Notices by Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)

@alex Oh, sure, I know the difference. It's still the unintended side effect of popularity, though.

I have never experienced anything like it here, though. I tried asking fedi to boost a post once to test how it'd work, and it didn't happen 🤷♂️

@elena

@april @puniko badumm-tss

(No idea if intentional, but it was perfection)

@aral I've limited it for a while, didn't hurt.

@aral Mind you, it's difficult to decentralise when your tech stack begs for centralization 🤷♂️

@skinnylatte I always felt I was kind of lucky I was born at just the right time so that my youth was smack in the middle of the grunge era. I didn't need to explain (too much) about growing my hair. Everybody thought it was teenage rebellion, when in reality it was the kind of terror you describe.

25 years later, my wife dragged me to a hair stylist again, just to trim the tips. My hair was badly damaged. The right kind of attitude in the surroundings made it painless, even enjoyable.

@skinnylatte In hindsight, it was a lot of sensory issues combined for me. I hated the feel of the cold wet on my skin. The snip-snip of the scissors drilled right into my brain. Plus, I was terrified if losing an ear (thank you, Struwelpeter!).

I have a mole on my head, and the stylist always tore painfully over it with a comb. He also wore too much of a cologne that assaulted my nostrils. And afterwards with less hair, everything felt colder.

I couldn't begin to explain that.

@skinnylatte Social issues added to it. The guy tried to smalltalk. I didn't understand what a "good" haircut was supposed to be. At best, I could associate it with whatever the cool kids had. (Here I have to say my dad saved me with his insistence on short hair, otherwise I would have worn mullets. Notable exception!)

Nope, it was all terrifying and unenjoyable.

@dalias @ireneista @misty @bob It's more that an API *can* (in plenty of cases) present e.g. something UTF-8 in a POSIX-ish API, etc, but a) perhaps my use case doesn't want that, and b) if it doesn't, the API also may fail to provide it.

I mean, you just have to read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification to understand where Unicode may be a particularly bad choice.

@dalias @ireneista @misty @bob So... I don't mean to nitpick, but, um.

Let's skip the whole thing that "Unicode characters" don't exist, and "faithfully represent" is dodgy.

What I meant was that the only way a POSIX-ish API *can* present those names as UTF-8 is if the file system stores not only the bytes in which the names are encoded, but also the encoding.

The other thing is that it may not be a good API to have UTF-8. (By the way, POSIX doesn't, not really.)

@dalias @ireneista @misty @bob What Unicode representation are you talking about? What is a Unicode string that you pass to the API?

And how do you store it in the FS?

@dalias @ireneista @misty @mcc @bob I'm sure you don't mean Unicode, but one of its many encodings.

Even so, it's popular and covers a lot, but it isn't complete or the most useful for every use case.

IMHO storage shouldn't be that opinionated.

@ireneista @misty @mcc @bob I mean, the heretical option would be to spend a byte or two on, you know, specifying the encoding per entry. You can still decide to not care in the VFS for the most part.

The "enforce this for the whole FS" option seems weird.

@a @aral We don't need to move Let's Encrypt to the EU. We need to run a EU-based equivalent, and make it so that the infrastructure they run is easily replicated.

As this development clearly demonstrates, Let's Encrypt is a single point of failure. It was never a good idea. It was just a less bad idea than others.

And no, that's absolutely not suggesting they didn't do great work. This is about designing for resilience.

@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet

@meganmariehart Did you manage to turn this into a bad pun? Dad level 9000 unlocked, congratulations!

(Apropos of... well, this... are bad puns *really* just a dad thing? I know plenty of mums who excel at them... maybe we need a new name.)

@meganmariehart Hey, my intro post warns folk that I *like* puns and dad jokes. I'm not ashamed of that, so I'm also not trying to shame you! The congratulations was earnest, as was my wincing.

@dalias Oh yeah, I know the meme as well 🤷♂️

I'm pretty sure the inside joke wasn't part of that origin, but the current use... I'm not so sure.

When thinking about DOGE, remember:

a) The medieval Italian title of doge comes from the Latin dux, which literally translates to "Führer".

b) Efficiency is what impressed Hitler about Henry Ford's assembly lines, which he translated into running death camps.

I mean, the guy is all but screaming out his intentions.

@ikkeT Yeah, but at the same time, it was always odd for a BMW to stick to the right lane (sorry folks, this joke is central European themed).

@meganmariehart @GossiTheDog It's "funny", when he rebranded twitter and I added those hooks to the X, people were sure I was overreacting.

@clacke I once thought I'd make a flexible magic system for a role-playing game, but quickly realised what I was actually designing was a Turing complete programming language.

Might be fun, but for a rather limited audience, I guess.