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I’ve queued up 20 AstroBotany plants in an AV-98 tour. Hoping to water them all today!

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Every Web Browser Absolutely Sucks.
The title explains it all, you don’t even have to read.

There are no good, even passable web browsers. None. Not a single one even comes close.

The weird thing is this: making a good browser should be easy! Among the existing web browsers, you could assemble all the parts necessary for a passable (if not perfect) browser. No one has ever bothered to do this, instead, people assembled 90% good stuff and 10% junk.

Here I will list:

1. Featu … ⌘ Read more

Every Web Browser Absolutely Sucks.
The title explains it all, you don’t even have to read.

There are no good, even passable web browsers. None. Not a single one even comes close.

The weird thing is this: making a good browser should be easy! Among the existing web browsers, you could assemble all the parts necessary for a passable (if not perfect) browser. No one has ever bothered to do this, instead, people assembled 90% good stuff and 10% junk.

Here I will list:

1. Featu … ⌘ Read more

just to make clear: people who actually identify as attack helicopters are unironically valid

On the blog: Tweets from 08/23 to 08/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/27/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more

30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories.   I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more

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Clearview AI Offered Free Facial Recognition Trials To Police All Around The World
Clearview marketed its facial recognition system across Europe by offering free trials at police conferences, where it was often presented as a tool to help find predators and victims of child sex abuse. ⌘ Read more

2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats. ⌘ Read more

In reply to: Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard

These stories mean that playing Wildermyth is not just about doing tactical battles from one end of a scripted narrative to another. It means tracking a small crew of changing people through their careers as adventurers. Sometimes their personali … ⌘ Read more

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I’m planning to include “gemini tinylogs” on the twtxt page on Antenna. As soon as I have the time and energy for it. (https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc)

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GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. ⌘ Read more

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I need to remind myself that I own an !arduboy. Arduboys are cool.

The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. ⌘ Read more

Start Dev Environments locally, Compose V2 RC 1, and more in Docker Desktop 3.6
Docker Desktop 3.6 has just been released and we’re looking forward to you trying it. Start Dev Environments from your Local Machine You can now share dev environments with your colleagues and get started with code already on your local machine as well as the existing remote repository support. It’s easy to use your local […]

The post [Start Dev Environments locally, Com … ⌘ Read more

Snikket: Improving Snikket’s usability in collaboration with Simply Secure
One of the primary goals of the Snikket project is improving the usability of
open communication software. We see usability as one of the major barriers to
broader adoption of modern communication systems based on open standards and
free, libre, open-source software. By removing this barrier, we open the door
of secure and decentralized communication freedom to many vulnerable groups
for which it was previously inaccessible or i … ⌘ Read more

In reply to: GitHub - hoppecl/jamlang0001

A small dynamically typed programming language with first-class comments, where every value is explained by a comment. ⌘ Read more

stacking those 80IQ perspective change buffs to bootstrap myself to superintelligence

On the blog: Tweets from 08/16 to 08/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/20/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Considering putting my log entries in a SQLite db. Will it fit? I average around 100K of content a month. That gives me a little more than 83 thousand years before I’m even up to a GB… Yeah, it’ll fit.

OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020)
My old 2017 Huawei MateBook X has been my most reliable laptop and has continued to be my daily-use workstation despite trying half a dozen others (and a desktop or two) in the past four years. Every time I’d try a new laptop, certain components wouldn’t work properly, or the keyboard would feel strange, or the screen would look bad, or the fan or some coil-whine noise would drive me nuts. And every time, I’d return to my MateBook X and everything would just work silently. ⌘ Read more

update: school didn’t even look at my application for extra financial aid. here’s to hoping for a refund, i guess?

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Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files. ⌘ Read more

I’d love to see a resurgence of twtxt, but not in a way that attempts to replace social media. Something different.

JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App!
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more

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Erlang Solutions: FinTech 2021 State of Play
While things have undoubtedly changed considerably for the financial services industry over the past 18 months, the ascendency of FinTech remains quite unabated, with global fintech investment reaching $98bn. In the UK, FinTech investment hit a new record of £18bn in the first half of 2021, placing it second only to the United States, impressi … ⌘ Read more

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If there are dishes in the sink but nobody is there to see them…?

Hmm, I advertized GRU to several people today, so maybe soon i will make organization on tildegit/codeberg for repos, and if we will have enough people or some projects will be done for enough part we will also have gru.ttm.sh website/gemini!

Hmm, I advertized GRU to several people today, so maybe soon i will make organization on tildegit/codeberg for repos, and if we will have enough people or some projects will be done for enough part we will also have gru.ttm.sh website/gemini!

I want you to spell out the context. like in porn

maybe elites appear incompetent because they’re mostly trying to prevent AI disaster behind the curtains? perhaps that’s why GPT-4 hasn’t appeared yet – they coordinated not to do it.

NYTimes: Biden Could Still Be Proved Right in Afghanistan
the idea that Afghans didn’t know how to fight and that just one more course in counterinsurgency would do the trick. Really? ⌘ Read more

Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.

Here are the changes in this release:

• Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
  
• Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more

Fun fact: Antenna is 550 lines of code (blank lines and comments included), 68 of which is just a list of phrases to add at the end of pages.

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A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7

I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.

Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more

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On the blog: Tweets from 08/09 to 08/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/13/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Building a healthy and secure software supply chain
Securing the software supply chain is now an everyday concern for developers. As attackers increasingly target open-source components as a way to compromise the software supply chain, developers hold the keys to making their projects as secure as they can be. That’s why Docker continues to invest heavily in our developer tools like Docker Desktop […]

The post [Building a healthy and secure software supply chain](https://www.d … ⌘ Read more

Negativity Bias - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab
Negativity bias is linked to loss aversion, a cognitive bias that describes why the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining. ⌘ Read more

shrine to my one and only Mom. i love you; also, comparatively frivolous blog stuff about filesystems

What’s new from GitHub Changelog? July 2021 Recap
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more. ⌘ Read more

Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code. ⌘ Read more

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Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less. You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance | Hacker News

Sometimes you’re the good son, sometimes you’re the wicked son, sometimes you’re the simple son, and sometimes you’re the son who doesn’t even know how to ask a question.

In reply to: NASA ebook Archive

TIL that NASA has an archive of ebooks. ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development. ⌘ Read more

lol, just realised that standard AI risk is just environmental disaster risk amped up to 10^(10^10), only that the direct perpetrator isn’t humanity (we’re only the proximate perpetrator). huh

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what,,, you are trying to do good? how about I complain about you wanting to do good, and accuse you of being evil, even though on further questioning I would agree your actions are at worst net-zero?

Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.

The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi … ⌘ Read more

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In reply to: CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Bottom line is that we have zero years left to avoid dangerous climate change, because it’s here ⌘ Read more

When the city hall still stood, we often paddled out to it and stayed there for days, diving for basement treasures at day and dancing around our driftwood fire at night

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On the blog: Tweets from 08/02 to 08/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/08/06/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

In my quest to find a nicer HTML layout for my site, I just found bloated JavaScript thigs and shitty Google Fonts

Erlang Solutions: Why Build A Bank In Elixir – Memo Bank’s Story ⌘ Read more…

How to Win Gold with Science - Neil deGrasse Tyson and Olympic GOAT Edwin Moses ⌘ Read more…

We need to talk about how Covid is airborne | with Dr David Berger ⌘ Read more

guess what? i’m on the hook for practically the entire tuition this semester despite my guidance counselor telling me i’d get a lot of financial aid. here’s to hoping the school decides to give me extra financial aid, i guess

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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. “Be a good ancestor”*… | (Roughly) Daily

Whole lot of false statements here. The vaccines are well-tested & well-studied, and are safe and effective. Breakthrough cases exist with every vaccine. If you are able and the vaccine is approved for you, choosing not to get it puts everyone around you at risk, including risk of additional variants developing.

I was receiving strange requests to mine spartan server, so i fixed that. Someone wanted to hack me (they thought it is webserver), someone tryed to send request from some browser on mac :)

I was receiving strange requests to mine spartan server, so i fixed that. Someone wanted to hack me (they thought it is webserver), someone tryed to send request from some browser on mac :)

Get vaccinated if you are able. At this point, if you are able and choosing not to, you are being incredibly selfish, full stop.

On the blog: Tweets from 07/26 to 07/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/07/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Introduction to heredocs in Dockerfiles ⌘ Read more…

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In case you were wondering, AirPods Pro are unable to cancel noise that comes from inside your head, like from an electric toothbrush.

What if due to climate crisis effects and disasters our digital future will depend on low-energy hardware and protocols like Gemini?

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Now i have one more project that i started on Saturday (24 July): gros - os on rust (it has simple shell already and calc and i have to do a lot more). Also sources are already published

Now i have one more project that i started on Saturday (24 July): gros - os on rust (it has simple shell already and calc and i have to do a lot more). Also sources are already published

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“= I’ve been waiting for this for years. I don’t want to join in what I read is supposed to be a highly competitive work environment. But I am impressed by the vision and potential of your approach.” Pretty much my reaction to new many EA stuff.

. o O (cat /usr/share/dict/words | egrep “^f.{2}k\$”) @niplav so…you like to fink?