Nixy @nixy@octodon.social

i'm probably not the right person to talk about it, since reading isn't something i've ever personally struggled with, but i think the trepidation many people have about the act of reading comes down to a combination of

(1) self-demoralising (it's hard, it's boring, i've poor attention span, i'm not smart enough for this, where by the time you're actually set up to read you've already convinced yourself you're not going to be able to)

I'm very pleased to announce that the #fennel programming language is now self-hosted!

that is to say, a compiler exists for Fennel which is written *in* Fennel and passes all of the language's test suites across all four supported runtime versions:

https://p.hagelb.org/fennel.fnl.html

if you look at the code you might notice it's a little strange; that's because it's compiled *from* the canonical Lua implementation into Fennel mechanically using my brand new Antifennel compiler https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/antifennel/tree/main/anticompiler.fnl

it's a bit ugly in places but it gets the job done!

Free software is not enough: on practical user freedom

https://jfred.dreamwidth.org/479.html

Trying out #100DaysToOffload in the hopes that I'll finally be able to build a writing habit 🤞

ひとりでぐでってなってる
#kotorico #cat #caturday

Zoom admits they will lick any boot that comes along.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/zoom-admits-to-shutting-down-activist-accounts-at-the-request-of-the-chinese-government/

The bosses never want the employees to talk money. That's because they play favorites.

Talk money with your peers. Be open and honest.

The money taboo is a tool of the oligarchy.

A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer
https://stephank.nl/p/2020-06-01-a-nix-primer-by-a-newcomer.html

(submitted by signa11)

There is now also #AuroraStore:
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@Styx666Official
Daily reminder you can bypass Google Play store by using the Yalp app from @fdroidorg
aptoide is pretty good too @Aptoide
#Infowars #Censorship
https://twitter.com/carolinemucas/status/1026725731236229121

Now *this* is something worth using linux for: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/94up0y/i3_for_that_real_typewriter_feeling

I've started listening to #podcasts, and AntennaPod is a really nice and powerful open source podcast app for Android phones. It's rare to get open source software this polished.

https://antennapod.org/

Love having a hardware wifi kill switch on my laptop

Internet too distracting? *flick switch* Focus mode is on!