Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
I have been a very active member of the #Italian #PirateParty.
I can say that not even one single time moderators behaved like that.
On the contrary, the used their role to impose their own personal opinions, even banning people who disagreed.
I for one was banned for 2 weeks for arguing that the #PPIT shouldn't use #YouTube or #Facebook except to drag people outside, since (back then) the party bragged about #privacy. "You don't have the moral flexibility to be a politician" they said back then.
The people who wrote the text you've found are gone long ago.
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For those contemplating the Librem 5 #smartphone by @purism, hold your breath competition is about to start. See http://volla.online
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>americans posting "all countries matter" as a counter to 4th of july
imagine being so immersed in your burger-centric worldview that you don't think every country has holidays to celebrate their history and identity. all counties matter but we don't need western piggu to validate it, that's the point of having things like this.
imagine being so immersed in your burger-centric worldview that you don't think every country has holidays to celebrate their history and identity. all counties matter but we don't need western piggu to validate it, that's the point of having things like this.
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Facebook: "oops I did it again !"
Facebook admits to improperly giving user data to third-party developers, again
https://mashable.com/article/facebook-gave-users-data-5000-third-party-developers.amp/
Hi @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology I've read aboit #FDroidServer and it looks quite easy to setup, but I wonder: what's the bare minimum for serving a repository to #FDroid?
I mean: most of fdroid server cope with apk building, but we could build them on a machine and serve them from a less powerful one..
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In a pure functional language, all constructs can be expressed as anonymous functions ("lambda functions"). I wrote an article "Everything is a function" that explains how this works.
https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/everything-is-a-function/
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Devol ⁂ :devol:
E' stato pubblicato il rapporto sullo stato del Web Decentralizzato dopo una serie di interviste a ben oltre 650 sviluppatori del "DWeb"
Si parla di valori, sfide tecnologiche e protocolli futuri. Sembra che questo sia il primo rapporto sull'ecosistema del Web Decentralizzato in assoluto.
Speriamo che troverete il rapporto così esaustivo e perspicace come ci è parso a noi:
https://medium.com/fluence-network/decentralized-web-developer-report-2020-5b41a8d86789
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Olimex is a manufacturer of open source hardware and components, follow their new account here:
Their website is at https://www.olimex.com
Amongst other projects, they make the Pioneer FreedomBox home server running software by @freedomboxfndn : https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/open-source-hardware
They also make an interesting DIY laptop: https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/
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Removing Google Pin and Pocket from Firefox
https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/2ff2facd-393d-4b61-8dd6-48b75e8edb5a
While this is the smartest objection to my usual comparison of free software and free speech, I think you are missing an important detail.
#FreeSoftware is a work-aroud to defeat unjust #Copyright laws.
If I take #Microsoft #Windows code (or executables, it doesn't change much), modify it and publicily share the result under any form, I'm going to be criminalised and actually indicted for copyright infridgement.
Now for a #hacker, programming is a form of expression just like writing is for everybody else.
International copyright laws and agreements is basically statal censorship for economical (thus ideological and political) gain.
Now, one might argue that #hackers are a tiny minority that do not deserve such right to expression and it have to sacrify it for the other mainstream programmers.
And it's surely true that the #OpenSource people did their best to take Free Software from hackers to turn it into an exploitative, ethically washed, #marketing tool.
And I agree that, because of that, we are reaching the limits of what a #copyleft licence, however strong, can protect.
For example, thanks to the progress of #hardware, we can all see that all free software copyleft forgot the right (duty?) to #SelfHosting.
But free software still stands as a tool to create a protected zone of free programming expression in a hostil environment ruled by (corporate friendly) copyright law.
Since copyright infrigement can lead hackers to statal jail, free software IS free speech.
@wim_v12e@octodon.social
Well... actually lambda calculus AND bb encoding. But I'm quite familiar with lambda calculus and I see that BB encoding can enhance what you can do with it.
@wim_v12e@octodon.social
I'd like to read such blog.
I like the idea a lot in particular because it does NOT play well with typeclasses.
BTW, you should also add an example of interpretation.
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Proprio no.
È il momento di passare ad https://e.foundation
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RT @apple
È il momento di passare ad iPhone.
https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1263011988453588992
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The Internet: To me it's the embodiment of "with great power comes great responsibility". So at it's most basic, how does it work? And how is it implemented in Linux?
Linux exposes this to userspace as (what ammounts to) a File subclass called "sockets", including userspace-callable initializers to open new ones.
Most of this is implemented within Linux, with only encryption (until, worryingly, recently) and the application-level in userspace.
1/?
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Buying ads to advise viewers to install a damn adblocker
Crazy web service idea of the week.
GET /$HASH_OF_URL
return the hashes of the contents followed by first recorded timestamp. One per line.
POST /add?$URL
queue the hashing of URL's content (it will be executed sometime in the future)
Actually a clear separation between encryption&signing on one side and identity management in the other would allow to separate packaging, deployment and upgrade.
For example you could install the browser-only system on a server that do not provide any serverside scripting.
This would reduce the attack surface both for the server and for the visitor.
It's not safe(TM) anyway, but it could be useful in some self-hosted system.
Joined May 2019
