Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 15

I intend to learn the shit out of PureScript one day and wrote something cool with Hyper

https://github.com/owickstrom/hyper/blob/master/README.md

How can you resist a language which has .purs file extension and row polymorphism?

#fp #purescript

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doctest just tricks python programmers into type declaration 🤔

@clacke

There is also https://hypothesis.is

@0x40 @sheogorath I've been using Linux for years. My notebook runs Debian or Ubuntu because it mostly "just works". I don't have time to fiddle with everything. Not from a lack of experience or unwillingness to read docs. I just want to get work done on that machine.

Microsoft: "TypeScript 2.8 is here...! [Install it] by running

`npm install -g typescript`"

No. Stop. Don't do that. Don't npm install -g a tool you need in your project. Install it as a dependency (possibly dev) _of_ your project, so that other people who use your code don't have to globally modify their system to get your code to work.

As luck would have it, I've written about this very topic. https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/02/22/npm-install-dangerous/ #Node #JavaScript

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Just back from #LibrePlanet where there were folks touting #Mastodon and co-ops. I'm already on the tech-coop and platform-coop mailing lists and part of a fantasy hoping to become a tech co-op. 😉 #introduction

If you think the fediverse could really use an events feature (for example, like the one on the facebook) I'd appreciate you chiming in on this thread: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4179

#wtf There is so much FUD being published by sites like Mashable, Wired, and Tech Crunch about how Mastodon 'could never work', it's unbelievable. And yet Mastodon does work. Hmmm... I guess they're just WRONG.

Since the Facebook debacle I have:

Deleted Facebook
Deleted Twitter
Cut back everything Google to just gmail
Dumped the chrome browser
Switched from windows to Linux Mint
Started using Firefox
Started using Proton Mail

Quit being a product, starve big tech where your information is concerned.

2018 in four panels:

[1] *downloads new "universal messaging app"*
[2] *it's just a bunch of chrome webviews*
[3] *laptop fan enters Airplane Mode*
[4] *deletes new "universal messaging app"*

@ajroach42 @Shamar By contrast, Taler exchanges are less trusted than their equivalents in Bitcoin (where currency exchanges also know who you are but transactions are public record); and also less trusted than traditional payment systems including ACH, credit cards, and PayPal, which make no effort at anonymity and may even use transaction data for other commercial purposes.

@gargron @frankiesaxx @daggertooth

Certainly in the UK (GDPR is unaffected by Brexit) andprobably in other European countries too there is already reliable *free* online advice for voluntary groups about GDPR compliance.

I'm not an expert on this but have to deal with it for work, for Mastodon I think the new functionality to download your data is a *big* step towards compliance (and won't go unnoticed by regulators, especially with FR govt having involvement with at least one instance)

I just learned about GNU Taler and wow, it's an interesting different direction for secure micropayments. Superficially it might seem kind of like Bitcoin, but very different in details: No blockchain, computationally efficient, a payment method rather than a currency, more anonymous for buyers, not at all anonymous for sellers. Not an anarchist or libertarian system: it relies on government regulators and supports taxing and auditing merchants without revealing customers' identities. 🤔

"Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. Competition creates redundancy, is slow and wastes resources on idea protection, advertisement, and more. Competition also requires secrecy which blocks progress and auditing and causes lost opportunities and ideas. Patents and copyrights further limit speed and the potential for mass input of ideas. Collaboration between the people with the greatest expertise does not happen unless they are hired by the same project
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy

That time I got really excited about affiliate marketing as a possible way to make money, investigated the industry and was invited to like 3 private groups of affiliate scam rings and saw the belly of the beast. I no longer support affiliate marketing.