josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
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@drjwdietrich Have you tried Common Lisp? Not suggesting it would be better, just curious.
Literally the argument #slackware users have been making for decades now: nothing moves in your system without your explicit knowledge and consent, and every configuration is stored in easily editable text files. We detest opacity.
In a way, Arch is easier than Debian. Sure, with Arch you have to do everything yourself. But that means you're the only one messing with it. You ...
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Good news everyone! The surgery was successful and I'll be working on my open source project soon!
Anyway it is always better to work as a group. And I'm always welcome persons willing to help with any project at https://github.com/40ants
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Anybody up for playtesting an Interactive Fiction Competition entry? I realise it's getting close to the deadline, but it's not a long game and it would be great to have just one more person take a look at it!
#IFComp #IFComp2024 #InteractiveFiction #gamedev
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6.1 has been released.
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🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
We are seeking to hire 3 experienced investigative reporters for our expanding DC Bureau to cover politics, power and the inner workings of the federal government.
Details, including salary range, here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4388903006
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Guy Debord: "The first stage of the economy's domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having––human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but what one possessed.
The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds."
The spectacle was born from the world's loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss."
Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (PM Press Edition) is available now! https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1655
@jgg Wouldn't be the first company whose main, or even only, purpose would be to sow chaos. Twitter itself has never been profitable, to the best of my knowledge. Has Uber ever made a profit after all these years? Maybe we should ask ourselves why such companies exist and who benefits from their existence.
@eSheep That was the literal opposite of my own reaction. I thought they had balanced recent and old Zelda games wonderfully. I may be wrong, though, because I can see how a lot of puzzles could be solved by using the same object/principle time and time again (i.e., a bed, or a pile of beds, to climb over obstacles).
@bonifartius Rich people were aways conservative when it came to the economy and workers' rights. This made it easy to point at them and say: “That's who we're fighting against.” But the modern trick has been to change the definition of conservatism, from a purely economical point of view, to a moral one. And that's how we have gay-supporting right wingers, or, put more simply, “rich liberals”.
This change allows them to say: “We are the good guys. It's the workers, whose education we neglected and who consume our controlled media (which tell them that fighting for their rights is communism), who are racist and homophobic and nazi.”
It's not that progressives have gone the full authoritarian arc. It's just that the same people we used to treat with scorn years ago are seen with admiration today because they love trans people (even though they don't know a single trans person), but they're as authoritarian now as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. They just tricked you into thinking they're ‘progressive.’ They're not. They're elitists.
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is there a self-hosted movie watchlist?
I'd like to take all the recommendations for #kaiaskinoklub you give me and put them into one list that I can manipulate (move movies up and down the list like a stack), add new items, and mark ones as watched?
I'd like to take all the recommendations for #kaiaskinoklub you give me and put them into one list that I can manipulate (move movies up and down the list like a stack), add new items, and mark ones as watched?
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Would you get into self-hosting if I managed your server for you?
I am willing to offer fully managed FreedomBox servers if there is enough interest. I want commitment from at least 10 people to kick-start the service.
Here is my pitch:
https://njoseph.me/managed-freedombox.html
If you are interested in this, please DM me your email address. I will send an update once I am ready.
Please note that this service is an idea right now. I can set it up in a few days.
Please boost!
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Muere a los 93 años la escritora Edna O'Brien, censurada y tildada de pornógrafa en Irlanda
> La autora de novelas como 'Las chicas de campo' reivindicaba la independencia de las mujeres en un ambiente tan hostil y ultracatólico como la Irlanda de los años sesenta
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#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura #escritoras
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1. OTD 8 years ago, #WikiLeaks revealed the internal emails of the US Democrats' governing body: #DNC. They allowed revealing how the #DNC rather than remaing neutral in the primaries,as it was supposed to be,boycotted the left-wing candidate #Sanders and favored #HillaryClinton
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Here's an academic survey on sustainability of music technology, being conducted by a Master's student who consulted me while planning the project. (To be clear: not my formal advisee, I'm not actually a real academic anymore, but one never completely escapes.) If you're a user of synthesizers etc. - and I know there are a number of such in this place, as well as "sustainability" fans - it'd be nice if you could fill it out and circulate it. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YG33FX2
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Political freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6 has been released.
@lienrag That was the first thing that came to my mind, too!
While this is obviously an exaggeration, it is not too far from my own experience. I have two monitors at work, of which I use only one (the other is for pasting post-its). When someone asks me why I don't use both, my response is always the same: “I can resize and minimise windows just fine. And if I ever need to see two things at once, I have tmux for that.” I would like to have a bigger monitor, though, because old age takes its toll on one's sight.
These days, being a good software engineer means how many monitors do you have. If you don't have a mechanical keyboard, forget about being an engi...
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Joined Sep 2020
