m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

hey new friends and old, also strangers and enemies, pls say hello to nina. sometimes she likes to stand like she's a person. #CatsOfMastodon

:dudelookatmyearsbromyearslookatmyears:

"In many ways, D is like Go. It uses garbage collection, has a nice library with everything you need out-of-the-box, is cross-platform (available for Windows, macOS, all major Linux distributions, Android, and even FreeBSD,) has functional programming features, has integrated unit testing, a package manager, and much more."

https://akos.ma/blog/d-or-what-go-may-have-been/

#inPURRection #gattini #kittens

Help me find a Mastodon post? In the last month or so, somebody posted a picture of custom "pixels" — a shape like the LCD numerals we know, but they had some angles and extra corner bits, and the shapes of letters they made were really intriguing. Does that sound familiar? Possibly one piece of a weekly link roundup? Would love pointers if that sounds at all familiar.

Sacré bleu !

Based on my previous failed experiments, I was not expecting to get so close on the first try (well, first now that I'm working with a functioning keyboard). By "this," I mean swipe typing using wvkbd and swipeGuess, btw.

Obviously, my word list needs tweaking. There are some words that are just impossible to swipe due to similarly located results that take precedent, but it should be possible to refine over time. There is...

#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #phosh #sxmo #swipeguess

#ScalaIO Hey, i'm looking for an experienced Scala dev with aspirations for mentoring, evolving practices, technical management of projects (derisked path from idea to poc/MVC/milestones, reassessment, etc)

We're rudder.io, a secops tool for checking and enforcing security configurations, patch, best practices on heterogenous IT infra.

It's a 15y old Scala project, maintained with love, now mostly zio based and on the verge to switch to Scala 3. We also do elm for front, and the system team does rust and f#.

Small team (6 for dev), extremely low turnover, floss good citizens, strong and sustainable growth.

French company based on Paris with up to 90% remote, looking for a French worker based on France. Come talk to me 👋

(NDR: hum, pas sûr de pourquoi j'ai ecrit ce post en anglais)

#fediHiring #rudderio #scala #france

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees, ends advocacy for open web, privacy, and more

More bad news from Mozilla.

The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

[…]

Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director Nabiha Syed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — advocacy and global programs — are “no longer a part of our structure.”

↫ Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch

This means Mozilla will no longer be advocating for an open web, privacy, and related ideals, which fits right in with the organisation’s steady decline into an ad-driven effort that also happens to be making a web browser used by, I’m sorry to say, effectively nobody. I just don’t know how many more signs people need to see before realising that the future of Firefox is very much at stake, and that we’re probably only a few years away from losing the only non-big tech browser out there. This should be a much bigger concern than it seems to be to especially the Linux and BSD world, who rely heavily on Firefox, without a valid alternative to shift to once the browser’s no longer compatible with the various open source requirements enforced by Linux distributions and the BSDs.

What this could also signal is that the sword of Damocles dangling above Mozilla’s head is about to come down, and that the people involved know more than we do. Google is effectively bankrolling Mozilla – for about 80% of its revenue – but that deal has come under increasing scrutiny from regulars, and Google itself, too, must be wondering why they’re wasting money supporting a browser nobody’s using.

We’re very close to a web ruled by Google and Apple. If that prospect doesn’t utterly terrify you, I honestly wonder what you’re doing here, reading this.

Good morning! #CatsOfMastodon #KatLand #Cats #BlackCat #Cat

He was sleeping and suddenly startled by a weird sound in the house, so in stead of a quitely sleeping cat picture, this is what I got.

Ich ändere meinen Namen jetzt von Dr. Orthmann auf Dr. Dolittle. 😬

Mit dem ersten Kaffee im Bett kam nicht nur das Hörnchen zum Frühstück vorbei, sondern auch ein Rotkehlchen. Ich glaube, wir waren alle etwas irritiert. 🤣

ffmpeg and qemu are by the same person

basically, fabrice bellard is everything lennart poeterring wishes he was

#inPURRection #gattini #kittens

Well I guess now's the time: It's time for me to #getFediHired

I'm a software engineer with 29 years of experience. In more technologies than one person usually encounters. I've been working in Javascript and Typescript for a while, but don't let that fool you: I do rust for fun and I'm down in the guts of the runtime in C++ if I have to. I’m fixing include paths in C header files and managing deployments and doing system level tracing. I do embedded programming for fun, and I've picked at the system level APIs of everything from MacOS to Android. I can cleverly hack my way past problems, and isolate the resulting tech debt with a good explanation and the conditions under which it can be fixed.

I leave every codebase neater than I found it. I can manage awkward technology transitions, and I can bring a fair bit of open source know-how to bear on things.

I'm a team-oriented, consensus-focused person, but confident executing on my own and iterating from there. I will boldly start and show a prototype if that's what it takes. I'm not easily bored, so if it just needs a heavy lift, I'm here for that too.

I've worked in PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Rust, C, C++, Vala, Scheme, and a dozen more languages (and I'll learn any new one I need to) and have written truly unfortunate amounts of hardened, careful bash.

I've installed and built VoIP platforms with Asterisk integrations, I've built mail servers and custom authentication. I've built FUSE filesystems for fun, and I'm always after ways to make software simple, durable, and reliable.

Got a team that could use me? Hit me up. aredridel@dinhe.net. Resume and letters of recommendation available on request (you really don't have to take my word for what I'm capable of.)

I'm looking for work!

I've worked on Mac apps like Growl and Adium, did QA and integration on Apple's Foundation framework, and developed custom analysis tools for Field Team 6. I've also done a wide variety of my own tools, mostly in Python, C, or Objective-C.

I live in SF; can do Bay Area commute or remote.

Check out my résumé: https://boredzo.org/resume/

#FediHire #GetFediHired

QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image

A long, long time ago, back when running BeOS has my main operating system had finally become impossible, I had a short stint running QNX as my one and only operating system. In 2004, before I joined OSNews and became its managing editor, I also wrote and published an article about QNX on OSNews, whic

https://www.osnews.com/story/141089/qnx-becomes-free-for-non-commercial-use-releases-raspberry-pi-4-image/

#QNX

Modify #sway on the #pocketreform. #waybar can be small. replace #wofi with #fuzzel

Also adding shortcut to switch to scale 1.5 when surfing the net