Notices by AlgoCompSynth by znmeb (algocompsynth@mastodon.social)

@cadusilva OK, I'll bite - what outrage is enticing people to leave ProtonMail?

Self-hosting email is not a viable option for ***anyone***!!!

@lzg Never change, Argentina 😡

@djsundog I was one of the first children to get the Salk vaccine. It was a miracle; people used to live in fear of polio!!

The Senate needs to grow a spine. RFK, Jr, Dr. Oz, and all the rest of them need to be publicly humiliated by Senators.

@regehr One of the disgraces of programming language implementations is that integer overflow is permitted. Every architecture I know of detects it, and many allow a trap on it so you don't have to check every operation at run-time.

@dansup But does it have sea chanteys??

@VeroniqueB99 Recruit voters!! That's the only way we can get this fixed. One deranged gunman taking out one lawfully-encouraged greedy CEO makes it worse, not better!

@publicdomainrev I'm mostly interested in "classical" music scores. I'm looking for works that are public domain world-wide. Is there a list of such works somewhere? Geshwin and Sibelius are high on my list, but since Sibelius lived until 1957 I don't have much hope,

I'm in a foul mood. Come at me with a bad idea and get blocked!

@elsemusic GM as in General Motors? That's not a bad idea!

@dalias That is something I have neither the skills to do nor the willingness to learn. I'm done with this conversation.

@dalias @arclight There ain't no such phone and anybody that says they have one is being less than truthful.

@dalias @arclight I understand that. But the technology has to be there. I can turn location off and still call an ambulance. But how am I going to get the businesses / apps I interact with to stop demanding my location? That requires that I either stop doing business with them, or get crowned King and issue an edict.

@arclight If I wake up at 5 AM having a heart attack I want the ambulance crew to know where I am.

@arclight Well ... OK ... but you and I and every other cell phone user pays a tax every month to support 9-1-1 service, and part of that is that your phone must track its location and make that available to fire/police/ambulance if you call for help.

The rest of it is surveillance capitalism, yes, and some would like to eliminate the 9-1-1 connection on ideological grounds. But it's there until the law changes.

@mcc I think I told you my emacs vs. vi story before - it involves a small VAX 11/750 running Ultrix (DEC's version of BSD).

I think TECO is still around but I'm not sure where to find it for Linux.

@mekkaokereke Well, I'll have to ponder that. Given that Biden stepped down in July, there was plenty of time for Harris to listen to their concerns and adjust the campaign.

@mekkaokereke

"Everyone voted how they always vote. In 2016, 2020, and 2024.

What changes, is turnout."

That's the part that mystifies me. Both parties had massive get-out-the-vote operations, but fewer people voted for both parties than 2020.

Command Line Algorithmic Music System (CLAMS)

Update - 2024-11-05

https://github.com/AlgoCompSynth/CLAMS

#Forth

@fay59 I don't see a list of languages, and the only one I can list off the top of my head - Rust.

Interpreters don't count. Languages like Java that compile down to a virtual machine interpreter don't count. It has to compile to machine code.

@sarahjamielewis No, the death knell was when Google built a better browser than Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox, supplied it with cutting edge developer tools, and gave it away for free. It was a monopolist's move and it worked.