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Hello, friends at littleOne!
I'm slowly recovering from the "after EuroBSDCon" queue of things to do, and I'll put some time and effort on littleFedi in the coming days.
I've forwarded a list of bugs & features to the team and they worked on it, so I'll merge them in the coming days. Stay tuned!
It occurred to me that the best way to test LittleFedi is to publish. So I want to start sharing personal things: my musical tastes, what I practice, my work in medicine, martial arts, and meditation.
I always find it better than heated arguments about politics or AI. At 63, I have quite a few quiet things to do: I listen to music, play guitar, play chess online and sometimes in a bar with other old folks like myself, I read and write. There's also a place for programming, Linux, and free software, which fascinates me.
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This solution has been in place for many years and all one's attributes, like e-mail address, age, stay on the phone.
@_elena@mastodon.social @benroyce @patrickleavy
Here in The Netherlands we have a means to share attributes anonymously. This used to be the IRMA app, but has been renamed to @yivi_privacybydesign@mastodon.nl and works like a charm. I am sure people involved in that project can give details if that can
be rolled out EU wide.
It is a shame too few people use it
@francois
So, what's your point?
That Go would be a "bad" programming language"?
That it would be a bad choice to use Go for littlefedi?
That everybody should abandon littlefed because of the choice that Go was selected as the programming language to use for developing littlefedi?
What's your point in pointing out especially @stefano?
As far as I know, the team that developed littlefedi contacted him beforehand him becoming kind of the "spokesperson" (and "chief developer"?) for the team that stays invisible in the background.
It's not even sure if the decision to use Go for developing littlefedi was made by Stefano or the team.
Can you proof that it was solely his decision?
That, therefore, he would be a "bad" decision-maker?
Again, what's your solution in blaming Stefano for littlefedi having been developed using Go?
Life is funny
Intro
As we all (should ?) know here, littlefedi is a single go executable.
That's what @stefano keeps telling us.
I don't know about you, but I wondered from the beginning why it seems to matter so much to him that this was a go executable. I mean an executable is an executable, whatever language it has been programmed in.
Go
Go is a fairly new language - barely 15 years old.
It was developped by google, which made the thing all the more puzzling, since google is not really seen as a friend in the fedi world.
That said it isn't bad, as language go (pun intended).
It is basically C++ on steroids. It was created by google developpers who were not happy with C++ but wanted to keep some of its caracteristics. Funnily enough for those of us who have been around a long time, it started its life just like C++ did.
Let me elaborate on that.
When C++ started, there were no C++ compiler. The C++ code was fed to a pre-processor which would turn it in C code, and that code was then compiled by a regular C compiler.
The irony !
The C killer needed C to exist.
Well guess what ? Yep - you got it. Go started exactly in the same way, with a pre-processor for the C++ language called gofrontend.
Anyway.
Go is known for it's high-performance networking and multiprocessing, so it's a pretty good choice for this type of program.
Definitely maybe
In this oasis of thoughts, one thing slowly emerged, and suddenly all was clear !
I knew !!
Of course @stefano will deny it - he never thought about that, it's just a coincidence - sorry mate, but I won't have it.
You see, the whole thing is very simple. Who wrote go ? Engineers at google, yes, but who?
Well I'll tell you.
Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, that's who.
Now for those of you lucky enough to be too young to have lived that era or to remember it, I will spell it out: who is Ken Thompson ?
He's the guy who invented, amongst other things, unix and C, not necessarily in that order.
What is @stefano 's Operating System of choice ?
BSD.
What are the BSD ? The direct heirs of the original ATT unix.
Solution
Well there you have it.
The only reason @stefano insists on go is that it is his secret pun. He has gone full circle, running on Ken's OS and implementing his pet project in Ken's language.
Well done @stefano.
I bet you thought nobody would crack that one - sorry to disappoint you... 😈
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Thus, up until now, that New Oil begat "Data Centres".
Store and retrieval of information.
But "A.I." Data Centres are not Data Centres in the pre-A.I. data centre sense of the word.
If Data is still the New Oil,
Then A.I. data centres are the new Oil Refineries.
A.I. data centres are "Data Refineries".
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