Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org
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en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
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Currently playing This War of Mine, based on the siege of Sarajevo.
One guy's depressed, and another suicided, so the cook's gotta go out to raid the area, because he's hungry. I had to burn a book to cook food; may the gods forgive me.
You can raid places with active snipers, raid easy targets with limited supplies, or break into old poeple's homes to steal their supplies.
If I can't make some moonshine cheer today, I'm pretty sure the last two characters are dead.
10/10, would recommend.
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"Hell Is Other REPLs ... Being Mutable and Avoiding Bad Faith Programming" (Lisp / Rust / Haskell)
https://hyperthings.garden/posts/2021-06-20/hell-is-other-repls.html
@mihira Eden Reforestation Projects https://edenprojects.org seems good. As it happens, Ecosia works with them.
@tulpa
Sounds about right to me.
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I think I met a real hacker today. He is a teenager, in someone's car, talking about Haskell and classical music.
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@kubikpixel Yeah. Better just donating to reforestation projects. Or taking part at one. Btw, do you know any good ones to donate?
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@cstanhope @vidak Please do have empathy on how this man MUST have been pressured like hell from intelligence agencies coming from everywhere. Because of that, I have always considered his behavior was "rather cool" for a man under such coward pressures from all parts.
He is straight and honest. No bla bla.
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Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity.
https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172
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Echoing a toot I saw yesterday: Accessibility is necessary functionality for a UI framework. Internationalization is necessary functionality for a UI framework. Which requires a fair ammount of code & specialized skill to implement.
As much as I'm trying to get rid of bloat (particularly on the web), if your "less bloated" UI framework lacks this I won't take it seriously.
I wonder: Are there any other accessible UI framworks beyond GTK, Qt, Cocoa, the (yuck) DOM, & whatever Windows has?
@creamqueen
For just filling a form that has clickable fields, I use Xreader (included by default in Linux Mint). Okular (Windows/Linux) or Adobe Reader (Windows/macOS) also work for this, depending on your OS.
For adding a signature without having to print and scan again, I use Xournal. It's also good for adding text manually when the PDF doesn't have fillable fields.
If the above don't do what you need, you could try messing around with LibreOffice Draw (cross-platform).
@freemo
If you vvanted to, you could alvvays just call the letter double-v, like they do in French, et al.
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Freely Available Programming Books
@bluejay
I agree with @swiley that the headline is ignoring the base rate, but the article makes a second, subtler error too.
It argues that, among those who get the Delta variant, vaccinated and unvaccinated, a higher percentage of those who are vaccinated die, making the same basic insinuation as in the headline. The error is that this ignores all the people who, thanks to the vaccines, didn't get Delta at all.
Suppose I create a miracle vaccine that prevents 100% of non-lethal cases and 95% of lethal cases. Now, in this hypothetical, there's a 100% death rate among breakthrough cases. This misleading result is an example of, I believe, Simpson's Paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/
Based on the article, the real percent death rate for breakthrough cases is 0.855% (402/47008), which is, misleadingly, several times higher than the 0.167% (253/151054) rate for unvaccinated cases. All this really shows is that the vaccines may be more effective at preventing less serious cases than at preventing deaths.
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30 Years ago...
On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his famous
message to the
comp.os.minix USENET group:
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been
brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.
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Law enforcement put an entire region under aerial surveillance after believing unvetted reports that an "Antifa bus" was headed to town. A pattern is emerging of social media-based disinformation serving as "intelligence" to justify real surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/revealed-california-police-antifa-misinformation
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Just a reminder, historic climate change predictions modeling human caused global warming has turned out to be surprisingly accurate.
The attached image shows the average of the leading predictions from 2004 and how it tracks to the actual observed climate change. The accuracy turned out to be quite exceptional.
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@arielcostas @DeveloperMemes
We have a standard, ISO 8601.
YYYY-MM-DD
I always use it that way if not otherwise stated that I shall not.
We have a standard, ISO 8601.
YYYY-MM-DD
I always use it that way if not otherwise stated that I shall not.
@swiley
I'd probably have just stuck with the existing TLDs.
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- Parienve@mas.to
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- en: they/them/themself
en: Mostly tech, but not entirely. Privacy is a human right.
ia: Principalmente technologia, ma non in toto. Privacitate es un derecto human.
Joined Feb 2020
