ERR: 0CK5 @everlastingrocks@librem.one

You, the programmer, should be comfortable reading specifications and RFCs in the normal course of your work. Get good at skimming large documents to find the info you need. Don't be afraid of them, they're very helpful!

Theory: if a code module has lines that are 10x indented (even if grammatically it doesn't need it), the project is unsalvageable.

Either I can’t find it or there’s no “fork” command on the “mobile view” of GitHub and they seem to have removed the option to switch to the desktop view (wtf, folks, it’s 2020, this is not how you design a web site).

Anyway, so one way to fork a repo from a phone is to choose the “Create new file” command. That will fork it for you (you don’t have to actually complete the process to create a new file).

Listen, can we stop already with the master -> main thing, please? The keyboard warriors pining for it would find their time much better spent protesting things like the summary execution of the black population by the police. Our priorities are severely out of order here.

Repeat after me: blockchain is centralised.

You want to tilt the power dynamics to favour social justice? You don’t do that by making a billion copies of the same database. You do it by ensuring that a billion people can have their own unique databases.

Expend your energy to realise topological decentralisation not global proofs. Sure, it won’t make you a billionaire but if that’s what you want, what the fuck you reading my feed for?

https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/1619c000-7c44-4330-9177-29a0854bd759

Forks & pull requests versus emails

> We Don't Really Own the Digital Possessions That We Buy Online

Thank you Captain Obvious.

When I'm talking to my wife it's "Do we have access to ___" not "Do we own ___". And "copyright violation" not "pirated".

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/07/01/0434249

Internet of shit: vendor goes out of business and you can STILL buy their cloud security camera in several stores as of right now, but you can't use it.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/06/26/163218

General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/26/Vendor-purpose-OS.html

#blog

Student drops out of school because he's not allowed to perform all coursework without proprietary software.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2020-06/msg00000.html

Imagine using race to determine whether or not someone's racist

If only those who want to tear down monuments to slavery had their eyes open to goonerment goonsquad tyranny...