@alex
I've heard this is the "cult of modernity" that came out of colonization, where anything good has to be new - so old doesn't matter and history is wilfully ignored.
Plenty of civilizations in different continents thrived in cooperative societies until barbarians invaded.
> haver of opinions
I am stealing that!
@leonieke
I don't know what well-developed means to you, but Hubzilla/Streams are older, more versatile, and more conservatively developed than the Mastodon juggernaut. They have their drawbacks, but are not resource hogs.
A more Mastodonistic but simpler-admin alternative might be #Pleroma ...
@meneer
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Another great meeting this week! Check out our Matrix or mailing list for how to attend next week: sandstorm.org/community
Jake released vagrant-spk 1.2.
He also helped a user to resurrect an old proprietary app that hasn't been built for a long time. We saw a demo of it.
We also discussed in general how distribution of proprietary apps might work for a business.
On that note: We're starting a mailing list for businesses that use sandstorm. If you'd like to join, reach out to @ocdtrekkie
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Sometimes work on old legacy code feels like
"Ah time to make dinner. Oh wait there is a leak in the kitchen, I better re-roof the house first."
@vazub I want to do a bare-metal multi-boot install, but I may have a different idea of "daily driver" (how often do we use laptops over slabphones?). #HaikuOS seems to get the basics right - good support for using multiple cores, and extended filesystem attributes to organize files. I am not sure how its looks will go with people, I am an #IceWM user on Linux. We live in browsers nowadays, but we may be able to live with some websites on the mobile.
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Vendor support person: “you’ll see a slider in your account that enables us to access your data for the purposes of troubleshooting, please enable that and you can disable it when we are done.”
Me: “ok, done.”
Support: “great thank you, I am now able to look at your data so give me one second. I am looking now.”
Me: “Cool. By the way I actually didn’t do the slider because I guessed it probably didn’t do anything.”
@ocdtrekkie
Why wouldn't global monopolies and unethical people "pirate" your ethically-licensed software?
@rwg @onepict
@ocdtrekkie
Atleast SPI is a good idea, isn't it?
@rwg @onepict
@ocdtrekkie
The BSDs haven't given us techies the options we have today, GNU/FSF proactively have (not sure what OSI/Apache have done other than herding projects). Of course, rich people capitalize on it more than other people, like with everything else.
And it wasn't that long ago that "mechanism, not policy" was a thing, it kept software "inclusive". Muddling it up (bake in policy, all it an app) serves no purpose; if only software projects hadn't done it.
@rwg @onepict
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.oO I can't make up my mind on whether Pacino is a good name for an AI system. AI Pacino looks great and familiar in a sans-serif font, but it's also a little off, which is just as expected of shitterbots
@abucci we need to take money out of the equation in as many spheres as possible, and effectively (not for show).
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The thing about that "the papers will disappear if the journals do" article is that they wont and the only reason is piracy.
@badrihippo hmmm ...
By the way, storage seems to be a big issue with fediverse servers, so I was thinking that the backend using something like ERIS for storage might help reduce data duplucation across servers.
@badrihippo social media and privacy in the same sentence? Why not just accept that it us all public and act accordingly?
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@sotolf CW your Java code please, it's traumatizing xD
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@charlesroper python devs will appreciate the increased readability of the tab
@coderCyclist not the first clue, but it seems amiss to not look at #0Install and its primary developer's past blog posts that cover his experience https://roscidus.com/blog
