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People sharing first moment averages to make a point when it comes to climate change is one of the reason I'm so skeptic they don't actually know what they are talking about.
@BarrenPlanet@c.im ah OK, you were talking about that area specifically
This diaspora from Twitter brought a lot of people that are using Mastodon like any other product/service they are used to and they are not experiencing the culture of the Fediverse because they interact with each others.
I mean, it's one thing to use Mastodon, Apple and Adobe products, Discord, Substack the latest shiny JS frameworks and so on and instead using Mastodon (or Pleroma etc), a Linux desktop, an old Android phone, Bash, PHP, Python, Ruby and a blog on your own domain.
Do you get what I mean?
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Mmmh why "caused by *rising* sea levels"? Erosion happens independently from sea level rising or not
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Where I live, not only has the sea level not risen in the last 30 years, but new beaches have formed.
This is one of the reasons people are skeptical: personal experience does not match.
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#InfoSec FYI: There's a massive #typosquatting campaign targeting PyPI. Someone's clearly reached the automation section of "Black Hat Python" 🙄
This is the same actor as highlighted by Phylum yesterday - currently they're pushing a cryptostealer everywhere they can, but who knows what's next.
Recently, they've started typosquatting the following packages (& showing example typosquat):
* xlsxwriter (ex. xlsxwwriter)
* urllib3 (rllib3)
* simplejson (simplejsn)
* requests-toolbelt (requests-toollbelt)
* discord-webhook (disocrd-webhook)
* discord-py (discod-py)
* websocket-client (weebsocket-client)
* openpyxl (oepnpyxl)
* pillow (pilloow)
* click (clickk)
* pysocks (ysocks)
* psutil (psuil)
* gitpython (gitpythn)
* pycodestyle (pycodestye)
* prompt-toolkit (prompt-toolkiit)
* beautifulsoup (baeutifulsoup)
Reports headed out to PyPI soon.
If your company uses your own PyPI mirror, I'd recommend disallowing new packages released within the past ~week (as a general precaution, tbh).
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While refactoring my personal #KnowledgeGraph I asked #ChatGPT what's the relation between #ObjectOrientedProgramming and #FunctionalProgramming.
I was expecting something in the line of opposition and alternative. But it replied "complementary".
Clever!
WTH?!
That's your opinion, she has been very clear that she has nothing against people with this or that condition.
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Cactus Comments - Federated Web Comments
Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the web, based on the Matrix protocol.
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It’s just absolutely wrong. Households are struggling to pay to heat their homes and yet the fossil fuel companies are reporting record profits. I don’t know how the people that work for these companies can sleep at night, disgusting.
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The great big Matrix 2.0 main-stage talk from #FOSDEM2023 is now available online! Come see how we're making Matrix go voom 🏎️ with the world first demo of iOS Element X beta; the Waterfall SFU for Element Call; P2P Matrix & scriptable Third Room in WebXR! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5IE
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I am glad that some of the finer points of protective reciprocal licensing (aka "#copyleft") are still recognized and discussed, even outside the software context.
IMO, the main goal of copyleft is to ensure that the same freedoms given to you are passed on to others, with no additional restrictions.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #DnD #OGL
https://twitter.com/rsdancey/status/1622488085719285764
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You say oligarchy, I say plutocracy?
US and the world being buggered by the 1 percent fits.
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The richest 1% took home nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
> The Obsidian devs are aware of all of your points in favor of a copyleft license, but that hasn’t convinced them to make the choice you’d prefer.
> That’s up to them, just as it’s up to you whether or not to use their software.
Then they shouldn't claim their decisions are in the best interest of users, like their new CEO just did, while Logseq's not despite it being FOSS.
Logseq can even accept investments by third parties, because the users rights are secured by a FOSS license.
> There are a lot of reasons an indie dev wouldn’t want to go open source, too. Maybe they don’t want someone to use their own app to compete against them by forking the code they spent thousands of hours developing.
This is exactly why I'm arguing in favor of Copyleft licenses like GPL all the time: they are the original Free Software ones that are meant to protect developers from others taking advantage of their work without contributing back.
The permissive licenses came later together with an effort by corporations to rebrand Free Software as "Open Source" and enable their predatory practices.
Maybe it's not me that needs to "accept" things but people that needs more informations?
If the project is still valid with a community of users some development can be supported and even if you are alone without programming skills you can still pay a developer to fix bugs or implement features that are important to you.
I remember Kdenlive video editor was almost dead for years, then suddenly someone started to contribute again, it grew a lot and now it's one of the best FOSS video editors.
About Obsidian's Markdown, yeah you can stick to standard syntax but it seems to me Obsidian enthusiasts are too much confident that "it's just plain text" but then they found out themselves tied to 20+ plugins for their UI/UX, not because of how data is stored.
Same it's true with Logseq that introduces its own special syntax, but at least it's FOSS.
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