lonjil

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lonjilFeb 25
@dysfun @dalias when the UK eventually rejoins the EU, I believe we should ensure we're all speaking American English with them.
lonjilJan 28
Soatok DreamseekerJan 28
Hey, so... https://publickey.directory :3
Public Key Directory - Key Transparency for the Fediverse

lonjilJan 17
HarJITJan 16
Plural of “mutex”?
Mutexes
38.7%
Mutices
35.5%
Mutexen
6.5%
Muteges
0%
Mutexar
3.2%
Mutex (same as singular)
16.1%
Poll ended at .
lonjilDec 30
@dysfun oh that's really cool
lonjilDec 30
@dysfun what's HOT?
Show threadlonjilDec 30
@soatok @szbalint honestly some kind of off the shelf sign+encrypt doodad using minisign (or openssh) and age as primitives would be nice. When I need to both sign and encrypt something, I feel scared I'll mess up the combination in some way.
Show threadlonjilDec 30
@Gyroplast ehhh, I think old DF and GPG are bad on different axes. DF was tedious and annoying, but it was never hard to use. The UX was unfriendly but ultimately simple with little to no need for memorization. GPG otoh is the opposite of simple does nothing to show you what's what.
Show threadlonjilDec 30
@datenwolf @soatok @pemensik regular email works fine, but E2E encrypted email has never worked. Many people have tried, and failed.
Show threadlonjilDec 28
@rnd what's this chain of toots about?
lonjilDec 28
abadideaDec 28

I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.

Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time.

The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword???

The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back.