#BabelOfCode 2024
Week 4
Language: FORTRAN
Confidence level: High
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I was very excited about doing TCL this week, but I told myself the first time I get a two-dimensional array problem I'd go FORTRAN, so I guess this week is FORTRAN.
A friend of mine who did AOC2024 in December noted the early challenges this year were *very* easy. Today's definitely is. I wonder if part 2 will have any depth.
Breaking news: You can now buy my designs on aliexpress! I didn't put them there, I don't make anything from it, but that's where you can get them! (Do this if you like my work, but are a stout proponent of the `hunger content creator' philosophy)
In other news, the only place where I put wearable things, stickers, et al (and make coins) is https://analognowhere.redbubble.com
Now for the weather: You can sponsor my fedi-exclusive artistic endeavors by supporting me financially (and getting nothing extra) here: https://analognowhere.com/support
Blessed be your devices.
me and some comrades from socialist alliance boorloo (perth) branch at sovereignty day / invasion day last sunday, 26 january 2025.
always was, always will be, aboriginal land.
day 762:
it happened again, i was supposed to read in bed, but i ended up on my phone all night 😇
i think ubuntu was really only ever good circa 2004-2008
when it was jank and broken as fuck and mark shuttleworth was pretty much hiring anyone
anyway ubuntu is like debian plus spyware
i fully sympathise with the scorn debian greybeards heap on ubuntu--yeah, they basically just stole debian and turned it into a scam
every day feels like a mad dash lately
it has been all action stations since work started up again
let us just agree to say there has not been a single dull moment... =_=
got a copy of the second book of isaac deutscher's biography of leon trotsky though, so that's pretty cool
been doing lots of meatspace shit
i feel bad for not being around here more
this place is still my home on the internet
found out about this just now
am i wrong in thinking this is huge news?
"Fish" - a newly discovered #game for the #Atari2600
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/378560-new-game-discovered-for-the-2600-and-released-fish/
it’s a free market because it’s a market where you can get stuff for free. duh
hello all
i am still alive
been in sydney all this week
going back to perth tomorrow night
it was for my socialist party's national conference
i have solved my activist burn-out and have really started to shine again
yours for the revolution,
vidak.
did a big deep dive into trump and trumpism
and i feel a lot better about it all
not saying he is not dangerous and going to do horrible things
but first, after feeling despair about how people could support such a political movement,
and then reading around a lot of the history of republican presidents and commentary about trump,
i could hold the two contradictory thoughts i originally had about trump in my head:
in some ways, yes, it is true that trump has uncorked some sort of new genie of political power
but, he is not without weaknesses--he is not all-powerful, and we can do something about him
what am i talking about? look at the exit poll statistics: the demographic categories that voted for and against trump were almost perfectly divided: married people, religious christian people, and white men lacking a university education overwhelmingly voted for trump. everyone else overwhelmingly voted against him.
this does not represent the received wisdom on how to win an election under neoliberal capitalism. election strategies should, so it is said, primarily focus on swing voters. what trump has done is changed the meaning of what a swing voter is.
before, the two party system got along just fine with the definition of a swing voter as someone who could be wooed to neoliberalism.
up until now all two party systems had both parties fighting over these same people. the content of their election policies were also usually quite similar. the point is not that trump 'offered an actual/substantive alternative' to neoliberalism. this is is an effect of trumpism, not a cause.
only certain sections of society are rushing towards him. the republican party is now no longer the party of free trade and laisse-faire capitalism. it is now the party of far right authoritarianism.
trumpism is a winner-takes-all strategy. he is marshalling a subset of the united states against itself. this was my explanation for myself.
the 'what is to be done' question can then be answered after this: the concept of winner-takes-all was inherent to neoliberal electoralism. the concept of which person counted as a swing voter was just different.
at this point you can take the broad or the narrow approach: narrow--we counterpose some other, new definition of a person potentially wooed to the left. broad--we refuse to play winner-takes-all completely, and radicalise what it even means to try and defeat trump.
the first would be playing trump at his own game. the second would be a radically different idea of democracy.
heading to my socialist party national conference tomorrow in sydney
gonna be staying in dulwich hill from 8th - 13th jan
Fixed regression in link verification code (contributed by nowster).
Added ipv6 support for the https frontend connection (contributed by hb9hnt).
New "Like by URL" operation (contributed by dheadshot).
Added support for a Mastodon-like
/share link sharing URL, like the one provided by sites like https://mastodonshare.com/ and such. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /share to snac (see snac(8)).New linux landlock (sandboxing) support for enhanced security (contributed by shtrophic). It's still a bit experimental, so you have to enable it explicitly by recompiling with the WITH_LINUX_SANDBOX directive (e.g.
make CFLAGS=-DWITH_LINUX_SANDBOX).Some search fixes regarding repeated matches.
The
export_csv cmdline operation now exports the CSV files inside a user's export/ subdirectory instead of the current directory.All CSV files to be imported must now be stored inside a user's
import/ subdirectory instead of the current directory.Mastodon API: more timeline paging tunings (contributed by nowster), post language selected in apps is properly set.
The command-line operation
note new reads the LANG environment variable to set the post's language.A new command-line operation,
note_unlisted, allows posting "unlisted" or "quiet public" posts.The maximum number of entries in users' RSS feeds and in outboxes can now be set via the
max_public_entries variable in the server.json file.Fixed broken support for
Audio objects.Made xmpp and mailto URLs clickable.
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