Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

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

Reminder that good fediverse admins don't block domains, they block users

So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)

This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.

https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/9a3f803a-9482-43b8-b8f4-1dbff7a13178

Stop using Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is moving to remove autonomy from Web users. Excuse me while I purge it from my machines. Please remember - it’s a “open source” “project” (commerically provided product) whose goal is to not to “affect our [Google’s] ability to customize ads and/or could block ads online, which would harm our business” (from their SEC 10-K filing).

Google Chrome is not built for people; it’s built for Google, by Google. You are their bank.

mom can I have [100% browser market share]
so you can [give everyone a fast and modern browser]?
yeeeeeees
*actually forces all users to disable adblocking like a boss*
g o o g l e time