Emacsen @emacsen@emacsen.net

It's on Twitter but totally worth it.

Stay the fuck at home
https://twitter.com/MickDavies1968/status/1243900356377161728

Today I'm going to give myself a haircut for the first time...

The fiancee wants me to shave it all off. As weird as this sounds, I'm scared to even give myself a buzzcut.

But I have at least a month before I can get a haircut.

I don't need to shave too, do I?

(no this is not me)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fs6ii6/true_sacrifice/

It makes me so frustrated when the cat projects his feelings onto others!

I'm bored. Fiancee is working (stupid time zones). Ate dinner already. TV is boring.

Guess I'll start building the Python #Datashards MSDC library

If you follow 11 more people you'll be following 100 people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXObolq5CQ

As of this moment, I have 666 followers. Tee hee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-iRf9AWoyE

My local Whole Foods doesn't even pretend it's a supermarket anymore. It's a warehouse with displays.

Before I'm misunderstood- I'm *not* suggesting that we throw up our hands and use Zoom.

Instead, I'm suggesting that we need to start realizing that simply building software isn't enough. Projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and Signal work because they're backed with hardware and bandwidth.

If we want a Zoom replacement, we'll need to ensure there is money to pay for the necessary components to pay for its infrasturcture and ongoing maintence.

The sooner that people who are thinking about replacing Zoom realize that the problem isn't one of software but of infrastructure, the better.

The reason Zoom works so well on a technical level is that they have a lot of infrastrutcture to support the downmixing of streams- including a ton of processing power, as well as very good bandwidth between their data centers.

You could build an equilvient program, but without the hardware and connectivity behind it, it won't be as good.

I wrote up a short post on how @cwebber ilustrated how the AGPL breaks when someone uses Spritely-type programming.

I took Chris's ideas and simplified them so that hopefully anyone can understand.

https://write.emacsen.net/breaking-the-agpl

If everyone on the Fediverse can be excited for Animal Crossing for Switch, then I can officially announce I'm excited to see Saints Row 4 is being released for Switch March 28th!

If you don't know Saints Row 4, it's Grand Theft Auto meets The Matrix, with over the top humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qhFgMRlgNo

Every time @rhiaro posts something, I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0

I've been watching this channel debunking these content farm videos for about a year, but understanding what the content farms is really up to is very scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno

You speak of the cats that will bring balance to the force.

Crispin is adorable

Ran an Empty Epsilon game purely online today and it went great!

If you're a friend of mine and are interested in joining in the next one, please feel free to drop me a line.