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.
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.
BTW, for our personal family planning, this was the top reasoning my wife wished to remain outside the US and to have access to non-US based maternity healthcare. We do not want to be in a situation where my wife faces her own death or being handcuffed to a hospital bed after facing medical trauma.
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Ukrainian sailor tried to sink a yacht of a Russian oligarch.
"He told a judge that he regretted nothing and would do it again."
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I am personally impressed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy's leadership. Not gonna lie, when I found out Ukraine had elected a comedy actor to be President I definitely did not expect his charisma to be so steeled.
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned down an offer by Washington to help evacuate him from Ukraine, US media outlets say.
> Mr Zelensky said "the fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride", the Associated Press reported
[BBC]
ClimatePol, War
I am *for* going green and I am *for* renewables.
But a fair criticism is that the *new* dependence of dispatchable natural gas power on the EU grid means that cutting off natural gas means: instead of having "guaranteed" electricity for old fashioned heating remedies like hot bottles, you now have the prospect of EU rolling blackouts / brownouts on top of no heat. Very dangerous for vulnerable people. Also, "but the economy" for the EU wealthy.
Hence, outcomes like "no SWIFT".
ClimatePol, War
Everyone talks about "Germany", "natural gas" and war, but the way I put it together differently puts me at odds with a lot of other people. The natural gas problem isn't about heating -- this was a pre-existing problem
The problem was deeply embedding natural gas power generation into the EU grid's stability. That came about due to Germany's aggressive and rapid push for renewables: the duck-curve requires *dispatchable* power
IMHO this is a geopolitical war of "going green"
I've now subscribed to Delayed Gratification. I like to read newspapers and the new "slow" perspective will hopefully help me hone my media literacy.
Switter is being shut down. Primarily due to the legislation of Australia, from my understanding of their writeup:
(end) Cathartic rant against crypto
If you made it this far, thanks. The rant is over.
If you made money on crypto, or were at one point a fan of it, or played with it, none of this is to slight you, or any single person. I don't think of (current or past) crypto proponents any less.
I do think it an ideology masquerading as something it is not, and that is what's dangerous. It is important to see it for what it is, not what we wish it to be.
Was @cj
* Destroys Kantian ethics
* Purger of Descartes' "Cogito, Ergo Sum"
* Keeper of Dog
* Reader of Books
* Heavy Metal Fan
* Likes anime, hates anime fans
Nuclear || Software Engineer
Him | Zürich
English | Hochdeutsch (B1)
https://github.com/go-fed
https://go-fed.org