m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

An #introduction post is probably appropriate. So: Hello from #norway !

I'm here hoping to find interesting #DIY #electronics and other nerdy projects, in addition to sharing my own stuff.

I've been fiddling with #esp32 microcontroller/WiFi modules for a while, and will probably post my share of esp32 related projects.

My primary programming languages are #php #cpp #javascript

I do #pcb design with #Kicad, simple 2D design with #qcad and 3D work in #freecad.

I write about some of my projects on my personal blog, https://espenandersen.no

My GitHub repository is found at https://github.com/espena

(Image from my garage workbench)

Caturday Part II: Undercover Cat

#cats #catsOfMastodon #FediCats #caturday

Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/tabby-cat-on-open-book-582070/
Artist: Heather McKeen

@KraftTea
Was USSR about socialism or communism though?
In the context of your screenshots and worker protests, this is one of the major and most widely known failures of USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre
This is when the mask came off indeed — IMO it's same old feudalism: first it was Tsar's serfdom, then Soviet serfdom and now it's a weird combination of the two. Of course being Russian I might be perceiving some things under the wrong angle, but this means that the optics of "westerners" might be even more skewered. People in US and Europe like looking at Russia through the lens of anti-colonial agenda — because they easily recognise some familiar things, but that is precisely why it should not be done: it doesn't describe the true nature of things.
That is true, some regions of Russia might be poorer than others, it is also true that regional nationalism is rarely tolerated, but genuine grassroots Russian nationalism isn't tolerated either — nationalists were among the first in Russia to be jailed or forced into exile, grassroots Russian nationalism cannot be allowed and always gets displaced with some state surrogate, there is a good reason for that: being Russian in Russia doesn't mean being in a privileged position over other nations, being Russian means being the property of Russia, a dispensable resource that the almighty state owes nothing to. This relationship is feudal in nature.
There are exceptions like Chechnya — it's often presented domestically as regional nationalism, much to some of the "Russian nationalists'" discontent — but it's just good old divide and conquer in disguise, because Kadyrov is no Chechen nationalist — in essence he's just a regional vassal. This explains why it's being tolerated: vassal - suzerain relationship is perfectly normal under feudalism. This also explains why it's easy for Russia to maintain close ties with some Central Asian countries, some African ones and autocratic regimes all over the globe: dealing with "owner of these lands" is perfectly normal under feudalism. Belarus is no exception.
Dealing with people who want to decide the fate of their country on the other hand: e.g. maintaining closer ties with EU rather than Russia — is completely unacceptable, these people are treated as "runaway slaves" having no master, they have to be brought back under the boot heel immediately — that is exactly what we see Russia currently doing in Moldova, in Georgia, this is what Russia was doing sending the army to Kazakhstan early in 2022 before starting the hot phase of war with Ukraine. And yes — the most extreme case is Ukraine, sending the army to quell the "peasant rebellion", this is what Russia was always doing: domestically and not — two centuries ago Russia was restoring monarchies in Europe, always willing to provide a helping hand to bring good old feudalism back.
Russian Empire was never even a real empire, for ordinary folk the "metropole" was never much different from "colonies" — Peter the Great just liked the thought of being an emperor, this was a cool thing at the time. Just the same, Russia never transitioned into a nation state — "Russian nation" is something ephemeral, in the very early stages of development — that's why it's easy for the state to replace genuine nationalism with some surrogate, nation is a certain stage of social organisation — it's something people have, serfs have no nation — they only have masters. That is why there was no "friendship of peoples" in USSR, no communism, no socialism — is was all fake: serfs can wear any "national" dress as long as they comply, this is all good old feudalism.
And of course modern Russia has nothing to do with capitalism either — free markets are nowhere to be found, the most profitable industries/branches of economy are under complete control of the state: some officially, some not — it's another disguise to call it "state capitalism" too fool the unsuspecting westerners. People should stop it and see past that: the society and the state in Russia never transitioned past the feudal stage, looking at Russia even through the lens of colonialism is like looking for a spine in a worm — it's simply not there, you might find some things that resembles this and that, but playing along with it would be a lie — because it does not describe the true nature of things.

https://mltshp.com/p/1QJ2F “motto”

Good boy Gizmo, this is the way to sit at the table (unlike last night 😹)

#catcontent #CatsOfMastodon

#funnypic #diabetes #insulin #accidentalhumor

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.