Notices by Federated Republic of Sean (freakazoid@retro.social)

Does anyone have experience finding what kind of objects are taking up the most memory in Python from just a core dump (and the executables of course)?

The city asked me what I thought it should do to address homelessness and I said to build housing faster than the companies were bringing people here.

I'm not even sure why people are asking this question; this solution is dead obvious if you have two brain cells to rub together. The solution to homelessness is to give people homes. The solution to poverty is to give people money. Duh.

@y0x3y When they asked if I wanted the regular Librem 15 instead I asked for the Librem 13 since I was only willing to deal with the larger size for the nicer display. My only problem with it was that it was much bigger and heavier than my Dell XPS 13, so I decided to stick with the Dell instead and sold the Librem 13 to @ajroach42 ch42@linernotes.club, who has been happy with it. The OS mainly just didn't seem like it was being sufficiently actively maintained.

@ink_slinger @suetanvil And that's assuming we don't get clobbered by an asteroid or some other civilization-ending catastrophe first.

The way humanity will achieve immortality is though our synthetic descendants. They may carry our literal memories because we figured out upload, or they may just carry our values. But they will live in vacuum, possibly spending most of their way plying the interstellar depths to explore new star systems and carry interstellar mail.

The purpose of Docker is not, in fact, to make things easier for us as systems administrators. It's to make it easier for the folks writing and packaging software to force you to treat the software as a black box instead of making their software easier to build, configure, and use.

I don't care if you find Docker more convenient as an open source user or developer. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and you're being lazy.

Here's the thing: you have the right to throw up whatever roadblocks you want in front of your content. What you don't have the right to do is to show up in search engine results as if you're a peer of Wikipedia.

For me, retrocomputing is at least as much about "human-scale" technology as it is about nostalgia.

"Web-scale" is all about turning humans into a commodity, and I'm tired of being a commodity.

Finally got Novaterm working with my gglabs Glink-LT! I'm almost not cheating except for the fact that it's a Linux box on the other end and I'm using a Pi1541 instead of a floppy disk.

Time to try telnetting over Tor.

@cstanhope That's closer, because it's using the "open source" label to try to make itself seem like Linux despite its much smaller developer base who could disappear in the blink of an eye if the company decides to stop developing it.

Or maybe we just need to shift the conversation to be about the community around a piece of software. "Community-developed software" perhaps?

In looking for ways to reduce the amount of stuff that goes in my garbage bin, I stumbled across #solar digesters. These appear to be able to take all your food waste, including meat and bones, as well as dog poop, and break it down. My question is, is it just high-temperature decomposition, or does it become anaerobic enough to produce methane? Part of the reason I don't want to send it to landfill is to avoid methane. ...

Incidental capture of people when they're in public places is one thing, but once it's a concerted effort and even without networking or facial recognition, the "expectation of privacy" standard must cease to apply. Whether or not someone expects privacy in public, they DO expect not to be constantly recorded and tracked everywhere.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/amazon-rekognition-surveillance-panopticon.html

In the future when we've all uploaded ourselves and our spending most of our time interacting with one another in simulated environments, someone is going to make Richard Scarry's Busytown, and people will live there, as cats, pigs, probably even worms. I'm sure there will be AI NPCs there too.

@espectalll There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. A. Neutral. Platform.

@kemonine @kaniini On the bright side, with every one of these threads, my blacklist of developers never to hire or work with gets more complete. Every time one of these pieces of shit gets turned down for a job they're going to have to wonder if it's because of the number of people who never want to work with them because of their lack of respect for the rights of others.

If you really want to hurt Google, figure out a way for developers to make money off of apps in F-Droid, to the extent that they choose to remove their apps from the Play Store.

Landlords are already requiring people to use apps to unlock building front doors and to pay rent. Legal tender laws only apply to debts, not to things agreed to in advance like rent.

So I suspect we'll end up with landlords demanding rent in Libra.

Forget graylisting. I have a spammer who can't get through because they can't handle postscreen's two-line greeting with a few second delay in the middle. Legit mail gets delayed by 5 seconds. Mail from non-compliant SMTP servers get delayed forever.

This could be a case of an excessively short timeout, but the server keeps retrying over and over so I think it might be genuinely broken. Glad to know I'm using up a bunch of their resources. I might need to add this behavior to fail2ban though.

People love to talk about technological solutions to climate change, but climate change is not a technological problem, at least not anymore. The technology exists to stop using fossil fuels, and it is close enough to economic that it will rapidly become economic if we start applying it.

The real problem of climate change is a political one. It's convincing people to actually do the work Any discussion of solutions that does not start there is a nonstarter.

Just think about how many conversations you've had with developers where they've compared editors or operating systems solely on the basis of features, with ethics and freedom not entering into their consideration AT ALL.

This is ESR's legacy in many ways, by the way, because "Open Source" is what you get when you take the ethics out of Free Software.

The confluence of the Free Software movement and the PC revolution brought us a brief period where the future looked bright.

Then Apple and Google came along and destroyed Free Software by creating a lottery that tricks software developers into thinking they'll get rich off their stupid app, paying them well below market rates to keep their software non-free.