@ajsadauskas @fediverse @technology

"Human" goals. But which humans?

@ajsadauskas @degoogle I used to be one of those human editors. I was the editor of Scotland.org from about 1994 to about 1997, back in the days when it was exactly one of those hierarchical web directories – with the intention of indexing every website based in Scotland.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle having said that, the patents on Google's PageRank algorithm have now all expired, and a distributed, co-op operated search engine would now be possible. Yes, there would be trust issues, and you'd need to build fairly sophisticated filters to identify and exclude crap sites, but it might nevertheless be interesting and useful.

@quinnly @jocanib very slightly more than one.

@yogthos Sorry, my brain just isn't very good lately!

Compiling #Clojure down to something I could boot on a bare metal @raspberrypi Pico would be really exciting!

@NABDad @Provider Usenet was certainly an amazing space, for a long time. It was a lot of my social life from the 1980s until into the 2000s. It slightly predates the Internet, running on UUCP; and indeed I ran a UUCP relay from my home for a time.

I then, in the 1990s and after, ran webservers from home. Yes, I was privileged to do so. The web, too, was a very exciting place in the early days.

@Fudoshin @DessertStorms the thing that made me cry, when I needed a food bank, was they asked if I had pets and included food for my cats.

There is an awful lot of good in this world.

@miguel RESPECT!

@yogthos Wow! Damn, that's compact. Q/E appear to do pitch rather than yaw... But damned impressive.

@planet @clojure This looks very interesting! Now I'm itching to *see* the source.

@yogthos The inference engine I was working on for my thesis (and never completed), Wildwood, assigned objects to classes automatically based on their features; so that

1. one object could be in many otherwise unrelated classes; and
2. you could define a new class, and it would be automatically populated with every object already known to the system which met its criteria.

I wrote about this idea in my first essay of the #PostScarcitySoftware project.

https://www.journeyman.cc/...

@Aseelsehwel@mas.to @aseelsehwel@blog.gaza.onl @palestine thank you for sharing. I wish that you were not condemned to be a hero, but I am glad that you are there, to whisper to those children that they are not alone.

You are not alone, either. We hear you, and we honour you, as one who has had the cloak of heroism forced on you, but yet has chosen to stand up under the weight of it.

Keep whispering to the children.

@Aseelsehwel @palestine It's an account with

1. no followers;
2. no follows.

It's someone who does not engage with the community, has no influence, and only seeks to make trouble. Report it, block it, and forget it (although your very courteous and dignified reply to this troll does you credit).

I will not be able to help you this week, I'm afraid. I have limited money and the number of people needing support is large.

@yogthos H'mmm... Could the jank compiler be backended onto this?

@planet @clojure Eric used to do a *really good* podcast -- no new episodes recently, sadly, but the old ones are worth going back to.

@planet @clojure strictly, these are characterisation tests rather than unit tests. Characterisation tests are tests to check that the behaviour of a program doesn't change; unit tests should be tests that the program is working as specified.

@planet @clojure Two errors in the first paragraph is not encouraging. An associative array does not necessarily support either a 'remove' or an 'insert' operation, and, indeed, in languages with immutable data, it supports neither.

What's worse, the entire article appears to have been lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.

The whole site appears to be an email harvesting scam.

@Layan2002 @apenkop @delsaulnier @DailyGaza @palestine @nizarus @DrALJONES @kathimmel @Strandjunker @c_ssk @n10_921 @hakona @felipe @RFancio @Drippy_Spudd @bythehandofbob @RobertoArchimboldi @tansy @sol

Think of it as #solidarity, not mercy. We are all stronger when we stand together.