Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
The endianness and the sign bit are implementation details: the point of my insight (which could be wrong, btw) is that the working of fixed width integer types is that of a ring of bit sequences of such widyh, not that of N or Z (that's what people would expect from something called "integer").
What do you mean by "is not allowed to overflow"? Afaik (~0LL)+1 actually overflows...
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Today's hard work:
Why is Rhapsode an Auditory web browser? https://rhapsode.adrian.geek.nz/2020/10/31/why-auditory.html
It's accessable!
It's cool!
It's different!
It works!
It's simple!
It's efficient!
Please tell me what you think?
@amirouche@floss.social
The link to arew seems broken https://git.sr.ht/~amz3/guile-arew
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I wanted to share my favorite circuit simulator to the electronics group. It isnt the most advanced and it wont replace professional tools. But its great at modeling semi-ideal components with an epic way of visualizing current and voltage that just makes it an amazing tool at getting a feeling for how circuits actually work.
Everyone should check it out and play with it, you wont regret it.
Unpopular opinion: i64, int64_t, Int64 and similar types should be named according to their actual meaning, Ring64.
Even better, all programming languages should have a Ring[N] type that provides unit, zero addition and multiplication over a domain of N-bit strings, with the compiler applying proper optimizations when available (and requested).
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The total screening of all private online communications via GMail, Facebook Messenger etc. in the absence of any suspicion must come to an end! I have filed a #GDPR complaint with the data protection authority: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/?p=593426&lang=en #SaveYourInternet
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ProgramKitsForEveryone, takes inspiration from the DIY tutorials of 80's home computers. Created by Stefan Nikolaj, This #GNOMEChallenge project will supply "program kits" containing all the tools needed to create a small or medium-sized #opensource project. Each kit will include documentation containing examples of the finished program in action, an explanation of how the systems of the program interact, and what needs to be done to make it work.
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Greenwald: My Resignation From The Intercept
"The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles."
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
"our culture is demanding more and more submission to prevailing orthodoxies imposed by self-anointed monopolists of Truth and Righteousness, backed up by armies of online enforcement mobs"
Guidelines 4/2019 on Article 25 Data Protection by Design and by Default
A fundamental read for #privacy advocates in #Europe (and elsewhere).
It provides a short in depth explaination of practical aspect of the legal responsibility of data controllers under #GDPR.
For example it clarify that data protection measures (both tecnical and operational) must be designed to be EFFECTIVE and to be effective BY DEFAULT.
It also specifies that the cost of data-protection measures cannot be used to justify their lack of effectiveness, but only to peek the cheapest one among the effective ones.
And, obviously, the data controller is always accountable for such effectiveness.
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I've just been reminded: I often forgot the constraints most people feel (and work around) with existing web hosting services! By which I include Medium and YouTube.
Running my own homeserver really illustrates to me how trivial all these webservices really are. They're very much pretty facades upon almost nothing!
Silicon Valley has done nothing to deserve your worship.
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Zoom is deleting events that criticize Zoom censorship... 🤨
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/zoom-deleted-events-censorship
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To clone the DMCA censored "youtube-dl" from the DMCA repo:
git clone -n https://github.com/github/dmca.git youtube-dl && cd youtube-dl && git fetch origin 416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
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The RIAA issued GitHub a takedown notice for "youtube-dl" via their DMCA repo, which of course GitHub instantly complied with without protest.
Now a security bug GitHub refused to fix has been used to push the DMCA censored code into the DMCA repo itself.
Let the recursive censorship games begin!
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
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Remember kids:
"[Microsoft] GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service
Also, can we make a point of always calling it Microsoft #GitHub from now on please? Thanks.
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SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Fall 2020 (Oct - Dec) continues on! We've got a couple of open slots if you want to still join in on the fun as we get up to date with 9Front! E-Mail membership to get yours. Plan9 wants a community!
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People, everyone needs to read the whole parent thread. This is important.
Copyright is encroaching on everything from right-to-repair do the right to communicate freely; #youtubedl situation is just the latest of a long string of abuses.
We need to reform copyright.
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They: "Imperative programming let's me know exactly in which order things get executed!"
Modern CPUs:
Joined May 2019
