Dan @dan@social.privacytools.io

q. why does windows do [bizarre action]
a. for compatibility. to answer in more detail, we'll need to discuss a flaw in
earlier versions of windows NT
pre-NT windows versions
MS-DOS before networking support had been added
CP/M
the discovery of electricity

also if you're wondering why so many files use three letter extensions, like how JPEGs are often .JPG: it's because of MS-DOS. DOS allowed for filenames with a maximum length of 8.3 - that is, eight letters with a three letter extension. so FILENAME.JPG is okay, but FILE_NAME.JPEG is too long on both accounts. everyone just kinda agreed that 3 is a good number for file extensions and here we are still using it for pretty much everything even though it hasn't been required for decades

#LynneTeachesTech

it sucks to feel like a killjoy when i talk about it this way, and obviously this isn't something people just know about. really this ties into a wider problem with "prank"-associated culture which leads people to think that it's excusable to psychologically fuck with the people and animals in their life

We’re making elementary OS more accessible by default through an OS-wide effort to add and better expose features. Learn why, and how: https://buff.ly/2V4Gdk1

Mastodon hides like/boost count in timelines, that is a good design.

Pixelfed isn't the first, and it won't be the last. 😉

2 girls sitting in a hot tub 0 feet apart because they're big gay

lawful good bottoms vs chaotic good tops

aaaaaaah fuck its getting summery again

!!!!!! he decided to lie down and snuggled right up to me

@alexbuzzbee

> Has anyone tried functional programming in #RustLang? How well does it work?

That depends on how pure of a functional programming you mean. I tend to write *fairly* functional #rust—that is, I use very few mutable variables and lean on map/filter/etc pretty heavily. That style functional-lite coding works great in rust.

For anything purer than that, well, I haven't tried it but I don't think Rust would be a great fit: it cant guarantee that a function has no side-effects

This seems like a chilling conversation for Americans:

"I believe strongly in the right to privacy. Without privacy, we can't have agency, and without agency we are slaves. That's why I have dedicated my life to this struggle. Surveillance is a threat to us all, we must stop it."

- Ola Bini

https://freeolabini.org/en/statement-from-ola/

#privacy #surveillance