Dean @dean@librem.one
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I am into science and climate activism. I love to learn about social issues and to challenge my own perspectives. I'm also into free and open-source software and I am back in University studying computer science.
Joined Jun 2019
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We do a disservice to people who genuinely have a hard time picking up social cues or "reading the room", when we put that in the same category as decades of toxic behavior--behavior which literally thousands of people have attempted to change since the 1980s.
I would encourage you to read Sumana's post, here: "Not The First Time We Tried" (many other detailed such accounts exist).
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The Federation Falacy - On Life & Lisp: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html
I'm sure plenty of you disagree, I think I recall specifically that.
Personally I like advocating P2P, to avoid asking asking the question of "which server do you want to use?"
@StayGrounded_net haha, free 10 min go at flying the plane.
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I renamed the essay to "Towards A Cooperative Technology Movement" and moved it to https://cooperativetechnology.codeberg.page/
@Ventronik sparql could be useful. Gnome Tracker is for the desktop but there are possibly other projects for remote data.
"If a majority of apps store data with libtracker-sparql, the shell could use libtracker-sparql to query these databases directly and save the overhead of spawning each app. The big advantage of the federated approach, though, is that search providers can store data in the most suitable method for that data." - https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/tag/tracker/
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Ada Lovelace is known for being the first computer programmer, which is cool, except 1) she never actually ran her programs, 2) the programs were for a machine that was never built, and 3) neither her program or the machine had any influence on modern CS.
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Why not instead use Barbara Liskov? The "Liskov Substitution Principle", the 'L' in SOLID, is named after her. Her work on CLU has influenced almost all modern languages. She invented abstract data types. She invented ITERATORS!
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Or Frances Allen? First woman to win the Turing Award. Major, *major* innovations in optimizing compilers that compiled high level languages into FAST bytecode. Without her we might still be stuck writing assembly for anything that needs performance.
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GNOME 40 is almost here meaning updates are on the way! Learn a little bit more about what's changing in Epiphany in this blog from Alexander Mikhaylenko: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/
@dsfgs This article is not even paid staff of FB. Just group admins (anyone can start a group). They should also have Stackoverflow or askUbuntu forum moderators interviewed!
I'm glad I deleted all my accounts with FB websites.
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"Ulysses claims it can currently access more than 15 billion vehicle locations around the world every month, and it estimates that, by 2025, 100 percent of new cars will be connected and transmitting gigabytes of collectible data per hour." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/one-company-wants-to-sell-the-feds-location-data-from-every-car-on-earth/
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@dsfgs yeah, I have it but rarely use it. In Australia, OSM is missing a lot of critical information. I do contribute a little but Google Maps is just so much easier.
I #deletedFacebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Also got some of my family onto Signal. A few more people left and then the friends. Face to face is the best technique to get people onto Signal. Also once they're on, get them to message their contacts already on Signal so they have a few people on their list.
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Its democracy or widespread death and despair...in the digital era you can't run democracy without the #4opens so this has to be at the root of our garden of ideas.
How would you edit the #4opens to make it more understandable for outreach http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/projects/4opens/
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Hey! I'm trying to get a better app icon for Replay (the open source YouTube client for GNOME that I'm developing). I've made some progress on it, but I ended with 4 color variants... Can you please tell me which one should I use? And why?
(Boosts are welcome)
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@dsfgs you can get the Shop Ethical app. It lists who owns what brands and what country they are from (plus other ethical issues/considerations). You then can check the products you buy and see if you want to switch to a different product based on what you value. But you cannot search by country.
- Country
- Australia
I am into science and climate activism. I love to learn about social issues and to challenge my own perspectives. I'm also into free and open-source software and I am back in University studying computer science.
Joined Jun 2019
