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-wonThank 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.

@samir Hey @hrheingold you will enjoy the above...

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?”

Fedi is, once again, peak fedi.https://flausch.social/@piegames/113840026501003635