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I always think that if you're making a new theory and it's *more* complex than the old theories it's trying to replace, you probably did something very wrong.

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The comments on this answer are very interesting and explain some physical advantages of the unix pipes-and-filters strategy with many small programs.

Sure, it's great for composability and unanticipated code reuse, but it also helped with use of physical RAM!

unix.stackexchange.com/a/45088…
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HTML is powerful. You often don’t need JavaScript #SymfonyTurbo
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RT @everestpipkin
how did i not know about the html <details> tag?? oh my god??? brb gotta rewrite my website to remove the last remaining javascript
twitter.com/everestpipkin/stat

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I really should get back into drawing. I enjoy it far more than programming, but it doesn't pay the bills. I actually learned to draw long before I got into computer science or anything related to technology. I did this drawing of Richard Stallman 2 years ago.

Trouble is, I only get the inspiration to do art once every blue moon. It's really hard to get motivated. My time is otherwise consumed writing code and wielding a soldering iron.

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Il populismo non è lotta popolare, è aizzare masse sfruttate verso guerre e sfascismi per arricchire duci che regnano sulle macerie.

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I wonder whether one could abstract the MVC model into something like "data and control streams" and get from there to something like the Unix pipe model but for arbitrary networks of runtime-composable components.

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Though Google insists that this was just an industry practice, the leaked document reveals that Google kept this a secret from publishers. Its internal presentations claim that they made $230m in 2013 alone from this practice.

wsj.com/articles/googles-secre

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stallmansupport.org/

Something very wonderful, written in HTML by a very wonderful person, is now live. I didn't make this site, but it's an entire site defending RMS.

The cancellers are officially on notice.

#SupportRMS #DefendRMS #RMS #richardstallman

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I'd like to share a comment by @BR 549 ☎ with you:

the gnu C compiler was an amazing achievement. many of us have taken a compiler design class, in which we write some little routines that push a few symbols around.

rms' first achievement is writing this compiler, the derivatives and descendants of which are everywhere. but what made it so successful was rms defending its freedom. if anyone else had created it, the compiler could easily have been swept up into some proprietary project, buried under licenses and nda's and forgotten.

essentially every line of code I have written since college has been part of some corporate project. and those projects are now obsolete, abandoned, and gone. one little hardware tweak i suggested was patented, back in the '80s, and may be now a tiny unrecongnizable part of some chip design library. any software i wrote does not exist.

there is no doubt that this controversy involving rms was entirely the creation of the enemies of free software, and had nothing to do with any requirement for the fsf to have neurotypical board members.

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#gnu #c #compiler #rms #software #proprietary-software #proprietary_software #free-software #free_software #floss #libresoftware #libre_software #story #effort #value

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I Giuristi Democratici esprimono sconcerto e indignazione in merito alla vicenda delle intercettazioni indebitamente disposte a carico di attivisti, giornalisti e avvocati (tra cui Arturo Salerni, da sempre difensore dei diritti umani, cui va tutta la nostra solidarietà) nell’ambito dell’inchiesta sul presunto favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione clandestina da parte di alcune Ong, condotta dalla Procura di Trapani.
Tali intercettazioni —come emerge non solo dalla ricostruzione operata dagli organi di informazione, ma altresì dagli atti depositati all’esito delle indagini— risulterebbero effettuate in violazione delle norme procedurali e sostanziali che le disciplinano, e comproverebbero l’ingiustificata lesione di diritti costituzionalmente garantiti. #diritto #giustizia

https://giuristidemocratici.it/Comunicati/post/20210410175240
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Roman Anin's apartment being raided by the #FSB today is most probably in connection with this story (from 2016):
occrp.org/en/investigations/55

The least we can do now is read and spread it. Clearly there is a reason why Russian authorities would like to stifle this kind of reporting.

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#NoGoogle is a #publicdomain #Google domain #blocklist.

No Google is a collection of lists containing domains owned and operated by Google. No Google can be used in domain blocking systems like #PiHole to prevent unwanted Google services from being interacted with.

Website 🔗️: github.com/nickspaargaren/no-g

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #security #surveillance

"If it cannot be read and completely understood in a month, it's broken beyond repair."

My new mantra in development.

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Chi vuole legittimare il proprio cattivismo delegittimando chi pratica il soccorso umanitario può passare la vita tra calunnie, insulti, menzogne e complotti, ma sappia che tutte le predicazioni d'odio del mondo valgono meno di una vita salvata e di un migrante portato a riva.

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Gli scafisti esistono perchè manca un #Safepassage legale, nei lager libici donne e bambini in condizioni disumane vengono sistematicamente abusati, sfruttati e uccisi. Lo certifica l'Unicef, ma si preferisce guardare altrove. ift.tt/2lmf6ia

Uhm... maybe @entreprecariat might contribute to this conversation too.

(but feel free to ignore all of this if you feel so inclined... I'm very curious about your perspectives, but I do not want to annoy you...)

@shusha @Vectorfield

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Hi @shusha, just read your introduction and found it very interesting.

Let me present myself: I'm can be described in several ways, but for sure I'm father of three wonderful daughters I love most and I'm a hacker.

You can read something about me on my website tesio.it and on my operating system jehanne.io

Why I annoy you, you ask?

In your introduction you mention topics I care a lot: programming as expression (see tesio.it/2019/06/03/what-is-in ), epistemology, data (you find a lot in my site), politics ( see tesio.it/2020/09/03/not_all_ha ) and so on...

I would like to know your take about this: qoto.org/@Vectorfield/10602814

Not much about the attacks against RMS and FSF (unless you want to talk about that too, obviously), but about the epistemic approach that @Vectorfield described and that, as far as I can say, describe quite well the activists I've talked with.

To be fair, they argue that "manifacturing" truths is what the hegemonic class ("the whites", "the males", "the straights"... curiously, never "the rich") do all the time with marketing and all other forms of propaganda, so they perceive themselves as fighting back on the same ground.

They argue that people won't try to understand long explanations or deep and complex models of reality anyway, so trying to argue with facts won't change things for the better.

Yet models that misdescribe reality on purpose, an epistemology not based on the search for truth but in the search for changes, is doomed to be abused by the oppressors who have better means and more resources to meld the public opinion (and even turn it to a weapon to enforce their own interests, as RMS story shows)

Anyway, sorry for this wall of text linking several other wall of texts.

If you'd like to talk about this, I'd like to access your perspective (dialogue is always a way to access and understand perspectives that are preclused to us by our limits).

Otherwise... just let me say nice to meet you! 😉

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Cambridge Analytica didn't *abuse* Facebook, they *used* Facebook - used the services that FB had set up and marketed to political dirty tricksters to disseminate disinformation. That was the system working as intended.

FB used the we-fight-arson wheeze to come out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal stronger and more powerful than ever: they shut down the APIs that potential future Facebook competitors used to help people escape its walled garden, claiming it was an act of firefighting.

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