janneke @janneke@octodon.social

Surely you've been wondering, when on earth is @librelounge going to talk about ActivityPub? Especially since I'm co-host and that's a major part of my work!

Well, here's an episode that's *entirely* about ActivityPub! https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-12-activitypub-part-1.html

It's the second in a series about federation. There's more coming!

BTW, if this interests you and you're a student, maybe you'd like to work on "guix deploy" as a summer project? @dthompson and myself are interested in mentoring "guix deploy" and related tooling for GSoC this year. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2019#Guix_Deploy

Just think! You could spend your summer hacking lisp/scheme/guix/functional-distros/etc!

Had to help my son with his computing assignment in Python and realised for the first time it's not the great teaching language it's made out to be.

His problem came down to shared references, which I found hard to explain as it's quite far removed from the simple programming model that Python presents to the beginner. Reflecting on it, we've widely adopted a Python coding style which works around the issue but clearly it's a problem for beginners.

Still think SICP and Scheme is the best path.

Roses are dead
Violets are dead
Everything's dead
Climate change

#scheme #sicp

sci fi 50 years ago: what if humans of many different backgrounds worked together for a common good

sci fi now: what if computer bad

GNU Mes: Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap

Old recipe: yoghurt, add yoghurt to milk

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/gnumes/

Guix Days blogpost: bootstrapping ARM https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/guix-days-bootstrapping-arm/

Ich möchte auf meiner Webseite auch Veranstaltungen eintragen von #freiesoftware z. b. Die chemnitzer Linux Tage und eben auch andere. Hat jemand eine Idee wo ich solche #Termine herbekomme?

I have this feeling that a lot of ActivityPub's success (aside from the good parts of its design and let's face it the popularity rush that came from Mastodon's uptake) came from having an accessible "tutorial" style overview section in the spec with a story to it (something not a lot of specs have) https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview

I'd like to hear from implementors though... was this true for you? Did that section make a difference in helping your understanding?

If you've ever wondered what the big fuss about open source vs free software is, read this:

"Open source is designed to advance the intellectual property of the corporation at the expense of effort by individuals outside the corporation. As such, it falls under corporatism, as defined in John Ralston Saul's dictionary The Doubter's companion. Open source is all about externalising costs for development and testing, as economists would say"

(source: http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/jargon/allinone-index.html)

Here's @drak's Wisp: Lisp, minus the parentheses https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/wisp

Arne gave a talk about it at this FOSDEM, highly recommended: https://video.fosdem.org/2019/K.4.201/experiencewithwisp.webm

I've written about it before: https://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/

And, relevant to Golem, here's downloading chunked files over a p2p network in Wisp code: https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/wisp/src/cca15c7abc86a500a313315344f9f46bc90e9ce8/examples/downloadmesh.w?fileviewer=file-view-default

Does Lisp have any pros or is it all cons?

Bootstrapping a compiler is rather like yoghurt: https://bootstrappable.org/

There's a black cosplayer doing a white character, and a few people are saying in the comments, "what is this, a Netflix adaptation?"

I don't get it, can someone explain? Is this something Netflix is known for or something?

(I *assume* it's her skin colour that they're talking about, because otherwise the cosplay looks very accurate to me.)