streetlight @jelle_dc@octodon.social

sort of late #introductions

I'm 20, He/Him, ace, Belgian, CS student and board member of a student organization that promotes FOSS.

I think functional programming, narrative indie games, cartoons, webcomics and noize/punk/ska music are really cool. I also think cats are amazing.

I have exactly 2m70 paperclips in case anyone wondered

paperclips are actually really nice to fidget with, highly underrated imo

paperclip inequality

slightly out of tune ice cream truck driving by. Very a e s t h e t i c

I should be studying for my finals rn but the sun decided to be the most inconsiderate exploding ball of gas so it's 30°C and I'm dying

if the fork off people host their code on gitlab, that'd be a killer strategic move

anyway that's my hot take, I'm going to bed now and then in the morning I'm gonna regret rambling like this at 3 AM

goodnight fediverse

I really think MS is just doing this because they want to profile as developer-friendly. Because really, I know lots of linux users are just devs that came for the dev tools and didn't give a crap about FOSS at first. Know a lot of CS students like that, and now windows has bash and a fancy electron editor, they really have no reason to go through the scary and time-consuming process that is installing linux.

this is really like cambridge analytica all over again. People getting mad about MS/CA while github/FB has been screwing them over all along. But hey, we get public awareness now so that's cool I guess

so this only half thought and I should go to bed but

you know, microsoft is definitely not the most evil corporation out there anymore (tyvm zuckerberg) but I feel like they might be the most dangerous for FOSS, lots of their FOSS efforts are sketchy (VS Code downloading blobs on compilation, and WSL is just 'embrace extend extinguish' making a comeback)

that being said, they really can't make github more proprietary. Arguably this doesn't really change anything for github.

I'd like to drop some hot take on the new #FLCL but eh. I think it's ok. Too early to really judge. The pillows are still awesome so I really can't complain.

highlights from my computer networks course's slides
- broken link to fat wreck chords' site
- "UDP (Unreliable Datagram Protocol)"
- screenshot of Marty McFly playing johnny b goode
- the UDP joke (you know the one. There is only one UDP joke, really)
- "I copied these diagrams from the section on the data link layer so just pretend they say 'segment' instead of 'frame'"
- picture of an AVR Raven every time IoT comes up (the Raven's a pretty sexy kit tho really makes you wanna tinker with it)

Good morning fediverse, what's up toda- oh wow that's a lot of discourse

so the whole github/ms thing is something alright but.
People still call github a startup??
?????