Notices by codesections (codesections@fosstodon.org), page 6

Paradox of Tolerance

"it seems contradictory to extend freedom of speech to extremists who... if successful, ruthlessly suppress the speech of those with whom they disagree"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

that people will argue in favor of curl | bash shows how absolutely fucked our entire software infra is

@rain It's not really any worse than git clone xxx;./configure; make; sudo make install

Software is bad and sharing is dangerous.

Has science gone too far?

Big shoutout for #hledger, plain text accounting which can save large fees over conventional accounting software. AND at same time create sustainable access to data, rapid corrections. The alias function for account coding is awesome. Also the include function to unify or consolidate different data files is just sweet. https://plaintextaccounting.org/ and https://hledger.org

trying to download an ebook from the library but there's a two month wait because only so many people can borrow it at a time 🤔

@cwebber I look forward to seeing your ideas get developed and disseminated - thanks for all the thought and effort you put into getting things right.

anyways, #Guix is nice, but having to deal with environment variables is still kind of a pain in the ass

which is why I still maintain that the #Plan9 file system model would be a better base to build upon

Alan Turing - the face of the new £50 note.

It’s too little and too late, of course, to make up for the horrendous way that Turing was treated by the establishment. But it’s a good thing.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/alan-turing-the-face-of-the-new-50-note/

I'll be honest, #rust really helped me in getting locking right in C... in the past 10 months there was not a single locking issue in my code. #iamtheborrochecker

* happiness noises *

Damn you, Fedora, you scared me with that screen!

(I actually like this thing, but the flashbacks hit strong)

Playing around with FISH. Who's using it and whats your favourite feature?

Adobe Creative Cloud holds creative works hostage: if you stop paying the monthly fee or if Adobe's servers go down, you can't edit your work. Once you buy into the Adobe ecosystem, you're stuck there and forced to pay rent.

There are many free open alternatives which give you full control over your work without locking you down:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-adobe-creative-cloud/

#Adobe #CreativeCloud #Alternatives

Just before non-binary day ends, I wanna say I'm a proud AF non-binary witch.

This year I came out at work as non-binary, and it's all over my professional life.

I'm grateful for the possibility to do that, and I'm hopeful that it'll encourage other people in my circles to do the same.