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virtulis

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Hi, I'm Danko, 35, from Riga, 🇱🇻 #Latvia

Mostly #webdev, mostly #TypeScript, sometimes #Rust. Curly braces, semicolons, tabs. #Linux noob since 2005.

Cishet white dude, atheist, left-ish. ADHD + MDD.

I like loud electronic music, twin-stick shooters and cats.

The avatar is me rudely pointing at the viewer (since 2006). The header image is the This Is Fine dog saying "Sorry, something went wrong."

If I should've boosted your picture that I liked, it's quite likely that you should've put alt text on it.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

Had a dream we stopped in at a kebab shop while getting the car serviced. Girl at kebab shop was cute so I flirted with her. Turns out the kebab shop was a front for a criminal enterprise and cute kebab girl nearly had me killed cause she thought I was there to assassinate her

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@eniko "She wanted it spicy. They delivered."

@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

So are there like a lot of big servers that have defederated from mastodon.social?

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@eniko did they do some new and exciting bullshit or just more of the same old selling out?

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@eniko oh, you're considering signing up there...

Well, uhh, you do what you prefer, but honestly, I don't think anyone should sign up on a big server if they can find a small one that fits.

They know no one will defederate them (I won't!) so they will absolutely continue to do whatever the hell they want. And it's quite clear what they want is a business.

And, if that dead horse will forgive me, you are not the customer.

What worries you about joining something smaller? If you want to ensure you're seen on .social, a single account from there following you will achieve that.

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@eniko can't say I follow the logic. Your current account seems to be doing fine :)

I know instances randomly shutting down is a thing that happens, but I can't recall any cases (not even .lol!) where that didn't come with at least some heads-up to transfer accounts somewhere else (which isn't ideal but at least it preserves all follow relationships). Well, there was the queer.af situation, but i think that got remediated at least somewhat?

Unless you mean actual security as in vulnerabilities, that can be an issue if the admin completely ignores the security updates, yeah. But should there be some 0day, I'm sure .social will be the first target anyway.

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@eniko I see. Good point.

I don't think I have proper off-site replication/backups set up for loud.computer either but I'm certainly planning that. In the meantime at least it's on a mirrored ZFS with hourly snapshots.

If we somehow get a fourth active user I promise to make it top priority :blobcatcool:

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar lritter , to random

what speaks for a GC is that it is fairly difficult to implement a GC within the heap, but remarkably easy to implement a heap within the GC.

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@lritter fighting with the borrow checker has become an action puzzle game in itself for me. To say that it is kind of fun in a certain way, but every once in a while you hit "uhh, technically that's against the rules" and that's annoying.

The most annoying part to me tends to be not being able to pass a reference to within a struct/enum alongside a &mut to the whole thing. Like yes I get that this points to the same memory and yes this might lead to UB if the receiver is unaware, can I get a syntax to make the receiver aware instead of resorting to something stupid like having to pass the key/index instead. (if there is a syntax for that, I'd be very happy if someone made me feel stupid rn)