Simon Brooke @ simon_brooke @mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur,

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@Aseelsehwel @palestine It's an account with

1. no followers;
2. no follows.

It's someone who does not engage with the community, has no influence, and only seeks to make trouble. Report it, block it, and forget it (although your very courteous and dignified reply to this troll does you credit).

I will not be able to help you this week, I'm afraid. I have limited money and the number of people needing support is large.

@yogthos what browser/OS are you using?

@yogthos H'mmm... this isn't working for me in either Firefox or Chromium, on #Debian13trixie (I see only a blank rectangle).

Firefox reports that it's blocking cross site scripting requests; Chromium prints a nice ASCII-art picture of a dog to the console, but reports no errors.

What are you seeing?

@Aseelsehwel@mas.to @aseelsehwel@blog.gaza.onl @palestine thank you for sharing. I wish that you were not condemned to be a hero, but I am glad that you are there, to whisper to those children that they are not alone.

You are not alone, either. We hear you, and we honour you, as one who has had the cloak of heroism forced on you, but yet has chosen to stand up under the weight of it.

Keep whispering to the children.

@notIO well, of course it does.

What do you expect from these people? Ethics?

@planet @clojure strictly, these are characterisation tests rather than unit tests. Characterisation tests are tests to check that the behaviour of a program doesn't change; unit tests should be tests that the program is working as specified.

@planet @clojure This looks very interesting! Now I'm itching to see the source.

@yogthos Sadly, I get an error trying to subscribe to that from mastodon.scot. The URL I get directed to is

"https://mastodon.scot/activitypub/externalInteraction?uri=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ml%2Fc%2Fclojure"

which mastodon.scot barfs on.

@planet @clojure Two errors in the first paragraph is not encouraging. An associative array does not necessarily support either a 'remove' or an 'insert' operation, and, indeed, in languages with immutable data, it supports neither.

What's worse, the entire article appears to have been lifted verbatim from Wikipedia.

The whole site appears to be an email harvesting scam.

@planet @clojure Eric used to do a really good podcast -- no new episodes recently, sadly, but the old ones are worth going back to.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle having said that, the patents on Google's PageRank algorithm have now all expired, and a distributed, co-op operated search engine would now be possible. Yes, there would be trust issues, and you'd need to build fairly sophisticated filters to identify and exclude crap sites, but it might nevertheless be interesting and useful.

@ajsadauskas @degoogle I used to be one of those human editors. I was the editor of Scotland.org from about 1994 to about 1997, back in the days when it was exactly one of those hierarchical web directories – with the intention of indexing every website based in Scotland.

@Fudoshin @DessertStorms the thing that made me cry, when I needed a food bank, was they asked if I had pets and included food for my cats.

There is an awful lot of good in this world.

@quinnly @jocanib very slightly more than one.

@ajsadauskas @technology @music@lemmy.ml @music@fedibb.ml That essay is such a complete misunderstanding of the issue that the author is either an idiot or a bad actor.

@ajsadauskas @fediverse @technology

"Human" goals. But which humans?