It’s long past time to abandon Substack. Substack is no different from Twittr, a harbor for Nazis and other far-right agitators. All are determined to trade the US democracy for a totalitarian regime, with no more elections and military control. Most military and police are sympathizers for this kind of country. Fuck the Fascists!

Well one of my sound explorations was included in the compilation called Antihistamine 2023 on Bandcamp. Check it out.

Well , I misidentified the Lisp-like languages on my iOS devices. Here’s my folder of prgramming paraphernalia on my main iPhone:

MyLisp and cl-repl are Lisps, LispPad is a Scheme interpreter and Replete is a clojurescript interpreter.

The coolest thing I’ve found lately is the programming language Rust. Admittedly, it hasn’t been that recently, i decided to explore it in 2019. Other than being what I consider to be a C language without the pitfalls of C., it’s a rather non-remarkable language.

On the other hand, I still am a fan of functional languages. I was introduced to the functional language Lisp in 1972. I immediately felt a kinship. Lately I do more in Clojure and Haskell on more standard OSes. Tho I play with LispPad on my iOS devices. This is a common lisp dialect which is a joy to fool around with.

So far I’ve found some swift code that will do sha256. Next step is the figure out how to get that added to a Common Lisp interpreter that’s on iPhone. More to come…

This should be the first Objectnets.net blog post to federate to my new followers in the fediverse. We will see.

Well, I connected this blog with an ActivityPub plugin so supposedly the blog posts are now being distributed to the fediverse, Mastodon instances and all the other members of the fediverse like FireFish instances. All togerther, I have accounts on those other instances totalling about 6-7 accounts. Each account has a slightly different viewpoint, one is a replacement for my main Twitter account, a few others are almost completely related to my music endeavors, and one has also got a programming bent.

The main thing with this blog is that it won’t be exclusively about software development anymore.

The longer I do DoorDashing, the more I notice that the relationship is an abusive one. If DoorDash didn’t have drivers, they’d have no business. But their business model is to abuse the drivers until they either quit or they accept that DD’s profits are based on screwing the drivers out of as much money as they can. From what I can tell, DD keeps around 75% of the money they get from their customers (restaurants and other businesses) and drivers have to be content with $2.00 to $2.75 for pay and any tips that the end user deems to be fair. In the past two years, those tips have become scarcer and scarer. The median tip is now $2-3. So your total compensation for a delivery is about $4-5. And if you refuse to do a $2.00 delivery your ratings suffer because DD penalizes you because, in their eyes, you’re obligated to accept ALL deliveries. So much for independent contractor status, DD drivers are employees with NO benefits.

Read a post on one of my fediverse accounts about some interesting code that uses sha1 to do a kinda rot13 thing on text. The post didn’t have any code attached so I replied to the writer to get the Lisp code to do the transformation. This is what they sent me:

(ql:quickload :sha1) (defvar *syllables* '((#\0 . "ze") (#\1 . "wa") (#\2 . "tu") (#\3 . "ri") (#\4 . "fo") (#\5 . "fi") (#\6 . "si") (#\7 . "se") (#\8 . "ye") (#\9 . "ni") (#\A . "he") (#\B . "bi") (#\C . "ki") (#\D . "di") (#\E . "yi") (#\F . "fe"))) (defun shashify (str) (apply #'concatenate (cons 'string (loop for c across (sha1:sha1-hex str) collect (cdr (assoc c *syllables*))))))

Note that this is Common Lisp code, as opposed to other dialects. And WordPress doesn’t know how to display code anymore. I’m going to try to convert this into something I can run on my iPhone. Yes, there’s a few Lisp interpreters on iOS. More details later. 

In this article from Salon, it says:

While Trump was given preferential treatment in that he wasn’t made to wait the average 12 hours an arrest and booking would normally take — and he also wasn’t given any sort of cavity search or general wellness check — he did have a mug shot taken, which many people have been waiting a very long while to see.

In fact, all but one of his co-defendants also received preferential treatment. Yes, there are 2 systems of justice, one for the rich and powerful, another for the rest of us.

Looks like this past June was the sixth anniversary for this iteration of The Object Networks web site. I had been using in the past WordPress software on other web hosters like BlueHost. But invariably, I would run into insurmountable problems, or the web host company would jack up their prices to ridiculous levels. Six years ago, I decide the try WordPress.com. Higher prices than I would like , but the customer services has been much better than I have been getting.

Like the title says, now we have to interact with a Jetpack app, with fewer features than the last app. I love getting yanked around by these faceless, uncaring corporations. Especially after paying for another 2 years of lousy service for $499. “Happiness Engineers”, their euphemism for customer support, never have answers to your questions, just workarounds for a crappy experience. The only reason I stay is the competition is even worse. As the title says, this is the third website provider I’ve had since attempting to have a website on the internet.

I started to add a post to this blog over 2 hours ago. I was trying to paste an article here that I composed on my iPhone. I used the new interface and the Visual Editor and everything was screwed right from the beginning. Nothing pasted correctly. And it was impossible to add a link to the article. This toolbar vanished from the screen in the new interface, never to be seen again.

So I guess trying to save time by editing outside of WordPress to save time to a futile effort. Thanks a lot WordPress.com. Up yours too.

Subtitle: And which BOINC projects cheat the most

Well, in the most recent iteration of contributing to BOINC, i’ve found that quite a few projects don’t seem to feel that rules are for the common good. The main culprit seems to be World Community Grid, the IBM project. Inside BOINC, you technically grant projects a share of your computer resources. Then the BOINC executable is supposed to run the workunits that you’ve downloaded according to those rules. But those shares are ignored by BOINC and projects like WCG, LHC@Home, and Rosetta@Home can monopolize your resources with impunity. I single out those projects because they also cheat you on credits given. As far as I can tell, projects are given leeway to grant credits as they wish, with the suggestion that 200 credits be granted for each workunit that takes 1 day to process on a 1gHz machine. The above mentioned projects grant considerably less than that, with IBM’s WCG is the grand prize miser granting a measly 25 credits per workunit per day. maybe publicly shaming them will cause them to quit cheating, but I doubt it.