Notices by Boosty Collins (ieure@retro.social), page 3

What I'm listening to today: "Cybotron - Cosmic Cars."

This is the second single from Cybotron. Along with their first single, Alleys of your Mind, the duo of Juan Atkins and Richard Davis created and defined the early techno sound. Techno music is pretty white these days, but... it came from Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s, of course it was created by Black artists. They were both influenced heavily by Kraftwerk and Parliament-Funkadelic, and both are readily apparent.

One can trace back a lot of the decline of Detroit directly to racism. Extensive redlining meant that 80% of all home deeds had restrictive covenants preventing their sale to non-whites by 1940. In the postwar era, this meant that returning white veterans could use the G.I. Bill to buy new homes, but Black veterans could not. The structural inequality and white flight decimated the tax base and set the city up for failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpHtVWqY4dI

@technomancy Yeah, Guile's stack traces and error messages are some of the worst. The probability of seeing a file you changed or have control over in a stack trace is about one in five. Most of them do not mention the code which caused the problem at all, instead having a mix of stuff from stdlib and "ice-9."

There are a bajillion references to various "ice-9" modules because someone in 1998 thought it would be a good idea to name important parts of Guile after an oblique reference to a Kurt Vonnegut story, which, even if someone knew the reference, would absolutely not be able to intuit the rationale behind.

I am not making this up. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2010-07/msg00046.html

@technomancy I've never done anything substantial in Scheme before, not super loving it, honestly. Like you can tell they really tried to strip Common Lisp down and make it cleaner, then you find stuff like car and cdr held over.

And stuff like call-with-port is IMO worse then CL's with-open-file.

...and that's before you get into the mess of "Oh, I need this thing time to figure out what random SRFI I have to use" and 98% of Guile code being in a module named "ice-9" because someone thought that was a cute name, once.

@technomancy Right, it's a macro ("syntax"), not a function ("procedure"). It is nice to drop the argument somewhere else in the arglist than the end, but the name is the about the worst imaginable.

lol, Scheme's function for partial application is called.. cut? what the hell. why

@technomancy [Lego Movie tune] everything is awful

@technomancy @a CVT is a huge improvement over the 80s-90s slushbox automatics I learned on, but I still prefer the no-surprise does-exactly-what-I-tell-it experience of a manual.

I'll give it up for a reasonable EV, but none have yet appeared on the market and I'm increasingly pessimistic that they ever will.

@aphyr Are there even good keyservers anymore? Haven't kept up, but I remember there was an attack that was supposed to be impossible to mitigate or avoid.

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

Literally at least half of the actions I take in Discord, pop up a CAPTCHA.

Just tried to send a DM, and guess what.

Is this just like... normal? How Discord is? Does every Discord user tolerate this shit?

Had reason to make a Discord account recently. What an absolute trash fire of a thing that is. Fuckin' every other thing I do causes a CAPTCHA. Horrible

Maybe it's my weird browser that Discord doesn't like? Nope, mainline Chrome does the same thing. Just a hell of CAPTCHAs. Open invite link "are you human?" Fill out CAPTCHA. Click "Accept Invite," get another CAPTCHA. *During* the accept process, I guess, check it out buddy: I still think you might be a robot, have a CAPTCHA.

Finally get in and... Messages Failed To Load.

I have no idea how anyone can use this at all, much less like it.

#buglog

With modern car badging being so widely-spaced, manufacturers put discrete letters on the back, which has a lot of potential for hilarity.

If you bought an extra badge set for the new Ford Bronco, you could have the badging on the back say BROOOO

Standard eBooks has some very nice stuff, and I read a good amount from there.

But let's not forget that Project Gutenberg did a lot of the work, since they digitized the texts in the first place. And they've been at it for *52 years*.

@kelly @TheJen Same, I do not like the corporate censorship nuspeak.

(I am GenX and have a 20tb NAS)

@vkc You might already know this, but the Firefox family of browsers support OpenSearch, which is a way for sites to tell browsers how to search them. Right click a search field, and you'll get "Add (site name)", if the site uses OS. Then you can pick it from the location bar.

There are other/more sophisticated ways to streamline multie search engines, but this one is built-in and low friction.

@thomasfuchs @flowerpot Can you reach out to Kagi support to ask for a refund? Enough people do that and maybe they'll take note.

Love Mozilla, "the browser that respects my privacy," whose extensions site is crapped up with tracking garbage on every page.

If you search for "ublock origin", every extension in the results page is full of Google utm_junk: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=ublock%20origin

And on extension pages, every outbound link bounces through a shady tracker: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Fuckin clown-ass company

I write one (1) Clojure macro, consisting of two (2) lines of code.

Kondo blows up because it can't analyze user-defined macros, obviously a great feature for a Lisp.

I tell Kondo to shut the hell up about it.

The version of Kondo we're using is too old to understand my instructions to shut up.

I track down where we're pulling that in.

It's a Dockerfile full of YOLO "download from github main branch" junk.

I update the Dockerfile to pin versions and open an MR.

The build fails for no comprehensible reason.

I update one of its deps, which is ancient and push that up.

The build fails because I didn't update changelog.md.

*yakety sax plays*

How it started: I need to silence a linter warning.

How it's going, two hours later: I need to debug why I can't pull Docker images from the corporate ECR.

Thrashed basically all day today because of this bizarre heisenbug in Kondo.

https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/issues/2252