Notices by @h (h@sunbeam.city)

Apache Jena is a free and open source Java framework for building #SemanticWeb and Linked Data applications. With support for #RDF, #OWL and #SPARQL, it's a powerful set of apis and tools that work together well without extra integration effort.
http://jena.apache.org/

#FOSS #Jena #ApacheJena

Gmail hit with global outage. I blame Maduro. Nah, central points of failure are just bad engineering, and the reason for building things this absurd way is political, all about control.
Did you know that in the days of the Portuguese empire, mail sent from Northern Brazil to Southern Brazil (or the other way around) would travel to Portugal first, and then to the recipient back in Brazil? Not an awful lot of differences here.

https://www.cnet.com/news/gmail-is-down-outage-around-the-world-for-some-users/

Chromium and Firefox both consume obscene amounts of memory just to do basic things, more or less equally. However that changes when you're working locally using many applications, compilers, several terminals, code editors, and many documentation tabs open in the browser (can't close all docs I need whilst coding)
I've stress tested the machines I use for work and forced the memory available down to a lower limit to see how these two browsers behave under different conditions. Chromium / Chrome doesn't relinquish RAM as efficiently as Firefox does. Firefox uses inordinate amounts of RAM, but it knows better when to free it, and I'm able to use even limited memory configurations under stress tests with many tabs open. Chromium / Chrome just freezes randomly if you have 8 or 10 tabs open whilst doing equivalent work, sometimes to the point of halting the whole system.
For heavy duty work, Firefox just works better.

@jjg Good morning jjg. This may be of help.
https://sunbeam.city/@h/101302039184490986

This is not a very clever way to sell RISC-V. In fact, it's exactly the way that opposition would love free hardware people to shoot themselves in their collective feet.

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/13/risc-v-will-stop-hackers-dead-from-getting-into-your-computer/

#riscv #risc-v

[eat the rich]

"All philanthropy means is that the rich get to give to institutions & people that they support personally.

Far from mitigating inequality, philanthropy accelerates it. Rather than taxation benefiting all, money is funnelled into reproducing & spreading the ideology of the rich."

via @Grimeandreason

https://twitter.com/Grimeandreason/status/1064494028367032320

#philanthropy #ngo #eattherich #mikebloomberg #bloomberg

@strypey Apart from Kevin"s work, I'd recommend taking a look at @Gin 's initial work (beyond labels and branding) on the ways that genuinely progressive organisations aware of the limitations of capital can tell who are compatible organisations to cooperate with. (And which aren't) Hopefully a first deliverable of many.
http://emo.world/2018/09/27/no-profit-no-hierarchy-a-comparative-study-of-the-lower-left/

@KevinCarson1 @mayel @matslats

@bhaugen Capitalists centralising everything and always competing for profit rather than collaborating can never get cooperativism right. Free Software is anathema to their process, even if they benefit from it, there's a fundamental philosophical impossibility in being for capital and being for collaboration at the same time. US Liberals really need to make their minds up.

@strypey @mayel @matslats

No more I love yous

If I were to borrow from immunology, Nazis are a pandemic. Centrists are an autoimmune disease opening the door for them. Many liberals may be able to recount the Trojan War by memory, but they couldn't tell a GIANT WOODEN HORSE from a toy if they had it sitting on their very noses.