Notices by Steven Deobald (deobald@fantastic.earth)

@nikitonsky

color levels, html, add tag, more
target single unit, target all units, target all units in bounds, even more
face all tanks west, all units to muster point, target all but one unit
select all tanks, put html on diagonal (not sure why THAT'S in there)
see horrors, bloody horrors
deselect all units, set attack target for all selected units

this nearly 15-year-old macbook air is still a perfectly good computer but apple forbids upgrades. a colossal waste of electronics, at scale.

#debian installed like a champ. #gnome is delightful. #flatpak is easy and keeps apps up-to-date. everything works perfectly.

i’m just… so grateful. 🙏❤️

i wrote a little thing on optimistic computing.

https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2024-12-09-optimistic-computing/

just kidding, it's not little at all. i'm terrible at edits but i make up for my poor writing skills with nonstop 24 karat ideas

@samebchase @masukomi thanks for sharing this, sam.

fwiw, it’s *really* helpful to avoid using the term “open source” for things which don’t have an open source license attached. the commons clause makes this software “shared source” or “source available” — but it isn’t open source at all, and labelling it that way (even with a caveat) will be quite confusing to folks who use and read that term as it’s intended.

@masukomi @samebchase i don’t, personally. there’s very little difference to me between something licensed apache2, agpl-3, or mpl, as a user.

the difference between something being open source (a term with a strict definition, clearly defined by a single organization) and not-open-source is all that matters, for most usage. developers care about license details. users rarely do.

think of it this way. it’s like saying “vegan (mostly 😉)” with an explanation of why there are eggs in the product later on. with stuff like this, it’s just … a lot easier (and more polite) to use the right words up front.

i know dozens of projects/products go so far as to claim they are open source (without even a wink) these days when they’re not. “everyone else is doing it” isn’t a valid justification, either. it’s one of the few places in the english language where we actually have a clear definition like this. it’s good to use it.

“Of all the languages, I've saved the best for last, which is Ruby. Now here's a language whose syntax evades all attempts at understanding.”

https://justine.lol/lex/