I’m seeing more and more backlash to Rust (recently an ugly LWN comment thread on an article about uv, a python tool that only happens to be written in Rust) and I’m finding it alarming. Trying to think of another technology that suffered some backlash like that and the closest I can think of is the misguided anti-mono stuff at the turn of the century.

@kde @kde that keyboard module is screaming out for full width keeb with a trackpoint ;)

I’ve been reading about HTMX to try and not completely lose touch with tech (even if it’s far from what I do) whilst off ill. I’m loving what I’ve learned about it so far!

@neauoire there’s a great, if frightening, novel by Chris Beckett “America City” which extrapolates the repercussions of northwards migratory pressure from the US on Canada. I recommend it

@mdione I can’t say they’re perfect but Kitty and Alacritty at least behave similarly on Linux to MacOS.

@joostruis it’s got me thinking about what my very first experiences of the open source world were, coming from Windows in the late 90s. I’ve been toying with writing up a blog post, aiming not to be a memory-lane piece, but trying to compare the context for me then with the context for new folks now. So much has changed.

@joostruis I know what you mean about efficiencies. The seeming-wasted-effort has been a feature (or a bug) of FOSS for decades; see also GTK and Qt. It’s a nuanced issue deeply tied up with people’s idea of what the freedom of free software means, and the trend towards “opinionated” software. There’s no one right answer I fear. I’m sad that some opinionated ideas got baked into wayland (e.g. client side decorations) which makes complete adoption that much harder.

@joostruis Who's ideal world? Personally, I can't see myself moving (due to fundamental designed-in problems with Wayland) so long as I have a choice.

@joostruis you could stop using X11 today, couldn't you? Can't the rest of us keep doing so if we want? And live in peace and harmony?

@pmidden @tomncooper it’s possible that mouse support was a faff to set up. I can’t remember if you needed a DOS driver loaded first. And/or if you could configure independent axis sensitivity

This was kinda snarky and no offense was intended for people who worked on the doom reissue (several of whom are friends)

New blog post: Fediverse and feeds https://jmtd.net/log/fediverse/ #software #culture

@pmidden @tomncooper Doom supported Mouse from day 1. I think keyboard-only was popular in the early days, so some elitists call out mouse players, but Romero reportedly was a mouse player.

The situation today is entirely flipped: it turns out they deleted turn left/right in 2005 or so with the xbox360 port, and haven't put them back in yet!

I happen to prefer keyboard only for vanilla doom, but I'm probably in the minority.

TIL I learned about openrss, a service which can export a Mastodon instance’s local timeline over rss. HTTPS://openrss.org - why doesn’t Mastodon do this already? Hopefully it’s on their roadmap. So far, I’m following infosec.exchange. It doesn’t appear to be set up for functional.cafe or wandering.shop, the other two I tried.

@lproven @JulietEMcKenna @cstross @scalzi adding @jasonsanford to my personal SF people list, but I can’t see (yet) whether he’s posted much on fedi yet

@lproven @cstross @JulietEMcKenna @scalzi Thanks! I remember to check Bluesky once in a blue-er, moon… shame that's where the momentum seems to be going, for that sub-culture at least. (At least one other sub-culture I participate in has bet the farm on Threads. I don't want to see the same mistakes repeated)

@popey @jamesh @Conan_Kudo @sortova @jzb (re Mononono) urgh

@tomncooper I think gamepad is acceptable. You can *just* bind all the essentials to the SNES controller's number of buttons for example.

@pwaring plus stuff like… should I have tinzaparin for more than 11 days? If not, I'm still non-weight bearing, so, what do I do? etc

@pwaring Thank you. GP hasn't issued this stuff at all yet, hospital did on discharge. So they're at the "what the hell is this" phase of evaluating my request :)