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No better source yet, I think. But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

by wozer 3y ago

kragen 3y ago
yeah, and i hope meyer would know but still, it's twitter, liable to vanish or block non-logged-in access at any moment
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.
  - rileyphone 3y ago
    Please don't make dang do more work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847048
  - kragen 3y ago
    bluesky seems like the site for people who think that the problem with twitter was that the wrong billionaire gets to decide which ideas to suppress (admittedly you could make the same criticism of hn; it certainly isn't decentralized and resilient against administrative censorship like usenet was)
    - PaulHoule 3y ago
      Well I didn't mean to just endorse Bluesky but call it out as one of many alternatives. I'm actually active on Mastodon but I am thinking about getting on Instagram as well because the content I post that does the best on Mastodon would fit in there.
      - kragen 3y ago
        it won't surprise you to learn that i like mastodon but haven't used it in months
      - zilti 3y ago
        Do you know about Pixelfed?
        PaulHoule 3y ago
        Yep. I interact w/ Pixelfed users on Mastodon all the time,
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johndoe0815 3y ago
Niklaus Wirth's death was also announced (by Andreas Pirklbauer) an hour ago on the Oberon mailing list: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html
- kragen 3y ago
  thank you dang, maybe we can change the url to this instead? this url has been stable for at least 14 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf....) and has a good chance of remaining stable for another 14, while the twitter url is likely to disappear this year or show different results to different people

No better source yet, I think. But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

by wozer 3y ago

No better source yet, I think. But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

kragen 3y ago

yeah, and i hope meyer would know but still, it's twitter, liable to vanish or block non-logged-in access at any moment

PaulHoule 3y ago
Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.
- rileyphone 3y ago
  Please don't make dang do more work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847048
- kragen 3y ago
  bluesky seems like the site for people who think that the problem with twitter was that the wrong billionaire gets to decide which ideas to suppress (admittedly you could make the same criticism of hn; it certainly isn't decentralized and resilient against administrative censorship like usenet was)
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    Well I didn't mean to just endorse Bluesky but call it out as one of many alternatives. I'm actually active on Mastodon but I am thinking about getting on Instagram as well because the content I post that does the best on Mastodon would fit in there.
    - kragen 3y ago
      it won't surprise you to learn that i like mastodon but haven't used it in months
    - zilti 3y ago
      Do you know about Pixelfed?
      - PaulHoule 3y ago
        Yep. I interact w/ Pixelfed users on Mastodon all the time,

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johndoe0815 3y ago

Niklaus Wirth's death was also announced (by Andreas Pirklbauer) an hour ago on the Oberon mailing list: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html

kragen 3y ago
thank you dang, maybe we can change the url to this instead? this url has been stable for at least 14 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf....) and has a good chance of remaining stable for another 14, while the twitter url is likely to disappear this year or show different results to different people