Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Essential C: a 45 page summary of the C language. Explains all the common features and techniques for the C language http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/

When trolling your colleagues and boss via an anonymous Twitter account, don’t make this mistake…

https://grahamcluley.com/twitter-troll-bbc/

@cjd no worries, we can get it fixed with JS.

Oh... wait.

I would submit that religion is not incompatible with science.

But science IS incompatible with the peculiar American version of Christianity As Capitalism, the prosperity gospel, televangelists, and Christian Sharia Law.

https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/study-suggests-religious-belief-does-not-conflict-with-interest-in-science-except-among-americans-57855

@freemo Did they ban twitter clients for hate speech? Because there's a lot…

It's not the clients/dev job to block stupid fucks' instances. It's the admin job. By the way, it's not even effective, it's either a FLOSS client and you can remove the block or a proprietary client and you trust it, and it's an open door for shitload of abuses (No way to make sure it won't block other instances on whatever arbitrary criteria they choose, for political reasons, money, or something else… ).

@khird

@replikvlt @freemo @khird @madargon
or better yet, flag them as inappropriate https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2853570?visit_id=637342159017630272-4268623001&p=report_content&rd=1

Thanks to this post QOTO is currently being linked from HackerNews in the #1 spot. Our instance is getting a lot of exposure as is this very important issue.
QT: [https://qoto.org/@freemo/104768328945937352]

@lanodan @sir @naruciakk @lord

Maybe the authors just appreciate that changes in protocol should be given some time?

I despise the move-fast-and-break-things mentality. Changing quickly isn't a sign of being alive, it's a sign of bad project management.

Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

PGP-signed toots when?
We can sign our GIT-commits with PGP but not our toot?

YunoHost is a version of Linux designed to make it as easy as possible to run your own server, either at home or remotely.

You can follow the project here (in English and French):

➡️ @yunohost

They also have a PeerTube channel (mostly in French):

➡️ @yunohost

You can download Yunohost from the official site at https://yunohost.org

It runs on new PCs, old PCs and Raspberry Pis.

#YunoHost #Linux #SelfHosting #SelfHost #Hosting #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #RaspberryPi #HomeServer #HomeServers

Intervento di @mattruffoni@twitter.com per illustrare il concorso fotografico #wlm #wikilovesmonument dal 1 al 30 settembre le foto di monumenti e città italiane https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/tredici-tredici/2020/08/tredici-e-tredici-prima-parte-25-08-2020.html @WikimediaItalia@twitter.com

I wrote a first draft of a rationale doc for the #fennel programming language

https://p.hagelb.org/rationale.md.html

@Shamar @haitch @ekaitz_zarraga @alcinnz @abbienormal @alexbuzzbee I like this sentiment. You make it sound like this is a question of literacy. That we need to make it easier to both read and write (as well as cite and annotate) might be a good way to explain the problem in more social terms. It also can lead people to see that, even if it is sometimes hard work, computing can be a _pleasure_ just like good literature.

"These events mark the beginning of a new era: a “modern” web, the web that we are still in today. A web where the role of the user is not to build the web, but to generate content and data. A web where the gap in between users and developers is unbridgeable."

Let's see if I can fix this!

https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/6694

@ekaitz_zarraga But that wasn't all.

The worst problem we have right now is the WWW, which has become a delivery mechanism for "applications" (Surprise!) that can't be inspected. (Again, surprise!)

We followed the rules, so they took over the W3C and we kept supporting those corporate standards as FOSS.

They have fooled us twice. Will they fool us for the third time around again?

@alcinnz @abbienormal @alexbuzzbee

@ekaitz_zarraga I'm not passing blame, and it's easier to offer some hindsight in year 2020 than it was in 1985, but UNIX, GNU, and the FOSS community that ensued, unwittingly, and in most cases unintentionally helped to create the conditions necessary for this situation, which capitalist corporations gladly subverted to their own advantage.
Namely "Open Source", which is so bad even Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle love it.

@alcinnz @abbienormal @alexbuzzbee