@alcinnz I dont think that a very big problem these days.
problem is how extemely centralized the internet is today. but I'm being extremely decentralized creates many other problems.
You gotta find the middle ground which is the independent web
Yes, because we totally need hosting websites to be replaced by blockchain.
I dont think they understand how the internet works.
people over software
HEY YALL
the 500px archiving project is done! we got everything! you can find it here. https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_500px
thanks again for all the people that lent us bandwidth!
These features are especially useful for generating images & sound.
Using the long arithmetic-based approach makes some interesting features cheap to add.
1. Subtraction can use the same circuit as addition given some constraints on how we represent negatives. Typically we do so by negating the number bitwising and incrementing.
2. We can segment a fix-sized value into multiple smaller numbers by simply blocking certain carry signals.
3. Since once we sum intermediate values after multiplying, it's cheap to add mult-add & mult-sum.
4. Division gives remainder.
If I say "tissue" instead of Kleenex, people know what I mean.
If I say "microblog" instead of "Twitter", people don't know what I mean.
I'm have no issue with Kleenex's brand ubiquity, however, I view Twitter's as highly problematic.
A simple technique to implement math in a purely functional language is to teach the computer "a number is either 0 or x+1, addition is repeated incrementing, subtraction is repeated decrementing, multiplication is repeated addition, etc."
The technique used in hardware is to use what amounts to the long addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division you learnt in school. But famously it operates in base 2, so it has different addition, multiplication, & subtraction tables.
Building Tkinter/Python app as an experiment. Good fun and a big change from web dev.
@njoseph the $ cost is not the major barrier. I have a friend who can do email and FB, but thinks a wiki with a WYSIWYG editor requires a "tech whiz" to operate (their words). Geeks tend to heavily under-appreciate how much experience-based knowledge we hold, and how complicated learning new digital tools and processes is for most people
@njoseph IMHO breaking folks out of the #DataFarms requires every geek to set up a VPS (or box-in-the-closet) for their tribe (150 closest family and friends), and actively trained anyone keen to learn how to do the same; #CommunityHosting more so than #SelfHosting
All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
just cancelled #netflix and I feel great
The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks!
However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out
This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.
So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:
https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/
Any feedback very welcome.
EFF's @sheeyahshee notes that privacy concerns reach "across the ideological spectrum," and that "Young people are decidedly not OK with state...or corporate-sponsored surveillance." https://www.wired.com/story/data-privacy-wins-carpenter-location-sharing/
Re-doing the UI for anancus in bulma.io for minimizing javascript. Should definitely make a better UI this time.
Free Software needs many things, such as a focus on diversity, a more deliberate way to fund itself without depending on corporatism, and increased interest in other human factors like accessibility.
I believe that coops can be helpful to deliver improvements on those fronts.