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Cake day: March 25th, 2022

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  • What would really be killer is if we get a meme domain that's like "censorship free federated instances" and pretend to be the authority (I say pretend because it's subjective what it really means) on who is censorship-free. Basically just have a simple page calling out other instances and warning users that they aren't getting a full experience. And also list the ones that respect free speech and play nice.

    Something like that, if shilled occasionally, would go a very long way into getting users thinking critically about federation, even if a bunch of libs get pissed off in the process (they can't argue so they just seethe). And the longer such an "infamous list" is up on the internet the more impact it will have. Source: trust me bro i'm a web developer and i'm terminally online.


  • Yesterday I was writing a git commit message. I have my terminal configured to use vim to do this. I wrote half of a lengthy explanation with a very long chain of thought and paused for a second to proofread. Then I turned around and accidentally mashed a button which pasted my clipboard all over my nice message. I was like fuck I'll just undo, but I guess I hit more than one key because after hitting undo i was left with a blank message.

    I thought I had to start writing from scratch and then remembered that vim has time travel. I'm not joking. You just say :earlier 2m and it goes back to the state two minutes ago. But here's the thing it actually has branched history, kind of like git. If you undo and then make some modifications you have made an alternate branch in the history. I hit g- (or g+ I forget) and got my message back.

    Having flipping time travel with every possible history is an absolutely batshit insane thing to implement into a "simple" editor, and I seldom use this feature, but it actually saved my ass and I'm glad people like Bram spent what was probably an eternity on implementing stuff like that.