mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦

What should I have for dinner today?

I just want a social network which doesn’t punish me for telling it like it is.

One thing I cannot tolerate is being near another couple’s fight. Guess what I’m doing right now in a Tim Hortons?

AmigaOS had the right idea with their whole datatype thing -- add a JPEG library to your system and suddenly every image-using program understands JPEG, for example. That shit rules.

Hrm. If I'm going to try to finish Rowan as a C64 Ultimate exclusive, I'm going to need some kind of harness to quickly get new builds from my main dev box to the C64U for testing. Ideally, I could rig something up so "make run" pushes the code and runs it on the C64U, but I would settle for not having to burn a ROM chip every time I rebuild.

My single biggest objection to systemd isn't the way it does any one task, even if that way is different -- it's that no one project should ever have that much control over the architecture of the system as a whole. It's anti-Unix design. Break the project up into dozens of separate ones that distros can use individually on a case by case basis, and there's probably some good stuff to be found.

UUCP over DHT over TCP/IP - no DNS needed, easy routing to systems with dynamic IP addresses using a DHT ring - interesting idea or no?

There are, fundamentally, three computing worlds. There is the world of computers-as-tools, where the tool obeys the user and exists for the user's benefit. There is the world of computers-as-marketing, where the tool might benefit the user, but exists primarily to sell the user more stuff. There is the world of computers-as-data-extractors, where the tool pretends to benefit the user, while extracting as much usable training data from the user as possible. These three worlds cannot coexist in peace. Two must die.

Here's a question for someone smarter than I am: How do you know you're in denial? How do you tell the difference between what you know about yourself and what you only think you know?

GNUstep could look like this, but I'm lazy and busy and chronically depressed so it's hard to get the energy to work on it. (I really want to find the time and energy to get back to this. It's one of the ones that really matters to me.)