JKB @jkb@octodon.social

'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes http://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/14/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-colonialism-zimbabwe-simukai-chigudu

People who tell computers how to behave, what would you rather be called?

(I can only put 4 choices, write-ins encouraged in replies, "hacker" is another term I would have liked to include.)

Oh shit, @pla got hit by a car..
He was one of the first person I've ever followed on the fedi. His unique mixture of of tech and bicyles will be missed 😭

https://bbs.kawa-kun.com/notice/A33q0nw26SNFq5BYyu

He died doing what he loved.
Fuck cars.

Recently I learned that the Spread syntax in JavaScript (...) allows the inner expression to return something falsy, and that just won't insert anything in the object. That allows you to turn this: {...(maybeObject || {})}‌ into this: {...maybeObject}. Neat!

Actually even something like {...23}‌ turns into an empty object, it's not just falsy things that get filtered. I guess is all non-Object things. Not even a simple Map gets inserted. Arrays are perfectly fine Objects with indexes as keys though. =)

TIL that this neat property only holds for the object Spread syntax. The array Spread syntax strictly requires an iterable. So you *do* need to have [...(maybeIterable || []). If you try [...false]‌ you get TypeError: boolean false is not iterable (cannot read property Symbol(Symbol.iterator)). That's disappointing, the new syntax additions otherwise have tended to be more consistent than that.

So I wrote a thing, about how terminals are bad

https://faho.github.io/terminals-are-kinda-bad.html

it's only cyberpunk if it's actually _punk_
if it isn't a criticism of capitalism and the protags are all cishet white guys that's just sparkling neon scifi

if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day

a day in which it's far easier to teach him how to fish because he's not fucking starving to death

Very cool -- https://teddit.net is a new privacy-friendly Reddit frontend, similar to Invidious / YouTube, Bibliogram / Instagram, and Nitter / Twitter.

Source code: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

- No JavaScript or ads
- All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit
- Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
- Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB)

#Privacy

♟️ Monads Charity Chess Cup 2020 ♟️

An amateur chess tournament for fun and charity open to all experience levels!

All proceeds will be donated to the Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund.

$10 minimum entrance fee
Register by December 5th to claim a spot!

Games will run through lichess. Sign up for the tournament here 👇
https://lichess.org/team/monads-charity-chess-cup-2020

And send entrance donations here 👇
https://ko-fi.com/dankwraith

Please mention your lichess user name in the donation.

If you cannot afford the $10 minimum, please contact me and i will arrange for a generous benefactor to sponsor your entry.

Preliminary matches will run from Dec 6 - Dec 11. Top 8 Finals will be streamed live on Dec 13 on twitch.tv.

VEMOM Festival is happening today! Subscribe to the youtube channel and don't miss the kickoff at 2pm UK time!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipaszM8uwffRkV3oUcCuHQ
#electronicmusic

Oh, and here's another #followfriday suggestion!
@tilvids A #peertube video community, with a great collection of interesting videos.

Take a look at their overview of videos by category: https://tilvids.com/videos/overview

Every manpage should have an EXAMPLES that shows how to do the very basic, most obvious thing with the command line tool or library function.

#rant

Do have people feedback with M/monit (https://www.mmonit.com) as a monitoring dashboard?

I'm using Monit for alerting and it's doing the job, but I'm missing a page for checking the current state of all the servers.

#Monitoring #Dashboard

Hire me to translate your game into French!

I’m native in French and fluent in English. I’m familiar with American, British and French pop culture and references.

I’ve already made a full fan-translation of a game, including graphics and TTS voices: http://traduction.faith/

Boosts welcome!