OTheB @OTheB@mastodon.technology

I am now a box that is in space.

One of the devs decompiled the SDK we use at work and rebuilt it against .NET Core and we've been running little test applications on #MacOS and #Linux. If we get that on our internal NuGet repo then I can *finally* start playing with Linux dev for this stuff, and start putting it in things like #docker. Super excited about this.

Well, for now going to say "yeetn't" because it makes implementing the tokenising method for floats stupid simple.

That *also* means all the tokenising methods are done! So now there's just the last bit of pushing the output to stdout for the to-be-written parser to deal with!

Ability to provide float literals in base 2 or 16 as well as 10? Useful? Not worth it?

One thing I'm still not quite used to but get excited about is when someone reads some of my waffling on my site, and then reaches out to contact me over #Mastodon or #XMPP or whatever.

You get this nice reassuring feeling like "hey, my stupid ranting is being read and enjoyed by someone".

#Matrix is dead; long live #XMPP.

Let the upgrades commence.

https://boxin.space/posts/2019/07/20/matrixisdeadlonglivexmpp.html

#boxinspace

I've replaced the Matrix link with my JID on my website and removed the Riot container. Also got ideas for 2 or 3 more posts lined up which I can get working on. Not certain on the order yet though. #boxinspace

Just made an #XMPP account. Anyone here mind starting up a quick chat so I can play around with it a little? Maybe show off some cool stuff it can do that I might not have heard about?

Going to try #Movim this evening, but not going to be making my account on the main instance. Nothing wrong with their privacy policy or anything, but there's a captcha on the signup form, so that can fuck right off.

That's a big oof right there.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/movim-desktop/

I love some of the little extras #DDG has. Like I can search for an #AUR package and it'll show results directly as tiles, or it can just give you a random GUID when you ask for one rather than needing to go to a generator website or something.

Messed with #Tox for a little. It's nice up to a point. It has encryption, no 3rd parties to trust, it's fast, it has group chats and VC and everything. I think the snag is when you get to P2P. If everyone only had one device then it would be fine, but managing multiple devices becomes such a pain. You kind of need at least federation for it to be usable. You need some central place to manage your ID and messages and everything.

So I'm going to spend a little time with #XMPP next.

Got a nice email this morning from someone that took an interest in my tooting yesterday about Cloudflare. He/she suggested #Ricochet and #qTox as possible alternatives.

Ricochet is P2P and uses Tor to send information, which looks great, but it's still early days.

qTox has everything I'd need out of the box, so it's probably what I'll be looking into today.

The main problem to solve with P2P systems are keeping a connection when someone's offline. Will need to investigate.

All I want is a #privacy respecting messaging platform that does group conversations and voice chat, does that *really* have to be a big ask?

Been really put off #Matrix with the #Cloudflare bullshit and their attitude towards it. There are whole papers on the issues with it.

When will this fucking nightmare end?

I need suggestions. What things do other people use for this stuff?

Really disappointed and a little disgusted by the #Matrix team. Putting #Cloudflare spyware on their main instance, forcing every user to either go through the malicious wall or to use a homeserver that doesn't federate with matrix.org thus cutting itself off from just about everything.

Will be giving #XMPP a go today. Wonder if that community has even the tiniest bit of respect for users.

Why in the fuck has this single call to a function in this one single case decided to append "13" to its output string...

Shit. Static definition of associative arrays isn't implemented in #D yet, and the unit tests get run before main seems to be, so I need to use methods rather than AAs.

Been learning how to deploy environments by being "in charge" of deploying the dev environment for a new customer. Hitting lots of modelling issues which I'm told is completely normal, but it's otherwise going fairly well and I'm definitely enjoying it a lot.