Notices by tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website), page 2

@incre_ment I don't know, but my understanding is that Mastodon is very nearly the worst case scenario of complexity and cost setting up a fedi server out of all the options

@srol the european equivalent of asking for spicy thai food and getting medium-mild

@apLundell it probably means you wear camo and have a comically large knife in your belt while you write code

@thisismissem disappointing but not surprising

I hope potential contributors can see this pattern and focus efforts on other fedi servers that are more welcoming and take safety features more seriously; fedi has to be more than mastodon for it to survive

@apLundell submitted for your consideration: the parking at large commercial airports

@mwl I like "ublock origin hard mode" for this personally: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode

it's especially nice when you have a key binding for "relax blocking mode"

(medium mode is also pretty reasonable; I think it's a little more lax with static resources)

@mwl like blocking 100% of JS for all sites that aren't in an allowlist? I'd say that's useful but a little extreme

blocking in a more nuanced way using ublock origin? absolutely indispensible

I'll also throw in a vote for defaulting to blocking 3rd-party scripts; it occasionally causes trouble but it's not too bad

@gdorn I was just looking at JVM Luas a couple weeks ago and somehow I missed Kahlua... wow, targeting J2ME huh? that is wild

I can see how it would be frustrating to work in an environment where you're tied to the host language's class hierarchy whether you like it or not; all my experience has been a lot more greenfield where that hasn't been an issue

hopefully you get some chances in the future to try Lua in a more productive context and don't hold this experience against it =)

@srol favs in gmail, the prophecy has finally come to pass

@srol on the one hand I agree but on the other hand, people who still haven't seen Star Wars do kinda have a mysterious quality about them

@akkartik yeah, this post was originally written like a year ago (iirc when more of cheeto benito's indictments were landing) so it's not a perfect fit but you know; reduce reuse recycle

@bamfic I have been attaching star trek gifs to nearly every PR I've done at work in the past 3 years FWIW

(but mostly just for decorative purposes, not used as a form of communication)

@bamfic shaka, when the walls fell

@srol I just saw someone walk by wearing the same uniform you had on!

(they waved at me which confused me at first because I don't know them but then I realized it's because I am wearing TOS command gold)

@rgegriff is it still steam-only? I'm eagerly waiting for it to be available elsewhere

@gdorn I wrote a blog post describing 5 different ways to use methods in Fennel (which all applies equally to Lua) if you're looking for some examples of alternatives

https://technomancy.us/197

@gdorn tbh I see this as a benefit because it means that you're not stuck using inheritance; you can finally be free and just use functions

it's like they said about early lisp, "you can learn it in a day, but if you know Fortran it will take three days"

@mwl how is there not a word for this in English?

(oh right, it's because we use a language made by people for whom that was just the default state for their entire lifetime)

I used to think of it as technical support for family and friends, and now I realize it's really more like I'm volunteer technical support team for big corp. I wonder how many anonymous technical support dopes like me there are. 🤔

@bamfic I've been on semaphore for at least five years; it's SO much better