[wozer]

No better source yet, I think.

But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

[johndoe0815]

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

[kragen]

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....) 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

[kragen]

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]

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.

[kragen]

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]

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]

it won't surprise you to learn that i like mastodon but haven't used it in months

[zilti]

Do you know about Pixelfed?

[PaulHoule]

Yep. I interact w/ Pixelfed users on Mastodon all the time,

[rileyphone]

Please don't make dang do more work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847048