small ghosts @spacekatia@queer.party

.

since information theorists have proven that it is generally impossible to find the simplest program that solves a particular problem, programmers have devoted their collective efforts towards finding the most complex program for any such problem

cyberpunk?
neon liberal

i propose a new language refinement: a new conditional selection operator, `〳 ° ▾ ° 〵`, structured after an arctic bird

this is, of course, referred to as the tern-ary operator

software minimalists be like "boy computers were so much better when everyone was just able-bodied, sighted, and just spoke english"

Being 30 and trans my whole adult life I find myself being the trans elder in a lot of places.

My experience has shown:

* Critters gotta find their own path in life, and that goes for being trans

* Statements like "you're trans" or "you're an egg" doesn't help someone transition faster, or at all

* It is in direct and total opposition to bodily autonomy to push or pressure someone to be trans; some critters are guilty of this

* There's nothing wrong with offering information

* Often linking to some resources can do a lot more good than just explaining it

* Some critters don't want the problems that come with being trans, and that's valid

* Pretending it's going to be automatically great for someone when they come out as trans sets them up for failure; critters need to know how trans hostile the world is

* Not every trans critter on this planet is good; in fact, some are ready fucked up; pretending every trans person is good can sometimes set someone up to be overly trusting

* A little reassurance goes a long way

log (😅) = 💧log😄

look i'm sorry i'm salty but i'm simultaneously dealing with Microsoft destroying free software's legal protections, people i respect incessantly making fun of the only thing that makes computers usable for me, and the death of my father. fuck you

"haha look at all those audio APIs on Linux. they can't even decide on one way to do this simple thing" that's because it's not simple. general case routing of audio and MIDI is a really hard problem. people pay hundreds of dollars to solve it.

"wow why don't people like it when software companies market their software as working on their computers, when in fact the software only incidentally works on their computers due to an unrelated project"

i can't imagine

I do wish people wouldn't post things that amount to "ha ha, people use Linux and care about owning their computing time, imagine how much more they'd get done if they didn't."

I wouldn't be getting more done, I'd be in another industry.

Fedi? Actually, the singular is: fedus

"wow Linux is so hard to develop for. there are so many distributions and so many sets of libraries." yeah you don't ship your games for Windows Server 2019 either. just pick a distro and ship. maybe ask around a bit.