Leaves Given to the Wind

we have written a compiler we're really proud of it and we suggest you might wish to go check it out it's not the most approachable language, Forth dialects tend not to be, it's really more designed to be fun to implement than easy to learn, but we've tri…

the pursuit of understanding as an art form the manipulation of data to practical ends these things are not the same. they seemed to overlap, for much of the 20th century. that was an illusion. the illusion was only possible because the conflict between t…

so, in a discussion elsewhere, it came up that everyone talks about "passkeys" as if they're highly secure and impossible to copy. unfortunately, this is true in some cases (hardware tokens...) and not at all true in others. so, why has it been such a pop…

the longer you spend using software that does not make deliberate efforts to run your inner peace through a wood chipper in order to monetize it the more jarring it is using something that does when commercial OSes insist on putting the weather on the lock

the structure of social media, in its present form, makes silence all but impossible. speech and other forms of noise, it magnifies immensely, to fill the available space. deliberate not-talking, in contrast, is almost invisible. are you thinking to yours…

when we think about the structure of social media, or the way communication works in general, our main concerns are the long-term ones. we want stuff that promotes human flourishing, and does not promote social control by large power structures. fundament…

over on fedi, someone who read our previous post (well, the fedi thread version of it) asked what cyberneticism is. they quite reasonably worried they were missing nuance because they hadn't heard the term before. we realized it's past time we do a proper…

today's news item[1] about the .io top-level domain prompted several conversations with our friends, and in one of those, we used the phrase "the cybernetic bias" for the first time, to elaborate on stuff in our dark cyberneticism piece. we'd like to expl…

code review is best understood as a form of teaching, not just a procedural obstacle. we were originally going to talk about how code review can be mentorship, but we realized as we wrote that at the moment, most of the stuff we know how to explain are the

To the three people who reported that the xml:base attribute didn't have the scope we wanted it to have: Thanks very much for doing that!

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[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2024-05-08 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/5892016-the-dark-side-of-cyb but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.]

[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2024-04-22 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/5666865-technology-communit but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] there's this kind of thinking trap that programmers sometimes fall into,…

[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2024-03-31 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/5349137-xz-and-community but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] so these thoughts are only partially formed, but... well, we just managed to

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[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2023-05-03 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/1439975-i-must-obey-the-ins but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] image description: A Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, black-and-white line…

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[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2023-03-22 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/1214084-generations-are-imag but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] the concept of generations is mostly invented for the benefit of reacti…

[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2023-02-28 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/1103780-so-some-broods-of-c but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] some broods of cicada do this thing where they wait many years between s…

[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2022-12-08 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/573059-please-don-t-do-the but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] if you read only one line of this post, let it be this one: before partic…

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CW: unethical medical research on human subjects [2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2022-11-18 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/341589-science-fiction but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.]

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CW: discussion of misogyny, discussion of fascism, mention of Nazis [2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2022-11-09 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/240258-no-safe-space-is-saf but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] no s…

[2024-09-29 note: This was previously posted on Cohost, on 2022-11-07 at https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/218422-vulnerability but the irenes.space URL is the permanent one.] when we think about cybersecurity, and how it gets used to justify endlessly sp…

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