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@technomancy@icosahedron.website
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tryin' to catch the last train out of Omelas

https://technomancy.us/colophon

this is my older alt account but I'm more active on gotosocial at @technomancy

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Show threadtech? no! man, see...Jun 29, 2024
@Maggie @hootalex haha, amazing!
tech? no! man, see...May 19, 2024
JPMar 24, 2020
Ursula K Le Guin, on tech workers:
"Real power goes to waste. Every wizard uses his art against the others, serving the men of greed. What good can any art be used that way? It's wasted. It goes wrong, or it's thrown away. Like slaves' lives. Nobody can be free alone. Not even a mage. All of them working their magic in prison cells, to gain nothing. There's no way to use power for good."
- "The Finder", from "Tales from Earthsea"
tech? no! man, see...Feb 28, 2024
josefMay 12, 2017

*me, trying to break an egg*

*the egg will just not break*

*no matter how hard i try, the egg stays intact*

ughhh fuucks sake. the Egg servers are down

tech? no! man, see...Sep 30, 2023
@joeyh @cwebber @hisham_hm I don't think rmail actually stands for rms mail but it might as well at this point
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Sep 19, 2023
@wingo another perspective is that "this programming language is fun" and "my boss told me I have to use this language" are very nearly mutually exclusive
Show threadtech? no! man, see...Jun 5, 2023

@spdegabrielle @bremner @akkartik @racketlang aha, so you're talking about creating a whole new language, not actually about implementing a new repl

yeah, that's significantly easier in Racket but of course you can implement a compiler in nearly any language; it just usually takes more code because most languages' standard libraries don't include language-making functionality

Show threadtech? no! man, see...Jun 5, 2023
@spdegabrielle @bremner @akkartik @racketlang can you elaborate? I can't think of any languages I've ever used that have a repl but don't allow you to construct a 3rd-party repl to replace it if you prefer
Show threadtech? no! man, see...May 13, 2023

Finland got robbed but I honestly expected Germany to make up for it in the popular vote and they just didn't; way underrated

was glad to see Czechia sneak into the top ten

I might have liked Italy's more if there had been subtitles but even the music video version only had subs in Italian

Show threadtech? no! man, see...May 13, 2023
@amaditalks he actually did make an appearance during the interval singing for a bit!
Show threadtech? no! man, see...May 13, 2023
I guess the US doesn't have a monopoly on undemocratic voting processes that mess everything up, huh