sqwishy @sqwishy@social.froghat.ca
Sean Carroll's podcast is full of good conversations about interesting subjects. This one particularly so to me & this audience.
I grew up hearing from people (like Eben Moglen) about the importance of free software and federated networks for our freedom and privacy. But, since then, I've gotten the impression that normal people don't care. They don't worry or think about their relationship to the operators of the networks. Hearing these ideas come up in a more current form is refreshing.
Sean Carroll hosted a very interesting interview with Cory Doctorow about technology, federation, law, socialization, and information.
I thought it was quite interesting.
It's 78 minutes long; you can find it at https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/10/21/69-cory-doctorow-on-technology-monopoly-and-the-future-of-the-internet/
I wrote a blag post about the dumb & convoluted way I run Mastodon with systemd's portable services.
https://froghat.ca/blag/tooting-in-a-portable-service/
If you read it, then my mom won't be the only person to read my blag before the next drive fails and my website is down for another week.
After having been away from Python for a couple months, I tried writing a new Python program and only just now realized how strange it is that the logging package is all camelCase.
Valve hires KWin core developer Roman Gilg for gaming-related XServer and KWin improvements. Roman seems to have a ton of cool projects in the pipeline, and this makes me happy. #KDE
https://subdiff.org/blog/2019/new-website-new-company-new-partners-new-code/
I got around to upgrading the mastodon instance today and they added polls. Is this good news?
I made a little timer thing in rust that runs in a browser with WebAssembly.
See it here: https://timer.froghat.ca/
Project link: https://gitlab.com/sqwishy/super-serious-timer-business
One thing I enjoy is filling email address fields with root@localhost whenever I'm prompted to sign up for a newsletter without my asking.
It probably doesn't do anything, but I like to imagine that a machine somewhere at tomshardware has an inbox full of their own spam.
Maybe I'm getting older or dumber but it feels like I can more easily reason about threads than inheritance most of the time.
TIL that MathML is a thing.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML
