Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

SecuROM DRM expiration makes games unplayable 9 years after release at https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/4476-tron-evolution-securom-drm-expiration-makes-game-unplayable-9-years-after-release - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/ihpxty3695 #freepost

Unreal. People in the federated timeline are debating whether or not to vote because “voting supports capitalism”. I do understand that there are a lot of anarchists on the fediverse, but not representing your own interests in the legal construct that you have to live under is, well, crazy. Otherwise, you end up looking like a “sovereign citizen” (for entertainment, look that up on YouTube) and no one takes you seriously.

Become informed and vote. Encourage others to do the same.

@Shamar @mxmehl that's why Stallman always wants you to pay cash

"Basic Category Theory" by Tom Leinster is the best intro to Category Theory, IMO. On top of that, you can get it for free legally on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09375

@Shamar You can opt out from data analytics (e.g. your payment behaviour, transactions etc) of credit card providers. It should work for all EU because of the #GDPR, not sure about other countries...

Better intuition for information theory at https://www.blackhc.net/blog/2019/better-intuition-for-information-theory/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/uq4pn0lfno #freepost

our network traffic is also encrypted with the highest standards!
randomTemp16919651761612547986.…

Security in Plan 9 (2002) at https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2013/readings/plan9auth.pdf - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/bl5u0orn5j #freepost

A little diagram ive been tinkering with to show the relationship between the different types of Real Numbers.

#math #maths #mathematics #numbers

We promised to publish the hardware schematics when the #Librem5 shipped and we delivered: Hardware Schematics and X-ray Scans for Librem 5 Birch https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/ #OpenHardware #Linux

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."

😍

@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.

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

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.

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

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

@aral made such an important speech at the EU commission, packing a lot of stuff.

I cannot stop laughing at this reference, though. 🤣