Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Thank you Crowdstrike for helping to illustrate that Open Source is not the problem.

@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

#TeXLaTeX #TeX

I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet

social status and "authority" are brain rewiring biological processes

your perception will be eroded by it, ending in gaslighting if not stopped early

Me: I always like to say “mucho” when I’m around my Spanish speaking friends.

Them: Why?

Me: It means a lot to them.

Them: Get out.

People really tell themselves they would have joined the Resistance in WWII and they... couldn't even stop using a lousy website

"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.

#interlisp #lisp #linux

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.

“Our ancestors burned the oil of Earth madly and wilfully. They destroyed its coal recklessly. We despise and condemn them for that” —Asimov, The Martian Way, 1952

#Reading #SciFi #Asimov

#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:​

My mission: keep using #Firefox
My obstacle: whatever the fuck #Mozilla is doing