Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Do others feel that the *vast* majority of the exciting open source work these days happens outside the U.S.? (In a larger proportion than you'd expect based on where commercial software is written, I mean).

At first, I thought it was just that #rust had a non-US tilt due to Mozilla's involvement.

But the more I look around, the more it seems like (almost) all the exciting Foss projects are in Europe – with the notable exception of https://sr.ht/ and a few others.

Agree? Disagree?

@ljwrites

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.

For those contemplating the Librem 5 #smartphone by @purism, hold your breath competition is about to start. See http://volla.online

>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.

#GAFAM

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/

Yuval:
"I would say that the test of reality ... Reality is still there. Behind all the codes and all the stories, reality is still there. I would define reality by suffering. If you want to know whether something is real or not, whether the hero of your story ...

You believe in the nation or in some god or in a corporation or whatever. You want to know if it’s real, ask whether it can suffer. A nation cannot suffer. Money can’t suffer. When the dollar loses its value, it doesn’t suffer. Computers, too. Code, as far as we know, doesn’t suffer.

Whatever story we create in the 21st century in order to deal with the new challenges, we should constantly ask ourselves this question. Who actually suffers? Remember that everything we do is in order to alleviate that suffering. Then we are on safe ground."

Audrey:
"If we keep coding to empower people who are closest to the pain, who are indeed suffering, then I would argue that they then become hackers in the civic hacking sense, that they cannot be restrained by their biology, because it’s Pride Month after all, or restrained [laughs] by their social standing or even other old stories that people merely repeat but do not co-create.

Then being liberated from those old stories, they become story weavers that can then determine a better destiny for everyone in the sapient-kind, if that’s a word. If we concentrate power to the people who are feeling the least suffering, people who already enjoy too much hedonistic lifestyles, then we are in real danger.

Even though hedonism is not zero sum, it tends to self-reinforce itself into a self-trapping cycle. I would also say that to hack or to be hacked is not a question that is a individual level.

Rather, it’s on a society level, and we can keep looking at, just like Gini index, we can look at the code weaver, story weaver’s index of how much individuals who are closest to the pain and suffering can co-create the norm and the code that we’re living by."

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/

#haskell

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/

#haskell

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

#fediverso #dweb #webdecentralizzato

@quinta @alciregi @prolocwt @naciketas @nilocram @maupao

Olimex is a manufacturer of open source hardware and components, follow their new account here:

@olimex

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/

#Olimex #OSHW #OpenSourceHardware #FreedomBox #SelfHosting

Removing Google Pin and Pocket from Firefox

https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/2ff2facd-393d-4b61-8dd6-48b75e8edb5a

@Shamar @alice Here's my "Everything is a function" article:

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/everything-is-a-function/
#haskell

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

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/?

Buying ads to advise viewers to install a damn adblocker

@sir even Flash was better.

@grainloom @z428 @hansup @jamesmullarkey @bamfic @daniels @freedcreative

Here's the links:

https://rhapsode.adrian.geek.nz/
https://rhapsode.adrian.geek.nz/tv

P.S. Rhapsode does, and Haphaestus will, support Gemini. Work's ongoing for Gopher support.