Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
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.
Joined Sep 2021
Unsolicited Lemmy sites' messages in the timeline
I have only noticed this the past months after qoto.org's update. Lemmy site messages are in my timeline even though I haven't subscribed to any. Is this a "feature" or am I in a minority getting this?
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been learning and thinking about the Burrows-Wheeler transform and so far my conclusion is "what the fuck?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform
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@mcepl @alontra Well, blame network effect - one can either succumb to the pressure of using proprietary services, or one can take a stand and help give others an alternative. There's no other choice, and both are coercive.
Perhaps my friends/coworkers/community members don't judge my value based on my software choices 😅
Also, what third alternative?
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@Rhababerbarbar You shouldn't believe everything some online trolls write on their blogs 
Here is for example a reasonable response: https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/ but Soatok seems to delete comments that refute their "findings" so you will not read anything more balanced than "Signal is the best" on their website.
Here is for example a reasonable response: https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/ but Soatok seems to delete comments that refute their "findings" so you will not read anything more balanced than "Signal is the best" on their website.
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@BuffaloTom @alontra @dansup Here's an #XMPP guide I wrote for new users.
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html
@glyph
Just measured startup time some years back. I like Erlang, thought it was slow to start up, then saw it was like Python. I have seen Ruby being slower but get faster. Perl probably has always been fast. Ignoring startup time ..
Any of Python/Ruby/Smalltalk/Lisp .. if they ran too slow at the time, why didn't a desktop project start with a compiled high-level language instead of C/C++? The #GNU project had the C+Lisp template in Emacs, so it was already proven
@zbrown
rupol
@evgandr
Losing culture to anybody is bad. Emigration doesn't sound like a "choice", more like the only option after culture's demise. This might be, what, 10% of people?
The other 90% are in the process of getting there, with outside "help".
@evgandr @david_chisnall what if Western "powers" stopped trashing the rest of the world for resources and people could continue their culture in their homeland? I feel immigration is an ill-effect on all sides and not a desirable outcome for people from any culture.
@zbrown
I have always wondered if there was a high-level language that suited a desktop project but wasn't found or chosen. Clearly, gjs hasn't been it, and #Vala is a lot of technical debt, and Python start-up time is an issue. Go maybe isn't high-level, and anyway came late. Maybe Smalltalk and Lisp were the only options earlier.
@glyph
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@glyph Jesus, I do not think this aged well at all. So much software today is condescendingly unconfigurable and outright hostile to any power users.
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@federicomena TIL @havocp a) co-founded tidelift and b) is on here, very exciting stuff
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
- F-Droid Client & Basic 1.22.0 are out (dare to update!)
- #webxdc is spreading its tentacles
- #dolphinemulator has a huge update
- #newpipe brings one fix, one still missing
- Catshare unifies device-to-device sharing
All these and news about 154 more apps at https://f-droid.org/2025/01/30/twif.html
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OpenAI accusing DeepSeek, another AI model, of stealing their outputs to train their own model is the funniest thing I’ve read this year.
« This thing is stealing our work that we built by stealing other people’s work and paraphrasing it incorrectly ». Peak 2025.
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Sometimes i believed in the legend of "convergence": one device to rule them all and forever bind them.
Since i use a #pinephone and reposessed a personal computing environment that is frugal and tailored to my needs, i am completely re-considering.
Got myself a "modern" device to run #Rockbox on (https://www.rockbox.org/). and OH MY! 1/ how much it progressed since the last 15y i didnt use it! 2/ how amazing to have dedicated, reliable top-notch audio sw+hw!
Sometimes i leave "phone" at home.
@alex @corbet actually, the way to sneak in #BiTorrent / #IPFS into the #WebBrowser would have to be via ... file:// URI's! Accessing file:///disk/magnet/hash_of_webpage would load the webpage and recursively any such links inside ... because file:///disk would be an Android DocumentsProvider for #MagnetURI (exists?) or a Linux BTfs mount (exists). Give https visitors a link to the file:// magnet URI.
@alex @corbet actually, the way to sneak in #BiTorrent / #IPFS into the #WebBrowser would have to be via ... file:// URI's! Accessing file:///disk/magnet/hash_of_webpage would load the webpage and recursively any such links inside ... because file:///disk would be an Android DocumentsProvider for #MagnetURI (exists?) or a Linux BTfs mount (exists). Give https visitors a link to the file:// magnet URI.
- Wannabe
- Self-hoster
- Practicising
- #HinduDharma
- Interested in
- #SocialEcology
- वर्ण
- शूद्र; should be doing better
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.
Joined Sep 2021
