cj 🇺🇸🇨🇭 @cj@mastodon.technology

New #introduction as my previous instance died:

#Nuclear eng by education, software eng by job title. Expertise is in #c++ #java and #golang. I implemented #ActivityPub in Go. I enjoy #metal and #techno music. From #NC but live in #Zurich. I enjoy politics but not the current partisan BS. Avid fan of video games like #eve and #factorio but have little time to play. I enjoy #writing with #fountainpens and am learning #calligraphy. I like writing letters to my friends. I enjoy #scifi novels.

#introductions

The go-fed/activity library (https://github.com/go-fed/activity), for #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub in #golang , now has a v1.0.0 tagged release! Woo hoo!

The supporting website, https://go-fed.org/, is still a work in progress, though the tutorial should be mostly accurate.

Mainländer: The only reason for living is to die. God wanted to die to fulfill his purpose. He attempted suicide, but being divine, failed. It caused the big bang, and the entropic universe we live in is God's decaying remains.

(note: Mainländer's time knew not of big bang nor entropy)

So earnestly did Mainländer believe his philosophy, that when the publishers shipped him his books, he stacked them up, stood on them, and used them to hang himself

Dark shit, Germany

The Section 230 proposal by the DoJ blatantly eradicates its use as a free speech preservation law, is meant to undermine legal defenses for antitrust cases (hm wonder why), and is the FBI's dream of undermining any civil protections it once granted.

Nothing new; everyone that is already for it won't have their mind changed by the redline version of the bill.

"We live in the dumbest timeline"

I want to purchase a t-shirt with that quote printed on it.

Compared to 2020, Mainländer is an optimist.

Sarcasm: Shostakovich's 9th symphony

The single thing I ask my Trumpist family is to recognize that they are still represented by (and life is not over because) their congressperson if they happen to have a (D) by their name. And chill the fuck out like their non-Trumpist (R) friends.

The ideas of "party before country" or "party *is* country" are quite literally the exemplary authoritarian/facist-adjacent ideas that are permitting the rhetoric of political violence along party lines.

Got to play the first session of a short tabletop RPG campaign. My character is an unusually strong-for-his-age squire in his teens whose noble parents told him to spend more quality time with his Gran-Gran. So he did a "I'll show them" kind of angsty move and now is stuck carrying Gran-Gran on his back while adventuring. The dynamic of an un-confident boy plus his kind grandmother embarrassing him makes for really entertaining situations 😂.

Sometimes I just want to scoop up everyone I know and have ever met and toss us all into a happy hardcore rave and have everyone just experience the communal happiness of just being human beings dancing together to uplifting tunes.

However as a doom #metal fan it's great material for inspiration.

German pessimist philosophers get really dark, man.

More Americans dead due to COVID in 2020 than any single year of WW2. :( RIP

I wonder if the FB USA user base is going to shift far right, by everyone else quitting, until the point that most folks view it exclusively as an extremist or extremist-adjacent site. The non techy folks in my family are finally starting to quit, without any advocacy on my part to do so, because of the other family members trapped in that ideological bubble.

Mainländer's work "Die Philosophie der Erlösung" is not yet translated into English.

Do I dare try to read German philosophy auf Deutsch?

Rest in peace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

I think I'm going to relax today.

Just finished recording my #apconf2020 talk. It's just me a guy in a room, super casual.

The WeChat ban is going to really suck for Americans with family in China. I'll be curious how they get around it. Different app? Side load apps?

Guess the FBI needs to update their ad

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54205231