If I had noticed the tell-tale crystals at the bottom of the bottle 😭

@whitequark I was curious about the big picture, so I looked up some power draw stats in Mactracker

The 1999 iMac drew about 2x–4x more power than the 2025 model

The 1999 iBook drew about 50% more power than the 2025 MacBook Air

The 1999 PowerBook G3 drew probably slightly less power than the 2025 MacBook Pro (!)

@whitequark It claims maximum continuous power draw of 1280 W for a modern Mac Pro (whut) vs 200 W for a 1999 Power Mac G4, so maybe take all of this with a pinch of methodological salt

Computers were already good enough in 1999

Computers were *definitely* already good enough in 2003

Excellent, this means I have sufficient scholarly distance from my subject to perform an etymological study and submit quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary, which is my divine purpose

@whitequark Since I have no notion of a divine purpose for me which isn’t somehow connected with Christianity, I assume I’m … not one of these beings?

Can someone explain to me what an angelgirl is and also whether I am one, please thanks

Happy 50th birthday to Scheme!

MIT AI Memo No. 349, ‘Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus’ was published on December 22, 1975

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5794

@whitequark Yeah possibly