I wonder what the best places to be a bang-average person have been at each point in human history. Like, in 5000 BCE or 300 CE or 1450 or 1850 or whenever, if you were gonna be the median human being in your country or community, what would be the best country or community to be the most mediocre person?

version 1: the letter

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a letter to a friend, which, however, does not find him, but is brought back to us, and we open it at the distance of some considerable time, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#Goethe #WilhelmMeister #ThomasCarlyle #vol1book2ch2

version 2: the toot

"If we happen, under certain circumstances, to have written and sealed and despatched a [toot] to [the Fediverse], and at the distance of some considerable time it is brought back to us [by a belated boost], and we open it, a singular emotion is produced in us, on breaking up our own seal, and conversing with our altered self as with a third person."

#LateBoosts #MastodonCulture

OggVorbis code is fugly. Function consuming >32KB stack space (everyone has large stacks right?), using alloca() to dynamically allocate stack space all over, no checking for memory allocation failures from malloc(), realloc() etc. 😐

I don't always know if I should post my poetry attempts. I don't think of myself as "poetic" at all and kinda feel like my little stabs at it are maybe kinda insulting to actual poets, lol (this can't be true).

BUT! I have a conviction that art isn't only for those good at it, and that writing bad poetry is better than not even trying to write poetry at all, and maybe if I share a bad poem someone with more talent but less confidence than I have might see it and think "hey, maybe I can write a poem if this guy thinks he can" and then they'll write a better poem than I could ever write and the world will be a better place.

So, if you see me posting my bad poetry, know that I'm doing it in the hopes it could lead to better poetry.

Hey fediverse! Question for those of you who have their own website (and don't mind being anonymously quoted):

What do you like about having a personal website?

#websites #PersonalWebsite #SmallWeb #indieweb

• Albert Camus

Shall we invite him into our hearts?

How We're Redesigning #Audacity For The Future

https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38

Edit: not that proprietary software is any better, but being able to do something (studying the code) doesn't mean you should do it 😅

Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
-- Alan Moore

#anarchism #quote #bot

like he knows all the preview features, but didn't remember it was actually declined

Me: yeah, I like logging too.

Him:
Him:
Him: good enough

~Franz Kafka, pioneering the Fediverse in "Letters to Felice (2 June, 1913)"

Alt...

June 2, 1913 please write and tell me about yourself, your walks, about books; you have no idea how important it is to my life.

what software or service do you use to create software architecture diagrams? you know, those rectangle and arrows in UML.
I don't need sophisticated features, whatever that does the job and makes it faster than using a pen and paper.

boosts are welcome ❤️

#fediask #softwareengineering #java

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbWTK5_1nY