Damus
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Writer (software and prose), epistemologist.
Fedi user since 2019 → fedi dev → quit fedi → [you are here].

I contribute (roughly at random, my brain is too ADHDified to stick with a software project for too long) to a lot of projects, and help upkeep some of the akkoma project's infrastructure (among others).
Besides that, I do some (interesting to me but probably not to you) CS research and make random things that I find useful/interesting.
I want software to be beautiful to read, and to spark joy at runtime, a bit like (some) writing (though my prose is not that).

Assigned "Tumblr Lesbian" by my gay wife, confirmed by fedi.

Sometimes my wife (Hélène) posts on my account.
If you want to know whose post a particular one is, you must pick up the honored internet tradition of identifying people by vernacular, punctuation, and way of thinking.

Relays (1)
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write

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I love how prediction markets are a truth oracle, not because people are good at predicting or whatever, but because people with insider knowledge make huge bets, pretty consistently, and it's quite hard to prove what happened
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Blurry Moon · 1w
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Blurry Moon · 1w
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I will never not be amused by how several people held/hold the belief that helene is a headmate of mine or something
she's actually a housemate
lifemate if you will
(club... mate??? —helene)
my wife
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vaartis comes from the earth · 2w
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i was thinking of how to explain atproto best to tosti and the best explanations i found were "they're claiming they're trying to be a network where everyone has its own 9p filesystem" and "imagine ipfs but it's federated instead"

i don't dislike atproto but i just think it's not meant for social media lol
Karen @ back from fanfest :heart_bi: · 3w
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Tlapka🐾 :neocat_phone: · 3w
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 3w
The Free Software movement never escaped from its origins: the early ‘80s MIT AI Lab. Two things were true in this environment: Back when most computers had tens of KiBs of RAM and 1 MiB was a hug...
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@nprofile1q... this is also one of the biggest reasons to want microkernels; each service is easier to understand in isolation
point 2 in general (aiming for simpler to understand software) is my preferred approach to this (unsurprisingly given priors), but how far a user can get without becoming at least minimally a programmer is difficult to estimate, so the other hard problems you mention remain important where otherwise that would have been enough
it being enough for programmers is also why there is much less effort put into the other questions
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4ctzhkweg9pz6jaxrn370sr8s2ck9u2r6pgfputdzplv3zluppeskf0x09 Microkernel designs give you some tools, but a microkernel that includes a large set of servers, all developed together, all with tightly bound interdependencies, is not much more appr...
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i feel like one of the very few weirdos that has used windows phone and very much can say it was quite good. nothing else with battery life as good for the time (3+ days battery life in 2014!) and nothing else that felt so fast and so responsive either