Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes), page 3

@mekkaokereke I absolutely feel you in what you're saying. And I believe in learning from anything I can.

I will also say that my instance has 10 users, of which like 3 are regularly active. I never know what the Fediverse drama of the month is because it goes sailing past my tiny instance. I see my friends and follows and they see me. That's enough.

@harriehq Hank Green was on the Dropout.tv show "Smartypants" arguing for the "Chewy" Decimal System several months back. The idea is getting around!

Getting my social media scheduling tool set up on Mastodon: run one curl command and put the results in a config file.

Getting the same tool set up on Instagram: create FB account to create an app so OAuth works, Meta deletes the account, create another one and link it to my Insta account, Meta deletes that, try to figure out how "Meta For Business" works, create another account using my gmail address, finally set up the app again, put the secrets in a config file.

What the fuck?!

@alchemistsstudio I'd love to have a trans pride chawan for my tea ceremony study.

@SuperSelena64 Pickaxe Pete. I still remember it. And I still have no idea what it was.

I have a going theory that all the world's problems can be connected to the decline of happy hardcore as a genre.

@RickiTarr You wouldn't get that amusement if they chalked it on the sidewalk, though, because you'd never see it.

@RonSupportsYou @renewedresistance And to see the list, I have to subscribe to a newsletter. How wonderful.

@pawv this summer, I was in Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and Ibiza, and had absolutely no problems whatsoever. I travel on an X marker passport and present femme.

@kayeluvian @OctaviaConAmore Yeah it's almost as if getting really rich off of being superficially clever has a risk of losing touch, you know?

Pity, too...I saw him in a small, intimate show before his heel turn, and he was a delight. He brought some great musicians with him and they made a show of music, comedy, and musical comedy. He wasn't even that edgy with the jokes. He could've stayed that guy.

@OctaviaConAmore @kayeluvian He's got a witty edgelord whataboutism joke comeback for that one, too. It comes just a little bit before he does a cloaked antisemitic joke.

@intransitivelie While its use as a major international language is definitely down to power, English has one very important feature that makes it a cockroach language powered to survive in an international environment-- it's such a trash fire of a language that it degrades well. You can speak English poorly and still get something across. No gender agreement, extremely limited (and, practically, quite optional) case system, etc, etc...it's built to pidgin.

@mirabilos Void and Tux live indoors now. And none too soon, since Void developed diabetes early in life. She now gets two shots of insulin a day but they're living lives of love and leisure.

They were hardly as feral as we thought. They both enjoy being picked up, for example. Not sure the story here, but they were somebody's babies.

@mirabilos @mxfraud @zwol sure, and to be clear, for the work I do most, I think of it as "the thing I sometimes directly invoke to explore loading and linking problems", so I just subconsciously think of it in terms of how I tend to use it.

@mirabilos @mxfraud @zwol ld-linux's own manpage calls it both a linker and a loader. And that's correct, as it does both. And you strike me as the sort who knows how much extra translation is happening at that stage.

This is to say I *agree* with your counter-example and think it points to "it requires a runtime to bootstrap it" as being a sometimes-useful distinction but not where I'd draw the line o between a program and a script.

@pseudonym @KatS @zwol I used to draw the line this way, but after doing a lot requiring knowledge of linkers and loaders, I've come to realize how much extra work has to be done to your average ELF binary before it can be executed. Indeed, the ELF loader is often called an interpreter because it's ultimately taking the ELF file and turning it into an actual runnable binary in memory.

@mirabilos @mxfraud @zwol I mean, even the most basic a.out C program, even with no stdlib requirement, still requires runtime support. Even putting aside the loader and linker, C binaries still expect to have a stack prepared for them and for basic calling conventions in jumping to the start address.

An ELF loader like ld-linux.so is often called an interpreter. There's still a lot of runtime adjustment of the binary taking place.

@ria @SleepyCatten Never ending journey indeed. I think it has been 2 hours a week for 2 years? It's finally tapered off to 60 or 90 minutes every 3 weeks now. Due to a quirk of insurance, I had to do electrolysis without laser, so a longer slog.

I'm snug in my blanket with my hot cocoa while the temperature drops and snow sifts down from the sky... and planning for my demise.

(writers, so dramatic)

This is my semi-regular PSA to write a Final Letter to your heirs that will make it easier to sort your affairs once you're gone (and update it regularly).

@tomjennings @SpaceLifeForm I appreciate the effort you're putting in here, but I don't think we're actually having a conversation about the same thing.