R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

How markets coopted free software’s most powerful weapon (LibrePlanet ‘18 Keynote) — Benj. Mako Hill

https://yewtu.be/vBknF2yUZZ8

Talk is by @mako

Compared to 2018 we now have at least a little bit more software freedom for phones (for people that are willing to put the effort in to run with these options with practical downsides such as possibly not being able to run banking apps or not being able to use all the capabilities of the phone). We have options like: @replicant @mobian @Postmarketos @GrapheneOS @PINE64 Pinephone

Also any governing body that actually cares about humans should take a look at this campaign:

https://publiccode.eu/ Public Money? #PublicCode https://mastodon.social/@fsfe

Been on nixos for a few weeks now, and have about 6 computers migrated to it all running off a single universal configuration...

I have to say, this is the most impressed I have ever been by a distro, this is a game changer!

#linux #nixos

Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/

Itching to try the newly recovered MDL compiler, but uncertain where to start? Fear not, here's an easy to follow guide.
https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/doc/muddle.md

💬🆓 "Today, the free software message is maybe more important than ever" - the executive director of @fsf, Zoë Kooyman, is the second conversation of the #OKFN100 project.

Check it out: https://blog.okfn.org/2023/02/27/zoe-kooyman-today-the-free-software-message-is-maybe-more-important-than-ever/

We’re hiring for a bunch of new roles! If you’re a developer, designer, or Zotero Expert, see if there’s a role that’s right for you: https://www.zotero.org/jobs

So, I mentioned before how much I wish a foss widget maker for #Android was made, kinda like #conky or #rainmeter, and from there I went on a bit of a #ramble about widgets in FOSS apps in general, this and much more in today's #blogpost.

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-want-more-foss-android-widgets/

Day 40 of #100DaysToOffload

#blogging #blog

Pandoc can read URLs. E.g., to create a PDF of the above article, run
pandoc -o out.pdf -f html http://chulsky.com/pandoc/

WebSocket Weasel is a very useful tool for testing, umm, WebSockets!

Source code: https://github.com/mhgolkar/Weasel

Firefox/LibreWolf extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/websocket-weasel/

#webSocket #wss #inspector #debugging #testing #web #dev #tool

"Study: Over 50% of academics admit to pirating research papers

A majority of the survey respondents say they used websites like Sci-Hub to avoid paywalls by accessing illegal copies of research. "

wow. sound like a healthy ecosystem?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90845744/study-over-50-of-academics-admit-to-pirating-research-papers

https://www.infodocket.com/2023/02/07/fast-company-study-over-50-of-academics-admit-to-pirating-research-papers/

@manniac So the way gossip protocols like scuttlebutt, nostr, earthstar, p2panda work is that they only show partial views of the network. So you're seeing that 5 people who use the default iris relay are following Jack. You can add more relays and you'll find there are many thousands of followers. It's different the way the fediverse is different from twitter.

@manniac Jack Dorsey's using Nostr, a scuttlebutt like decentralized protocol. https://iris.to/jack@cash.app

Why did I choose SourceHut as codeforge to self-host?

A few reasons:

* I *thought* it'd be simpler, though now I find it could do with better packaging.

* You can collaborate without signing up! (Be keen to explore a passkeys technique, in addition to eMail)

* I have a vested interest in questioning the value of silos, since they're who tends to break my browser.

* It outputs reasonable HTML markup. Pre-CSS3 Grid Twitter Bootstrap era, but still! Should work well in Rhapsode & Haphaestus!

@lauren Close-up of ant's face requires, charitably, 100 μm resolution. Can't orbit below about 200 km; 300-800 km is much more common. 100 μm at 200 km is 0.5 nanoradians. To get an Airy spot diameter 1.22 λ/d of 0.5 nanoradians with blue light of λ = 450 nm, you need d = 1.22 · 450 nm / 0.5 nanoradians = 1100 meters. Is not plausible that either US or China has a spy satellite currently in orbit with an 1100-meter-diameter mirror, much less a fleet of them.

Additionally to neither country having the requisite rockets to launch a satellite the size of a small town yet, would be 19 arc minutes in diameter when it passed overhead, two thirds of the visual diameter of the sun or moon. Wouldn't help moving it to a higher orbit because the mirror would have to be proportionally bigger.

Photos you see of cities on Google Maps "satellite view" are mostly aerial photos, not satellite photos, for this reason.

Object capability based security and micro kernels are the old future returned.

It was never completely gone, of course. I’ve been tracking projects like the Genode OS framework for years, but all of a sudden I’m seeing hardware, university projects, big tech projects, and really exciting software platforms left right and centre.

Permission to dream of a better world of computing once more?
#capabilites #microkernel #future #past #tech

Intel is the first big tech to go beyond layoffs and institute broad pay cuts. Annual bonuses paused, 401K match halved, merit increases on hold and actual pay cut by 5% to 15%.

On a positive note, shareholders can still expect a quarterly dividend. 🥲

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/intel-cuts-pay-for-employees-to-keep