The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp 2020 continues with weekly weekend meet ups. Do you want a slice? email membership for one! @neauoire
I've noticed a recent linguistic shift in some young people, referring to websites as "apps". Reddit is an "app". The college website is an "app". "Which app did you see that on?"
I don't know if this is just shorthand (they likely access sites through an app) or a genuine misunderstanding of what's going on.
I don't want to be dramatic, but I'd lying if I said it didn't concern me a little. The WWW is a great resource which is free and interoperable. (Well we're down to just 2 browser engines now, but that's another matter). It'd be a shame if the WWW withered away, replaced by "apps", because people didn't know what they had.
"Damn kids. They're all alike."
"You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arrest-florida-teen-fbi-irs-secret-service
Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348130/apple-documents-steve-jobs-email-books-amazon-apps-antitrust-investigation-schiller
Hello fellow Europeans in the #Fediverse:
Do you know about any organisations promoting #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource, #OER to educational instiutions/public administrations?
Are you aware of any educational institutions already using FS?
Do you know about any other #education related activities in your country?
Asking for a friend @egnun
@fsfe
Please boost!
Episode 2: The impact of machines that "learn" and produce https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/2-machine-learning-impact.html
Discussion about recent developments in machine learning and the impact they could have on FOSS, programming in general, art production, and civic society
I am extraordinarily pleased to announce a new release of my refactoring source-to-source compiler for FORTRAN 77! So happy!
https://github.com/wimvanderbauwhede/RefactorF4Acc
#coding
#compiler
Brand new #SmartPhone models from my daughters' #hacklab. They built the safest system money can't buy, the only one a child should be allowed to use.
And note the App selection for their operating system: they didn't ask for any suggestions!
Did you know that #GDPR allows sites not to announce the use of "essential" cookies? Meaning those your site uses for itself, to keep the user logged in for example.
So when Internet commerce started to slap those stupid "we use cookies" banners on every site they used the more generic word "cookies" to avoid saying outright that their sites use *ad trackers*.
Long story short, if you don't sell your user data, you don't have to present stupid disclaimers.
Congratulations to @maxschrems and his team for another important victory at the European Court of Justice. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacy
"Excuse me, I am a time traveler but my machine malfunctioned, so I'm not sure when I am."
"It's 2020."
"Which year of 2020?"
"What do you mean?"
"Ah, so this must be the first year of 2020."
"Oh. Damn."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Ciao!
Con alcuni amici di #Mastodon stiamo progettando una #Associazione di promozione della cultura digitale, il software libero, il diritto all'opt-out dalla profilazione commerciale e per tante altre cose che ci migliorano la vita.
Se vuoi contribuire, puoi rispondere a questo toot oppure vedere direttamente il documento di progettazione, che sta qui: