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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Hey, worst programming language poll (because let's be honest, all languages sucks)
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Unlike those on Halloween, the DMCA is a monster that won't be going away in the morning. That's why Defective by Design works year-round to #endDRM.
@ravi@floss.social
True, I just think some of the wording in the lower left could do with a little more nuance, to match the chart.
Anyway, https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks is a great resource from them.
@ravi@floss.social
Not all ebooks have DRM. I buy ebooks from publishers who don't use it, and I still buy paper books sometimes.
@alexandra
Adding to the other answers, if you have C# or Java experience, you could leverage your familiarity with their libraries to ease the transition to FP. For .NET, the de facto FP language is F#. For JVM, I'll suggest Clojure (a Lisp dialect) or Scala.
Speaking of Lisp dialects, Racket might be a good choice, too. It's basically a "batteries included" derivative of Scheme.
@jameschip
Idea: make the website search box send the query to the browser's selected/default search engine, and use the "site:" operator, which is supported by at least Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.
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My god Feynman truly was a gem we lost from this world far far too soon.
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dos-like is a programming library/framework, kind of like a tiny game engine, for writing games and programs with a similar feel to MS-DOS productions from the early 90s. But rather than writing code that would run on a real DOS machine, dos-like is about making programs which run on modern platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux, but which attempts to recreate the look, feel, and sound of old DOS programs.
https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/dos-like
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Hate that fun size candy bar? Don't say anything bad about it until you're at least 30 feet away from a Ring camera..it can hear you! 👂🏻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/14/amazon-asks-ring-owners-to-respect-privacy-after-court-rules-usage-broke-law
@Moon Strange choice of theme, but I'm sure the Shark Punching Center would appreciate the publicity.
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EFF is not a substitute for a company helpline. Press attention is not a substitute for an appeals process. And having policies isn’t a substitute for actually following them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/why-it-so-hard-figure-out-what-do-when-you-lose-your-account
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Interesting post about the strange state of data authentication and encryption in Linux distros... encrypting the OS and user data with the same secret doesn't make sense in a multiuser setting. Also asking for credentials from an initrd whose authenticity is not validated is problematic.
https://0pointer.net/blog/authenticated-boot-and-disk-encryption-on-linux.html
@cincodenada
IMO, you'd probably have more users confused by "diagnosis" used incorrectly than users confused by "diagnoses" used correctly.
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@thor @jessica@mk.absturztau.be Tech is fine as long as you are in control, in many cases tech seems to control the user.
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Civil liberty fears as police consider using drones that film from 1,500ft
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/29/police-england-wales-long-range-drone-footage-tender-filming
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038500
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#introductions
👋 I'm a hobbyist programmer and sysadmin who is passionate about #CooperativeTechnology, #smalltech, and other forms of user empowerment with technology. You may have seen me before.
I'm interested in #Gemini and other small internet protocols, along with mobile Linux, real sustainability, and various computer languages (including Rust and Zig).
I won't follow too many people here, or engage in politics, but I will share some updates on the things I'm working on.
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Very interesting exploration of non-Git* solutions. I particularly liked his point warning of vendor lock-in.
https://sumnerevans.com/posts/technology/migrating-to-sourcehut/
@freemo Integrity is not whether you follow rules other people made. It is about consistent ethical or moral behavior, especially in the face of pressure. That pressure could even be a law in some cases. You can't have too much integrity, but it is possible for one's moral/ethical framework to be too simplistic to handle the complexity of the real world.
The confusion between legality and morality is because quite a few laws are intended to enforce moral behavior. The idea of "moral laws" is a leaky abstraction, though, which is why you end up needing to follow the spirit of a law rather than its letter.
Also, I disagree with using "Love" on the Selfishness/Enablement axis, but I'll admit I'm not sure what I'd put there instead.
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Just introduced this classic talk to some of my #clojure devs, when introducing David Nolen and why his perspective is good to hear besides Rich Hickey. https://youtu.be/8o01g6C7jWg
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- Parienve@mas.to
- pronouns/pronomines
- 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
