It sounds like you may be ready to Obey The Testing Goat

Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.

Larry has apparently never seen a single episode of any reality TV show. That’s impressive.

Lol. It’s not the groundhog we should be watching, then?

They probably mean Open Container Initiative (OCI), the protocol shared by Podman and Docker.

Yeah. The idea of an automated C to Rust replacement of the Linux kernel is fascinating. As you say, there’s probably stuff in the Kernel that Rust’s compiler won’t allow.

I imagine it wouldn’t work at all, out of the box, but it might reduce the cost curve enough to make a dedicated team of very clever engineers able to cross the last mile, given time.

As cynical as I am of both Rust and AI generated code, it honestly feels like trying an automated conversion might be less of a long shot than expecting the existing Linux kernel developers to switch to Rust.

And I’m sure a few would kick in some thought cycles if a promising Kernel clone could be generated. These are certainly interesting times.

Lol. If Rust fans want a Rust kernel, no one is stopping them from building one.

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

They did.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

Yep.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

And yes.

That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.

So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.

Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.

I’m not sure what to do.

On Mastodon, I used the search function to shotgun random topics that interest me, and then followed all the hashtags on the posts that came up.

Over time, I started replacing following hashtags with following my favorite users who I discovered through those hashtags.

Then I started discovering and following their favorite users through their boosts.

Now that my feed is pretty much where I want it I tend to click “hide boosts” on anyone new that I follow, to prevent their every random amusement from cluttering my feed.

The end result is fantastic, but it took awhile to get there.

stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

That’s awful.

Also, I guess they would think I’m hiding so much, considering the number of bloated awful services I’ve rejected.

and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Yep! But that’s only until they decide to enshitify, which they (Valve) will, because they (the humans making the correct choices today) will sell or retire.

You’re doing better than I am. I just bullshit them and say I’ll “probably check it out later.” By which I really mean whenever it gets reposted on a less shitty technology platform, in a few decades. But I don’t say that part.

Yeah! I think that’s going to sway in this place’s favor very soon.

I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

It’s probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.

Makes sense. I only really replied there to help anyone reading along.

There’s many very basic features of vim that VsVim does not have (like… almost all command line commands), basic features which regular vim users use all the time.

! is supported:

https://github.com/VsVim/VsVim/blob/master/Documentation/Supported Features.md

It sounds like you haven’t tried VsVim in a long be time, or had an unusually bad experience with it.

(Edit: My responses to your other points were my old man energy, and not worth anyone’s time, so I removed them.)

It’s simply false to claim that vscode has more features than vim

Holy shit. I would never claim that. Lol.

Not sarcasm. I’m genuinely satisfied with VSCode’s Vim emulation, and you’re the first person I have heard say otherwise.

I just meant - that means you’re using features that most of us aren’t.

Fair point about evil mode for Emacs being better, but that requires using Emacs, which I have found un-usable, so far.

Also, the vim plugin for vscode is kind of a joke compared to what vim can do.

Dang. Hot take! I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else say that.

You clearly actually completed VimTutor.

I have several complaints about the VSVim plugin, but it’s easily the most feature complete Vim-like plugin I’ve ever encountered.

I’m trying to pay you a compliment, but I am doing it poorly.

As a legend among my Vim using peers, I can see how VSVim can be frustrating, to someone who truly leverages Vim.

Your annoyance with VSVim outs you as one of the true power users.

If your software can save lives, I guarantee the people whos lives you saved didn’t forget you.

I appreciate that thought. I don’t believe it. But I appreciate it.

A lot (if not all) of the lives my work saved don’t know anything about the part I played, or even that my software had anything to do with it.

I’m okay with that. I know that there’s families out there that are more whole today, thanks to my work. That’s more valuable to me than any footnote in a history book.

Someday those families will be just as dead as if I had done nothing. But I did do something. Millions of extra moments happened with family members who could have died.

Beautiful things that are eventually forgetten are still beautiful things. To me, that’s enough.

I’ve been on the other side of this, too.

I have no way to thank all the people whose medical engineering work extended my grandfather’s life by decades. I don’t know any of their names.

But, I hope they know that people like me revere their efforts as sacred. (I’ve made some effort on that front, but I know I’ll never thank everyone who deserves my thanks.)

That’s beautiful. A film set is a particularly good analogy - whatever we want to remember from it must be thoughtfully captured by skilled artists and technicians, before the set, itself, is gone.