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Whatever happened to micro payments reagarding news?

I'd be far more willing to pay a small fee to read some articles, than to start a subscription. Subscriptions incentivize people to reduce the diversity of news they get, which AFAIK is a Bad Thing.

@kyle The beard is worse because it keeps growing back. It's easier with the swap partition, you can just not install it and be done. No shaving needed later on.

@js @jbauer @xerz Objective C++ is certainly wierd. What I meant was regular C++ vs Objective C -- do you prefer Objective C over regular C++ and why?

@js @jbauer @xerz What makes you prefer Objective-C over C++?

@syntax I didn't get my librem5 yet so this remains to be seen, but I think I will mostly kill WiFi and bluetooth but still have the cellphone part on because I normally want to be able to receive calls. But I appreciate having the option of turning everything off and still being able to use the phone (ok manybe not a "phone" anymore then, but a pocket computer anyway).

@ccamara @duckduckgo @pixelfed Yes, that's interesting. I've seem those ads in Stockholm as well. The times they are a-changin', maybe, finally?

@agx @purism Nice! Could that be used to signal different things using different light characteristics, like blinking slowly means "new email" and blinking quickly means "new sms"? Could be useful to get a quiet hint about what is happening while still leaving the screen off until the user turns it on.

@mc@mastodon.sdf.org Glad to see Pascal still being used! Decades since I used it now, but I remember it was nice, not as cryptic as C/C++ and such. For example, "begin" is easier to understand than {.

@Xjs @fribbledom I also heard about this as coming from Rawls. Apparently other philosophers earlier as well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_

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> Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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> These are virtues of passion. They are not, however, virtues of community. The virtues of community sound like their opposites: diligence, patience, and humility.
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> They're not really opposites, because you can do them all at the same time.… These are the virtues that will carry our community into the future, if we do not abandon them.

— Larry Wall

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Someone said "is that still a thing?" when I announced I was on Mastodon. Is it?
Boost this so we actually get a few votes maybe? How far can it go?

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Why do the cookie popups start with "We value your privacy", clearly they don't because they would've just not included the crap.

@aral Great! If you like then check out by @purism as well -- more expensive but also more ambitious.

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Here’s the video of my talk “Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.” from Creative Mornings Istanbul on Friday.

Edited to fix the audio sync issue, add captions, chapters, and links to all the mentioned tools, etc.

Enjoy + please share! :)

small-tech.org/videos/creative

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