Notices by alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)

I'm so glad I got to see Jack Tramiel talk at the Computer History Museum before he died. I know he was a ball-busting asshole, but I have SO much respect for him. He changed my childhood and kind of helped forge who I am. What a legend.

This is where I saw him, I'm somewhere in the audience for this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvbsPNBIyk

The fire at one of the several #GridScaleStorage #battery #VirtualPowerPlant s is still burning in #MossLanding #California . And everyone is still evacuated. It's been about a day now.

Here's some info on the fire: https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_blog/how-to-stay-safe-in-a-fire-emergency-it-all-comes-down-to-preparation/article_b9c37c5a-d52b-11ef-8863-4387b46d1b97.html

There are some decent photos here: https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_blog/how-to-stay-safe-in-a-fire-emergency-it-all-comes-down-to-preparation/article_b9c37c5a-d52b-11ef-8863-4387b46d1b97.html

It's looking like the facility is going to be offline for a long time. This will probably end up as a case study in my classes in the future.

And there's a submodule datamodelling relays, with some logging, storing the data in the filesystem, & queueing.

As for the implementation of these protocols themselves... I'll defer that until tomorrow!

1.5/1.5 Fin for today!

Returning to studying Twisted's (a Python networking framework) email implementation, for its larger top-level components...

There's a module datamodelling emails, mainly for the domains & the mail itself.

Parsing of email-alias files & a routing-extension based on that data.

There's datamodelling of mailboxes, abstracting the filesystem.

There's some traits (using Rust's term since I find it clearest) modelling the protocols.

1/1.5

I'm also amused that Professor Zombie doesn't see the point in modern plague-style zombies! What's the point if they're not loyal minions?

e75s7 does illustrate a wrinkle in the "Unspoken Plan Guarantee": In a medium like audio, its more interesting to hear banter planning the action than in interpreting the SFX.

Also: The Poet (another supervillain) has writer's block... Gregg Taylor doesn't seem to trust himself to write clues as linguistically-brilliant as The Poet's!

Well, they're sticking with The Red Panda's death!

As I said it seems to be intentionally unconvincing, but it serves as a nice way to bring trope-savvy audiences along with Kit Baxter in not wanting accept having a lost a loved one to war. (namely WWII)

John Archer is stepping in as a robot duplicate (just last season Kit remarked "who would believe that!?"), who wants her to feel hope not dispair. He openly doesn't know.

Creates nostalgia!

I started out this possibly implementation I'd use our Scanner's "capture" feature (implemented for the sake of parsing Lua identifiers & strings) to drop down to Assembly for matching entire runs of literal chars.

A performance drawback is that using `string.sub` to grab that slice to test against would waste time leaking garbage upon failed matches. If this proves a problem, we could add a flag to `string.sub` telling it not to!

4/4 Fin for today! More mini-languages tomorrow!

If any of those ranges pass so do the square brackets. Unless its 1st char after "[" is "^" in which case it'd fail. Pattern-matching resumes after the close-bracket. If its preceded by "%f" skip all haystack-chars which don't match before expecting a match.

If the char/range is followed by "?", "*", or "-" ignore without skipping the haystack-char. If its "*" or "+" repeat until the test no longer matches. If its "-" repeat the test until the following one does.

3/3.3!

Or the following char is an escaped symbol, & starts another run of literal matches to test in bulk.

"." skips the haystack-char ignoring its value.
Parens starts & ends a haystack-capture to be returned to the Lua caller, or for "%"-digit to match later haystack-chars against.

"%b" reads 2 subsequent pattern-chars. If the haystack-char matches the 1st it increments a count, if it matches the 2nd it decrements the count until 0.

Square brackets list multiple literals/ranges...

2/3?

As I mentioned yesterday, Lua's `string` namespace implements a simplified regex variant. So how'd we implement it (in Lua) upon the Scanner we bootstrapped a Lua lexer upon?

Use 2 Scanners: 1 for the "pattern" we're interpreting, & another for the "haystack" string we're testing.

To start I'd capture all pattern-chars until "%" (amongst others) & see if it matches the corresponding substring of the haystack.

Typically the next letter represents range(s) to test the haystack-char against.
1/3

Which reminds me—you should consider submitting something to https://fluconf.online. They accept a variety of formats and it’s online.

How do implicit arguments in JavaScript callback functions work? - Go Make Things:
https://gomakethings.com/how-do-implicit-arguments-in-javascript-callback-functions-work/

Finding Your Inner Oligarch: A Guide to Absolute Power and Where to Buy It - Joan Westenberg:
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/finding-your-inner-oligarch-a-guide-to-absolute-power-and-where-to-buy-it/

I vastly prefer the second approach, as the first one doesn't actually challenge the core assumption that gives the threat of gatekeeping its teeth.

Also the differentiation between writing a program (very *very* roughly, an executable sequence of instructions) and markup (very *very* roughly the declaration of some data upon which a program acts) is an important one, and I don't think we should let gatekeepers co-opt that distinction to be assholes.

someone has explained "pulling the fire alarm causes problems" and "the event organizers can suffer consequence for it" in what i can only describe as an incredible achievement in understanding a post

Logical replication in Postgres: Basics - Phil Eaton @ EDB:
https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/logical-replication-postgres-basics

P&B: Annie Mueller - Manuel Moreale:
https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-annie-mueller

@GossiTheDog You know, part of the explanation would be...

Pixelfed doesn't need to be profitable! That frees up a lot of time!

@thinkMoult I always link to YouTube videos via Invidious. Though I admit that hasn't been working as well recently.

Similarly I always link to Medium articles via Scribe.

So I'm all ears for what proxy I should use for GitHub!

In returning my favourite hypothetical... I think discussing how I could convince it to draw 3D graphics would help me organize my previous writing!
Followed up by some co-design to see how good this device architected for reading the web could be for creating it?

Then there's my largely-unscheduled toots which frequently revisits some topics of advocacy.
Tomorrow I might remark on the half-season of The Red Panda Adventures I'll listen to tonight, but I'm getting spoiler territory...

3/3!