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Seven programming languages every programmer should master: Scheme, Forth (w/o local variables), Self, Smalltalk, Haskell, (Object)Pascal, Ruby

#UnpopularOpinion

Things that are *NOT* #pranks:
Lying, bullying, bothering people, creepy sexual harassment, being bigoted

"Why Every Prank Eventually Goes Wrong"
https://youtu.be/oiS-zQ1woLk

"my other car is a cdr"

"Plan to throw one away. You will do that, anyway. Your only choice is whether to try to sell the throwaway to customers."
— Frederick P. Brooks

——
https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway

"Longevity implies a resistance to change, obsolescence, or competition, and greater odds of continued existence into the future."

#Longevity
——
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

#Idea

A richer terminal environment..
(would improve all computing)

Non-intrusive notifications on the terminal

Integrated with Reticulum (over LoRa & via i2p) and using it as primary way to contact other people (secondary: i2p)

Easy & secure file transfer to other people

Easy & secure text/chat to & with other people, services, etc…

Like email with contact request approval & encryption

Like usenet but with a 1 post/6h limit

Like WWW w/o servers

#EnshitificationResistant

@guigsy yeah v.v

This internet is terrible v.v

everything we need we have to rent from middlemen who all spy on us…

we own nothing…

:sighs:

Or we move to #i2p or #Reticulum

Or we don't build a great website… go another way… frak them all… let all those middlemen go frell themselves …. go our own way … reinvent the internet, reimplement the web… built our own GRID

See also https://epicyon.libreserver.org/@bob/116578199988929246

@anon_opin

@ami_angelwings

:looks at her dextroamphetamine:

#ADD #Narcoleptic

@guigsy OR side step corporations and run our own internet on our own hardware as individuals, as communities, and/or as municipalities

@anon_opin

See also:
#Freifunk
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

#Idea

Like Beaker Browser but not javascript

browsing, authoring, publishing, searching, sharing, editing, bundling, etc…

an author writes a page
a bundle is a collection of pages

article, paper, flyer, … as page type
blog, wiki, forum, … as bundle types

bundles can be merged into new bundles

authors, bundles, & pages are IDed with uniq cryptographically hashes

Resharing bundles you visit & subscribe

No servers, no domains

no css, no js

semantic tags

integrated (p2p) search

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/

#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards

#Phosphor #Apple #iOS #iCloud

"Free and open-source iOS device manager for macOS. Browse backups, export messages, extract photos, manage apps - no subscriptions, no iCloud lock-in."

https://momenbasel.github.io/Phosphor/

If the Netherlands (or Europe) would create a publicly owned (internet) bank I'd move my banking there.

We need a public option and to stop guaranteeing bank deposits at commercial banks. Let the financial sector insure it themselves.

#UnpopularOpinion #PublicBank #PublicBankingOption

Strongly starting to suspect this is the intended outcome

"Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency."

https://chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/116549440329775404
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#AgeVerification #OnlineIDChecks #GateKeeping #DigitalAgency #RightToDiscover

Why doesn't the EU tax advertisements?

Set it at a rate of 0.0001 euro/view

Why doesn't the EU tax for-profit social networks (incl (free) email providers)?

Set the rate at 0.001 euro/day/(european) user + 0.000001 euro/post

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#TaxCorporations #TaxAssets #TaxAdvertisements #TaxAds #TaxSocialNetworks

May #Reticulum become a default network stack on all #FLOSS OSes: BSD, Linux, OpenIndiana, Haiku, Plan9, etc :D …

And reimplement finger, talk, etc to use reticulum :D

@dillo maybe consider:

Absolute URLs are exclusively for hyperlinks to another webpage.

Webpages should have been restricted to load files only by relative URLs & never load any file by absolute URLs.

Also, per website style design was a terrible UX and accessibility mistake

#Stylesheets should've been something you install in your own browser such that "the web" would have the uniform look and feel you prefer.

Just a thought

#idea

#X12 as backward compatible #X11 + (opt) scalable vector graphics + animation + better isolation & security

#Y12 as better #X12 but compatibility breaking with #X11 + sync audio + over #QUIC

Linux is just a phase, eventually you will end up on a BSD

#UnpopularOpinion

As a species we really need to consider making UV-C lamps at the entrance, kitchen, bathroom, etc mandatory

( With movement sensors: switch off when mammal enters, switch on as soon as there is no mammal present )

And HEPA filters + UV-C lights on any air intake ^.^

#UnpopularOpinion

#Q: #Telnet over #QUIC?

——
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet

#Q: Where is the $599 #Linux/#BSD "Neo" notebook?

This is the first #AIWinter I'm impatient for

#Q: Why does the #Rust community tend to reimplement #GPL licensed code as #MIT licensed Rust code?

@Pierrec @ami_angelwings the words used in that passage are kinda hush hush tones of sexual exploitation & perversion #LostInTranslation

Maybe more like their version of what the #DoorDashGirl did

Given how #LLMs work, it would make sense to treat LLMs the same way as other stochastic way of divination and consult demons or oracles, like tarot cards, throwing bones, tea leafs, etc…

It's been a long while since The Holy Scripture had it's last expansion pack, but I'm sure the next expansion pack will at least contain a prohibition on making and consulting LLMs

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#MachineLearning #LargeLanguageModels #UnpopularOpinion

"#Pascal is for building pyramids — imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. #Lisp is for building organisms — nature's way of building a small, flexible system that grows, adapts, and evolves."
— Alan Perlis

#ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

#BASE: Basically Available, Soft state, and Eventually consistent

Every trade deal should start with free movement of labour and services

No free movement of capital and goods without free movement of labour and services

#UnpopularOpinion #FreedomOfMovement #Trade #International

"#Pascal is for building pyramids — imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. #Lisp is for building organisms — nature's way of building a small, flexible system that grows, adapts, and evolves."
— Alan Perlis

Use https://avin.github.io/sexy-qr/ to generate your own QR codes

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Repos: https://github.com/avin/sexy-qr
#QRCodeGenerator #QRCode

Copyright only applies to something human created. Anything machine generated cannot be copyrighted, unless it's a simple reproducible transformation from something human created.

To get copyright protection on machine executables, the author or publisher should put the full human readable code & data (everything needed to reproduce the original experience of running the executable) under escrow to be released into public domain once the copyright term expires.

#UnpopularOpinion #Copyright

I'm going to eliminate DHCP from my home lan

#Goals #NoDHCP #mDNS #DNSSD

https://zeroconf.org
https://www.multicastdns.org
https://www.dns-sd.org

#CachingProxyServer ?

#OverHeard

"I apologise for my mother, she tends to speak truthfully"

If you say you "NEED"

#MicrosoftExcel

"because it's more powerful"

Than you SHOULD actually learn to use #R

https://www.r-project.org

#UnpopularOpinion

If you "NEED" #MicrosoftExcel "because it's more powerful"

Than you really actually need #R

https://www.r-project.org

#UnpopularOpinion

#Question
#DearInternet
#DearFediverse
#DearLazyWeb

(1) Does the Apple MacBook Neo support virtualisation (Hypervisor)?

#HyperVisor #QEMU #VirtualMachine #Virtualisation

(2) Can you do macOS/iOS software development on an Apple MacBook Neo?

#Swift #ObjectiveC

(3) Can you do software development on an Apple MacBook Neo?

#ObjectPascal #Delphi #Ada #Lisp #Scheme #Racket #SmallTalkLang #SelfLang

#AppleMacBookNeo #Apple #MacBookNeo

Some other suggestions to #Apple
(And anyone else if Apple doesn't do it)

Enable neighbourhood collaboration

Enable automatic ad-hoc mesh networking whenever two or more devices are near enough… without leaking any information unintended

Enable (anonymous) IM & file transfers with anyone on a device nearby

Embrace #FLOSSH by providing the software needed to make Linux, BSD, HaikuOS, OpenIndiana, etc… closely compatible with the macOS/iOS/iPadOS ecosystem

#Apple should’ve ignored the (pseudo) AI hype

Continue #NeuralAccelerator hardware & #MLX software development, enable running useful LLM locally

Partner with Steam, make running #Games on #macOS & porting to #iOS trivially easy

Embrace a “local first, intermittent connections, eventually consistent” view of the future

Be an alternative to the “cloud first, always on, always connected” future everyone else in trying to sell

Focus on #HomeAutomation

#UnpopularOpinion #MachineLearning

#Idea

I want a 499 euro #RuggedSmartPhone
- with 15+ day standby battery
- dumb buttons phone on one side
- large unbreakable touchscreen smart phone on the other side
- a physical switch: buttons or screen
- 24MP camera
- USB3 (with display port)
- WiFi7, BT5.2, LoRa, 5G
- proper biometric security
- running Linux or BSD

#IMHO every #ContactsApplication should have a "Tea or coffee" field, with perhaps add some room for "Sugar?" "Milk?"

"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
— Frank Herbert

#Government #NonProfit #Sovereign #NotABusiness
#Quote #FrankHerbert #Dune #Aristocracy

Oh wow .. that's so obviously better and should've existed forever

Had to Reinvent the #SailingBlock
https://youtu.be/2efa3epOGgY

#Pulley #BlockAndTackle #HoistingTackle #Polyspast #Katrol

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.”

#proverb #metaphor

@whitequark Can't it log via #Syslog to another device on lan?

(I'm a complete PXE, NetBoot noob but interested )

Especially with "generative AI" being available I don't see how one can do any kind of objective "age verification" reliably, without some kind of (government or (paid) 3rd party) doing what is essential an "identity verification" or de-anonymization & some kind of permanent audit trail being created outside your control maintained by middlemen: government or third party

(And likely more #DRM & #DMCA bullshit)

#AgeVerification #DeAnonymization

@mwl

I'm still using #InstikiWiki

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage

#unpopularOption

Has #Scuttlebutt #SSB #SecureScuttlebutt already solved the infinite storage problem? Or does it still use a forever growing blockchain?

#RightToBeForgotten #PermanentRecordsConsideredHarmful

A #DieHard movie is at it's core a heist movie, with an impressive & clear villain as protagonist, civilian(s) taken hostage, bantering between the (accidental) hero (antagonist) & villain (protagonist), a ticking countdown clock + claustrophobic feel, a memorable musical score framing & informing the story, often with annoyingly rule following official(s) being useless & some comic relief characters