Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Allow reviewing packages before installation

The recent commit below by @pkal makes me proud to be part of the #Emacs community. Part of what makes Emacs special is that not only it is distributed under a #FreeSoftware license, but it also works hard to make it easy for you to take advantage of that power, best evidenced by the way a simple mouse click after M-x describe-key puts you right there in the source code, ready to change the behavior of that key.

Now this is extended to encourage you to participate in code reviews of the packages you use. I hope you will make good use of it, both to get to know your tools better, and to participate more meaningfully in their evolution.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=881be95cddcab3cf37373678002c35334c177c97

🤖 AI reminds me of some people on the Torrent network: it leeches from the web at full speed, seeds back at 1kb/s, and only spreads malware torrents (AI content ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Downloading_and_sharing

#AI #Bittorrent #Torrent #web #internet #tech #humor #it #software #data #sharing #seeding #online #trend #p2p #filesharing #ki #artificial #artificialintelligence #joke #fun #funny #nerdy #nerd

@flypaper I have now, and I definitely don't want the crypto or LLM stuff. It's not enough that I could choose not to use those features. I drop software that supports them.

@caten

>I just want to be able to load a webpage from a bittorrent swarm

But how would you know its magnet link?

The p2p web also needs content discovery.

@1a1nC You don’t argue with them. They’re trying to waste your time. Engaging at all is losing.

@nblr I can forgive the newline being required, but the failure being silent is unforgiveable.

several people reporting lately that #deltachat has become their main app: They are now spending more time in the chats, also with web apps, than in any other app. It may be a turn to more private communications when social media has become more toxic, obnoxious and dangerous in many places?

#deltachat and #chatmail.is indeed about being readily available when other forms of communications become unavailable or dangerous like in Iran or Russia but also in western and other countries.

I’m not at all susceptible to ads and hardly spend any money on non-essentials, my biggest vices of the moment being secondhand books and ramen noodles.

Yet everyone online is falling over themselves to have my data to send me targeted ads for things I definitely will not buy.

The economics make no sense. My data should be worthless, as it does not convert into sales.

Either I’m extremely atypical or there’s advertising fraud going on at an enormous scale, both of which could well be true.

principles of software distillation:

Old software is usually small and new software is usually large. A distilled program can be old or new, but is always small, and is powerful by its choice of ideas, not its implementation size.

A distilled program has the conciseness of an initial version and the refinement of a final version.

A distilled program is a finished work, but remains hackable due to its small size, allowing it to serve as the starting point for new works.

Many people write programs, but few stick with a program long enough to distill it.

@lorry Or he believes his electoral base does not know the difference.

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

English words I am mad about, part 3719: Bureaucracy. I can never for the life of me remember how to spell this dirty fucker. It's so easy in German: Bürokratie. I mean come on, a word that's actually easier to spell in German? That's not how this was supposed to work out!

@jimbob @andrewrk @jarekrozanski
I mean people who are like you but with less of a moral spine.

I don't think you get to take that advice and hope they don't.

I think you play the META and expect everyone else to also play the META.

@andrewrk perhaps "Ask for forgiveness, not permission" attitude did do more bad than good afterall.