Is it weird that for a while now I've wanted to build a new social network that is basically what Facebook was in the early days?
In a nutshell, just talk to your friends. And that's it. Especially old friends you've fallen out of touch with in recent times.
Oh, and it should be as privacy-preserving as possible. Encrypted, decentralized, yadda yadda.
I've thought about it a bit more recently, and it's all technically possible, except for the networking part.
Update: been using Linux Mint 21 for a few days now and it’s glorious! I’m never going back to Arch again, as long as my hardware is old enough for the LTS kernels.
There are So. Many. Little. Things. that work so much better now. I hadn’t even noticed how many papercuts I picked with Arch until I switched to a desktop environment that was carefully designed by someone who knows what they’re doing.
I have to say. The postfix syntax for `await` in #rust is very nice!
Much better than the prefix syntax in Javascript.
Linux Mint 21 is out (yes, it’s 2022, I guess they’re slow) and I’m pretty excited!
It will be nice to use something a bit more stable than Arch again. It had gotten to the point I was afraid to even run pacman anymore because it usually broke something I was using. I’m looking forward to using a distro that just works out of the box again.
My hardware is older now and the distros have caught up with using updated kernels, so I can go back to work instead of fussing with the OS.
Wow, more wisdom of the crowd, courtesy of Hacker News again:
“America is a wage slave factory. Much like we can’t make the cake and eat it too. We can’t produce both a world of critical thinkers and a world dominating nationalistic war machine. … Americans are raised to both hate our parents and hate our children because it makes better wage slaves. …”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32262707
Regrettably, I had to shorten the quote due to post limits here.
Just wish I could find something to disagree with.
Whoa! This is amazing #xp
RT @wezm@twitter.com
This lsp_lines Neovim plugin is a game changer! Makes the presentation of Rust errors and warning so much more readable. https://git.sr.ht/%7Ewhynothugo/lsp_lines.nvim
Today I learned about Ventoy:
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
It's basically a multiplexer for bootable ISOs.
Just install Ventoy on your boot media (eg a USB stick) and then copy a bunch of ISOs into the USB stick's file system. Ventoy will let you pick which one you want at boot time.
Brilliant!
RT @linux_pro
The latest iteration of @rocky_linux is available now https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Rocky-Linux-9-Has-Arrived #Linux #RockyLinux #OpenSource #FOSS #OperatingSystem #OS #security #OpenSSL #OpenSSH #SELinux #performance #Peridot
TIL: rustc complains if you implement trait functions in a different order than in the trait declaration.
I've been writing rust code for *this* many years and I've never known that, because I've always naturally implemented the functions in declaration order. Except this one time. OCD for the win, I guess. 😋
Historical moment:
First federated comment to a gitea instance from another instance:
https://social.exozy.me/@ta180m/108631221939677386
We are 🤏 close to a fully federated ActivityPub based git platform. All we need is federated PRs and some level of control access to keep bots and trolls away from flooding the comments
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