@dawngreeter @aral The status quo is never "political". Change is political.
@aral Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.
Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.
@jnpn I don't know. I think free communication silos rely on people's social graphs reflecting real connections to be worth data-grabbing. If people substituting out real connections abound, then we are in a worsening society where the people's loss is the silos' gain.
The minority who have independent virtual social graphs hopefully are getting value out of it over and above real connections.
@bagder can’t believe you’re still introducing bugs manually. Much more efficient to let the machine do the enbugging
I go into my kitchen and I look at my fridge, whose job is to move heat outside of itself into the room. Centimetres to the right of it is the oven, whose job is to make heat, and we don't like using it in the summer because its whole thing is making heat. Further right is the AC vent, which is connected to a furnace downstairs, which is connected to a big fan outside which blows my heat into the neighbourhood for a few minutes each morning to dry out the air and make it tolerable with a fan. Right next to the furnace, within a metre of it, is the hot water tank, which is another inside-out fridge that takes heat from the basement and puts it into my shower water.
None of these machines are connected together in any way at all
Like, what are we doing here. What are we doing as a species.
@WeirdAlex03 @manmachine @foone @TechConnectify doubling landfill material! Yay!
@arnan @Valon_Blue would #Hubzilla be outmoded for you? It stores files via #WebDAV which almost any client platform has support for or apps for. Or #Epicyon, even though file storage isn't its purpose? Or #Camlistore / #Perkeep which is a bit free-form?
I am looking to kit out a home server, and #Hubzilla's channel clones seemed like a nice real-time backup.
@rickardlindberg do #CommonLisp and #Erlang count? No GUI.
#Mozilla #Firefox is #enshitified glory.
We have reached a stage where PDF can be opened in the browser, but not PNG! FTP is recognized as unsupported, but not even a mention of SFTP! And this is a "web" engine!
I really like #plan9.
I’m working on a qemu project. I used partfs on my cpu server over drawterm to modify a file in a local raw qemu disk image.
It wasn’t until after i’d done it that it hit me how neat it is that nothing in the chain was built for that, partfs doesn’t know anything about qemu of macOS or whatever, &c — and it all worked exactly as expected.
This stuff remains pretty darn fun.
#Erlang:
* What do you think our ecosystem is missing in regard to libraries?
* What functionality do you think is missing in existing libraries?
https://erlangforums.com/t/whats-missing-in-the-ecosystem/3867
@needzmoarpaula As a reader I do active discovery of blogs and share them here.
@darfplatypus @jawnsy unless the customer base is well-informed, they will get away with slash-and-burn. The customer base for most consumer software is conditioned to the quality levels of slash-and-burn.
@strypey would #ConversationContainers by @streams help?
@penguin42 @fsi @senfcall Well, @linuxplumbersconf is run on #bigbluebutton yes; we're currently playing with 2.7 (although we do have plumbers specific customizations, like using matrix for the chat). We don't find any problem in going to 100 participants with the standard configuration (we did get a few problems going to 1000 with older bbb during covid).
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org
I write software (C++) for a living.