Justine Tunney - Redbean and the Actually Portable Executable (Speakeasy JS, May 2021) - Despite the channel, this is about a C executable that "runs anywhere", including from boot

I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 35 points – Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
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Video is nearly 3 years old now, but I think it's worth watching. Her presentation starts at around 2:30.

Basically, she explains how Redbean, a tiny (~450kb) and very fast C http server, works and how the same executable can be used to deploy it on most operating systems (she starts explaining that around 14:30)

Justine is also the mind behind Sector LISP, Lambda Calculus in 383 bytes, considerable optimizations to LLamaAI, plus several other things.

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Excuse me, what?

She's a well-known well-documented part of the Silicon Valley cryptofascist movement. Her project names, like "cosmopolitan" and "ape", are dog whistles.

yea, from what I've seen of her, you could say she's part of or used to be part of a sort edge-lord techno anarchism that involves a good amount of "fuck you" trolling and embrace of the chronically online/urban life style. The "fascism" part here seems to come out of nowhere. The twitter post from Justine that that whole blog post hangs off of doesn't exist anymore (and she's active on twitter). In the end though, if she's a bit nutty on how much better tech governance would be than ordinary government, I don't resent her for that. And the sorts of things she's building technologically certainly align with my interests.

What would "cosmopolitan" and "ape" be dog whistles for? Racism?

You'll have to trust me from when I worked at Google at the same time as her. In particular, you'll have to trust me that she called via public petition for an end to democracy and for Eric Schmidt to be installed as CEO of the USA and granted dictatorial powers; this is a flavor of fascism known as corporatism or corporate fascism. (Alternatively, you might trust the Internet Archive's copy of the Guardian's story from that time. The original petition isn't up anymore.)

::: spoiler dog whistles "Cosmopolitan" is a reference to a common component of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and means the same thing as "globalist". "Ape" is one of many common slurs for African-Americans and Africans. "Llamaphile" is part of a common "-phile" pattern of anti-furry slurs. :::

Hmmm yea. Put together, cosmopolitan and “ape” do point in a single direction. I still wouldn’t be surprised if it were trolling. But yea, interesting. Being hyped on SV as a Googler in 2014 seems to me to have been a thing (you might disagree!), so so that doesn’t surprise me either.

Thanks!