Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

#Knowledge #BigTech #Suppression

The Knowledge Standards Foundation is trying to create a next-gen Wikipedia, that solves the following types of problems:
- Reduce corruptibility of the knowledge base
- Solve knowledge storage issues
- Avoid search engine suppression
- Break Big Tech's hold on access to knowledge

Following is a nugget of identifying some of the core issues. They have a Slack forum to try to resolve these issues before launching coding

I think the sexiest thing that the US healthcare system has done is that they've created such a complex web of contractors and subcontractors involved in denying you healthcare that no individual group is ever fully at fault for killing you, meaning that the guilt is evenly distributed over a sprawling network of bureaucrats who can all consider themselves effectively blameless.

@wgahnagl this is one of the main functions of bureaucracy.

If you think you know everything, you probably just don’t know how much you don’t know.

If you think you don’t know anything, you probably have just forgotten how much you know.

Don’t compare yourself to know-it-alls.

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Well, me and Microsoft won't be friends in my life anymore. I hate Azure Azure hates me and the support does not know its products, in the end you have to solve it yourself.

@malin much underrated game, seriously.

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.

@skells @mk @freemo and how many peopel have taken ivermectin/remdesivir/covid-19 vaccines?

"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

I think I met a real hacker today. He is a teenager, in someone's car, talking about Haskell and classical music.

@alcinnz @avalos “we won’t let anyone else have your data”

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

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?

Freely Available Programming Books

https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/

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.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/867315/rss
#linux #lwn