Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

An insanely good Adwaita theme for the Firefox web browser https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/new-adwaita-theme-firefox

As I work on my own decentralised stuff, product is the biggest problem I solve for. We have tools, we have strengths, and we have weaknesses. We can contextualise these and provide a tool that becomes easier and better to use than their counterparts. Right now predominantly we live among the FOSS — in the same way you’d use ChristianMingle because the faithful are there. But distributed systems aren’t just for botnets and protein folding. They’re for recontextualising how this whole global network works. It may not be about one tool, one product. It may be about reconsidering everything, all at the same time. Network reset.

"Save the Earth"
[source: @TommySiegel@birdsite]

The Linux kernel hackers announced people.kernel.org, a successor of Google+ for blogging... federated via ActivityPub. Don't wake me up yet!

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-people-kernel-org

There's a new raspberry pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/

- 3x boost to CPU performance (moving to 28nm from 40nm)
- 4x USB 2.0 ➡️ 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0
- 1x HDMI ➡️ 2x micro HDMI
- Micro USB power ➡️ USB-C power
- Still at $35 for the base model (plus new memory upgrade options)

I'm legitimately _afraid_ of facebook's new crypto scam

like i feel fear when i think about it

<barrucadu> At work we have a large postgres table called "mongodb" with two columns called "collection" and "document", the latter of which is JSONB. Apparently it works well

From #haskell on freenode.

Switch is o bit heavy, so here's a lighter one

TEXTREME is a juicy text processor. With various situational effects

https://le-von.itch.io/textreme

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

- C. A. R. Hoare (Turing award winner)

These corporations hate copyleft licensed software because its reciprocal nature - derivative works must also carry the same license, and cannot be "closed" - legally blocks the corporates from exploiting (colonising) the software for private profit without reciprocating to the community who created it. Imagine that.

If you've ever wondered how books get onto archive.org, this is how