Jason R. Fruit

@JasonFruit
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I'm a Primitive Baptist musician, computer programmer, and stay-at-home father. (AMA? Sure.)
Tried the Brave browser (on Debian). Perceived speed is excellent, even though I've only used it over ssh. The UI is unsurprising, and all the usual sites look right.

I want to make one thing very clear regarding #fosdem2018 #fosdem

A conference on freedom-and-human-rights-respecting technology should not have a titan of #SurveillanceCapitalism like Google as sponsor. The good people in our community shouldn’t have to choose between having a platform to meet up at and having their legitimacy usurped by association to whitewash such companies. I’m attending under protest to meet and chat to some lovely members of the community.

Google doesn’t belong there.

Apparently sausages will explode if you get to much air in the casing. That wasn't what I had in mind.
Write more compiler or try to teach my kids so they're not dolts. Hmm, hmm, hmm. (The question is which is more likely to accomplish anything.)

@scott I am going to build a new instance, call it vim.social

It will be one where you will never work out how to exit from

So apparently writing compilers is a lot of fun, and I've been missing out. Writing one for ISO Pascal.
jordan peterson looks like if you took peter capaldi and squeezed all the joy away
Cannot stand the term "copyleft". It's juvenile and expressive of nothing.
computers shouldnt look pretty, its dishonest. you need to design computers to look horrible, since they are horrible. ibm probably had the right idea