Alecu Ștefan-Iulian :verified: / is on Nostr

leftist, 21, ♑ ✧ Emacs and functional programming addict ✧ BCompSci

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2023-07-14 05:28:41

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@npub1um2…6jsa
“We are already privy to how these fags treat outsiders when they don’t fit their political agenda.” heavily implying you inbred dwellers don’t do the same shit. You sure care enough when it’s not one of your people (aka not shitposter chuds) ;)
Guess it’s nice leaving in fear because of “(((them)))”[1], huh?
[1] = anyone who isn’t a Trump/Musk dickrider. I don’t have time to deal with you or your loser friends, gtfo outta here

2023-07-14 04:58:03

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 wow, him calling anything not right wing “communist”? color me surprised, especially after his unhinged takes that he keeps having every now and then

2023-07-14 04:56:41

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 iirc he’s on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2
I think he was banned a couple of years ago from Mastodon (and imo rightfully so). He also had an attempt at his own instance through DistroToot (now permanently down). He’s now over at @ distrotube on fosstodon.org (I don’t want to tag him). Looks like he’s active too.

2023-07-14 04:47:36

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Of course you’d be interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQ-ZY460WQ

2023-07-14 04:44:16

Another day, another seemingly cool person I find on Fediverse that’s actually a huge chud. This time is special: his instance has a Soapbox frontend (fork of Gab’s UI, interesting origin story :blob3c:), plus he’s a tech YouTuber. A Threads bootlicker too, which is not surprising.
Why are so many tech YouTubers and technobros the ultimate chuds? It’s a worrying trend. If you really think about it, shouldn’t the tech space be more inclusive? Who the fuck cares if someone behind the screen is gay or trans if they’re under a pseudonym anyway? Code is code, nerds are nerds, anything like gender, sexual orientation etc. shouldn’t even come into discussion. But I guess Musk pog keanu reeves reddit wholesome +100 karma so trans bad. Or crypto good because no gov regulation thus Twitter pog because of “free speech”?
We need more left-wing (not even lefties since they probably won’t catch the attention of your average normies) video content creators (yes, libs are good too and not just in .so form). We need to contrabalance chuds like DistroTube (leaving this absolute gem right here), Mental Outlaw, Luke Smith, Root BSD (I’ll give him credit for making banger DnB mixes and good OpenBSD content) etc.
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/110/710/599/520/951/036/original/fe9e0cb29adf5e03.png

2023-07-10 23:43:53

Dear #journalists of #fediverse:
Can you explain to me the specific style you’re using to create your news/article titles? Is there a style guide you’re following when writing? I am interesting in the… literary (I suppose) or linguistic aspect of journalistic writing.
Thanks!

2023-07-10 12:56:23

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 accidental wing…woman?

2023-07-10 00:25:12

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 last time I checked Dems aren’t the ones with the racist rhetoric… Just saying 🤷‍♂️
Neither of them are the good guys, news flash, but I’d rather have Dems succeed so I don’t have to see the fascist charisma black hole DeSantis in power. Lesser of two evils cuz they’re both right wing in the end, people who believe the Dems are left wing are insane (I think I know one such party at least). The Dems are only left of the imaginary center in auth right.

2023-07-10 00:07:23

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 aren’t you missing one small crucial detail? https://youtu.be/OvcYjG0Sq1I ;)

2023-07-09 20:33:51

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@npub18yv…xxyn I hope the same thing extends to other operating systems too and not just Linux

2023-07-09 11:12:29

I have quite a lot more followers than I did when I first wrote my introduction, so it’s only fair that I’m writing a new one, bump up the major version.
#introduction #intro #introductions
Hi! o/
I am Ștefan (ș as sh, I also accept Stephan or the equivalent in your language). I’m 21 years old, ♑, he/him, proud #leftist and soon to graduate CS @ UVABc. Sort of proudly living in #romania. My native language is Romanian, fairly proficient at English, slowly learning #finnish (and #italian).
Tried a lot of programming languages in my childhood up until now, a non-chronological list of ones that stuck with me for one reason or another being: VB6 (that’s what I started on at 8 years old), #pascal (+ #freepascal and #delphi), #perl (+ #raku), #tcl #tcltk, #lisp (usually #scheme, on a good day #elisp #emacslisp and #commonlisp), #elixir, #php, #forth, #lua, #oberon, #modula-2, #cpp #c++, #ocaml, #fsharp, #smalltalk (+ #squeak #pharo #self), #ada, #powershell, #dart, #matlab, #rlang, #zig, #nim, #cobol and #julia. I don’t claim full proficiency in all of these, but I’m familiar enough with these (+ some others not mentioned here) that I could get along just fine with 2 weeks at most of studying and looking through cookbooks and examples). I’m flexible in learning new languages and technologies if needed.
I also do #sudoku and #math for fun (especially functional equations and number theory problems, sometimes calculus and geometric algebra). I am interested in #linguists, #conlangs (#lojban and #esperanto) and #nlp, contemporary (post-‘45, usually post-‘89 for me) history, #balkan history, lower-level stuff (I like to learn about how tools around me work, I’m most interested in #compilers, #emulators and #microcontrollers), #typography and #latex, #linux + #bsd, #msdos, #amiga, #oberon, #plan9, #philosophy, #astronomy (especially in a worldbuilding context) and #philosophy, along with other less notable interests.
I engage in #politics relatively often irl, although I’m not inserting it in absolutely every scenario in my life. As I mentioned, I’m a #leftist and #progressive (or… um… #woke) (Nazis and fascists can have a merry fuck off, DNI with me). I am also a spiritual person, a #deist (if you really want to put it that way, an agnostic, although it’s not quite true) and I find #astrology and #tarot interesting (I’ll let you guess my moon and ascendant, let’s see how close you are).
With that being said, I hope I’m welcome here, you can pick your subset of things that interest you from this list, you have plenty of options. :P Quite a bit longer than last time, but oh well…

2023-07-08 21:40:41

I keep seeing great languages plagued by the lack of documentation (or a pretty one, rather).
Biggest offender to me: #freepascal #pascal. With such a great compiler I am pissed off at the lack of organized documentation, it feels like an amateurish job. A lot of units are barely explained if at all (e.g. I double triple dare you to do OpenGL or X11 apps based on the wiki alone). It even lacks a good tutorial (which is why I give people https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal as a resource)… FP’s wiki makes Tcler’s wiki look pristine. I’ve had the same symptom with Gambas and a lot of Lisp dialects. It’s even better when it’s a language on GitHub (or implementation/dialect a lot of times) with no useful info. Some other languages have documentation, but it either is or looks outdated which I believe is an impediment to adoption.
After I’ll be done with uni this September, I’ll try my best to do a proper and modern Pascal tutorial (and maybe do the same with a couple of other languages). I believe there’s an audience, especially in my country.

2023-07-06 17:04:32

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@npub18yv…xxyn I doubt people are going with Tumbleweed on transactional servers

2023-07-06 16:58:40

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@npub18yv…xxyn oh, that’s why I’ve never had to deal with wicked. Interesting choice on behalf of openSUSE.

2023-07-06 16:39:09

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@npub18yv…xxyn I’ve never had that on any of my installs that I’ve deployed, maybe it’s some other setting you’ve enabled?

2023-05-25 20:49:19

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@npub137w…7g9r And how does Elon know I didn’t just make an empty folder right here and then?