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Oh my! Yes, and some folks even tried to navigate while underway, taking their eyes off the road to flip pages. I think I still have at least one collecting dust on a bookshelf but they were indeed indispensable back when :)
Nowadays I'm trying to wean myself from Google Maps and love this newer application that simplifies what #OSMAnd provides. And it's surprisingly simple.
#CoMaps is available at F-Droid and for iPhone users too HERE. I try to use it about 50% of the time and it doesn't disappoint.
#tallship #Thomas_Guide #Thomas_Brothers #maps #FOSS
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Hey Todd, got you covered, although I wouldn't call it an alternative. It's the whole kitten-kabootle, complete ERP. It's not my bread & butter, but it is my butter, offering it as a managed SaaS solution for many customers serious about their CFO's having the very best to run their companies, including cash or accrual, AR/AP, Inventory, payroll, reporting, multi-national taxation, and any kind of chart of accounts that tickles your fancy.
As an engineer, most of it is beyond my total comprehension and way above my pay grade, not surprising, since I had to get a dedicated girlfriend in college just to pass a required accounting course, but I keep their machines running smoothly and they all tell me how grateful they are for insisting they at least kick the tires and take it around the block, instead of all those proprietary psuedo-alternatives they wanted me to install, some of those clients almost two decades now.
Lemme know how you like it, k?
#tallship #ERP #FrontAccounting #FOSS
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So, these are 3000 PieFed sites launched that include organizations promoting terrorist propaganda from organizations like Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, ISIL, and politicized news outlets like Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Fox, and NPR?
I'm almost certain I read that wrong lolz.
Personally, and to avoid the kinds of reactionary outbursts that resulted in the Tusky Fediverse client being briefly removed from the Google PlayStore with it's ratings plummeting from 5's to 2's for hard-coding itself as "Crippleware" while falsely promoting itself as "Free Open Source Software" (and spawning a legion of Chinese forks with the blacklists removed in the PlayStore), I have to question any decision of blaming the software for political weaponization when the software itself has nothing to do with how and in what way any particular individual chooses to say something through it.
That would be like blaming Toyota for the death of a child on a bicycle instead of the drunk miscreant who ran the child over while driving that vehicle.
Conversely, the choice of developers to decide who should be suitable, even permissable, to deploy such software might imply that such software is not in fact free, but rather, an extension of proprietary influences - something that the Fediverse itself is antithetical to - we already have too much corporate injection of content control by the perpetrators with ownership and special interests in the deprecated, proprietary and monolithic silo space in the likes of Faceplant, Twatter, InstaSPAM, Amazon (Twitch) and others; we cannot afford to be that "pot calling the kettle black".
The Fediverse is Supposed to be comprised of software that is free - free as in free from the vagaries of those who would whimsically choose what its users are permitted to see and engage out of the box...
The whole reason for the embodiment of its existence, the Fediverse is the antithesis of that industrial politic.
It's one thing for developers to recommend and urge adopters to observe, the things they endear and reject that which they abhor, yet quite another to overtly restrict the freedoms that users seek to ingest in terms of information of any kind.
It's one thing for administrators that have adopted a policy of moderation to enforce for, and impose upon, their respective user base (who similarly are free to choose having accounts elsewhere), and yet quite another for the software itself to be released as #crippleware, circumventing those choices surrounding the suitability that each particular operator and participant has in their collective and individual rights with respect to the the freedoms which they they are endowed with to decide for themselves what they're actually allowed to consume.
That despicable iron curtain ultimately vaporized, under Gorbachev's tenure, meeting with its final demise on Christmas Day 1991, when the Soviet Union abruptly ceased to exist; on Christmas Day 1989, with the demise of Nikolae and Elena Ceaușescu; when the people of East and West Germany together brought down Erich Honecker's physical wall of partition on 09 November, 1989; and when Lech Wałęsa became President for Solidarność in 1990.
Freedom means just that. Without abridgement or occlusion. That is the spirit and philosophy of FOSS and the oxygen flowing through the arteries of the Fediverse.
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NOTE: This is a repost from the Fediverse-City Matrix Room.
I meant to post on the progress that @toddsundsted has been making on kristec.
You can also checkout this ambitious project itself at:
https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec
I've been thoroughly impressed with all of the publishing features of his Fediverse server.
Some of the shortcomings, if that's how you choose to view them, might be that it's essentially a smolweb server leveraging noSQL and an accounts database that trusts all users as literal admins.
But if you're looking to self-host, and your primary interest is in publishing your own material on the #Fediverse, then this may be just the thing you've been looking for.
I cannot atest to the veracity of his claims because I haven't actually installed or tested its capabilities, but it's indeed a laundry list of features I've been hoping to see - leaving that Twitter style cloning of communications in the past, like I've been hoping for.
So for those interested, if you're impressed with the capabilities that #PieFed and #Mitra and #Socialhome bring to the table then here's a fourth initiative that is both visionary and inciteful in it's ambitions.
Your thoughts, observations?
#tallship #FOSS #kristec #Star_Trek #Fediverse #ActivyPub #publishing
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Yup. And some time ago too, I might add. The ability to take what works so well and complicate it to the point of absurdity never ceases to amaze.
#Margaret_Hamilton put two men on the moon with 4K of memory. 8K if you're counting the additional RAM on the Columbia's #AGC.
Well if you ever figure out how to lookup your NIC-HANDLE, as they're officially called (or rather, were), I'm BT-74 👋🤠
Yeah, that goes back to the days of "Direct Assignment" when #SRI also operated under the auspices of NIC.DDN.MIL.
Welcome to the club of unhappilly disenfranchised #NIC_handles 😥
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Yeah.... Them powerful rich folk get a bit hot under the collar when you make their money go missing.
Maybe he should have been a liquor store strong armed robber instead, coz he'd be outta jail by now.
And his conversion to being a Crystal Methodist didn't help things much either.
Oh, well, Easy Come Sam Easy Bankman-Fried go, and Stupid Goes All the Way to the Bone 🦴
Sam! Sam! You can't park there!
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New Bitchen' Timestamps in Mitra!
Short, i.e., 3m, 4h, Apr 14, 5d, and Dec 16, 2022. Need the full timestamp? No Prob! Just hover w/your mouse. That last post, for example, would display "December 16, 2022 at 3:23 AM PST" (If you're sitting in my seat right now).
Yeah, that's from a real post of mine, which is HERE.
Enjoy!
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They've been doing this for many years. You're right, it hits hard when it's you.
Maybe try it this way instead?:
~$ whois frankandbeanyboitoo.com No match for domain "FRANKANDBEANYBOITOO.COM". >>> Last update of whois database: 2026-04-26T23:08:23Z <<<We correctly, rightfully, and accurately called them all cybersquatters back when, but then that term was legislated to mean something different, and "Domainers" as they still call themselves, came to prominence, seemingly legitimized by the process of semantic labelling - One noun is as good as the next, they're still fricken' cybersquatters as far as I'm concerned, because that's exactly what they're doing - they're squatting on a plot of land in the DNS name space, offering nothing of value themselves.
In the real world there are three types of symbiosis:
- Mutualism: Both the host and the symbiont benefit [the same] from this relationship - although in nature, true mutualism may not actually exist in it's entirety, the relationship between lampreys and sharks are often cited as an example of this kind of symbiotic relationship.
- Commensalism: This is a more realistic plateau whereby it is acknowledged that although neither party are harmed by their relationship, one organism definitely benefits more.
- Parasitism: Domainers, Cybersquatters, and other nouns have been used to identify these blood sucking leeches. The best insecticide is to never consider any offer above that of the standard retail price of registration by that of the registry itself. These insidious parasites wither and perish when they are unable to attach themselves to a host.Automated scripts that run checking for domain registrations that have freshly fallen out of the redemption period are still a thing. What used to not be a thing was ICANN accredited registrars themselves engaging in this criminal behavior - Yeah, I said criminal. They can sue me.
In my case there were a few domains that slipped away, and for more than twenty years in one case the filthy cybersquatter (legitimized by congressional approval) sat on it, even traded it with another cybersquatter. Eventually, seeing that no one was ever going to pay their exorbitant ransom fees, they (the criminal squatters) themselves eventually let it fall into redemption, and then the black abyss below from which point these strings of characters ultimately will appear in the available name space for registration, but somewhat randomly.
That last bit was supposed to be punishment for the original registrant who let their registration renewal become so delinquent that they could no longer just renew following expiration, but have to spend a tidy (and in some cases, rather arbitrary) sum to "get their domain registration out of redemption".
But why would you pay so much, when you could just wait it out and just pay the standard registration fee at the end of it all? Early on, some folks had to shell out duckets in the neighborhood of $200, to their registration service providers.
The answer, was because someone was waiting in the shadows to snatch up their brand, their domain registration, and could ransom it for even more at that point.
So if you checked for the availability of your desired domain each day to see if it was back in the pool of available domain names (presumably using your registrars facilities to check - so they know you're still interested in claiming it again).
And suddenly it went from the post redemption black hole to coming up in your web based whois search as...
>"You can have this domain for $12,340 or make an offer!"
Man I feel your pain.
In my case, one of the domains came back to me after more than 20 years. The other one was only being ransomed for about three years before the cybersquatters let it go.
Remember, a domain is worth nothing above what the actual registrar charges for the resources under that Top-Level Domain. Period. Your Brand, however, can be worth considerably more, especially with service or trademarks, and therein lies one of the weaknesses of these cybersquatters (although you might pay less to ante up the ransom they demand). I think I've conveyed the idea sufficiently, and notwithstanding WIPO, and ICANN's UDRP, there's always the courts, and reimbursement is not unheard of.
I mention that because in your case it wasn't due to incompetence or negligence that left you without your brand (domain registration), you were spitballing and some nefarious parasite perked up when they said, "Hey I think we got a live one here, let's kidnap it!
And the rest is where things stand as of now.
I do indeed feel your pain, yet the first course of action, if you were planning on using a domain name to expand your brand's recognition, I usually recommend that people search through other Top-Level domains for that SLD and forget about the TLD that the blood sucking leeches snatched up, knowing it had meaning to you. Eventually, they'll have to decide whether it is worth it to continue renewal fees, because you've obviously moved on and have no further interest in the registration - and then, lo and behold, one day you notice that it's in the pool of available domain names again, and one of the registrars is running a special that month: First year $5.
And that's when you can say, Boom Shakalaka BOOM
#Cybersquatters #ransomers #domainers #UDRP #TRADEMARK #USPTO
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Still the Funniest Fediverse Post I've Ever Seen
#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #No_Masto_No_Mo #Funnies #Comedy (or is it?)
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Jason what time of day (the dew) did you snap that pic? Or did you mist it before taking the photo? Nasturtium, I'll have to lookup that Genus.
Regardless, it's a beautiful shot. Thanks for sharing!
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Liable "only if it intended that the provided service be used for infringement"
8 years in the making, The US Supreme Court affirms that a provider is merely... a provider, and not complicit in the illegal acts that some of it's subscribers engage in.
You would think that this was a matter of common sense, but where deep pockets are involved... Well, Read on young Grasshoppa*, and while you're at it, *try to snatch the pebble from my hand. That's the lay version in common sense language.
For what it's worth, I say, Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Mic Drop 🎤
For the dry, definitive version of the article you can read the actual unanimous ruling itself HERE
#tallship #SCOTUS #justice #piracy #ISP
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Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.
It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.
Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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Hi Karl, why don't you try asking that amazonian what a Thomas Guide is❓
#tallship #passive_listening #Industrial_surveillance #sidewalk #BLE
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I just left Cindy Cohn's Presentation and book release party via remote stream.
Cindy is the Executive director of the EFF, and came to prominence regarding the Bernstein case against the prohibition of "strong encryption" a few years back during the Clinton administration.
Today, the industrial surveillance special interests are being aided again by socialist governments in the form of California_Digital_Age_Assurance_Act (AB 1043), and I was fortunate enough to have her directly address my question about just what we're going to do to defeat this and other criminal lawfare against our identity and privacy.
My question was the first question asked (and answered, sort of), and long before the Q&A that is supposed to wrap up the presentation, but I must say that I was a bit disappointed in that she really had nothing to offer other than to say we need to fight this.
Yes, of course we do. From my point of view, as part of my terms of service for a few years now, I've done what #Midnight_BSD has done by prohibiting Californians from using their OS by changes to the licensing - perhaps this is the way to go for all of us? Letting California (and Colorado) descend into the socialist abyss of third world dystopian decay; unable to compete and compute in a world that has left them behind and turned its back on them.
It's certainly worked out well for me. Due to the #GDPR and #CCPA I prohibit all residents of the #EU and #California, respectively, from using any online services that I provide or host - even though all of my services are actually GDPR and CCPA compliant.
I'll post a follow up here once I get the URL for the on-demand recording of Cindy (and Corey Doctorow), so that you can follow along and hear what they're prepared to do about AB 1043 (and similar legislation in Colorado)... unfortunately, she didn't actually impress me with any sort of game plan to protect the FOSS community from this latest implementation of dystopian socialist surveillance.
#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Cory_Doctorow #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity
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If either of you are running #Slackware there's a package build for it here:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/qman/
If nothing else you can easily examine the build script and fashion one for your distro.
Or you can install it with a single command in one fell swoop with sbopkg
Enjoy!
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Linux Foundation to oversee DoW & FutureG Open Sourcing 6G radio next month on GitHub
The office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, in conjunction with the National Spectrum Consortium announced that the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project will be published to GitHub next month, welcoming the participation and contribution of talent from the general public, academia, and industry.
Chief program officer at the National Spectrum Consortium, Mari Silbey, stated that this will provide, "a software stack so that developers don’t have to start from scratch, but they can instead focus on building new things on top of those basic radio functions,” and further, creating an environment where developers can deploy novel wireless technology of their own envisioning.
#FutureG director Tom Rondeau states that what they're hoping to foster, "is a marketplace of competitive ideas,” in an environment where individuals can, "really break that open to this friendly, open development ecosystem".
The Linux Foundation, working closely with the Pentagon, will provide oversight and control of the software repo on GitHub, and as of the beginning of this month announced that 47 organizations have come together as founders of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, including SoftBank, AMD, UC San Diego, AT&T, Ericsson, Redhat, Verizon, Cisco, Nokia, and Nvidia.
Those interested in getting involved now can join or visit the project HERE
#tallship #OCUDU #Open_RAN #War_Department #FOSS #Linux_Foundation
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Woz uuuuuuup?
The subject, and rock star, in this 1976 photograph is the Apple I microcomputer. Of the two men in this photo, one is a talented, affable, friendly and approachable genius and superhero who created this personal computer. The other is Steve Jobs.
A turning point upon the precipice of an industrial and technological explosion that democratized computing for the masses, other contemporary superheroes were #Bill_Joy and Dr. Gary Kildall (Enjoy the video!)
#tallship #Apple_I #The_Woz #Woz #Gary_Kildall
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His love of VAXen
My longtime friend and acquaintance, Dr. Bernd Ulmann, Once had so little space in his home that he had to sleep on top of the machinery he had rescued. Dubbed, "The VAXMAN" by a visiting friend of his, the name stuck, and to this day we have an awful lot of history that would otherwise not exist - but at great personal sacrifice and expense I might add.
Here's but a taste of the vagaries that cometh your way when you indulge yourself in a (worthwhile) labor of love, one that is now shared with people worldwide, but nevertheless not without great, unforseen difficulties:
Since the warehouse was quite filled with computers I asked the company to place the tiles into the cellar and decided to bring them up into the first floor when I began to glue the supports to the floor. I never thought that 5 tons of floor tiles would be so heavy! One tile weights about 13 kg and at the beginning I carried two tiles at once (by the way - to bring something up from the cellar one has to walk around the warehouse - there is no direct in-house connection) - after some time I carried one tile at a time and after two days I could barely walk with a floor tile in my hands. By the way - the special glue to fixate the support stands to the floor is a fantastic glue - it glues shoes as well to the floor as gloves, hands to gloves, everything to everything.
We won't even go into the precarious rebuild of the roof or subsequent repairs, or the catastrophe that resulted in a hockey rink in and around dozens of vintage computer systems when a water main broke whilst he was away attending a conference in the United States (Ouch!).
You can indulge yourself in the magic that resulted in his Computer Museum HERE
There's got to be one of those laws that goes something like, "Everything always runs just fine until you close and lock the door behind you for the weekend getaway"
If there's truly an attribution for that phenomena (that everyone of us knows all too well) then do let me know!
Needles to say, he know longer sleeps atop PDP-11 systems, and I think his wife Rikka had something to do with being the motivational force in the commissioning of the wonderful computing museum, effectively putting an end to his bachelor life sleeping with VAXen.
Today, Prof Ulmann is a Professor of Business Informatics at FOM University in Frankfurt, Germany (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management). His computer museum is located in Heidenrod-Kemel, in the state of Hesse, and I believe it is still welcoming visitors by appointment.
In 2023, Dr. Ulmann founded anabrid GmbH in Berlin, continuing the pursuit of his decades long passion that predates his undergraduate years - analog computing, and even its place in the application of future AI, as demonstrated in his most recent published paper HERE. As a semiconductor company, One of the obvious missions of anabrid is the manufacturing of analog computers on a chip - beyond the bleeding edge, actually.
You can browse his Analog computer collection online HERE - it's a truly amazing accomplishment, even for the lay-person to behold. Truly.
Bernd Ulmann, a remarkable steward of computing history and visionary pioneer in the applied sciences of analog computing.
Before you go you should know...
- Hey heads up everyone! I'm preparing to launch my subscription based service here, publishing unique and newsworthy insights into technology, cookbook style tutorials and howto's and things I find personally amusing and worthwhile, from the PoV of an opinionated and accomplished member of the technology sector since 1977, when I only spoke BASIC and COBOL.
- If you're interested, subscriptions are at or just below $10 USD per month - give or take - I only accept Monero ($XMR), so I"m obviously not doing this to pay for my solo-circumnavigation of the globe in an inflatable dinghy, but there are plenty of places I can spend Monero for supplies and services, which Others will be happy I did as well.
- If you would like to subscribe, but cannot find the #crypto in your pocket, on a case by case basis you can just ask for me to publish a particular article for you, and I'll more than likely be happy to do so, since the point isn't to make money, but the value in the effort and to promote the use of Monero as tender. Or, alternatively, you can wait a few months and I usually, eventually publish my articles elsewhere (mostly the tutorials, because they have the greatest value for helping people with particular projects and problems.
- So how will you know about any particular article? Easy! I publish a teaser, you know, a few lines or paragraphs of a topic and then one of those "READ MORE HERE..." things leading you to the full article, tutorial, or How-To of general interest. That link of course, only works for subscribers, and therein lies the value of subscriptions - and it's a good cause too. #FOSS is freedom, and #Monero supports that ethic.
- Not to worry! I'll still be publishing the same old drivel as usual, but I've been putting some finishing touches on the first lot of items that will be exclusively curated for subscribers. At less than the cost of two fancy foo foo coffee drinks at that Seattle based retail chain, go ahead! Give it a spin :)** If you've got any ideas or requests, I'm down on doing the research too, so don't hesitate to ask, as long it's not centric to ewb00ntew, because frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew.
#tallship #analog_computing #Bernd_Ulmann #FOM #computer_museum #VAXMAN
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I keep telling others that over and over, even over at WHT and other industry forums.
Start with at least a half rack (full being 42U) and 100A. You can buy two or three identical (I prefer Proliants, but refurb'd Dells are just as good) 1U servers for your #Proxmox VE cluster for less than $400 each on #eBay (typically 384GB RAM each and several populated SAS bays) including shipping, straight to you or your data center of choice, an inexpensive managed layer 3 switch can be picked up for under $200 and half of the colo sites will throw in a PDU at no charge.
A full rack can be had with 200A, XC, and unmetered blended gigabit transport for under a grand per month (less than .002ms from One Wilshire here in Los Angeles), so your average half rack will be a little more than half that w/100Mbps or better.
If you have your own IP block they'll announce and route for free with a letter of agency from you and with a full rack they should be willing to throw in a /19 included in those price points gratis.
Pro Tip: wait until the last week of any month BEFORE speaking with ANY sales reps. They'll sell their own mothers to get their end of month bonuses - you can save really big coz all they care about is closing and getting that bonus check.
If you're still not sure, let me quote you...
We're being taken for a ride.
Renting is not working out. It's time to OWN the means of federation!
I couldn't agree more
#federation #Fediverse #FOSS #self_hosted #Colo
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Man, livin' at home is such a drag
Now your mom threw away your best porno magw/ Slayer’s Kerry King on guitar 🤘 💀 🤘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
#tallship #metal #Rick_Rubin #No_Fucking_Sleep_Till_Brooklyn
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@rl_dane @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42
Hey R.L. Dane,
as per your OP in this thread, I've been using #Remmina for years. X2Go, RDP, WhatEv really floats yer boat ⛵ , it's there.
Uh, oh, I feel a tangent coming on... Okay not to hijack your thread, but maybe you can offer a bit of your perspective on flatpak vs appimage alternatives, since I don't prefer either, and usually will go out of my way to create a native package for WhatEv distro I'm using if it doesn't exist, or just compile from source rawdawg if need be like I did with #Zed (which only impresses me because of Git integration and Vim bindings; and it's Rust) - Jury's still out on that one though.
Anyway, I just broke down and installed a flatpak for the #LaGrange browser because I got a bit lazy and didn't wanna make the .deb for myself.
Okay, back to your situation...
Remmina HERE is pretty comprehensive with the native package managers with ready to go .deb's for #Forky & Sid, #SlackBuild for #Slackware, #FreeBSD & #OpenBSD ports, #Devuan, #Gentoo, #Guix, and #Kali just to name some.
It's pretty straight-forward and a single package to accommodate a plethora of methodologies so you can use it as your Varsity first string go-to in a pinch most of the time.
Even better, is the fact that they don't have an ewb00ntew maintainer, lolz... Coz frinds don't let frinds run ewb00tew :p
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Modula-2, UCSD P-System, and the birth of Scala
I stumbled across this tidbit from Hacker News.
I never liked that #Borland stuffs. And used to program in #Pascal in #UCSD P-system (my alma mater). When I got to the US Department of Defense they wanted me for my #C and #COBOL skills and then they sent me to an Air Force School where I studied Modula-2 and Ada.
I did a lot of work in Modula-2, which doesn't exist anymore. Modula-3 does, but in the meantime Scala was in the works. #Ada is still actually a thing. We didn't want clever, like those one liner #Perl challenges that folks use to put in their signature lines to demonstrate how clever they thought they were through obfuscation.
Clever is bad. Clever opens up a whole universe of unexpected behavior and potential vulnerabilities. Maybe that's why #Rust became so organically popular - because it's safe by design and nowadays it's included in the Linux kernel more and more.
When you're designing software for missle guidance systems you most certainly do not want clever. The job is simple and ambiguity is potentially catastrophic in warfare.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this interview, I can identify with the #Timex_Sinclair - my dad bought me one and that membrane keyboard was horrendous, but I was persistent and eventually I was writing code in cutting edge languages on mainframes and #Vaxen.
Many of the stories about how one thing or another came about were through frustrations; like the impetus for #Linus the #Linux kernel coz #MINIX just didn't cut it, and who wants to trodge through snow drifts in #Helsinki to the computer lab when you can be warm and cozy, drinking beers in your dorm room?
This story is kinda like that too, which I can really appreciate, even though I've never played with #Scala.
I hope you enjoy it too.
https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala
#tallship #FOSS #Modula_2 #Modula_3
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This time for #Hams...
Yup, #Radio_Amateurs, I thought I'd share a little treasure trove with you all, as I figure many may not be aware of just how vast this resource is.
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications #DLARC
Their description:
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community..
As an added bonus, I've included a huge archive link for thousands upon thousands of manuals for just about any electronic device you can think of, from the Manuals Plus Collection that was rescued when that company went out of business a couple of years back.
- Feel free to boost for the benefit of your fellow Hams and electronics hobbyists 🔩 ⚡ 📻
Enjoy!
#tallship #Ham_Radio #Manuals_Plus_Collection
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Perhaps your name explains everything.❓❓❓
Linux worked just fine twenty years ago - you were broken.
Linux and Cisco have been powering the entire Internet for the past twenty years - not noticing was your bad.
You've been fucking using WyNd0z3 because you are the #Subjugated_Chattel - but there's still time for you to fix that.
Welcome back from the #Darkside, Luke! May the 4th be with you.
#luddite #Rumplestiltskin #hybernation #cave_dwellers
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A couple kids from Berkeley and a dream. That’s where it started."
Her utterance there, well that might be the understatement of the year.
"By porting it to the X86 processor, a proprietary academic testbed system only accessible to institutions and government became, in a moment, the means for any talented programmer to implement their ideas and expand their horizons."
~Lynne Jolitz, 14 July 2025
And there you are reading this, sitting there on your Android, or laptop running BSD or Linux, and what a feat that is. How wonderful it is to take all of that for granted, yet 33 years ago it was merely a vision of what could be, until Bill and Lynne smashed all doubt and a wonderful revolution exploded, unfolding into everyone's home, and indeed, even their hip pockets!
She offers some perspective on that HERE.
#tallship #FOSS #UNIX #Jolix #CSRC #80386
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Ente completes CERN sponsored audit
This includes (especially so) Ente Auth.
I wanted to bring some awareness to this because when I think of MFA I typically think of TOTP Authenticators. Like my friend Eric Hameleers (alienbob), I bent the knee way back and adopted the proprietary, closed source product Authy by Twilio.
Why? Because there were considerations to raise, such as, "What if I drop my phone in the fricken' toilet?", or, "I want my authenticator to support installs on multiple platforms and sync" - Actually, both of those considerations are really the same thing. The mess about this really was that Google Authenticator and others didn't sync, existed on a single device, and I had no need or desire to enjoy passwordless authentication offered by Microsoft for some resources.
Authy provided multi-devices w/sync, on #Android, #Linux, and #Windows, okay I guess, and my phone(s). And then Ente Auth came out, they were working on the desktop version and close to a release, it sync'ed with multiple devices and second best of all, it was the first truly cross-platform (Okay I never tried running it on a BSD) authenticator - it could sync between a Linux box and a Windows desktop and an Android - that's everything in my Universe, and actually, who cares about Windows anyway?
Just about that time, as I started considering the move, Twilio informed everyone that Authy support on Desktop was going Bye Bye!
So the choice at that point was Easy Peasy - migrate nowwwww!!! And so I fired up my rarely used wYnd0z3 box and got an alert - "This desktop version will be retired soon, you need to update to the lastest version as soon as possible"... in so many words.
Hmmm... Yeah, I dunno. I think I'mma do some online searches, this sounds fishy to me. And oh boy did it stink to high heaven. I'm glad I checked that out and found a little blurb (over on Reddit, IIRC) that covered the steps required to export everything, a script, a hacked up patch, and voila! done - got it!
There was one caveat there, for those who ventured into those same murky waters that I had - DO NOT APPLY THE TWILIO UPDATE!!!* For those who did, they found out quickly that the a patch no longer worked, they could not perform the export, and this was by design since the export had to be performed on a desktop version of Authy, effectively subjugating the non-daring with the typical enshittification that we've always known as #Vendor_Lockin.
By the time Eric apparently got around to making the move to #Ente_Auth from #Authy, the laborious process was entirely manual - one site at a time, which you can READ ABOUT HERE.
You really gotta watch these sneaky proprietary types of folks.
So anyway, fast forward a bit to where we are now, and although I mentioned my second fav reason to select Ente Auth, I didn't disclose my fav - which should be obvious: It's #FOSS. And not just that, but #Self_Hosted FOSS, if you prefer to keep things close to your breast.
Anyway, that's the backstory and the long way around my announcement here that you an read up on the Audit of all Ente products here:
https://ente.io/blog/cern-audit/
So, IMNSHO, There's really no reason to choose another authenticator, really, truly, there just isn't.
I hope that helps. Enjoy!
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“BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT EXPECTED MR. HERMAN TYPEE OMOO MELVILLE has recently been united in lawful wedlock to a young lady of Boston. The fair forsaken FAYAWAY will doubtless console herself by suing him."
~The Daily Tribune, 07 August 1847Perhaps not the most complimentary wedding congratulation a newspaper could have bestowed Elizabeth Shaw.
#tallship #literature #adventurers
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Lies, lies, lies - You lie!!!
There's no freaking way that it could be as much fun as the Whiskey a GoGo on the #Sunset_Strip in 1980! Or where you could go for the aftermath gatherings at Danny's Dog's AKA "Oki-Dog's on Pico Blvd, where vomit, and loogie, encrusted punkers gathered about, sharing slightly edible food with other homeless runaways and comparing bragging rights as to whom should win the evening award for the punker that got beat up the worst that night.
I'm sorry, but there's just no way in hades that Threads can compare to the nightly melee of West Hollywood life in the late 70's through the mid-80's.
But nice try. We get the picture. It's a Faceplant (Meta) property that isn't worth allowing into one's #Fediverse streams. Thanks for taking that bullet for the team :) Darby Crash would be proud of you.
#tallship #punk_rock #Whiskey_a_GoGo #Hollywood #Oki_Dogs
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This is indeed an abomination in not just terms of the globally environmental scale of such waste, but also an economic disaster of a magnitude that is massive.
400 million Linux and BSD machines available for $20 - $40 each, or perhaps through volunteer programs to provide free computers to those in need.
It is antithetical to the planned software obsolescence model Microsoft has embraced, a paradigm learned from that of Apple with their program of planned hardware obsolescence.
I just posted on how communities unwittingly banded together in standardizing software in the business marketplace through the act of personal software piracy, and how there's little point to willingly submit to subjugation by the proprietary, closed source software publisher market when there's virtually nothing one cannot do just as well, if not better, with #FOSS.
https://public.mitra.social/post/0199e4fc-02e7-0dcb-1857-64fc59d903be
That is how we FIX a broken software model. The way we FIX a broken hardware model is through the legislation of strict and powerful
Right to Repairlaws.I'm not sure how prevalent such laws are throughout the world or the jurisdictions they extend these common sense options to the consumer, but even considering that many folks won't actually fix their own equipment, many will, and further, small independant (and unaffiliated) shops unencumbered with official, expensive certifications will spring up to service their local communities. We have some pretty strong #Right_to_Repair laws in California and Oregon, markets that have opened up the rest of the nation with those same opportunities through the requirements they bring (long-term parts availability, etc.).
#tallship #recycle_reuse_repair #FOSS
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Try roasting beets, whole or cut up, on the BBQ grill or in the oven on a cookie sheet.
I like to cut them in half or quarters on the BBQ or into irregular slightly smaller pieces in the oven (six to eight pieces per large beet), and season accordingly to your preference - I prefer a little salt and some savory seasonings like thyme, marjoram, basil, or oregano. Steak and asada seasonings are good too, and mixing whatever you season it with in a measuring cup with EVOO a bit of balsamic vinegar is typically how I mix those seasonings. Then stir and apply with a brush.
Don't be afraid to let them char a bit for character, again, to your preference of taste. When finished, they should be tender and melt away in your mouth.
Some folks aren't into the flavor of olive oil, but don't fret! melted tallow or lard works just as well, better even, for crispiness on the outside, without any intrusive flavors - but please don't use any seed oils, that defeats the purpose of eating healthy. These beets are still delicious this way even if you don't baste them with anything or even season them at all.
You can thank me later, or invite me to your next backyard BBQ.
#tallship #foodpr0n #beets #roasted_beets
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I remember the scratch & sniffs that #Hustler_Magazine used to have, lolz. They were actually fruity and/or perfumey, not what one might expect, but they were indeed a pretty kewl gimmick to raise interest in #smut magazines for pre-teen boys of the seventies
I actually met #Larry_Flint a few times coming in&out of the elevators in his building. There was a huge, like 15' high statue of #John_Wayne mounted on a steed outside the front doors of the building, and that was on a huge pedestal - so, way larger than life.
Flint's wheelchair really was made out of glimmering gold, or at least all gold plated, and he was always accompanied by imposingly huge bodyguards. After a few times of meeting him coming and going I took the opportunity to say "Hi Mr. Flint!", and he kindly responded. It was pretty kewl.
Sadly, we lost that great icon of #pr0n almost five years ago, after a long life of accomplishments and an entertainment empire he was succeeded by.
The man was a legend, and protector of the #First_Amendment too - a case which stemmed from a cartoon in Hustler Magazine depicting "Moral Majority" leader Reverend #Jerry_Falwell as having lost his virginity to his own mother in an outhouse. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and he won; it was a great day for the freedom of speech, contrasted with the Biden era "Ministry of Truth" that he appointed #Nina_Jankowitz to head; that was short-lived, only a week or two until that despicable #Orwellian institution was dismantled - at which point she went straight to #Merry_Olde_England to work with their insidious institutions of censorship like Ofcom and others... ergo, what we have here today, where even looking at some social media posts, or appearing as if you're engaging in silent prayer to your deities, can land you in prison if you live in the UK. Talk about #Thought_Police!
But at least people in France will be able to send British inmates scratch & sniff stamped letters, right?
The #croissant is iconic of Frenh influence the world over, and small, traditional French bakeries here in the states usually form lines around 6:30 each morning so folks can get them still hot from the oven. That heavenly aroma of freshly baked croissants. Yum!
NOTE: If my unabashed candidness has offended anyone, please feel free to file a complaint against me at the link I've included above, as I've been trying for a few months now to get #Mark_Rowley to extradite me to the UK following his threats to do so. He's a fricken' pussy, #Kier_Starmer too, and so is (literally) #Shabana_Mahmood.
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## First steps towards Raspberry Pi5 support
### Stuart Winter's latest announcement on 05 Oct on the official Linux ARM port:
Using the new SAIR (Slackware AArch64 Installer Respin) tool, I created a variant of the Slackware AArch64 Installer that uses the Raspberry Pi Kernel fork instead of the upstream Linus Torvalds kernel. To test it, I installed Slackware onto a Raspberry Pi 4, and it worked — a big milestone! 🎉 Why the Pi 4? Because I don’t yet have an RPi5, but this gives me a way to get the core pieces working now so that we’ll be ready to integrate full support for the Raspberry Pi 5 as soon as I can test on real hardware. This is just the beginning, but it’s an exciting step forward. Thanks so much for your support.
If you're interested in a fully supported rolling distro for your production rPi home or office network you can track development following the Changelog HERE
Installation guides and video tutorials for rPi4 installation (including a rather comprehensive hardware guide) are located HERE and complete instructions for installation on other popular product lines such as Pine64 as well can be found HERE.
Stuart and Brent work hard at bringing the very leading edge of computing to the ARM architecture and #Slackware_Linux rides the cusp of that endeavor with their dedication and commitment to the single board computer market.
For your next #Raspberry_Pi project, consider the simple yet sleek and performant stability that Slackware Linux has been famous for since it was first distributed around campus at Moorehead State University on floppy disks over 30 years ago, predating Debian, Redhat, and every other Linux distribution in the marketplace.
As for me? Well, it says so in most of my profiles: "Slackware, OpenBSD, and a bit of a Debiantard." And that about sums it up for now!
### A bit on source based and rolling Linux distributions:
- Slackware -current, like Debian testing, Gentoo, and Arch Linux, is a fully rolling Linux distribution. A single command provides complete system updates to the very latest in versioning of packages and ongoing, active development.
- Unlike most other package based distributions, Slackware linux 'can be' a completely sourced based Linux distro, albeit a mostly inconvenient and rather redundant effort, since a single command can fetch and reinstall every single component of the base system (once initial installation of the machine has been completed), due to Slackware's uniquely historical, and simplistic methodology.
- Almost all additional packages not already in the official Slackware installation, with exception of a few very large and intensive applications, are #source_based installs, also capable of being fetched, downloaded from the upstream developer source repos, compiled, packaged, and installed locally (including dependencies) - with a single command. Some packages such as Firefox, LibreOffice, etc., are so huge that trusted package repos are maintained so they can be downloaded, and then installed in seconds with a single command.
- Once you have installed applications, you can share those packages with others freely so they can merely take those packages and install them in a few seconds with a single command. It is however, preferred by most to use the SlackBuilds.org repository for #Slackbuild scripts to compile and install from source (it's a trust issue).
- Slackware Linux is the oldest, extant Linux distro, and has maintained an aggressive, continuous development cycle since its initial public announcement on Usenet in 1993. The Slackware Team has also traditionally provided the longest running support for release versions over that of all Linux distributions (over a decade before EOL in many cases).I hope that helps, enjoy!
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Every child has this point of view in those memories of early camping trips with their families - laying on their bedrolls, munching crunchy snacks, embers of the campfire have waned, they glow but the flickering, flittering of flames has since ceased. Unfamiliar sounds nearby of nocturnals speak amongst themselves and hundreds of feet away, as we lay on our backs and crunching on chips, are the flowery, feathery tops of these giant Sequoia canopies. Some sentinels older than ancient societies, continue to watch, like paintbrushes flinging out billions of tiny spots of twinkling light into the firmament above.
As we lie on our backs, giggling and chatting and marveling at this wonder above us, we know that like a snapshot, this enormous majesty will always remain in our minds eye. And then, as the veil of violet slumber is drawn before this grand vision above us, our thoughts turn to Mom, cooking pancakes 🥞 and bacon 🥓 and eggs 🍳 in an iron skillet, yet the visions of these grand, giant featherdusters in the sky will persist, decades beyond our memories of tomorrows breakfast.
#Sequoia #Yosemite #camping #majesty
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I haven't paid much attention lately (no need, really), but some time ago, specifically with respect to China, a couple of things were already facts of life, even in extremely rural areas, due to government mandate
1. ) The Wechat app is used to buy candy and cigarettes at the store and access other banking functions (which can be confiscated or suspended) as well as turning in your elementary school homework assignments.
2. ) Surveillance cameras were so ubiquitous that 95% plus of the population could be identified via facial recognition and located within 10 minutes anywhere in the entire country."make it impossible to interact online without your every move being tied back to your IRL identity by law enforcement"
Socialist dystopias count this goal among their basic tenants.
Capitalist market societies highly desire this too, as such is the nature of any government run amok, but also because of commercial pressures.
"make it impossible to circumvent DRM or ads"
In the free market economies of the world, commercial interests (in the name of protecting digital rights of producers) apply extreme pressure for governmental regulation to guarantee their collection of monies and force delivery of programmatic consumerism.
Authoritarian governments will also seek to quantify any consumption of tangible products (enforcing the collection of government revenue and control the freedom of personal movement) and the ability to deliver any messaging/notifications at anytime unabated.
Desired results being arguably congruent, motivations are divergent in theory, although not necessarily in practice.
Some company proposes a solution
The government itself is the genesis for this in socialist authoritarian dystopias.
In capitalist economies of (to whatever debatable extent) free societies, this is exactly how it works; the classic example being VHS vs Beta, Soundblaster 16 CD & audio vs competing coalitions and extending to Blu-ray, DVD, etc., first the highly coveted "MPC" certification of hardware, with manufacturers eventually coalescing around one market solution that appears to be the most viable regarding adoption by the consumer market.
This usually, but not always, results in the superior candidates evolving into industry wide adoption - the evolution is slow, can be clumsy, and full of compromise (not unlike FOSS innovation and maturation).
Authoritarian despotism is much more efficient in choosing, and deploying such technological solutions (but usually not as effective in developing), and can generally be introduced into the target market rather immediately (although it can also be prone to sucking really badly). Failures can be replaced by edict almost immediately, following the development of replacement alternatives, upgrades, or improvements, the decisions for which are much less dependant upon target consumer preference.
and use this hardware to provide secure attestations of
For whatever, actually :p
I always called it the choke-chip, but IIRC the Clinton administration and manufacturer consortiums called it the V-Chip. Perhaps the first foray into what eventually spitballed into DRM, but for reasons stated as being different and a functionally differentiated market as well.
the tech giants invent a new protocol (I'll call it EvilTP), which is proprietary and a trade secret. It is managed by a consortium which only provides documentation on the protocol to companies that pay a massive licensing fee and sign NDAs.
Tangent: Okay till now I've interpreted your choke-chip (Evil TP) to be driven by mostly market based pressures. At least primarily so. One could also consider how authoritarian socialist economies might evolve toward your consideration of consumer control & surveillance - in both of these economic models, I would suggest that there are intensely incentivized tendencies to converge toward the same result, irrespective of any stated reasonings (all governments are at their cores, self-serving liars).
Although the reasonings may differ, the end goal product remains quite similar - with or without admission, or perhaps not even by initial desire of design. It just ends up nearly the same.
For example, on the following article I cover a bit of the specific chronologies of space exploration between these two distinctly different economic models, and humorously, my take on how effective this convergence ended up.
https://public.mitra.social/post/018edf1c-91ce-41dd-942a-8ce33d9e28d8
I'll see if I can't locate the post on the home server where it renders much more prettified as I intended, the images aren't inline in my current client as I would like them to be. I'll try and post that URL as a follow up to this thread. There's a bonus at the very end after I've finished ridiculing the Baran that I think you might appreciate (hint: she's one of my life's superhero inspirations).
I mean, just look at all that bird guano, those puppies are ready to be rolled out onto the launch pad and fueled up for launch lolz. 👋🤪 🚀
But I digress.
You effectively suggest that to avoid antitrust quagmires, this consortium would themselves through strong NDAs, and commiserating with each other as well as throwing juicy bones to the governments of capitalist, market based economies - but no it doesn't have to be that way as I mentioned above with the Wechat App in China. The Industrial surveillance complex isn't tethered to capitalistic or Marxist/Maoist systems with any sort of exclusivity. It's a beast all its own that in one case, brings down the government to bear in fake acquiescence, and in the other, is harnessed from the outset as a weapon against individuals by the government itself, respectively.
And I don't think that in the first case that you necessarily need to protect proprietary software and manufacturing by agreement (Microsoft shows no one their core code, ever). I think that Faceplant and InstaSpam are great examples of how one might compell the subjugated chattel to capitulate their privacy all too voluntarily. With zeal even! Ah those mighty endorphins that perpetuate and exploit that addictive personality!
So I'm not discounting what you're cogitating over at all, but I do have a couple of questions.
This secure attestation can't be sent over ordinary HTTP, or it could be reverse engineered and faked.
- a.) What about browser based blockchain operations and transactions over non-custodial wallets? You raise some serious alarms over financial integrity in that one aspect alone, and online banking too.
- b.) Are you suggesting that engaging via browser with one's Peergos account, which is hardened with post quantum encryption and audited, is as insecure as the suggestion of reverse engineering that you posed?In the larger scheme of things however, I want to share my apprehensions and concerns for the end point of the conversation itself. I'm happy in a kornshell via an SSH session on my old 3270 PC-AT box with a burnt amberchrome monitor and an 8 bit NE-1000 ISA NIC - as long as I've got my trusty old authentic IBM tactile click keyboard keeping the neighbors awake, but on any contemporary Intel based workstation, and thanks to the MIT cuck license, we're ALWAYS running Minix too. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. But it's there in the chipset happily doing whatever it's doing, operating under that NDA you brought up (you and I have discussed licensing philosophy before).
In furtherance of your concerns over blocking free Internet commerce, here's how one socialist dystopian solution was implemented in Merry Olde England...
I'm hoping this markdown quoting code works here (copypasta from a previous chat discussion where I consulted Grok for clarifications):
### Is Radio Garden Blocked in the UK? Yes, **Radio Garden** is currently restricted for UK users, limiting access to UK-based radio stations only. This restriction prevents UK listeners from accessing international radio stations through the platform, a change that began in **late September/early October 2022** and has been extended indefinitely. ### Nature of the Restrictions The restrictions on Radio Garden in the UK are **geoblocking measures** that prevent users with UK IP addresses from streaming non-UK radio stations. When attempting to access international stations, users see a message stating, **"Stations outside the UK temporarily unavailable"** (noted as early as October 2022). Additionally, most **BBC Radio stations** were removed from the platform, except for the **BBC World Service**. In January 2023, Radio Garden updated its announcement to clarify that these restrictions, initially described as temporary, would continue **indefinitely due to copyright and neighboring rights issues** requiring clarification. The geoblocking is enforced through the platform’s **API**, specifically via the `https://radio.garden/api/geo` URL, which detects a user’s location and restricts access accordingly. Users have reported workarounds, such as using browser extensions like **uBlock Origin** to block this API or employing **VPNs** to mask their IP address and access international stations.That's an example of instilling fear into companies to a degree of uncertainty where they express fealty to their Lord and Master. Whether the threat is real or perceived, the net effect is the disenfranchisement of presumably an entire nation of people.
Hang on, I'mma fro up in my mouf a little bit here 🤮
Okay better now. I don't need to go into the myriad ways in which a government, or rather, peering points at the behest and direction of government, can choke off any targeted packet flow, but I will mention that patent law is extremely powerful - the type of fear you would want to instill could merely be akin to that of cross-pollination of GMO based corn 🌽 planted in your neighbors field the previous year, the genetics 🧬 of which show up in samples of your harvest this year - oopsies!
You could literally go to jail in that scenario, although Monsanto would prefer you just breakout your checkbook.
So I'll sum up a bit coz this wasn't supposed to become a diatribe (apologies)...
With #FOSS, there is freedom, and I'm not going to suggest that those who exercise their inalienable rights and freedoms won't end up in prison like the Falun Gong in live organ transplant harvesting farms; or Jimmy Lai, who to my knowledge, is still in solitary confinement; or a little old gray haired Londoner lady who some Bobby observed on a sidewalk and invoked England's thought police laws because the cop claims she was praying to her God.
There will always be those of us who insist upon the personal preference of using almost exclusively FOSS based software, and those of us (the subjugated chattel) that will gladly acquiesce to selling their souls for that tickle of dopamine. The entire problem to be solved, if it can be, is to educate enough people to become the critical mass that categorically rejects being subsumed by the diabolical progenitors of #EvilTP...
If your corn polin flies into my cornfield it's my fucking polin, bitches!
Okay hey I went ahead and dug up that article at the source HERE it is
Enjoy :)
#tallship #stuffs #DRM #technological_convergence
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@sarahtaber Years ago, I inadvertently read what could be considered the 'true' inspiration for, "The Whale".
The book is "Typee: A Peak at Polynesian Life" (IIRC). In it is his account as a deserter who goes and winds up as the reluctant guest of a fierce, cabalistic tribe.
The story is his actual circumstances in jumping ship in a foreign (French) island port from a British ship (as an American sailor), and being him.
From there, #Moby_Dick, a fiction, begins to reveal the Genesis, it's birth and life, as a literary work of art.
Anyway, I don't much like spoilers so to me, looking back, I'm happy coz it seems the right order for me to have read them, but subjectively, only because I actually did so.
Another good read after your current selection might be The Old Man and the Sea.
Enjoy!
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You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 👋😎🍔🍟
I know what that feels like, but now you have to worry that the deer 🦌 will somehow magically know the day before you're going to start picking the fruit - coz somehow... They do!
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Big BOOM 💥 a few minutes ago. I was staring off toward the south and into the sky when I saw the huge flash; 180° off into the horizon, from my comfy chair on the back patio.
One thousand one, one thousand two, thousand three, one thousand four, thous...... 💥 BOOM ❕❕❕
So, geez. Pretty fricken' loud for that distance. Not as far away as the harbor itself, so maybe some crystal methodists dispatched themselves to Valhalla.
In the olden days I'd hit up Twitter coz it was the best for "just happened", local events. People actually understood that kind of democratized power, to disseminate information his before it was possible to even enter a news cycle.
X? It's certainly better than it was before #Elon, but lost had been that hyper local community vibe that made real time distribution such a beautiful possibility in a non commercial distribution channel. I suspect that things will heavily coalesce between spontaneous local... Hubs, for lack of a better term, in a global search enabled environment (again), after this current madness constricting almost all other information through the next couple of weeks.
But then again, this is Los Angeles. Land of 💥 boom and doom (and I mean that in the most real sense). It's almost a bloodsport and aspects do exist where you can place wagers in some pretty heinous categories. I'm just being matter of fact here.I grew up here.
Shit happens around here. It always has. 💥 Booms aren't really anything new around here lolz.
I remember a particular big BOOM 💥 I was standing in the living room one afternoon at my buddy's 'luxury apartment' (The Willow Tree, in Torrance, on PCH, next door to my highschool).
I was stoned out of my mind (on weed, teenager, duh!) and I was facing a sliding glass door (open) mostly occluded by drapes, when suddenly, the drapes activity flew up from the carpeted floor, half way to the ceiling.
Then, as they softly fell back towards their positions in front of the glass in the sliding glass doors themselves, spanning I dunno, 12' maybe, they began violently rattling like a motherfucker! I thought both huge panes were going to shatter, like just eight feet in front of me, standing there like the stoned idiot I was.
I dunno recall exactly how many seconds had passed, at least 8 or 9 I figure but memories actually get warped over time, blyet I've always known distinctly, and I recall, instinctively, that it was an obscene amount of seconds passing before the BOOM 💥 was to be followed by those drape lifting gusts of wind hitting me in the face.
And it was the biggest BOOM 💥 that I had ever witnessed, still to this day; and the Port of Los Angeles maybe six or more Miles behind me, when a big ass ship (a really big ass ship) in the harbor was vaporized, lives indelibly within my very Carcass - I shall never, ever, EVER forget that.
Well that's all I really wanted to share. But I would like to ask everyone to take just a moment, no matter what country you're in/from, to reflect with thanks for all the men and women in uniform serving our countries so our children can sleep all comfy and shit at night, with their little Teddy Bears, autobots, ninja turtles, or Peter Rabbits.
Peace be to all, bitches 🤘 🤠🤘 Truly 🙂
#tallship #observations #musings #please_boost You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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@FuckElon @[email protected] @[email protected]
#Orange_Man_Bad_Ass coz he got the #Elon Rock Star, while Harris the Filthy Communist recently adopted as her official campaign song, AC/DC's "Shot Down In Flames"❕❕❕🤘💀🤘
Ya just gotta love the comeuppance of poetic justice - You no can haz #Cheeseburgers 🍔
#tallship #walls_of_Jericho #Bolsheviks
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When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘
#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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Sam, did you find what you were looking for?
I'm sure many others would benefit from what you've discovered... or started working on.
I had boosted this a while back but haven't seen any replies to your query yet.
As for myself? I gravitate between #Plasma and #Xfce, typically, so lemme know what you find out on those fronts especially, if you don't mind :)
#tallship #DE #FOSS #Linux #Window_Manager
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Thank you! I know a few of us had requested this sometime back, and this makes that graphic part of editorial process like you said, "as intended!"
You can haz #Cheeseburgers! 🍔
#tallship #WriteFreely #FOSS #ActivityPub #Fediverse
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Well here's a neat little snippet. Make sure to utilize this before scraping your Exif data, lolz. I've posted about that before (feel free to doom scroll and find it) in a quote-post of an article my friend @danie10 on a couple of kewl GUI and CLI #Exif tools - it's really worth a read and personally, I think most folks should really consider keeping a separate store of their photos updated that has all, or at least most of the Exif data stripped out (in case you want to post any of it to social networking instances that don't automatically do that for you).
On the other hand, there's good reasons for also maintaining a store with that data intact, it even better, customized, for your own cataloging purposes...
And that's where @RL_Dane 's article below comes in handy - short, sweet, and gets it's done lickety split 🤘😎🤘
https://rldane.space/organizing-photos-by-geolocation-from-the-command-line.html
I hope those #ProTips help. Enjoy!
#tallship #shell_script #ksh #Bash
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Yeah, pretty common across most platforms and instances in the #Fediverse when you use #masto for #serving_media - there's waaay mo betta ways in the Fediverse better suited to the task.
Just sayin', in case you want your content to reach an audience.
And maybe even consider just getting off #mastopub completely for a better platform - there are many way better #ActivityPub powered platforms on the Fediverse to choose from for your regular publishing as well 💪🙂👍
#tallship #masto_fail #FOSS #WebTorrent #Vidzy #Pixelfed #Mitra #PeerTube #Friendica #Misskey #Vernissage
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It's almost not worth bothering to even mention this anymore, as anyone who's not a complete moron should intrinsically know this - considering the news coverage and legal proceedings resulting in the "no expectation of privacy", along with the "everything you do on company resources belongs to the company" paradigm that over the past several decades has been well established, very publicly.
Two things however, that may not have been realized by EVERYONE:
1. ) Anything you DO on company time belongs to the company as well. This includes ideas in your head imagined while on the clock.
2. ) Regardless of what you want to call it: #EMM, MDM, or the new buzz-acronym #UEM (which all means essentially the same thing), when coupled with #BYOD, also pierces your veil of privacy.I've been on both ends of this for decades as an IT Professional. It's ugly and can be destructive to your (expensive) personal property, so I recommend...
a.) First, don't do ANYTHING on your own personal devices when you're on someone else's clock! See #1 above.
b.) When you show up to work on your first day and they send you down to HR and then tech support, it's very common for them to innocuously ask to see your phone, at which point they'll install an #MDM on it. The best thing you can do then and there is to inform them that if anyone EVER touches your phone you'll break their fucking fingers; and if they want you to have a mobile device with an MDM/UEM installed on it, they can issue one for you from their inventory of existing corporate assets. Otherwise, pound sand bitches.
#tallship #surveillance #privacy #Intellectual_Property #Copyright #Trademark
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Yes it's pretty much that simple. Thanks for chiming in 🙂
The legal rep they had (and office which is now closed) was directly threatened by the judge and if I'm not mistaken, has herself left her own country for her personal safety.
So yes indeed, "X" has left the country - literally packed up and left, bye bye. But here's where the show begins to get really entertaining...
#Moraes has himself just crossed the line of what is a completely foreign concept to Americans, as only the legislature is empowered with creating law under our constitution. The courts, interpret law. Sure, there's executive orders but those are NOT laws, not are they ratified treaties. That is the domain of Congress and not the president. And with respect to our judiciary, legislating from the bench is strictly taboo.
Not so in #Brazil, apparently, where this corrupt (Supreme Court) judge has effectively usurped their own lawmaking bodies and is creating law.
I am so loving this! 🤘💀🤘
Let the [Internet] Revolution begin! 🍿
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