Notices by Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net), page 2

@clacke Yeah, it's a terrible movie but it looks cool all the time.

@clacke Of course:
noose is n oooh s, rhymes with loose (not tight).
news is n oo z, rhymes with lose (not win).

… English is a very smart language.

And I'm from PNW US.

@clacke As usual, Ebert is a nearly perfect anti-recommender to me. The Spirit's not perfect, but it does accurately capture the comics, and a whole tone of pulp adventures, and it's a fun story. It's very much Frank Miller-imitates-Eisner, so people who don't like either will be unhappy.

Nuts, they replaced the title & cover of this amazing book:
> You just bought a personal what?
with boring
> Programming in Style

https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/mode/2up

@dch @oldmankris @jk https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

@fatsam SNW was great until the Alien ripoff "Gorn" eps. The Number One plot is a little inhumane, but early Federation *was* less tolerant of artificial life.

The best thing in Star Trek in 40 years is Lower Decks. Jokey, and short, but they *get* the Federation the way it used to be, not like these guns-out maniacs in every other show.

Happy endings.
https://thatsbelievable.com/post/711551340469420032

@clacke Any novelization by Alan Dean Foster is worth reading. Brian Daley novelized TRON, also the Star Wars Han Solo books, and a ton of Robotech books cowritten.

@clacke May as well start with Cat's Cradle, it's short, to the point, and introduces a bunch of props/memes/archetypes he uses in other stories.

@clacke Obvs we should be using XML namespacing on all tags.

@clacke The cost to orbit for some of the smaller companies is pretty reasonable. Get a spacesuit, and you'll live long enough to see the Earth from orbit.

Re-entry's a bitch.

@SuperDicq And you know what all that "FREEDOM" gets you? Really bad software.

https://mdhughes.tech/2019/12/05/no-linux-platform/

https://mdhughes.tech/2018/07/04/minimally-competent-linux-apps/

@mangeurdenuage @MischievousTomato @SuperDicq … Ubuntu somehow knows the email of the developer and has dev tools that are crash report aware? Maybe if it's from their "store", but they don't really run that store in years.

@MischievousTomato @SuperDicq @mangeurdenuage Also, the Mac has a nice thing called CrashReporter. Most apps when they crash, will record the stack trace, which can be resymbolicated in Xcode, and offer to mail it back to the dev with a comment.

@SuperDicq Games. Security software ("let me show you exactly the virus signatures I'm looking for"). Really almost any application software, the source is useless to the end user, because they aren't going to read thru your 100KLOC blob of code to fix a bug, they'll file a bug report or just delete the program.

Linux security has shown repeatedly, nobody wants to read source.

@SuperDicq Shipping source in a lot of programs is not acceptable, that's my point. If you're upset about legalism, GPL is the prime offender. We have plenty of other open source licenses like BSD which aren't poison pills. It is absolutely incorrect to call GPL "free".

Why are you concerned about writing drivers, when Linux devs never do? Their drivers are all ancient cobbled-together hacks, or shipped by the hardware maker. And you can write hardware drivers for MacOS. I've done it.

@SuperDicq I compile a program using libraries like readline, or using GCC internals like a language. Now I can't ship just a binary. This is unacceptable for games, among other things.

The Mac kernel doesn't call iCloud, either! Almost like you're being disingenuous here, because you know that Google is hooked into all the main programs on Linux.

You *can* hackintosh, but it's stupid, because other hardware is lacking features it needs. Run MacOS on a Mac, or Linux/Windows on garbage.

@SuperDicq The GPL is literally legalese forbidding you from shipping a usable binary.

You don't have to use iCloud for anything. But most Linux shit is hooked into all Google services, SkyNet literally wants to kill you.

Your ideas of the walled garden are… nonsense? I don't even know what you're talking about. Maybe you think it's iOS? You can compile & run anything.

You can write software for free on it just fine. The only fee is if you sell thru the App Store, which you don't have to do.

@SuperDicq It's exceptionally great hardware, not just "decent". Night and day difference.

I've never been clear on what non-Mac people think MacOS is like (just like it's impossible to understand apocalyptic Christians), but having used both, you're in more control than any Linux crap distro. It's a real UNIX workstation with a nice BSD userland.

Some of the shipped desktop apps are no longer my favorites, but you can use whatever you want on it.

@izaya @SuperDicq My iMac 5K is 5120x2880. I *highly* recommend trying one a while, it's fucking magical having pixels that aren't huge blurry blobs. Tho you may not ever be able to tolerate a low-rez "4K" monitor ever again.

Fat UI whitespaces are a lot less annoying when you have hundreds of pixels to blow.