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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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I like to exercise my will power. So I found myself at the grocery store at hungry-for-dinner time with two toddlers. I stuck to my list without straying. And I can only thank heaven for how well behaved the kids were.
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“The median number of followers of all of [#ElonMusk’s followers] is one.”
This is actually kinda wild. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/20/23839244/heres-what-data-analysis-says-about-elon-musks-followers-on-x
A glory of #PlainText work, this via #emacs #orgmode: I mis-clocked some time spent. I was able to visit the wrong-time thing and yank the bad time span and paste it in the correct thing, fixing my agenda accounting. What graphic #TimeTracking apps make it so easy?
✓ Solved. How to make one #emacs #Transient command out of a bunch have different exit (color) behavior? https://orys.us/uS
@jxself it needs a comparison/justification section vs other major distros. How is it vs ubuntu/mint? fedora? Tumbleweed? nix? arch?
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Exciting news, folks! We've got 7 new updates in the Linux-libre world. Say hello to versions 6.4.11-gnu, 6.1.46-gnu, 5.15.127-gnu, 5.10.191-gnu1, 5.4.254-gnu1, 4.19.292-gnu1, and 4.14.323-gnu1. Let's continue to champion our computing freedom with these fresh releases! Updates should become visible in your package manager over the next 24 hours. #FreeSoftware #GNU #LinuxLibre
@atrus That makes sense. My own use is only for open source web stuff, so that hasn't much come up -- but when I do install the odd item, I 'm probably using those permissions without thinking of it
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@borkdude absolutely. This is one reason I have more success with student developers in their early years, Freshmen or Sophomores, so they don't need to unlearn all the tooling and OO bad patterns they have been taught.
D know this is probably a different register than you are talking about, but I find it holds here, too
Lately (err... at least the last year) I've been encountering a number of issues because my #git repos have `filemode=true`, causing loads of errors that take a moment to realize that merging them cannot solve the problem. Why is this ever a default? I can imagine cases where it is needed, but certainly they should not be default.
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Academics, I beg you. Please put copies of your published papers on your website, arxiv, whatever. Not only because it's great for the broader world beyond academia (who can't get behind paywalls at all) but it just took me 15 minutes to try to figure out how to log in to some particular database to get a copy of a paper. I don't even like the 3 minutes it takes to log into the ACM DL versus copying a title into google. Follow copyright rules but you can almost always post SOMETHING somewhere.
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@worldsendless the genie is out of the bottle. I'm not advocating for unleashed AI but for applying the principles of open source to AI: access to training data, algorithms and weightings including the right to study, alter and reshare. Also, it would be nice if a smart person would come up with some legal framework like GPL or Creative Commons for AI.
I just used #jitsi for the first time, both thanks to #zulip and also because of the ongoing issues with #Zoom and privacy (which should be a surprise to no one, except my employers...). Jitsi worked like a dream: no lag, sharp video, and totally functional screen sharing #SatisfiedUser #OpenSourceWin
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On that story about scientists leaving X and coming here. Please, please lean into the feature of hashtag following and tag your stuff. A lot of us would love to find you and hashtag discovery is the easiest way here.
#scientists #scientist #mastodon #followers #discovery #news
@dff I'm so confused... isn't AI forcing software to go "closed" because it is exploitative and gluttonous?
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Interested in learning more about the upcoming #SoftwareFreedomDay events on September 16, 2023? We recommend that you follow @dff and check out the website at https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ #SoftwareFreedomDay2023 #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre
When it was first born, the enemy of #OpenSource was incontestibly #ClosedSource (#proprietary). That enemy has morphed, though, and now seems to be large-scale appropriation, especially (but not exclusively) in the name of #AI. And I'm really not sure what can be done about this exploitation. Further discussion that actually does not mention AI: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/21/Open-Source-Discrimination
@serioga @nikitonsky we gave up on Immutant years ago because of broken dependencies and a codebase so big and complicated that I couldn't fix it myself.
@vedang But I am confused -- is it mastodon or not? In what senses is it or isn't it?
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
