Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

Technology is not a net good, or even a neutral force. Technology is a Force Multiplier. It reshapes the world to fit the vision of those who design it, regulate it, and wield it. Oil companies poison our lakes and rivers, slowly boiling our planet. Facebook tracks everything we do online and uses that data to make us miserable. Disney owns an outsized portion of modern folklore. The FCC decides who gets to launch a radio station, and under what circumstances. Television turns reasonable people in to rabid fans of raving monsters, and turns raving monsters in to celebrities, politicians and thought leaders.

It does not have to be this way.

https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/

Dozens more PyPI packages in ongoing Supply-Chain Attack

https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-dozens-more-pypi-packages-attempting-to-deliver-w4sp-stealer-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

Note to self:

alias tmux='tmux -u' forgives a multitude of sins.

Whoa. Mastodon (qoto) has circles now? I loved Google Plus, and know those are now in Twitter, too. Are they basically persistent chatrooms? #noxp

I'm conflicted over whether PHP being "very much alive" is a bad thing :) Unlike Clojure, it is inarguably badly designed. But by sheer inertia it has has exceeded its design and actually works well

So as I’m new again I’d better do an #Introduction
I’m a proud Yorkshireman and a former Nokia engineer.
Recently finished a BSc in Cyber Security, was part of the team behind the webOS ACL.
I’ve been a Linux daily driver for over 10 years and am currently looking for employment, preferably within FOSS, digital forensics or training users in security practises

IMPORTANT: The person who released the game on steam today is charging 8€ for it. Please do not buy it. The game is free and always will be. The steam version might contain viruses and other malware.

#FOSS #opensource #indiedev #Steam

Haphaestus TV web browser has received NLNet funding! At which points its my great pleasure to say I'm subcontracting #FediHired !

Are you a (eastern, maybe) European multilingual software developer willing take on a part time contract? I'm willing to offer:

* Money
* Training in Haskell & prior art
* Hopefully an impressive item on your CV

For someone to tackle laying out & rendering text within individual paragraphs. I'll handle "block" layout & rendering.

1/2

"Mozilla is not good at reading the market and knowing how to make money"

But in Mozilla's case "the market" means Google. As long as Google keeps supplying the money, Mozilla is "reading the market" very accurately and successfully from a narrow profit-focussed business perspective. It's just that "the market" is not browser users, it's corporate benefactors.

What is your favourite system for carrying out translations? Weblate? Locize? Other…? (And why?)

Which would be most suitable for a free and open source project would you think?

(And is there any library and/or service that you’ve found especially useful for JavaScript projects – both on the server and client sides – i18next, etc?)

Thanks!

(I’m looking into implementing internationalisation and localisation for Kitten projects – https://codeberg.org/kitten/app)

#i18n #l10n #fediBrain #web #dev #js

Do you write tech tutorials? As educators you have a moral obligation not to perpetuate the harmful norms of the mainstream.

Take this (otherwise excellent) tutorial on JavaScript internationalisation – https://phrase.com/blog/posts/step-step-guide-javascript-localization/ – one of the examples has you building an NFT price tracking application.

Don’t do this.

Don’t help normalise/legitimise Ponzi and pump-and-dump schemes. The same goes for privacy-invading practices, no matter how popular they may be (because the mainstream is a sewer).

the delicious irony: creators of industrial language models are now worried about no longer being able to use the web as their "commons" (i.e. other people's labor that they appropriate and commercialize) because their own outputs are "polluting" it (via https://mailchi.mp/jack-clark/import-ai-266-deepmind-looks-at-toxic-language-models-how-translation-systems-can-pollute-the-internet-why-ai-can-make-local-councils-better)

Hi Fosstodon / Mastodon! I'm new here. Looking for people who care about social and policy implications of technology.

The Transitional Web - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/the-transitional-web/