Arcane Roops
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Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-)
User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-)
Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the #disenshittification of everything.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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3d ago
@robinhouston Some good points there :-)
I ended up adding https to my home-brew http: server, even though I'm pretty much the only human who uses it, because my own browsers kept nagging me.
I can't imagine I'll ever use what I learned again (using SSL in C89!) so it's almost time down the drain.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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4d ago
@burnitdown @ClickyMcTicker @IcyPalm @notjustbikes And the prize for spineless arse who sends a list of "fuck you" in a PM but hasn't the guts to continue a debate in public, one that they decided to join in, goes to...
Finally I have a use for the Mastodon twitlist. I always wondered what it was for.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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4d ago
@burnitdown @ClickyMcTicker @IcyPalm @notjustbikes
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Don’t pretend you can tell me what to do or say.
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YOU were the one who started talking about risks, so you can’t expect people to take you seriously, if you complain when I use established facts to put those risks in context.
I note that coal kills 25 to 30 people per Terawatt-hour of energy, worldwide. Guess how many people die per Terawatt-hour of nuclear energy? I’ll give you a clue: it’s less than one.
By any sane measure, nuclear is way, way less risky than coal (or natural gas). Not perfect, but hugely better.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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4d ago
@burnitdown @ClickyMcTicker @IcyPalm @notjustbikes What point is there in looking at single events, when we have a huge amount of data over many decades?
I might as well point at the Tenerife air disaster that killed well over 500 people, and claim it makes cars safer than planes (hint: it doesn't!)
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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4d ago
@burnitdown @ClickyMcTicker @IcyPalm @notjustbikes "very dangerous"? There are risks, of course, as with everything. But pick any date of any year (include Chernobyl and/or the Windscale reactor fire if you like) and coal has killed more people than nuclear energy, by a big margin. My neighbour's coal fire chimney is more radioactive than anywhere I could access near Windscale!
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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Apr 11, 2026
@tlayoyo It's odd, because quite a few people were seeing something like ∅ as zero for computer work back in the 1980s, but in truth there was a dotted zero available on most of the systems I saw.
I've now chosen fonts that dot the zero, but I still cross them when I'm writing by hand.
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
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Feb 22, 2026
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Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
techhub.social
Arcane Roops
@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social
Semi-retired programmer. I mean I took a 'blue collar' job to save my sanity, but I can't seem to stop writing code :-) User of Linux (various) and author of the Wooden Spoon web server, which absolutely nobody uses, not even me :-) Big fan of open source software, the right to repair, and the # disenshittification of everything.
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Jan 23, 2026
@faux_icing @kevlin Talking of billboards, there was a *cheeky* advert on the roadside in Amstelveen for ladies' underwear years ago titled "BIL BOARD" (a Dutch pun on a word for "bum" :-) )
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