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Z80 officially discontinued after 48 years:
Drew DeVault
No #LinuxFoundation, not "rebel", but "evil 800 pound gorilla suing the life out of projects left and right" Don't whitewash history
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦
@joncruz linux foundation is a microsoft front at this point so of course they would pat themselves on the back
Drew DeVault
@joncruz same Linux Foundation whose endorsement of Valkey is supposedly so important, by the way
Drew DeVault
Oh my god AGI is John Galt
Drew DeVault
To avoid any possible misinterpretation I should clarify that I draw that comparison in the most demeaning way possible
gwh
@drewdevault Even a perfect AGI has all the knowledge and no conscience. The only things AI has achieved so far is highlight how much prejudice and biases are baked in our collective thinking.
Drew DeVault
First 12 months of writing a GUI toolkit: getting text rendering right
Drew DeVault
Ayo Just a simple greedy word wrap algorithm for now, and there are some issues with multilingual support despite appearances
Drew DeVault
View of The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
iyzana
@drewdevault I find that paper (I would call it more of an article) to be way too aggressive. I think the following article describes the flaws and problems with these philosophies a lot better, without lumping them all together and without ad hominem arguments.
ttamttam
@drewdevault good read! Not sure I agree with all their points, in particular I think transhumanism is a mixed bag of beliefs that can be either very good or very bad depending on the particular flavor. But the strong presence of eugenics and other dickishness in TESCREAL/futurist circles is very real and should be treated seriously.
Drew DeVault
Anyone who cites concern over preservation of property values as justification for any political position deserves to have a permanent state-mandated wedgie at all times
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halas 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
@drewdevault that is one thing that confuses me - all mainstream media I ever consumed presented possibility of real eatate prices falling as some kind of apocalypse scenario without ever presenting an explanation why.
Richard Levitte
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Drew DeVault
The last five times I've been to the local big electronics store I have walked out without buying anything. Never have what I need.
Drew DeVault
So hare-unicode's encoded runtime Unicode database clocks in at about 100 KiB and I'm basically fine with that. Some languages get it smaller but whatever, this thing is a massive pain in the ass to deal with
Drew DeVault
It includes the general category, combining class, bidi class, east asian width, script class, and line break class, and a few flags, for every Unicode character
shurizzle :idle: :verified:
@drewdevault If you want you can take a look at https://sr.ht/~shurizzle/hare-unicode/ too. It's pretty raw, the code is not good as I want, it has no comments but it works. Thank you for your work on the language
Drew DeVault
Rewatching Evangelion is all fun and games until you realize that you have a Shinji in your life
DistractedMOSFET
@drewdevault The stereotypical uncomfortable realization with Eva is realizing that you're closer to Shinji that you would have liked. But I suspect as one gets older that gets less common.
Drew DeVault
License book club: Artistic License 2.0 https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/t/license-book-club-artistic-license-2-0/339?u=ddevault
ghisvail
@drewdevault I wanted to suggest the EUPL for the book club but was too shy to ask. Maybe next time.
Drew DeVault
Suggest a license to cover in this week's license book club on WFS?
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Alexander Möller
@drewdevault I'd be interested in the EUPL, too. Especially in comparison with the GPL/LGPL licences, including any compatibility problems one might encounter.
Mike Rochefort :fedora:
@drewdevault As a future discussion, concepts and considerations to be aware of when authoring a free software license. Like how would you define free, and what kind of terms would you specify in the current world of software development. Pretty much a free form thought experiment.
Drew DeVault
If your community is faced with choosing between no money and not enough money, you should probably choose no money.
Z̈oé :antifa:
@drewdevault I read somewhere regarding freelancing: “work for full price or for free — never cheap.”
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Lodestar
This was funny :) translation:
firebreathingduck
@drewdevault I couldn't tell what was being said but I could tell you both were exuberant. I'm happy for you both.
Drew DeVault
Matrix might not be _completely_ insufferable if they shut down matrix.org and made everyone find or start a proper homeserver
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Drew DeVault
Are any of the Linux GUI file managers good and if so which ones
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Adam Nelson
@drewdevault Most of them are decent in my experience. I usually use the more full-featured ones (Nemo or Dolphin) because only they can remember settings like "sort my Downloads folder by date but everything else by name". If you don't care about those kinds of features, PcManFM and Thunar are good too, though Thunar is probably the worst of the default file managers by a small margin (still has random crashes and bugs).
Lian Drake
@drewdevault for the GUI it's either pcmanfm or nemo (for the features), but I only use vifm with ueberzugpp for img previews
Drew DeVault
If one does not understand how blocking I/O works, it is too soon to research async I/O
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JayT
@drewdevault I know you aren't the biggest fan of python, but when needing to do async stuff I've found the Trio library to be pretty awesome. It helps me think about doing async work in a more traceable/logical manner. I'd love to see a similar async library in other languages.
lol fedifriend (cat aspect)
@drewdevault So what you're saying is... you have to wait for your learning of blocking I/O to finish. 😁
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Richard Levitte
@drewdevault Like others have said, I'd find it preferable if the command just fails with an explanatory message and leave it to the user to deal with the situation more appropriately (sudo or whatever).
Noodlez :nixos: :neovim:
@drewdevault A few ideas. I'd rather this be a choice first off (Disableable). Second, it's gotta ask me first before prompting for my password. Third, wouldn't it make more sense to give me temp access to the "disks" group instead of full root?
Hugo 雨果
@drewdevault I use a udev rule that grants my user/group ownership of USB block devices. I prefer this approach because it doesn't require admin privileges to mess with a USB thumb drive and works for a guest users too.
Drew DeVault
There are plenty of conservatives who I respect and whose platform and voice I have no objection to per-se; even if I disagree with them I have no cause to call for them to be silenced. However, it is also true that a lot of conservatives have tangled up their politics with the politics of hate. I *will* move to silence hate speech. But it's about the hate speech, not about being a conservative. If conservatives who don't want to be excluded abandon the hate speech, hey presto, they won't be.
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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦
Thank you. There were years when I would call myself a conservative, but I cannot do it anymore (as liberals cannot call themselves liberals, because they would be considered socialists these days). I don’t know where they are hiding, but conservatives of Edmund Burke, F. A. Hayek (yeah, I know!), Michael Oakeshott, even Russell Kirk and others types seem to be under some rock or something. (And I have no idea if either of these had any publicly stated opinions on LGBQT+ issues).
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
This is very important, because the current conservative M.O. is to amplify extreme voices on the left as a way of scaring moderates into the whacko-servative camp. They seek to amplify the feeling of alienation that moderate conservatives have in order to persuade them that the extremes (trumpists, fascists, etc.) are their only safe haven. I don't believe in "moderate" positions for the sake of being moderate, but I think it's important not to continually amplify the polarization. Pax. |
@shelldozer rip to a real one o7
@shelldozer
Noooooooooo!!
@shelldozer squeeze. Never good.