Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

Using TUI based apps are working well for me.

Just installed https://newsboat.org/ for RSS feed.

I'm on Arch and I'm mostly relying on command line applications.

I just want to see which TUI note-taking apps suits well for me now.

Don't be afraid to say no to what people say you must do to grow your startup.

This will leave you with more time to actually focus on and excel at one particular activity that you believe has the most potential to unlock growth

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/you-dont-have-to-follow-all-the-best-marketing-practices-to-grow-your-startup-28f5982288

@alcinnz But not specific enough to send a very important newsagent to those bastards.

@njoseph ... and worst: A lot of "FLOSS" projects are sponsored and backed nowadays by large industry donors who possibly don't care much about "free" / libre ideas (looking at you, GSoC). 😐

Being amazed to learn a new customer uses #syncthing for syncing data between production servers, after giving it a try again I still also had to learn that syncthing and my use cases and environments still possibly will never be friends. 😟

In Round 3 The Gray Fox will face off against Huntokar The Destroyer. Let's see if The Gray Fox learnt anything from The Flying Squirrel!

And I don't yet know who'll face off against The Red Panda, that's what rematches are for!

#IDADtournament

No change to the final results, Damien and Professor Zombie are still tying so they'll be entered into the Round 2 rematches. No bonus votes to count.

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In Cosmos Laundromat Frank was convinced by Victor to take a shape-shifting multiverse adventure through those washing machines. Using a collar with "variable spin speed, excellent tumble performance in one handy device. Squeaky clean!"

#IDADtournament

Dana Cardinal was the only Night Vale Public Radio intern who went on to do anything... interesting! And you might recognized her voice actor as Astrid from Fringe, though I was very surprised when I learned that.

Agent Green works for the Atypical Monitors who surveils, and suppresses knowledge about, superpowered individuals.

#IDADtournament

Yesterday The Gray Fox defeated former radio intern and mayor Dana Cardinal (Jesika Nicole) from Welcome to Night Vale at 2 to nil.

Huntokar The Destroyer defeated Agent Green (Ian McQuown) from The Bright Sessions at 2 to nil.

Damien and Professor Zombie are currently tied at 1 vote each. There's time for this to change!

And The Red Panda is defeating Frank the suicidal blacksheep (Pierre Bokma) from Blender's Cosmos Laundromat at 1 to nil.

#IDADtournament

@alcinnz @tshrinivasan @njoseph @elementary @federico3 tagging #ElementaryOS was a good hint. I run Debian, and always need to recommend to non-techies what I don't run: Ubuntu. Not ElementaryOS. Secondly, it would need persuasion that paying for it is a good thing. Firstly, its a bad start that I don't run what I recommend.

Maybe techies have to pay for a non-techie distribution and develop on it, to get othwrs to.

I was pretty fed up with the behavior of 'df', so I wrote my own diskfree tool.

It's called 'duf', it's written in #golang, and you can get it here: https://github.com/muesli/duf

On ArchLinux, you can simply install 'duf' from the AUR.

People discount oral history from indigenous communities especially aboriginal Australians and Indigenous circumpolar peoples despite following religious texts that was written hundreds of years after the death of the prophet.

I think people seem to recognize the flaws that oral history can hold in the exaggeration or dramatization of its tales but don't realize that this often assists in deciphering history by allowing people to conceptualize ideas they don't yet have a full understanding of.

can someone recommend a dictionary that's searchable by phonemes?

i want to find words that contain a specific syllable or homophones of the syllable

One of the things that I liked from the Social Dilemma is that they pointed out that the problem isn't necessarily the existence of the technology, or the algorithms, or social communication platforms in themselves... but that a major issue arises when we turn those algorithms back on to ourselves.

It was kind of a subtle point made in passing, but in my opinion this is the whole point: Instrumentalizing people through the application of algorithms on people produces bad outcomes for people.

It's not just that the algorithms are biased (they are), but simply the fact that they are being used to measure and sort people and then provide or enforce different outcomes on people based on how someone gets sorted.

I'm curious if there are any exceptions or if this instrumentalization is universally unhealthy for humans (because it is inherently dehumanizing)?

Okay, people, we have the #Samizdat Overview:
https://0xacab.org/rysiek/samizdat/-/blob/master/docs/OVERVIEW.md

I think it's reasonably complete, and I *hope* it is reasonably informative. Thank you to everyone who provided their input and feedback, couldn't have done it without you.

This is a complex project trying to solve a complicated issue. Boiling it down to a single readable document is Hard. Here's hoping it's good enough, but suggestions on how to improve are welcome, as always.