Notices by rain (rain@niu.moe)

https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/

Ethical Design

every fucking website has a popup box on it.

We somehow put a stop to alert() and target=_blank popups but now people just shove a centered div in your way.

WHY

Idea for a project:

boring crypto-toolkit: A set of simple usable programs for various crypto tasks like: encrypting a file, securely sending a file between computers, simple encrypted chat

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

#bootstrapping is about building a compiler using tools smaller than itself, as opposed to building a compiler using an already built version of itself.

The problem with the second is: Where did that prebuilt binary come from?

:ablobpride1: :ablobpride2:

Why did I write my hobby programming projects?

https://rain-1.github.io/why/why

it's 3 years since mozilla chose to implement DRM/EME despite the wishes of their userbase

#solarpunk

here's one crazy thing that would be possible in a world without copyright:

books on demand vending machines - any book you want at all. You put in a dollar and it prints it.

No out of print books, any subject you want to learn about it would all cost the worth of what it's printed on.

Unexplained Phenomena, Software Programming