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@nytpu
Weird edge cases: both the Reciprocal Public License and the Sybase Open Watcom Public License do require the public release of modified code.

This kind of copyleft is so strong that it isn't Free Software anymore: Debian, Fedora, and the FSF have duly rejected both licenses. But for some reason they are accepted as Open Source by the OSI.
@alcinnz

@aryak
No, they have a *near* monopoly on x86-64 computers running the Linux kernel with a graphical desktop environment.
Alpine Linux does not use GNU, and Gentoo has a non-GNU option.

@toastal
Waterfox user here. Late last year, LibreWolf didn't have a native package for my distro. Looking again, it does now. Definitely giving it a try.

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RT @tottinge
"TDD is faster."
"Look, dummy, if I do TDD, I'll have to write twice as much code that's more coding, not less."
"Yes, and it's much faster."

geepawhill.org/2018/04/14/tdd-

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I want to show you that that Internet you used to go exploring is still very much there. There are still tons of small personal websites, and a wealth of long form text from both the past and the present.

So it's a search engine. It's perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there, instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn't even know you were looking for.

search.marginalia.nu/explore/r

@alexandra
Nobody decrypts the AES disk partitions!

Maybe something about hamsters and elderberries, or a hovercraft being full of eels, or cutting a tree down with a herring?

You could also try looking here to jog your memory: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

@knotteye
It's from the block list of mst**.***ial, which actually is kind of surprising.
@helene

@helene
Given recent events regarding the birdsite, I'm sure that this is both technically true, and very misleading.

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Where do you spend the most time in #mastodon?

I am in Local the most tbh

If you can boost it would be nice

#boostsappreciated #AskMastodon #AskFedi #AskFediverse

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A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.

[ #mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia #mastotip ]

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@worldsendless @turak
It's more like:

0. Install dependencies (Debian)
sudo apt install pass tomb pass-extension-tomb

1. pass-tomb: create and open the tomb (encrypted directory)
pass tomb -v $your_gpg_id

2. pass: initialize the store (directory) in the tomb
pass init $your_gpg_id

3. pass: initialize the repo in the store
pass git init

pass automatically makes commits to the repo, and you can perform arbitrary git commands in your store by prepending "pass". `man pass` explains in more detail.

Each file is typically either a single password, or a newline-separated set of account details for a single account.

pass does not require you to organize your store in any particular way, although tools like browser extensions may be more opinionated. One fairly common strategy is to have a subdirectory for each domain name, with each filename matching the account login name, and with the password as the first line of the file.

When you're done using the store, use `pass close` to tell pass-tomb to close the tomb. `pass open` does the reverse.

@turak
As long as the repo is treated as a secret, the passwordstore.org/ style of using git to track changes to passwords should be fine. An obvious way to protect the repo is to encrypt the directory, e.g. with pass-tomb.
@worldsendless

@maswan
The biggest difference is `word-lookup` uses definitions from Wiktionary, and it being a node package might make it easier to install on Windows. Self-hosting the freeDictionaryAPI server it uses is probably possible with some work.

`dictd`, the server for `dict`, is trivial to self-host, and it has more dictionaries, like GCIDE, WordNet, FOLDOC, and the Jargon File (I didn't see Wiktionary as an option, though).
@aral

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Seeing people with so much knowledge and culture, and cultivating themselves continuously really inspires me to strive to do better.

Almost all I know is about computers, and I spent those past 11 years of my life on computers, getting more and more technical knowledge about them. I've reached a point where I feel like I don't need to know more about them or about programming, and that my goals have been overreached by a fair margin.

I think my new goals are about cultivating myself, now. I want to know more, be more aware. I want to understand people, I want to know more about other topics, and in particular about cultures and societies. I want to learn languages so I can speak to more people, and so I can know people better and understand them better. I especially want to understand the way people think better, and how they got to thinking the way they do.

This is hard, as this is so different from what I've been doing for so long. But I want to work towards it, even if it's hard for someone who was so immersed in computers.

I have plenty of time for it. I find it amazing how some people manage to speak so many languages, and know about so many topics. I believe I've given enough time to learning about computers, and that it is time to look into other things.

You're all inspiring me to learn new things. I want to know more about everyone, and so, I will try to learn your languages so that I can understand you all and speak to you all as well. Thank you for inspiring me.
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#Pinephone and other ARM64 device owners who want to see #Signal support might be interested to jump in on helping with the testing of this fork:
github.com/dennisameling/Signa

UI improvements would also be needed to get signal working as a usable daily thing on Pinephone, for example, but this is huge progress if it gets merged back into upstream Signal or manages to keep parity.

I know Moxie and Signal are thoroughly disappointing in many respects, but the reality is that Signal's a 'killer app' for many, including myself, to build a middle-ground with normies and family. Having it work on devices like the Pinephone someday would be a huge win.

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I have zero desire to write software in Go, but I sure do love all these sweet statically linked binaries the Go people produce

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