The Lua community needs to learn to move on
https://hisham.hm/2026/08/04/the-lua-community-needs-to-learn-to-move-on/
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Still coding free software — Created htop, Teal (typed dialect of Lua), LuaRocks package manager, GoboLinux distro
PhD (PUC-Rio), interested in dataflow, PL ∩ HCI
Occasional music and cat content
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I felt like sounding off in the YouTube comments section.
2025: oh no, we deskilled our factory labor force and now we can't produce anything in our own country!
also 2025: here's a great idea: nobody needs to learn how to program for real because we now have these great AI systems! why waste years in computer science degrees?
2045: oh no...
@mozilla@mozilla.social "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"
I'll be spending the next nine days without a computer. See ya! 🏖
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@Sassinake@mastodon.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social as far as I can tell, it's not. I found it on a Facebook post from 2019 post saying it's a 2004 illustration by Vorlet.. It is similar but different from the 2006 painting of the same theme.
2004 illustration
https://www.facebook.com/earth4point2/posts/catastropolisimage-christophe-vorlet-urban-development-2004/2764187423651499/
2006 painting
http://www.lydmarchive.com/artists/Vorlet/home_2.html
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@mordecki@mastodon.uy Thank you so much for the recommendation! We knew nothing about him and now El Alemán has two new fans :)
#uruguay #montevideo
Hello fediverse! I'm in Montevideo with my gf until Thursday!
Any tips of cultural activities to do this week?
#uruguay #montevideo
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By that logic, NSYNC should be Nash, Stills, Young, Nash and Crosby.
Sending good vibes to everyone at #FOSDEM! I couldn't make it this year, but I hope to be there next time!
If you're there, reply with your favorite talk so far!
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@sanpan@mas.to @dan613@ottawa.place @lensco@mastodon.world @auxonic@ottawa.place @atpfm@mastodon.social I'm genuinely not sure if this reply is satire!
(In the off-chance it isn't: defaults matter)
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@s4_gui@bolha.us @matematico314@social.linux.pizza @usuario@instancia.org que gráfico, senhores e senhores
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@AssalRad
Isn't it amazing that the BBC produced functionally identical headlines, with the same flaws? It's almost as if they were given them...
https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116161114341824602
@gutocarvalho@bolha.us Pois é. Só porque uma versão software livre de um software existe, não quer dizer que o software em si seja uma boa ideia.
Eu tenho minhas dúvidas sobre o próprio design do Mastodon. Usar o Twitter de 2010s como base, ok, mas o Twitter dessa época já era uma rede voltada ao doomscrolling.
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@sk76 the most punk rock thing in that picture is carrying his guitar in a literal plastic shopping bag!
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@lexiconista@mastodon.ie Indeed! My PhD program in Brazil was 4 years, and boy, did those 5 years fly so fast!
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@celestiallavendar Whenever I talk to younger people, I feel like they're very skeptical about AI. That makes me hopeful about the future!
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@cscw @carla @garreth That's a really cool study! Hopefully, the next generation of text-to-speech could instead take the emoji into account to synthesize tone of voice (think of an actor being asked to read aloud "That's great! 😂 " vs. "That's great! 😂😂😂 " vs. "That's great! 🙄 ", without spelling out the emoji, of course). Translating "it is ☀️ today" into grammatically correct text also sounds like something that would be a good fit for machine learning.
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@GIMP@floss.social Congratulations to the team for all the hard work!!
Never mind the trolls and keep going!!
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@eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place
It generated a pretty boring crossword because I only use one password for everything:
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@upol drop the concentric diamonds and give each measure its own axis, normalizing their sizes to the radius size? (Assuming these are unrelated quantities)
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer the number skews way downwards once one realizes that the vast majority of programmers are not only not in Silicon Valley, but really not in tech companies.
So many programmers all around the world working in local systems to help drive local businesses of all sizes and local governments.
The "tech industry" that is overrepresented in English-speaking social media is only a part of what programming as a global activity really is, even if they hold great power over that whole.
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@spodlife@mastodon.lol @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social @CactuarJoe@retro.pizza to which I answer your kid-unfriendly anagram by saying THIS IS NOT PG
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@timhwang The equivalent to the " 'Classically Trained' T-shirt with a NES controller" in this case would be a T-shirt with a Usenet client
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@fiercemilder@mastodon.ie These screenshots describe precisely what happened with XMPP, step by step.