Notices by Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)

It is interesting how many people still live in the old FOSS world. When meanwhile all the rules changed and code got and gets stolen at an industrial scale. Didn't you realise yet that your particular license doesn't matter anymore?
I don't really think this will kill FOSS, due to the inherent advantages regardless, but everything done is now essentially public domain, no attribution required.
(unless some hero stands up and does proper lawsuits)

@whitequark Looks like Swift, except in Swift, you rather link a 6MB big argument-parser lib that statically types out all the possible options 🙈
(but really, the `match` looks like how Swift's `switch` works)

This is a good book if you want to do Unixy things on Unixy platforms, from simple concepts like how pipes work to more advanced process control or TTY's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Unix_Environment

And alongside this one is great for network/socket stuff, equally good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_Network_Programming

At least skim over those before touching Unix/Posix API's. I'm not really shocked how little people know about very basic things like pipes and how they work, but it's a problem those books can potentially fix 🙂

@mattl https://www.blender.org maybe? https://capnproto.org

@obrhoff reicht doch bisher nicht? also Jamaica?

@fmarini I’m east German, I’m not going to vote for the SED. #depol

@obrhoff klingt gefährlich

Berlin

@obrhoff @frederik Ich verwende kein Insta aber ich vermute mal du hättest das Produkt gegebenenfalls auch anders gefunden und gekauft.
Oder hat bei dir die Insta Werbung eine direkt Conversion ausgelöst?

@obrhoff No, I’ve played with that for years and it never made any meaningful difference.
I think for Indies specifically themselves are the best promotion.

I sometimes wonder whether the sole USP of BSky is that it is American. It's not meaningfully different to Masto. But you get a proper company backing it, with the goal to make a lot of money out of it. Not that communist crap where you sponsor or not as you see fit ;-)

@rhysmorgan I assume most of those people have been Americans? I don't know a single non-tech person on BSky, while I know quite a few on Masto. But yes, even more on Twitter.
The "having to choose an instance" is just boring non-sense. You can just do mastodon.social if you don't care.

@rhysmorgan The argument is weak, the same people don't realise what they are getting into w/ BSky either. It's essentially the same like opting for mastodon.social, except much worse. There are not options in the the first place, *if* you care 🙃
Maybe a value proposition of BSky is that "we are exactly like Twitter". But then you wonder why people want to see the same thing happening over and over again ...

@obrhoff Fittingly it’s the other way around 🙃
The AppKit coordinate system is a proper one as you learned it in school. (same for RealityKit btw)

@fluchtkapsel @inthehands This is like saying Signal is bolted on IPv4 which was never meant to be secure. Sorry, but this is non-sense. Both PGP and S/MIME are perfectly viable and proven standards to provide proper E2EE.
But as usual standards have to be *implemented* and made usable. E.g. Apple has done the former, but didn't invest in the latter.
It works for Signal and WhatsApp because they are silos. That's not necessary w/ email.

@inthehands Email has e2ee since essentially forever. The claim it not being designed for this is a little misleading.
Is it supported well? No! Why? Because the vendors either want your data or promote a different platform for secure communication.

@joe @mcc We also had Objective-TCL. Storing pointers as strings, you bet! https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Objective+Tcl

@lambdageek @joe @mcc JavaScript is prototype based which is pretty cool for such a popular language, it doesn’t have messaging though, which is more important in the
context.

@mattiem @calicoding Ref counting actually is expensive because it is thread safe, it’s the global interpreter lock of Swift.
(and it doesn’t just affect user types, all the cow types use it)

@joe @mattiem @calicoding Even if there is some atomic instruction doing the thing, the cores would still have to synchronize ie flush their pipelines, no? I don’t know much about such low levels and some info why it isn’t expensive would be welcome 🙃
Or how expensive compared to a simple rc++ increment.
My assumption is that RC is massively more expensive, is that wrong?