Muto @MutoShack@functional.cafe

I generally see my microblog posts to be pretty normal, but my mother asks me about the things I say on here in a very concerned way.
Hi mom. This list is pinned for you to help get rid of some confusion

* GNU is not a drug

* I cannot download drugs

* I am not suicidal, it is just part of the joke.

* I am grammatically incorrect, not mentally ill.

* I am not part of a gang.

* The flashing button that says "Fix my computer" is NOT to be pressed.

* I may not always show it, but I love you.

We need a sane, independent #Ada compiler that's Free Software but doesn't rely on GCC.

As much as I appreciate Ada, I don't know if I'll get around to it, but if I do, I'm naming it "Adaboy".

Growing up, no-one actually taught me the Greek alphabet, so I just sort of ended up reading #math as "this thing multiplied by that funky looking E divided by that letter O with hair... Something something Half-Life something something."

Moral of the story: please teach your kids the alphabet.

Sorry if this shows up on your feed twice. I tried uploading from my laptop, but images and video appear as blank screens so I had to delete it & use a different machine.

An alphanumeric converter in Guile, finished in a day thanks to a solution by cwebber:

https://gitlab.com/MutoShack/mgkal

I probably said this before, but using "Old hardware" as a synonym for "Low-power computing" is bad and should not be done.

Alrighty.
Is there a way to convert the string:
"123"
to the list
(1 2 3)
in #Guile ?

There seems to be no primitive function or module that does this.

Then again, I'm still on 0.15 so maybe that changed.

I haven't been close to the development of Guix but maybe I'll hack on it a bit, because there are times when I'd really appreciate a "y probably happened. Try running x" message after a failure, rather than just the "Oops everything died" that I usually get.

#Guix question.

I haven't done a 'guix package -u' for a while, so it took a few hours, but failed on GIMP with the dreaded:

"cannot build derivation: dependencies couldn't be built"

Does Guix have to go through the entire process and re-build everything again? I had a hard time understanding the concept in the docs.

If #Unix commands can be spirit animals, false is mine.

"Zero maintenance" is a pretty darn repulsive #marketing term. I mean, zero maintenance usually means "non-serviceable". What am I supposed to do with this product in 15 years? Replace it?

I don't want anything that thinks it's better than time. I want to have the option to provide maintenance when it's needed.

Today I wrote a #Bash script that renames #Opus files based on their Vorbis Comment metadata.

@Tutanota does not have any Black Friday deals because they don't like "the concept of offering an overpriced product and giving it away every now & then at a discount".

Bless this company.

#Cisco #Webex Teams Gives me a "No such organization" error on login. I hope this isn't because I'm using #Tutanota!

Also I don't think "Organization" should be capitalized, but that's less important.

I've been playing #PS4 a bit more often, so if you have a #Playstation ID, feel free to add me to your friends list:
MutoShack