@jnv

My brain really wanted to read it as "Tales of Arse," and my reaction would've been, "So... it's a game about the contemporary news cycle? Or modern politics? Or silicon valley, or something?!?"

@jnv

"Toilet tweet?"

@jnv

Didn't leave it, per se, just thought it'd be fun to join the polymaths community and make it my main instance for the time being.

My only complaint about fosstodon is the typical 500-char Mastodon post limit. That just tripped me up all the time. I'd write a response, then have to break it up, often in the middle of a paragraph, often breaking up a maybe 1200-character toot into 4-5 toots, just because of where the break fell. It was really annoying.

I don't believe in toot-blogging, and I definitely don't intend on using the full 5000 characters, but I just like to respond freely without dealing with artificial limits.

Otherwise, let's do 144 characters like old-school Twitter if we want to have an actual restraint.

But that's just a minor gripe.

@codemonkeymike

Very curious, in which language does a trailing space introduce breakage?

New #blog post: "Ableism" and the Linux Aristocracy

https://rldane.space/ableism-and-the-linux-aristocracy.html

Back to more serious and FOSS-y topics.

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#100DaysToOffload #3

#rlDaneWriting #blost #blogging #FOSS #ableism

@jnv

You know, for a brief time, I could get myself to believe that they were all the same stupid wheeled dumpster.

But now I see them with different color schemes and other adornments, and I am forced to conclude that people around me are just that wealthy and stupid.

@vwbusguy @decathorpe

My understanding is that test | [ ] was branched off into [[ ]] for string/filename analysis/comparison, and (( )) for numerical operations.

[[ ]] does seem to retain the legacy -gt | -lt operators of test | [ ], which is kinda cursed, admittedly.

@vwbusguy @decathorpe

But test is analogous to [ ], not [[ ]].

@decathorpe @vwbusguy

Disagree. The whole point of the [[ ]] syntax is to examine and compare strings (and also filenames). There's no expectation of numerical or boolean analysis.

Now, if you said that bash is cursed because of the string substitution syntax, I'm with you on that one. Its horrifying.

@joel

Incorrect. Some things work beautifully, and are fully resplendent in their functional derpiness.

Take, for example, Go's date strings.

That is peak derpiness. Yet functional.

#Go #GoLang #LearningGo

@joel

Oh, that's quite derpy.

#approved.

@amin

It's not my fault you feel the need to have <way> more than one blog.

@82mhz

My resolution to read more blogs instead of mindless viewing/scrolling online has already paid great dividends.

Looking forward to reading more of your blog!

@82mhz

Good read!

@twizzay @twizzay @adamsdesk @joel @pixx @amin @dm @joel @krafter @orbitalmartian @sotolf @thedoctor @mirabilos

Yeah, shorts are just kinda horrible.

I miss the days when you actually had to hit [refresh] on all your feeds.

New #blog post: A 2025 Resolution

https://rldane.space/a-2025-resolution.html

Probably my last post of 2024.

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