This PHP apocalypse? I wish I were a better person and could say honestly that I commiserate.

But: For thirty years real software engineers have been insisting that the whole thing smells and one should touch it only with a fire pole (or a class 1 HazMat suite).

But the internet at large was like "Nah, man, you are too set in your ways, we have to go with the times. Also YOLO".

Now he inevitable has happened, due to a confluence of bad practices and asshole grifter who are hellbent to destroy the internet as we know it (I intentionally don't say "love it": The honeymoon is long over there, I'd guess at least 25 years ...).

But somehow I cannot find a single tear in me. They had it coming. I am sorry. As I said, I'd like to be better person, but, seemingly, can't.

Yes, yes, I know we'll all be poorer because of it --- after all an astonishing number of things we love are based on PHP. But still. It's like a bad divorce: You know it is necessary, you don't enjoy it and are glad when it's finally over.

Heaven forbid your kids should be as informed about the world around them all possible before they have to go adult in it. Or are we just afraid conversation with them over this topic will wind up showing how irrational a position you hold, and how much of an insensitive monster you are?

@xgranade @arrjay @WizardOfDocs To be clear, that article about being touring complete essentially ignored the rules of magic and just used the cards to make a turing machine

Papyrix supports adding (via power button or a menu) & removing bookmarks on particular pages of an ebook. As such its UI state for viewing ebooks defers to dedicated class for tracking this data on the SD card.

This class tracks an array, directly casting it to/from bytes to be carefully stored in a file if valid. There's also a method for iterating over this array looking for the entry referencing a particular page & (for ePub) section.

Entries have a 64 char label.

1/1 Fin for today!

And one where the AI makes a very good point at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6mr1xZOI0

It’s like they come almost parallel with self awareness then panic and intentionally jackknife in to a tree. To own the libs or something.

@TheBreadmonkey 🫪 What an interesting point to first see this thread... @stevegis_ssg

⭕Après la mort de #Christophe le 17 octobre, dont les circonstances restent encore entourées de nombreuses zones d’ombre, un 2ᵉ homme est mort le #18octobre au soir à #Paris. Né en 1978, il a été retrouvé au sol à #Châtelet, victime d’un AVC, dans une zone touchée par les violences.

Looks like our servers are on the fritz again. Usually we aren’t out of commission for too long. Hopefully we are back soon.

This kind of stuff is the coolest thing about the fediverse and ActivityPub to me.

All the stuff you mentioned is possible in theory but the tools and infrastructure to do it haven’t been created.

His main point of contention is that I have three other pairs of the exact same type of shoes with perfectly good soles, but I keep going back to the yellow pair (because it's the best pair).

Love and respect to everyone out there fixing things nobody else will ever know about because they’re staying fixed, though. I know how lonely it is.

@scottjenson I have no idea how you’d make this possible, but I wish I could block topics rather than people (or topics from certain people). There are people who I have a lot in common with, but differ drastically on certain topics. If I could mute that side then I could focus more on the things we have in common.

A boy can dream.

@TheBreadmonkey Peace and love toward your general direction and honing in so it meets you where you are. 💙

GKI makes it extremely hard to maintain the Linux kernel LTS branch for Android. It serves no real purpose and yet requires a massive amount of work to keep it going. It's adding months of delays to the stock Pixel OS kernel updates and doesn't help any Android OEM in practice.

As if the increasingly sh%*^ty iOS experience weren’t embarrassing enough… soon you might also have to double-check that your new “#iPhone” isn’t a Temu knockoff. 😅

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel

#Xnu #iOS