Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

#introductions

Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Other things you may want to know:

- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history

Overall I think planning, recording, and editing this episode probably will have taken about 18-20 hours, definitely the longest one *by far*. I hope it's worth it (especially since the topic is both semi-personal to me and also one of some anxiety!)

This episode of FOSS & Crafts is a lot more editing than usual (for reasons that will be obvious once released) and it's going to probably not be out by "Thursday before noon" as we have aimed for so far

Hello Gamestop do you have a copy of Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom *snickers*

bleh

Hey maybe it feels like you have no choice in this election between shitshow + apocalypse and just shitshow. The world not ending is a better vote in that extremely terrible lack of choices. But could we do better?

Yes, but it requires structural changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

Really glad I've done REPL-to-tests driven development. I have a ton of tests I was able to just dump in from when I was testing things. Rackunit makes this easier than anything I've ever seen, and easy is important, because it's too easy to drop testing on the floor.

Really saved my butt today: finding a regression took minutes which could have taken hours.

Thank you to @m_v_m for finding this and taking the pictures!

Hey cool, my run-it-in-your-terminal space shooster game Terminal Phase appeared in the Polish version of Linux Magazine (June 2020 edition, apparently)!

https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-in-linux-magazine-pl/

Choice A: literally the apocalypse
Choice B: blasting the dem party even further to the right than it's already gone because clearly that'll gain enthusiasm

"Hi can I choose something else"
"Not realistically"
"Thanks, good democracy we've got going on here"
"Just vote B"
"I mean I guess I feel like I have to but jesus fuck"

weh

Mozilla laying off 1/4 of staff https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

Confusingly COVID-19 is blamed, but I don't understand how that could be the case unless it directly correlated with losing specific funders. COVID-19 seems like it could also be an opportunity to close unnecessary offices, dramatically reducing costs.

Worrying:
- This probably means even more browser takeover by chrome
- Vague "pivot to products" talk
- Executive pay keeps going up https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1293188958705168384