I mean, a good enough rock can be considered a tool. Same as an antler or a bone.

I love how no matter how much the market makes it explicitly clear that an idea is absolutely terrible, Microsoft will just be like, “we’re doing it anyway, fuck you.” The best argument for Linux is just to gesture vaguely at Windows.

There’s is already an operating system like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Why did you put an 850W power supply in that? You could probably put a 650W that’s much nicer for the same price.

I didn’t say basic. I said bad. HTTP 1 is a good protocol. ActivityPub is not. Read both the specs if you don’t believe me. I have.

There’s not a single point in HTTP 1 that I thought, “what the fuck does that mean?” There are several in ActivityPub. ActivityPub also has several areas that are ambiguous. Ambiguity is bad in a specification.

ActivityPub tries to support everything, and has no defined behavior for when a client doesn’t support whatever thing it just received.

It also uses JSON-LD, which isn’t necessarily bad, but defeats the purpose of JSON by making it too complicated to easily write by hand.

This is not easy to write, read, or parse, or build:

{
  "@context": {
    "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name",
    "homepage": {
      "@id": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/workplaceHomepage",
      "@type": "@id"
    },
    "Person": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person"
  },
  "@id": "https://me.example.com/",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "John Smith",
  "homepage": "https://www.example.com/"
}

Imho, ActivityPub is a bad protocol that tries to accomplish everything, and ends up being bad at all of it. The spec is also ambiguous in a lot of areas. And major implementations don’t always follow the spec. All in all, it’s a miracle the fediverse even works as well as it does.

The cheapest one I know of is about $8 a month, so it should be affordable, even on a tight budget.

You can buy a super cheap cloud VM and use a (self hosted) VPN so it can access your own PC and a reverse proxy to forward all incoming requests to your own PC behind your school’s network.

It’s arguable whether this would violate their policy, since you are technically hosting something, but not accessible on the internet from their IP. So if you wanna be safe, don’t do this, otherwise, that could help you get started.

Oh thank god. Minetest was the worst name, and the game is actually pretty cool. It definitely deserves a cool name, and Luanti sounds cool.

Backups and rollbacks should be your next endeavor.

If they tried to close source it, someone would just fork it.

Business casualest.

Comfortable sure, but not, like, pajamas.

“What is your biggest weakness?”

“Bullet wounds.”

“…”

“Oh and stab wounds too.”

O(n!^n!)

It works really well, until n=3, which takes a while. Don’t ask about n=4.

Switch to Firefox.

Yep, cause the constitution doesn’t forbid felons from running for president.

You have two options:

• Ok with genocide. Otherwise relatively progressive. Has passed major important legislation.
• Ok with genocide. Wants to be a dictator. Appointed half of the Supreme Court majority that took away women’s right to abortion. Will probably strip more rights if elected. Cut taxes on the wealthy and will probably do it again.

You can throw away your vote, but come inauguration, you will have a president who is ok with genocide.

Sure, but if you can and don’t vote for Biden it means you’re at least ok with Trump.