Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

"Internet is becoming more and more centralized in the hands of a few evil tech companies. Our project aims to change that! Join our discord and…"

"This is open-source software written by hobbyists, maintained by a single volunteer, badly tested, written in a memory-unsafe language and full of security bugs. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data. As such, we treat security issues like any other bug. Each security report we receive will be made public immediately and won't be prioritized."
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

"Maddie Hall, who worked on special projects at OpenAI, founded Living Carbon. This public benefit company aims to combat climate change by genetically enhancing trees to capture and store more CO2. Living Carbon has raised $36 million from Felicis."

https://www.everythingstartups.com/article/the-11-tech-mafias-ruling-silicon-valley

Or you could, you know, just put all that money into getting more trees planted. Setting up local nurseries for eco-sourced varieties, acquiring marginal land for reserves, etc.

#GE #GMO #GeneticModification #LivingCarbon

My Android has 8GB of memory. That should be enough for a small server. More than 2GB of that is running Android itself, and a bunch of other background stuff that's always on.

Not so long ago I was running laptops with 2GB total system memory. The OS used about 2GB of hard disk, and far less memory while running.

Is this supposed to represent progress? The more compute you use to do essentially the same job, the better it is?

#Android

I don't contribute to @haiku at the moment, but one of the most important things I have taken from that project is that "breaking the monotony of the competition" is arguably a goal that is just as valid as becoming mainstream or useful.

Isolated containers for executing untrusted code are called sandboxes because CPUs are made of sand.

@drewdaniels No, it's just BBB, it never upgrades gracefully. I wonder how many ancient, insecure BBB systems are out there just because their admins have learned that updating them always breaks things...

Oh and one more thing! Modern Linux, which is to say Fedora 41, has an issue with runaway repeat keystrokes. It loses the key-up events or whatever, resulting in a stuck repeat. It's probably something software related in the department of @whot, but the Steelseries aggravated it significantly. I replaced it with an old Dell PS/2 with ancient USB adapter, and the symptom still happens, but very rarely now. This suggests that I may be able to find a keyboard that protects me from a Linux bug. That would be ideal in addition to the 100% pitch.

@bagder Initiatives like @copiepublique could help here.

https://copiepublique.fr/en/

@Zykino They primarily do it because they can and don't need to pay - totally independently of if they are small players or giant corporations.

And they're right. The can and are legally allowed to.

"Nah, surely someone else will sponsor the project. We certainly don't want to. We never did. It's still here and works well after decades, which proves us right."

/ almost every company

#deltatauri is ready for testing.

https://support.delta.chat/t/help-test-the-tauri-pre-release/3827

DeltaTauri is basically #deltachat_desktop , but using #tauri instead of electron.
Full Blogpost will follow soon.

I cannot overstate how much I hate the short character limits on most instances here. It does not make people post short, concise messages (as if brevity is even a thing I’d want to optimise for) it makes people post essays as sequences of 47 toots. Which then all appear in my timeline. In reverse order.

it's highly ironic that the "AI" evangelists constantly repeat that people who hate it are out of touch. they're implying that people don't like it because they don't understand it, when my experience has been people who hate "AI" seem to have a far firmer grasp on how it actually works than the evangelists

edit: reclaiming my notifications by muting this ✌

I don't use LLMs because I actually like programming. And the way some AI proponents describe programming, you'd think they hate it and want to do as little of it as they possibly can.

@not2b @siracusa I wrote Perl for 13 years. I learned discipline. If you treated your code as more than a disposable one-off, you made it readable, converted the punctuation salad into verbose equivalents. By the time I stopped using Perl, I had a toolchain and project initiation process that was easy to set up and made testing and packaging effortless.

Trying to do the same in Python has basically been a nightmare. Just a swirling vortex of endless infrastructure, churn for the sake of churn.