Lars Wirzenius @liw@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
Radiating opinions and facts into the aether and the intertubewebs. Hoping it doesn't radiate back.
I am now @liw
The introduction of Lisp is closer to 1899 than to present day.
“it's on the shoulders of technologists to learn the lesson of EME: contributing to technologies that stop the public from adapting or auditing their tools is a profoundly unethical act, one that widens the gap between people with disabilities and the (temporarily) abled people who don't (yet) need to make those adaptations.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/disabilities-vs-drm-world-cup-edition
#drm #copyright
Been thinking about "distributed CI" lately. Need to find time to understand ActivityPub at some point.
Never idolize people, they always disappoint. Especially if they're famous. (Cf. Robert "Uncle Bob" C. Martin. *sigh*)
If you happen to have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 laptop and are willing to run Debian sid on it, it'd be helpful if you could try reproducing the problem and reporting it to the bug report.
I've been having trouble with my Debian laptops crashing on some web pages when I use Firefox. Finally found a way to reproduce, and filed a bug.
Wikipedia Makes The Case For Google & Facebook To Give Back To The Commons, Rather Than Just Take
#wikipedia #wikimedia #commons #freeculture #google #facebook
Switching from email to something else -- Skype was mentioned in the discussions I witnessed -- doesn't help. It just means people keep failing to communicate with another tool.
Communication is difficult. Email only works if both sender and recipients can deal with it.
Free software developers seems good at it. People in business don't.
Listened to a ranty discussion by relatives of in-laws about how email is useless and nobody can deal with it, when there's a dozen per day. Pretty soon you have an inbox with thousands of emails, and communication becomes impossible.
Didn't want to get into an argument, and so I kept my mouth shut.
#GTD and carefully trimming mailing list subscriptions works for me. I don't have inboxes with thousands of emails.
At one point I processed about 4000 mails per day, after spam filtering.
recycling against car culture part 2...
#kick #kicking #bottledwater #highheels #littering #carculture #animatedgif
Continuous integration is a style of development where changes get merged into the main line of development very frequently, at least daily.
CI systems exist because developers keep forgetting to run automated tests.
Hm, Evinece .3.28 still doesn't seem to be very good with touchscreens. The zoom pull-down widget doesn't work.
Bye-bye X220, you served me well. Maybe I can diagnose and fix whatever hardware problem you have, some day.
Helsinki from somewhat high up
I don't like heights, so this was a mistake. But not too bad a mistake.
I really, really do not like the Lenovo Yoga keyboard. I've used my old X220 Thinkpad for a couple of weeks, and I've noticed that I've lost the unconscious hesitation of "write this at home or wait until I get to the office".
And now I have to move back to the Yoga. Sigh.
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