Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

@technomancy Well, I told my friend about #Bussard where you play by programming in various languages and interact with the world using various interfaces and I was very enthusiastic and he was interested! I really should try and write a sub plot with missions for it, Skyrim style!

@maiki Well, I host some Perl web apps running on port 8080 on the same server as Apache who redirects port 80 to port 443, which adds crypto, and then proxies to 8080 on the same host – and so it all works, but really these web apps could be anywhere and the setup was super easy. If you need a head start for your Apache config, I’ll be happy to provide something.

@eleanor I like it! «The platform takes our real authentic friendships and first commodifies them, reifies them, and then sells them back to us as an “image of friendship”, but one that is bankrupt of any genuine social value.»
Capitalism at work extracting value in novel ways!

@eleanor @brook @aral “That is the world that I wake up every day to work towards. Not because it is charitable. Not because I’m a philanthropist. In fact, for no reason at all other than because that is the world that I want to live in.” – Aral Balkan.
Hell Yeah!

@eleanor @brook Yeah, that’s @aral writing like he’s on fire and I love it!

Teenagers these days grow up with a phone instead of MSDOS or a C64 and how will they ever learn to tinker? How can we transition from play to programming, allowing people to create their own games, like in the old days you could play on a MUD or MUSH (I liked MUSHes better!) and from text adventure to community to programming it had everything. And I want the same thing for the web and messaging. People writing bots. People writing CGI scripts or whatever. I want it all! I want it now!

@gekitsu exactly.

@rpdillon I thought I had listened to their entire archive but I must have missed that one!

@ajroach42 I think targeting the in-serious developer is key. Kids and adults that want to tinker must see small achievable steps forward. A bit like Emacs, Smalltalk, or fiddling with autoexec.bat or whatever we did as kids.

@aral @skiant ah, this is exactly the issue I was having! Thanks, Aral!

@JensE I don’t know anything about it. Do you use it? Related to nextcloud?

#jura #switzerland (should I tag these pictures #schweiz #suisse #svizzera? Swiss problems…)

I’ve been running again, from Balsthal to Weissenstein.
#jura #switzerland

@JordiGH the number sign or the hash.

@aral @skiant I’ll take another look!

@Wolf480pl Also, @deshipu moved from Poland to Switzerland. I think he also started with a job at an international company in Poland. Red Hat, I think?

@Wolf480pl @aag First you get a job. If you’re a EU citizen, that should be the first step.