Why I'm deleting my #Twitter account, and how people can migrate to the #Fediverse and even still follow people on the old site.
https://michel-slm.name/posts/2022-04-26-goodbye-twitter/
This post is day 20 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge
I implore any #FLOSS group using #Telegram to consider switching to @matrix for public (unencrypted) and private (#E2EE) chats, and #Fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma, Write.as etc) for announcements. And Discourse.
Come watch me and my colleagues discuss what we're working on for @fedora and #CentOS at this year's @fosdem and CentOS Dojo! From speeding up #RPM to managing desktops and servers at scale, these should be fun.
Both free to attend. And our time slots should work for both EU and US attendees since we're doing this from our homes in the US.
https://michel-slm.name/posts/2021-02-02-fosdem-and-centos-dojo/
This post is day 13 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge
#Fedora
#FOSDEM
#FOSDEM2021
#FLOSSconf
#FLOSSevent
#FLOSScommunity
USpol, privacy
We're in a horrible situation in the US, but I guess one silver lining is that some politicians are finally taking #privacy more seriously
lol
somebody pulled the codeforge equivalent of sending a mail to the entire address book and put their not-so-good PR into the inboxes of all ~400k people who ever registered for access to Unreal Engine code. 👌😂
I think I'll put a notice on Odysseus's website & Github repo that I no longer plan to continue unless someone takes it over. Future development will go towards adding what I consider to be some of Odysseus's most important features to GNOME/elementary Web.
Even if I don't like writing GTK apps in C (usually I'm ambivalent).
And towards building my own chrome for my own browser engines, which I now plan to publish on the @elementary AppCenter & @gnome FlatHub amongst elsewhere.
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I’m going to start a monthly desktop screenshot to chronicle whatever changes I make on the desktop, OS, DE, wallpapers, themes…etc. Starting today, and isn’t it nice how well this wallpaper matches with the Sweet theme.
#fedora #linux #monthlyscrot #plasma #kde
New York state passes first-ever ‘right to repair’ law for electronics with tools, parts, and instructions for repair available to both consumers and independent shops
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153504/right-to-repair-new-york-state-law-ifixit-repairability-diy
@xpil internationalized domain names (aka. IDNs) are a hugely difficult subject.
On the one hand, yes they enable these kinds of attacks.
On the other hand, speakers of languages using alphabets different than plain ASCII should have the technical ability to use their alphabets and scripts online in full capacity.
There is no good, clear solution, still. Using punycode solves the security angle, but dramatically reduces usability for anyone using non-ASCII script. I.e. most of the world.
You Can Now Pre-Order the HP Dev One Linux Laptop Powered by Pop!_OS Linux https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-pre-order-the-hp-dev-one-linux-laptop-powered-by-pop_os-linux
This looks cool: #mozilla has released an add-on for #firefox that can do web page #translation *locally* instead of sending data to the cloud.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/
Based on Project Bergamot and implemented in WebAssembly
A direct-access storage device based on tape!
"In comparison to the contemporary IBM 2311 Disk Device, the IBM 2321 Data Cell Device holds 55 times more data, while being only seven times slower (85ms and 600ms access times respectively)."
My dad just told me about this crazy machine that he managed to avoid working on. He apparently switched to programming to avoid having to work on things like this.
IBM 2321 Data Cell - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell
https://uk.pcmag.com/processors/140392/researchers-power-an-arm-processor-for-a-year-using-algae
“A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge successfully replaced a battery with algae to provide continuous power to a microprocessor.
“The tiny system is roughly the same size as an AA battery and runs an ARM Cortex M0+ processor. However, rather than sipping power from a rechargeable battery, the researchers used a non-toxic blue-green algae called Synechoycystis to naturally harvest energy when exposed to the sun through photosynthesis.”
@natecull "Not having applications at all" goes a long way toward conveying my intent in relying strongly on shell / console / command-line tools principally. I've never liked monolithic applications, and for a long time the only one I really used was a GUI web browser (and if possible, I'll still gravitate to a terminal-based one).
I'd also started off mostly working with remote access to my real computer, whether that was running Unix, VMS, MVS, or whatever. The idea of a local interactive client (text or GUI) and some remote box, or set of boxen, on which Heavy Shit ran, seemed sensible. Local side remained responsive. Any given remote box might get saturated, but there were usually others.
Shared resources might be disk, comms channels to common storage, and external networking. Mostly those didn't matter much (we're talking 1990s-era here).
The workstation age was ... in some ways a step back. I mean, it's nice having a bunch of power on my desktop, but that also means that when I want it to get busy it's absolutely pigged out.
And no, I'm not a gamer, so local low-latency high-graphics performance wasn't really a need.
OpenCollective are currently hiring, 2 senior software engineers
LWN is now on Mastodon https://lwn.net/Articles/895898/ #LWN
The problem I have with the Internet today is that, in the 1980s, I thought (hoped) that massive access to a) personal computing and b) networking would be a force that (slowly, perhaps, but inevitably over time) made us all smarter and kinder.
Instead I fear that networked computing is making us all dumber and crueller. And the dumbing and the cruelling is accelerating.
That's maybe too simplistic an analysis: it probably always had the potential to do both, and it probably *is* doing both.
Meta production engineer on weekdays, #Fedora package maintainer on weekends. #Lisp-er and #FP enthusiast, but coding mostly in #Python and #Ruby - only for #Chef - at work. #freesoftware #linux user since 1998.
He/him pronouns.
Please have a filled profile (or enough toots) before requesting to follow, so I can get a feel of who you are, thanks!