If I’m searching for some software to solve a need I have and I land somewhere good, if it’s written in Python, I swiftly close the tab. Just give me a single executable like golang produces, thank you very much. And stop breaking the language every few years. And I say this as a Python programmer. 🤯

Oh yeah. 🤨

Mozilla is the joke, giving users everything they didn’t ask for.

Amen!

All AI was trained on my blog. That’s why you see so many goddamned em-dashes now.

Years ago, I got this advice: when lending out your pen to someone, give them the pen, but not the lid. When they’re done with the pen, subconsciously, they won’t want to put it in their pocket or purse, so they’ll just hand it back to you. And it works!

I love JS8! I’m only set up for 10m currently. But I’m working on constructing a 20m vertical doublet antenna today, to expand what I’m able to do with my station.

GM Happy “National Make a Dog’s Day Day”! 🐶 #dogs #dogstr

Welcome! I’m sure you’ll do just fine here. 😊 There are so many builders here, and people doing interesting things. So, enjoy your Nostr journey!

I posted this in another thread, but maybe it makes sense here, too: All of the danger and controversy about messaging platforms/companies being required to install master keys (colloquially called “backdoors”) into their encryption algorithms by western governments so these governments can spy on citizens en masse—all of that goes away if the phones we carry were general-purpose computers (like our desktop computers). The mathematician-cryptographers solved the problem of how to communicate privately. And the free software movement wrote the code and provides the software freely. With general-purpose computers, governments can’t pressure an Apple or a Microsoft to remove a software title from your computer—cause it’s your computer. And there’s no such thing as a company like Signal having to threaten an oppressive government that they’re going to pull out of their market/territory. With general-purpose computers, peers just run the software they want to run, and they communicate peer-to-peer. So why do we tolerate closed, controlled devices?

This should terrify Canadians — your single strategy investment, your entire nest-egg for retirement, just became un-sellable.