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

@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.

I had a scheduling conflict with #FOSDEM this year, which made me sad.

Then I read about Jack Dorsey speaking there. I wanted to post something about changing my mind, because boycotting @fosdem@fosstodon.org would be the better response.

Then I realised that I have fosstodon.org blocked because of the fascist apologism of its founder.

Serendipity, I guess 🤷♂️

@david_chisnall Cthulhu weeps.

Hey, this is to let you know that I'm going to block fosstodon pretty soon. No exact timeline, but it'll be in January.

If you want to keep following this account/instance, I suggest you use an alt on some other instance I haven't already blocked.

Context: https://social.finkhaeuser.de/@jens/113765756511141919

I've been kind of stuck on "too big to block" thinking for too long. Time's up.

:boostRequest:

@SilverEagle I was reprimanded by the fosstodon mods for calling a legally confirmed Nazi a Nazi, because that four letter word apparently is worse than the policies and value system it represents.

Tells you everything you need to know about the instance, and I've had it limited for a while.

@onepict @SilverEagle I keep getting back to that there are two kinds of liberals: those that primarily want liberties for themselves, and those that want to liberate others.

FOSS is essentially based on libertarian values. We tend to call the first kind of libertarian who is also into FOSS a fossbro.

🤷♂️ I don't think it's much more complicated than that.

@jameschip Forget Legos, caltrops^Wd4 are the real danger!

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