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ferfumarma··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Why such hate?

There are lots of languages I don't use, but I can't imagine saying that about any of them.

ferfumarma··on Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)
> it's a testament to the divine inspiration of Scripture that Christians and Jews have never relied on an absolutely letter-for-letter standardized text to know the voice of their Shepherd.

LOL.

your argument is that two cults using a common religious reference is evidence that it's valid?

That is not logical.

ferfumarma··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
There is no need to apologize for building a fantastic tool that was ahead of its time.

But "abandoned" in this contexts makes it sound like it's dead. Even if it's factually correct that the original (very busy) author stepped away and it is literally/factually true that you "abandoned it", it is also fairly misleading.

I disfavor maligning open source projects based on a misleading framing.

ferfumarma··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
> The situation is obviously more complex than any of us know, and I'd encourage everyone to be a bit more positive and supportive of a fellow founder and builder.

What is your basis for this claim? His actions and behavior are publicly visible, and I can't even imagine a hidden context that would justify how he has acted.

ferfumarma··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Which is true. There's no issue with honest criticism, but when it's careless or disingenuous then it it's a put reflection on the speaker.
ferfumarma··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
You are also characterizing another project that was open-sourced (sandstorm) and is under active development as "long abandoned". Open source is difficult and requires a fair amount of cheerleading to engage users and make them part of the community. As a result it's hard to see your project in a positive light.
ferfumarma··on Taste Is All That's Left
And mathematicians who don't understand mathematical theory can't use calculators to write proofs.

Focus on the content and the idea; not how it was written.

ferfumarma··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
your intuition is correct: in the Eatery link from the article that's explicitly stated. And honestly I don't blame him. He got screwed.

> Ngo feels that he ran a good business, and the government unfairly barred him from operating. In his view, if the government wouldn’t allow him to sell the product, they could handle the disposal. Ngo paid off his debts before leaving, and feels the matter is settled. Although prior coverage of the factory closure portrayed Ngo as a ghost who absconded his duties, he doesn’t feel that way. To this day he spends half of the year in Canada, though not often in St. Mary’s. “The community is still very good to me,” he says. “When I go there I see my failure; that’s the reason I don’t want to go there.”

ferfumarma··on Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines
It's literally the third paragraph:

> Deploying a Python inference stack means resolving a dependency tree at install time, on the target machine, against whatever CUDA and glibc that machine has. Deploying a ggml port means copying a shared library and a GGUF file.

ferfumarma··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
What would the biographies say? He opposed them?
ferfumarma··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
The issue of roads is addressed in the article.
ferfumarma··on Moving to FreeBSD from Linux
Kudos to you. It's wild how poorly hacker culture has learned this lesson.
ferfumarma··on Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Yes: the article says "since the 70s"
ferfumarma··on Chatto is now open source
Why are the allusions to discord and slack so coy on the Web page?

You want the actual names so that you rank when those names are searched, no?

ferfumarma··on Bought an expired startup domain: I inherited their AWS Root account
flagged for moderation because the original article is deleted on reddit
ferfumarma··on Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test
FTA:

Known simply as 'Green Boots' because of his distinctive bright green mountaineering footwear still protruding from the snow and ice, the remains have now been identified as Indian climber Dorje Morup, 47.

For decades, many mountaineers believed the body belonged to fellow Indian climber Tsewang Paljor, 28. The DNA comparison has now ended that long-running mystery.

The identification was confirmed by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) ahead of a bid to recover the body from Everest's notorious 'death zone' at an altitude of more than 8,000 metres.

ferfumarma··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
The comparison is not Google app store security vs nothing.

It's app store security vs app store security with verified developer IDs

The fact that the android fraud is not endemic means that the later is not worth the increased risk of losing your Google account.

ferfumarma··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
The vulnerability of your Google identity is terrifying.
ferfumarma··on For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
Right? It's biology when you study enzymes in vitro, but as soon as you put a membrane around them then it's ... something else?

Bizarre argument.

ferfumarma··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
This sounds fascinating. Can you provide any detail regarding the nature of the diagnosis or problem it identified?
ferfumarma··on Every DFU Button Is a Failure
I didn't know: DFU is device firmware update
ferfumarma··on Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
Seems like a monopolistic move.
ferfumarma··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Except that fingerprinting means that both profiles are actually tied together by cloudflare (and other tech companies)
ferfumarma··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Harms to adults. No children should be on the platforms, and it's up to the parents to regulate it.
ferfumarma··on UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
Of course they can. Cannabidiol is naturally occurring in cannabis, but was patented in ~2018 and approved by the FDA.

Doesn't that disprove the conspiracy theory of Big Pharma keeping "natural treatments" from being developed?

Natural treatments don't get developed when they aren't effective.

ferfumarma··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
How come?
ferfumarma··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
The entire conventional zeitgeist is denying plain truths that hurt your self image.

It seems consistent that the same thing would happen here.

ferfumarma··on Warp is now Open-Source
This is a shortcoming with permissive licenses (such as MIT).

If you want to prevent your own project from being taken from you, then AGPL3 is your best option.

If you don't want to stifle adoption then you can always offer bespoke licenses to companies who need them (at a cost to them, and a profit to you).

Until hackers understand the risk of permissive licenses, this will continue to happen.

ferfumarma··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
I feel dumb, but what does oxidized mean in this context?
ferfumarma··on What is jj and why should I care?
Can jj iterate through a list of repositories and clone them all to local storage?

It isn't very hard to make a bash script to do it, but I have about six github repos, all of which frequently need to be put on a new machine. that kind of functionality would be cool to have out of the box.

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