Notices by Steve Purcell (sanityinc@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs

@mattly on the other hand, the French pronunciation of it (wee-fee) is a delight

@inthehands Yes, absolutely tagging myself as 3 here. Nicely expressed, thank you.

@mattly @technomancy I was kinda shocked that despite this year's ICFP Contest being designed to be adversarial to LLMs, people apparently got them to do a lot of the work anyway. And that was an obscure visual 2d language, a virtual machine made of little men carrying numbers around.

@inthehands Similar thing happened with the Sinclair C5

@inthehands Great then. Interesting times, that's for sure.

@inthehands Europe's going to be a bit too busy shedding its US dependence, so I doubt much help is on the way

@inthehands this is nerdy dad joke central, so I'd think it more likely that the post would go viral

@rimu If you've got GIN indexes set up then you'll probably never need a different search solution

@aral At the risk of being a bore, this is where #NixOS is great, because you can upgrade any number of release versions in a single step, and roll back if it didn't work. Admittedly it's not for everyone, and certainly not officially supported by many VPS providers.

@flyinggecko @aral Yep, totally. And I've got a custom image on Linode, personally.

@thomasfuchs Not a connoisseur, but I like my Kailh Box Jades.

@thomasfuchs Nothing good, that's for sure.

@thomasfuchs three cats in an overnight ferry cabin...

@algernon There's buildLuaApplication and a little guide, fwiw: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-frameworks/lua.section.md

But guard those spoons carefully!

@wingo In Wellington there was both a hair salon and a vasectomy clinic called "Snip" and I always wondered if anyone had mixed them up.

@aral @stefan I think I read about one called Ethical Ads, and yeah, that might be a good alternative to just dropping all the revenue.

@stefan @aral Genius

@stefan @aral@mastodon.ar.al I run a site that has been largely ad-supported for a long time, and even I'm ready to do something like this, mainly because Google have gradually enshittified the experience of my visitors by unilaterally making my site more hostile to them over time.

@aral Great technique. You might enjoy Moldable Development! https://moldabledevelopment.com/