NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
@Jules Depends on the impact of my code crashing ^^ But yea, I also like it. It feels kinda dirty to be messing around with all these pointers, too :P
By the way, this complicated way of handling memory for your variables is one of the reason why there's so many security issues with a lot of important code. Mistakes are easy to make and can be hard to find.
I'm getting better at reading the output of valgrind* though, and I fixed lots of errors today. \o/
(*Valgrind is a program that analyzes your program's memory usage and tells you where you make an invalid read, write, or forget to free memory for a variable. Because in C you sometimes have to reserve memory for your data structures manually. It's always a lot of fun. </sarcasm>)
After teaching first semester students about C, I'm going back to my own code and trying to fix memory management issues.
Chasing segmentation faults* is not always fun, especially if the code is old. Some of mine was written 4 years ago by a colleague and now neither of us has a clue what some features are supposed to do.
*A segmentation fault (segfault) is an error when a program tries to read or write at an address in RAM where it's not allowed to. Usually it was following a wrong pointer.
Hi all you in the #fediverse
I'm actually not @trustroots but @paulfree14
I just love the idea of #trustroots
It's a +28.000 members large traveler community sharing free accommodation and connecting nice people via an #opensource nonprofit plattform
I really want them to join us here
They have different "tribes"
Some are:
#LGBTQ*
#nomads
#hitchhikers
#hackers
#punks
#sailors
I made a bet to motivate them
"The first toot will get more interactions/boosts then your fb grab"
I asked them to leave fb/t and join us. But they were like no one is using #mastodon
Can you help to proof them wrong?
#libremonday
We could get a fediverse tribe, if we do 😜
@staticsafe Yea, I'm reading it in the same way. And it was fairly openly anti-monopolist at least.
I think one commenter at the end suggested regulation. But it sounds like a really hard thing to do for sure.
Going through RIPE 75 talk archives and this one talk is very important (and also a bit disturbing):
Geoff Huston - The Death of Transit and Beyond
@staticsafe Just watched it, thanks for the recommendation. Yep, that development is pretty disturbing... and even the oldschool networking guys don't know what to do?! :/
My last boost is a great text about how to make programming (and learning it in the first place) more accessible. The metaphors and examples are just great 
Here's the link again http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
"Do you see router advertisments now?" - "No, I'm using AdBlock."
...
I'm doing one of those #introduction toots.
I'm Jules, 30+x years, computer scientist who just started another program at a new university. So lots of #uni stuff at the moment.
I am an #actuallyautistic #queer #ace #enby #trans #disabled person with #ptsd and other #neurodivergent and #disabled features who gets overwhelmed by all those tags and labels but they are still here for a reason right?
I love #crypto and #hacking and #wool and my #dog and of course #cats of all sizes.
Okay, hi ^^
unionize the entire tech sector
from the developers, to the customer support staff, to the infrastructure workers, to the components assemblers
while #catalonia is facing opression through the central spanish goverment
there're a lot of great project building alternatives to dominant power structure.
#GuifiNet is one of them.
It's an attempt to create an alternative autonomous internet infrastructure.
"...a bottom-up, citizen-driven technological, social and economic project with the objective of creating a free, open and neutral telecommunications network based on a commons governance model"
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Guifi_Net
How would the following sound to you:
a federated plattform to let people share with each other free accommodation and events.
Bringing people from and through the fediverse (if they want) together irl.
Also remember that the event function in fb, was what made mass mobilisation via fb possible.
At one given point in future could that be very usefull. 😋
We could make that all be possible 
, but would it be also something of your interest?
boost for yes 💪 ❤️
"offline first" Afficher plus
@steelman Sadly sharing their code with each other would violate my group's anti-plagiarism policy.
However I just recently argued for at least the tutors making their code examples available to the students. Some people, like me, learn well by recognizing patterns, imitating and adapting.
Hey so, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle with Patreon lately after a terms of service change that threatens all sex workers
There's now an open letter to Patreon to please not do that http://www.openlettertopatreon.com/
The idea of folks losing their livelihood overnight for reasons I cannot see as justified is terrifying, and there's no Patreon alternative either.
Update on the C programming course: I'm getting better at patiently explaining what the difference between declaring, defining, and calling a function is, while chasing segfaults with some other students who are already playing around with pointers and memory management.
It's not easy adapting to the learning speed of 1000 first semester students, but I'm happy about everyone's progress.