On the enshitification of the internet (and how the Netheads were right all along).
Lembrete anual: em Portugal o limiar de pobreza são 554€/mês, e o valor da pensão social de velhice é de 213.91€/mês.
“European Cyber Resiliency Act: Potential Impact on the Eclipse Foundation” is a good reading and can be used to see the proposal’s impact not just on Eclipse Foundation but, generically, on Free Software in Europe.
@prologic@twtxt.net follow the link, it’s explained there
I’ve signed this letter to stop new fossil fuel projects, and so can you.
@mckinley@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Sure am! (bookmarking to tey out later)
How to lose a sale:
@prologic@twtxt.net Well, they’ve been in the ad business at least since 2016.
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Sad this isn’t being done EU-wide. And the fact that Apple doesn’t say “our bad, sorry” and instead plans to appeal only proves that all their privacy-friendly claims are mere marketing.
Wondering if I’ll meet any fellow twtxter in Lisbon’s MiniDebConf!
Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture: Google’s keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support.
My top 10 (most listened) artists of 2022, according to Last.fm:
My turn now, Happy New Year, twtxters!
@rrraksamam@twtxt.net 2021 was so bad for me that I made a list of 12 things for 2022 I needed to get my life back on track. I only managed five, but I did manage five, and 2022 ends better than it started. Looking forward to 2023.
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Donations and investment offers are different things…
@prologic@twtxt.net You mean like a git log --pretty=twtxt that someone can get for every branch of every repo on your new git web interface?
@justamoment@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net tbf, format-patch numbers your patches so that you can apply them with an one liner, no matter if they’re 1 or 9999. As for identity leakage, do notice that only author patch info is present - a name (that can be a pseudonym) and an address field that can be empty. Other then that you only have the transport means, but you don’t really need to use e-mail if that is your concern, you can for eg. set up an anonymous ftp… you just need to get the formatted patches, git not having its own transport is not a limitation but the freedom to let you get patches in any way you want! ;-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org To be fair, thischas been a go/don’t-go to me for a while. I have wanted to read some Aldiss for a good while, but the first of his books I’ve read (Cryptozoic!), while an entertaining reading, didn’t really convince me to the point of making me want to seek more of his books. But now, several years later, I was browsing a book called 501 Must Read Books and Hothouse was there… at the spur of the moment I checked on the local library’s catalog and the book was there so I decided to grab it, then I’ve read it’s wikipedia page and started second guessing the decision… and now that I’ve started reading it, I’m quite enjoying it. Who knows if my thoughts will change again before I finish it!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hothouse, from Brian Aldiss
Leaving home without carrying the book you’re reading? No problem*, just grab a copy of it on OpenLibrary!
- sure, “if it is there”, which many recent books aren’t, but it worked for me just now ;-)
@prologic@twtxt.net Seems cool! What in it are you not liking?
@prologic@twtxt.net to be fair, I don’t have a particular horse in that race, all seem interesting to me, what pulled me into tidal was the community, really. There is an advantage on using it as I did: I skipped all the instalation/configuration and just used estuary, which is a web interface for tidal (and other things). I didn’t even have to launch my own instance, there’s a free/public one you can just open your browser at and use: cool to give your first steps with no pressure.
@darch@twtxt.net I’m still very new to it, but certainly interested in diving deeper!
So, it is done: Iearned #tidalcycles over the weekend, and used it to give a concert yesterday. If you want to see it, it has been published here.
@prologic@twtxt.net I’d certainly be an user of that 2way bridge.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net As long as it doesn’t end forgotten, there’s really no rush! It’s not like @lucidot is going to revert their decision with this change…
@prologic@twtxt.net @lucidiot@tilde.town @movq@www.uninformativ.de So, apparently yarn is transforming hashtags into search urls, ob the feed. This makes things unreadable and seems totally unnecessary. Shouldn’t this be a client feature? Why should my feed have a link to a search engine instead of a hashtag? And why can’t the client (when it is a visual client like goryon or the web) react to hashtags (all of them) by linking to a search interface? Am I missing something?
@prologic@twtxt.net @lucidiot@tilde.town @movq@www.uninformativ.de unlike the comment on the twtxt feed, this blog post is really extensive, interesting and provides insightful and useful comments. I’m not sure I can agree to all of it, but I certainly can understand the point of view. Curiously, what appears to have been the tipping point is also something I believe we can and should fix: hashtags. ½
I n this month’s Cloak & Dagger Challenge, I’ve just become an “Amateur Investigator”!
@prologic@twtxt.net @eaplmx@twtxt.net To be fair, the only thing I can think of that makes Yarn feeds not be “standard twtxt” is the disregard for twt size (which many others also do with their non-yarn clients). But sure, I can see how reading these feeds might be frustrating: too big posts, markdown everywhere, linebreak characters, emojis… But I’ll consider it the “freedom of the user” to decide whether or not to follow a feed written in a certain style. The provocative metadata comment? Easy (and better) to just ignore.
@mckinley@twtxt.net Well, sort of? I’ve been using them (copying or adapting and extending from what I saw others do) since before yarn.social was a thing. Yarn doesn’t (and shouldn’t) have the monopoly of “using twtxt comments how we like”.
@prologic@twtxt.net Well, the devil is in the details: what did he meant by that? Maybe nothing good…
Twitter has a new “social platforms” policy… is it maddening? Hilarious? Ridiculous? All of the above? I laughed, but to be clear, I don’t think ‘funny’ is a good way to describe it.
Nothing like a deadline to force you to do something… this year I’ll be celebrating the Winter Solstice by playing at Tidal Club’s Night Stream (under the Merankorii moniker).
Now I just need to learn TidalCycles! 😇
@eaplmx@twtxt.net is the guide to a DRM-free living useful?
Today is #DayAgainstDRM! Since this year’s topic is #FreedomtoShare, I’ll celebrate it by starting to read a book from the local library!
And you, what are your plans for Day Against DRM?
Cerca de 40 ativistas climáticos concentrados junto à Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, “pretendem passar a noite à porta da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa em solidariedade pelas colegas detidas que serão julgadas esta sexta-feira por desobediência civil.”
@prologic@twtxt.net they actually have a nice write-up about the “why’s”. And you know what? Now I’m sort of wishing I had one…
2022 is about to end, and there are still official services that send SMS texts to people telling them to follow links to https://bit.ly/somewhere . Educating people against phishing gets hard, when services’ customers are educated like this…
@prologic@twtxt.net @thecanine@twtxt.net Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It’s a Seductive Mirage
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net How interesting… my grandfather from my mother’s side insisted on counting his years on the Korean age system: he started with 1 instead of 0, and every 1st of January… but that was really his birthday: he was born on new years eve at midnight. I doubt that he knew South Koreans did this, tho.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @prologic@twtxt.net tbh, there’s no reason why this is a feeds thing and not a twtxt client (including yarn pods) setting. It would be useful to be able to filter out, for eg., “I don’t want anything ‘soccer’ from anyone, nor ‘musk’ from @arstechnica and @abucci@anthony.buc.ci”.
WhatsApp lost an attempt to annul a binding decision regarding a GDPR violation, which is good news. But the fact that, in reaction to it, an WA spokesperson says that this makes no sense because “this case concerns a privacy policy from four years ago that has since been updated” only shows the sense of impunity big tech feels, as well as how ridiculous it is that they are able to drag these things for so long. In the meantime, they keep violating the law (just yesterday Meta lost three other GDPR-related cases!), and with no end in sight - even today’s WA case is far from over, with appeals ongoing and more chances for appeal available. A sour-tasting victory, today’s.
Hurricane, Red Hat 5.0, was released 25 years ago (december 1st, 1997). It came out as a 2CD installation, even if it was quite common to find one-CD editions of it being shipped with magazines and used all around. You’d need to have at least 8Mb of RAM in order to indulge in this release, which marked a milestone for many of us.
Em Portugal, agricultura não cumpre a meta climática para 2020 e está em risco de falhar a meta para 2030.
@xuu@txt.sour.is @eaplmx@twtxt.net That would be 28800, before the 33600 bps modems.