Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
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Listening for the third time to the amazing speech of @aral at the EU Parliament, this time looking at a better video which contains also his slides:
https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/861c07f7-7e9b-4e64-9765-cf1de592c8a0
At minute 12:20 he rocks and says:
"You are acting as an unpaid Research and Development department for silicon valley. Because if a startup here succeeds, it gets bought by Google or Facebook. If it fails, we pick up the bill."
😍
Uhm... I guess I shouldn't mention Ursula Le Guin, then...
Shamar
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@Wolf480pl the unix philosophy is one tool to do one job extremely well. The average Linux distro uses systemd as its init system.
Systemd is the polar opposite of the unix philosophy.
Notable exceptions: Slackware and Gentoo. I'm sure other distros don't use systemd but this is outside the scope of my comment.
Systemd is the polar opposite of the unix philosophy.
Notable exceptions: Slackware and Gentoo. I'm sure other distros don't use systemd but this is outside the scope of my comment.
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What would it cost to store all 2018 phone calls in Norway? at http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_2018_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/knrbfndkn1 #freepost
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Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/11/24/usufruct-complementarity-irred.html
s/profit/private profit/g
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ssb has a lot of things right, i just can't stand their javascript/electron bullshit.
more than that, i can't stand compiling leveldown and libsodium 11 times every time there's an update.
more than that, i can't stand compiling leveldown and libsodium 11 times every time there's an update.
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Impressive talk by @aral at the EU.. My prefered quote: "You are acting like an unpaid researcher in a development department for Silicon Valley!
Because if a startup here succeed it gets bought by Google or Facebook. If it fails we pick up the bill. Why are you doing this?"
https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd
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List of open-source speech synthesizers (names of packages available in AUR):
- sam (the voice of Commodore 64)
- mimic
- espeak (most well-known)
- epos
- milena
- mbrola (sounds the most natural among these)
They produce various flavors of a robotic voices.
Mbrola and Espeak are easily used wit the Gespeaker front-end.
#SpeechSynthesizers #SpeechSynthesis #TexhToSpeech #TTS #FreeSoftware
Sorry @greatjoe, I supposed you were interested in the topic because of this https://todon.nl/@greatjoe/103175259285273049
Shamar
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@aral made such an important speech at the EU commission, packing a lot of stuff.
I cannot stop laughing at this reference, though. 🤣
filippodb ⁂ 
I told my eldest daughter (11yo) facing a new school and new teachers (including some crazy bad ones) that we will celebrate her first bad grade with a party.
(unfortunately she didn't appreciate it... but seriously... a party! I don't know what they teach to kids these days! 🤦♂️ )
You might do the same with your students if you got a bad evaluation.
Eating a piece of cake to celebrate "the weird teacher's first bad grade" might be an highly educational experience. 😉
I've just realized that #JavaScript shit-ness has been an important factor turning the #Web to a weapon.
#Developers dream of a better language instead of asking themselves "Why the hell should strangers accept to execute my code just to read a text?"
@zensaiyuki @tuxcrafting @kura
@vascorsd
@eater
@greatjoe
@kyrahabattoir
Shamar
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Yes, you are right: it seems contradictory.
And I think this fact is interesting by itself.
People look at their servers, their computers and smartphones, and they consider them as powerful tools.
Everybody can see they are a crazy mess - it's the curse of Frankenstein, you know - they pretend it's unavoidable, or that it's not that bad, or that it's a good trade off.
So what we perceive about #Informatics is basically dysfunctional, delusional.
We compare computers with abacus and say "Hey this is SO POWERFUL!"
But the fact is that current computing is severely limited by its accidental complexity.
We have built mountains of patches that always opened more issues than they worked around.
If I just wanted to build a simple system, I could go with #Oberon.
#9front is elegant and usable but it has been limited by the arrogance of #Pike that made #Plan9 not just simple and self contained, but _isolated_.
This means that you have to renounce to most graphical application for basically no reason.
With #Jehanne I want to build the simplest AND most powerful operating system that can be conceived.
And I want to prove that it's going to be hand down more powerful than, say #Chrome / #Linux or #Chrome / #Windows, not despite its #simplicity, but _because_ of it.
And to prove it beyond any doubt, I need to show people that they can do whatever they do with mainstream operating systems but ALSO many more things that they cannot do with them.
No: there is another #Plan9 fork that is going on such direction already, and I started #Jehanne because they considered me too heretic.
#Unix is a mess, broken beyond repair.
I'm looking for the minimal set of orthogonal axes that are required to describe (aka code) any useful computation.
And if you think about it, this means that #Jehanne needs to be able to run all that exists and enable to conceive completely new things too.
But don't worry, we don't have `sleep`, nor `mmap`, nor symbolic links and so on... I have no issue to break backward compatibility.
I guess you remember that I'm considering to forbid spaces in filenames! 😉
The innovation of Jehanne comes from it's #simplicity: few orthogonal axes that let you compose whatever you want.
Joined May 2019
