Notices by Stefan Monnier (monnier@oldbytes.space), page 2

@rudy Nah, we should switch between DST and normal time once a month, on a day selected at the beginning of each month by a marmot, with an exception for one of the months where we switch twice.

Should be enough to boost GDP via extra TV shows and whatnot dedicated to the subject.

@mcc Looks like it even fits snuggly inside your bag! 🙃

@evan You had me at "Should a single company control"

@demofox @ionchy What they meant is that the registration system is now maintained by an LLM

@zwol @mekeor While it's a significant step, it's a very small code change, and it's still just a step along the way. There will probably be more steps in the future to maybe eventually eliminate the dynbound dialect of ELisp. That's going to take a while, tho, because of diminishing returns.

@evan
Can't see the alt-text, but in my book this is not an "agaric" (like the portabello) but an "amanite"

@evan
A strong yes, I feed birds every week to my family

@evan
Depends what you mean by "to"!

@evan: I don't know how to avoid the centralization that plagues email, but I think a crucial element is for the Free Software community to develop tools to make it easy to run an instance without sysadmin experience.
We can't hope to reach the convenience of something that someone else maintains (i.e. "register and then use blissfully unaware for the next 20 years"), but we need to aim to get as close as possible.

Currently we have tolerable answers for "setup your own instance", but we need to deal with hardware failures, DoS attacks, regular upgrades, moving on to a new software when the old one is discontinued, managing quotas, new registrations, payment, ...

FreedomBox is a good step in that direction, but it still mostly focuses on setup and upgrades, with no good answers for how to deal with the nastier parts: it's easy to find some free time to get started, but you don't get to choose when hardware fails and your users will get angry quickly if doesn't get fixed *very* soon.

@evan Yes, my figures are mostly, *but not all*, Greek.
I do wonder how Greeks feel about the fact that Π is the type of λ, now that you mention it.

@evan
I fail to see what's special about the ocean. I miss the mountains, instead.

@evan
While we (prog-lang guys) maybe make it harder than it could be, I believe programming is fundamentally comparable to math in that it requires abstraction. There's hope that machine learning might help overcome the problem, where "simple" problems will be solved by providing examples of what you want, but we're not quite there yet

@evan
Cheating can be done for other purposes than winning. Adults often cheat to allow kids to win.

@evan Looks good. Makes me wonder: where are you planning to leave this one?