Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
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Check out our final report from our tech intern, Kofi "Rukky" Oghenerukevwe -- she was able to build, test, and publish a CiviCRM extension that will help the FSF receive Bitcoin and Litecoin payments! https://u.fsf.org/3bo
@crasher35 what do you mean by "presence"? Different services can freely interact; that is what federation is meant for.
email masking request
@weirdwriter@dragonscave.space you will need an email provider, like the Gmail you have, or Microsoft Live, or maybe a third party like mail.com (has lots of alias domains).
For cheap email, there are places like mailbox.org. I know they have a temporary email addresses, but not sure which plan.
If you just want to filter spam, places like Gmail, Live, etc support plus (+) addresses, e.g. realemail+alias@gmail.com
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RT @benwerd@twitter.com
I'm really impressed with the stuff @matrixdotorg@twitter.com is building. It's such a flexible platform, and true p2p regardless of internet access will enable lots of new kinds of applications. This is great: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network
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necromantic book recommendation
Another recommendation, in case you still did not read it for some reason.
It's about badass lesbian necromancers in space. You can find it by entering "lesbian necromancers in space" into a search engine of your choice.
Its first paragraph is: "IN THE MYRIADIC YEAR OF OUR LORD—the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death!—Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth."
Its second: "She didn’t run. Gideon never ran unless she had to. In the absolute darkness before dawn she brushed her teeth without concern and splashed her face with water, and even went so far as to sweep the dust off the floor of her cell. She shook out her big black church robe and hung it from the hook. Having done this every day for over a decade, she no longer needed light to do it by. This late in the equinox no light would make it here for months, in any case; you could tell the season by how hard the heating vents were creaking. She dressed herself from head to toe in polymer and synthetic weave. She combed her hair. Then Gideon whistled through her teeth as she unlocked her security cuff, and arranged it and its stolen key considerately on her pillow, like a chocolate in a fancy hotel."
Its middle paragraph:
“Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, “the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, ‘Lo! A destructed ass.’ The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh.” “That’s three jobs,” said Harrowhark.”
re: race & racism in the Broken Earth trilogy
@IngaLovinde @Stoori @ljwrites Vernor Vinge is good, as is Greg Egan.
I also like Cherryh's Chanur series, although I guess they are a bit human-like with fur, but the books do a good job of human-is-the-alien, there are some truly alien species, and the main crew are female.
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Question about how something works in a license
@storydragon a site like Creative Commons tries to have some good plain language explanations of copyright options: https://creativecommons.org/
But they are more for general copyright than specific to software like open source licences.
There are a few sites that try to explain those, e.g. https://choosealicense.com/ and https://tldrlegal.com/
The type of Patent clause you mentioned is common in copy-left licences, where any derivatives are required to use the same licence.
With a copyright only licence, a company could add something they have a patent on, publish the free code, but it is still not usable (due to the patent).
Clauses have been added to popular licences to prevent this (the company, in order to modify the software, must also allow free use of any patent rights).
Question about how something works in a license
@storydragon some of the tricky stuff probably needs a lawyer.
But in general, copyright notices (the C in a circle) are no longer needed, but are useful to identify works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
The article also notes the an alternate identifier is acceptable (instead of your name), but as the notice is no longer required by law, it is still copyrighted either way.
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@enkiv2 "
Any technology which is not an (alleged) currency and which incorporates #blockchain anyway would always work better without it."
I have been saying (and proving) this for years, now.
Covid, Bayes' Theorem
@peter Depends on the incidence rate of COVID-19. If there are 1,000 people, and one has COVID-19, and one is a false positive, and you got a positive result then it is 50/50 if you are the real one or the false.
If the incidence rate was 3 per 1,000, then 75% chance you have it; if incidence rate was 0.11 per 1,000 then only 10% chance a positive result is real.
@Otter there are also some good options in the DMG for handling partial success and other variations.
@trinsec LOTR was a quote "Not all those who wander are lost".
The die has the dragon-ampersand, and the placement (between 2-8-14) indicates it is the 20.
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"The thing we call money is just an information system for labor allocation. What actually matters is making goods and providing services. We should look at currencies from an information theory standpoint. Whichever has least error and latency will win." - Elon Musk
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RT @jack_hq1@twitter.com
Today instead of doing my schoolwork I installed synapse with the docker-ansible script. Kinda cool to see Jitsi and telegram bridge working just like that wow @matrixdotorg@twitter.com
Want time-based testing in #dotnet ? ... use ISystemClock https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/?term=ISystemClock
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Schools that punish students for social media comments posted on their own time, outside of school, need a lesson in the First Amendment, we told the Supreme Court. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/schools-cant-punish-students-campus-speech-including-social-media-posts-eff-tells
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as a #libertarian i believe people can be whatever gender they can afford
@cryptosolutionism No; it can't overcome the digital-analog divide. Besides, why would you want to? Information has no natural scarcity.
Lead Consultant @Telstra, doing Internet-of-Things (#IoT), #dotnet, #blockchain, #DevSecOps. Certified Azure IoT Developer, MCSD: ALM, #PRINCE2, Scrum. Tabletop gamer.
Joined Oct 2020
