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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
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For Innovation Week, we are sharing experiments to make AI accessible to all — continuing to innovate and fund projects for the good of humanity.
Meet Memory Cache, your privacy-focused, personalized AI assistant. This smart AI agent “learns as you learn” and offers unique insights based on your browsing history and documents.
Learn more here: http://future.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-memorycache
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Is anyone with JavaScript interested in maintaining the Abricotine Markdown editor? It's being abandoned by its author. Abricotine is slow to start but otherwise the best Markdown editor for Linux in my experience.
@argosopentech I guess I contest the "Best on Linux" thing #emacs
Seriously, though, this sounds like a good project to take leadership for all those looking to boost their resume or experience in JS
@Crell No kidding! It's had an open ticket to match their versions for months now, but upgrading the PHP version on shared servers is complicated. I definitely miss our solid Clojure setups.
@ghast@liberdon.com "you people." I take it you're a foreigner to these parts, and maybe a lover of X?
We borrowed some #PHP code from #StackOverflow that had nested ternaries without parenthesis. Turns out that as a fatal error in PHP 8 on our production server but not on the earlier PHP on our development server. Wow... a language with breaking syntax changes. I'll stick with sound #Clojure, where you never have too few parenthesis.
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“[Ada & Zangemann] Introduces readers young and old to the power and peril of software. It also highlights the accelerating effects of sharing software freely—creating conditions for direct and indirect collaboration which can be a metaphor for the conduct of science. Behind it all is a backdrop of ethics of knowledge sharing upon which the arc of human history rides.”
~ Vint Cerf, Computer Scientist and One of the Inventors of the Internet
@freddy I'll be using this! I HATE when sites hijack normal browser function. Does it work when they hijack area selection?
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Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser's context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?
Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.
@ghast@liberdon.com yep. So much news just reaffirms why I have happily left it behind
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I do not want to be given iron-fisted control over my child's media habits, particularly as they grow up, but every "parental controls" app and setting is based on the idea that I need a way to prevent my kid from learning that trans people exist or that people say "shit" sometimes, not that I want to just give them a device which has the stuff that we have put on it that does not *advertise* other things to them constantly. I have no interest in preventing them from seeking out information.
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Wow. Talking about license plate registration stickers has actually caused me to stick up for one of those typically 'murican values.
Do we really need a differently-colored sticker every year to signal the car is properly registered in this day and age of enforcement cameras with OCR hooked up to central databases? Strictly speaking, no.
But it's a nice alternative to that sort of surveillance tech being everywhere which I'd rather not normalize.
The Musk social media instance seems increasingly irrelevant. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/10/elon-musk-reactivates-alex-jones-x-accounts-.html
@mc should I know you? Your content seems interesting though.
What's this #pim @publicvoit talks about? A specialty of his: Personal Information Management. "Worthwhile" is basically what it's all about.
Ài to help replace Cobol
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
