i made it write its own shutdown notice. too mean?
@icy I have an old x61s that I don’t use anymore 
@icy I keep meaning to do this, maybe seeing someone else in my immediate tech circle doing this will give me the drive to do it 
I always forget about the SDF shell, and the 100 other shell accounts I’ve acquired over the years to be fair. I should really catalogue them somewhere
@ols like you are supposed to see yourself in the tortoise, but really you should see yourself in the hare
Thinking about “The Tortoise and the Hare” and how the message is supposedly “slow and steady wins the race” when in reality it’s more like “if you’re better than someone don’t rest on your laurels otherwise they will beat you”…
#honk 0.9.9 "Eat the Bugs" is released.
It fixes a bunch of stuff. It's a few weeks late because I kept fixing stuff, but that'll never end, so here it is. We've run out of version numbers before 1.0 unless we resort to numerative easing, so this may be your last chance to earn an exclusive beta tester nft.
Thanks to everyone who helped out.
@drewdevault unfortunately necessary
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@mdhughes this is extremely relevant to my interests and I will be sure to find a copy 
@drewdevault you have to go deeper!!
The UK's Online Safety Bill is poised to undermine encryption and create a regime of mass surveillance. Our president
@Mer__edith calls on the UK to reconsider this misguided Bill, and affirms that Signal will *never* undermine our privacy commitments:
Someone asked on IRC so…
20:44:35 <emersion> IMAP has some… "creative" ways of doing things
20:57:54 <DemiMarie> Such as?
21:42:50 <emersion> the grammar being somewhat regular but not regular enough to be parsed without special cases for each command
21:43:35 <emersion> the currently selected mailbox being part of the state (and making it difficult to monitor multiple mailboxes without opening one TCP connection per mailbox)
21:44:38 <emersion> the literals (binary blobs) being interleaved with the rest of the grammar, making it very difficult to handle them without buffering the whole thing in memory
21:45:44 <emersion> many commands being over-engineered, e.g. STORE only does flags updates but is generic enough to theorically apply any kind of update
21:45:56 <emersion> UIDVALIDITY
21:46:01 <emersion> … the list goes on
