@jwildeboer Please don’t use the phrase “coloured people”. Because of its past, it has hugely racist overtones.

Just found out one of my closest friends, a programmer and all-around computer nerd, does not subscribe to my website because he doesn’t know or care how to use Atom/RSS feeds.

So… if anyone uses (and likes) a service that takes an Atom feed and turns it into an email newsletter, let me know.

Prompts already won.

There's a middle ground between CLIs and GUIs, and it's *better*. So I wrote a post about what that might look like, if someone were to spend a lot of time digging in it.

https://functional.computer/blog/prompts-already-won

Thank you so much to @sarajw, @ross, and @katachora for reviewing this post, offering many excellent suggestions.

It’s really frustrating me right now that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft make so much fucking money by overcharging for slow hardware. (And then use that money to fund coups and genocides.)

Cloud was a scam, and I fell for it, just like everyone else.

I really hope we can get European organisations out of there as soon as possible.

If I was smart and enterprise-y I’d be setting up an assisted colo in Switzerland right now.

@jasongorman I don’t understand, how will we give all our money to the big tech companies if we don’t use their stuff?

@jasongorman Just checked and my Raspberry Pi, which runs this Mastodon instance, handles about 50,000 requests per day. And as you may be aware, ActivityPub is not exactly lightweight.

That’s most of its work, but of course it’s doing other things too.

Currently running at around 10% of max CPU, and RAM is at around 25%.

@skinnylatte Totally. Wouldn’t listen to anyone else’s opinion.

The one universal truth about Indians is that we are everywhere, and we need our food. You can find a dhaba anywhere.

@skinnylatte You can absolutely get proper Punjabi food in the UK (or Tamil, or Bengali, or Gujarati, or…), and there are many, many options in London and other big cities. (I miss it so much.)

I used to go to Pakistani places, mostly, because it’s the closest to what I grew up eating. I took some German friends once. That was fun.

But: do not ask a white person. They will direct you to the nearest “curry house”, a.k.a. approximate Bengali or Bangladeshi food with fries and beer.

@xahteiwi @mahryekuh Southern English too, if you’re counting!

@baconandcoconut

The Web Design Museum is wonderful.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

@jwildeboer Of course it was, it just seems to be about 10x more wrong recently.

@jwildeboer “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” is very last decade, isn’t it? Now you’re the product regardless. You don’t even have to visit the site; they’ll find a way to make you the product regardless.

Software wizards learn the lore, and invoke arcane commands to bend the machine to their will.

Software witches ask difficult and important questions, such as, “What possessed you to think that more features is a good idea?”

The more I practice my chosen career of software wizard, the more I dream of becoming a software witch instead.

Fedi is, once again, peak fedi.
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