@klausfiend LOL why would I try to help put a stop to the funniest thing I've seen in weeks?
#TUG2024 in Prague has started.
Thanks to @borisveytsman who has opened the conference. @TeXUsersGroup and of course the local organizers.
I will try to provide some abstracts/insights below this toot. But there are also an option to watch most of the talks online (Sadly youtube, but it's possible): https://youtube.com/c/texusersgroup/live
Schedule: https://tug.org/tug2024/program.html
"The privacy invading feature that was patched into your browser and silently turned on by default was announced on our browser's blog 2 years ago so why are you so mad?"
My dude I'm probably in the top 1% of humans alive advocating for your product and I have never read your fucking blog because even I think "keeping up on the blog of the browser I use" is a fucking weirdo move
My new System76 Merkaat mini PC with Linux Mint is now running all the essentials such as Medley Interlisp.
I think the main goal is to think of the Internet in a few decades. In the worst case, the public Internet is gone. Governments will have discovered that blocking at the national DNS level won't work and slowly at first but then from the top down people will think that perhaps the Great Firewall is cool: for the children, against porn, against spam, against vandalism, to fight tax evasion, to fight terrorism, you know the deal. And yes, even to fight fascism. And so the sneaker-net will be back. They will call it the dark net but to me, it will forever be friends meeting in a place, with mass storage in our backpacks (at the time) or in our pockets, exchanging stuff. And even if this future is not great at all, we need that alternative. How else will they organize? And even if it turns out to be unnecessary because we keep riding that wild horse of freedom, forever teetering at the brink of fascism, alternative needs to be there to keep the next level of services in line. I continue to believe that the availability and ubiquity of bit-torrent is what keeps the prices of streaming services down.
« We make the assumption that we must be “online” to exchange data. … What would it be like if you could fully participate in global communities without a constant Internet connection? If you could share photos with your friends, read the news, read your email, etc. even if you don’t have a connection at present? Even if the device you use to do that never has a connection, but can route messages via other devices that do? … Back in the days of UUCP, much email and Usenet news — a global discussion forum that didn’t require an Internet connection — was relayed via occasional calls over phone lines. This technology remains with us, and has even improved. »
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10231-recovering-our-lost-free-will-online-tools-and-techniques-that-are-available-now
by @jgoerzen
I really want to do more with NNCP.
#hiring
Experimental Devboard for a Frugal Smartphone
(2 years, gross monthly salary from 2695€)
We design a #LowTech smartphone with a one-week battery life.The goal is not to optimize a conventional smartphone nor to design a marketable product but to create an experimental platform that will enable future research in #FrugalComputing.
The engineer will design an #OpenHardware devboard built around a microcontroller.
http://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/Research/Students/2024-fiche-poste-smolphone-hw-EN.pdf
Spread the word :)
#lownum #permacomputing
@b0rk have done rcs, cvs, svn, baz, arch, tla, bzr, hg. i like git!
- no operation requires net access (except push/fetch/pull ofc)
- fast
- simple, conceptually: there are only commits, branches, blobs, refs, the index & trees. just a DAG. i can fit it into my head. (though, merging is a black box.)
- rebasing is pretty good. not magical, because i do get lost sometimes and find myself aborting the rebase rather than fixing. but good enough
- gitk is good and fast!
@cuchaz@gladtech.social And with the development history of Gecko's attempts at becoming portable and embeddable into other applications and web browsers, Servo may overtake it for usability from a development perspective sooner rather than later :cat-tears-of-joy:
@sqrtminusone @veer66 @louis I used to think it was what people had in mind, but the more time passes, the more I realize it just is that most have no idea how to run anything.
@tymwol
#typescript - what if everything was any
pro-libre software, pro-holisticism
pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
anti-witchhunts
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
I write software (C++) for a living.