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Notices by Hattie Cat (hattiecat@shitposter.club), page 6
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@aral @qwazix Ditto oil companies sponsoring museums (e.g. science museums in the UK)
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@bob @thegibson @qbfreak I feel much the same way but can't really see GNU/Linux as becoming non-viable - if only because Linux is more of an OS toolkit (a kernel and a bunch of mix-and-match userland support programs) rather than a complete OS in and of itself (such as the BSDs), so you could always roll your own. Support becomes a major headache, though, as you have to monitor security vulns in all of the components and update them yourself. Then again, for embedded systems with only a small set of programs (in extremis, the Linux kernel, busybox and your embedded app running out of an initrd ramdisk) it might not be too bad. Commercial Linux (at least RHEL) is becoming unviable on the server though, so I'm leaning towards BSD there. Ubuntu I rejected since the Amazon thing.
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@joshsharp I use pycontracts extensively these days - if only to compensate for python's lack of declaring structured data types when dealing with structures that are a mishmash of tuples, dicts, lists etc. (A glaring omission for a "modern" language IMO but it's not alone in that respect. namedtuple is too limited.) Unfortunately it isn't a compiler so can't do dataflow analysis and eliminate redundant checks. Also unfortunately you can't declare more complex stuff like "this is a function object that takes arguments of these types and returns this".
Yeh, the list is pretty small. Common Lisp has optional typing but is hardly in mainstream use these days. An alternative half-way house might be a language with automatic type inference?
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@joshsharp Optionally typed languages might be a better fit? (Although a cynic might say that given that a lot of web stuff seems to be poorly engineered garbage built on top of poorly engineered garbage, so we could do with more languages like Rust.)
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@puffinux @jeffcliff As if TBL hadn't already lost enough credibility.
This isn't going to help anyone who needs help. Dissidents will still be persecuted. Companies will still conduct surveillance on their users in unethical and non-consenting ways. They will also continue to ignore data protection rules and construct search engines designed to enable government censorship and spying.
Also companies like Cloudflare are a joke and they have zero credibility with anyone who knows how the internet works.
After decades of trying to improve rights in the digital space we know what kinds of things work. Licenses, if properly vetted by copyright lawyers, are known to work. Encryption, if appropriately implemented and audited, works. Systems designed to be "offline first" and go under the radar of most other things are known to provide some level of protections to people who need it.
Vague pledges have never worked. Companies and governments routinely break their promises and think nothing of it.
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This from the man who sold out the Internet to corporate interests (DRM in web standards), riding roughshod over objections. Forgive me for being a tiny bit cynical here.
https://shitposter.club/attachment/2609320
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@mono They finished playing kung fu in my guts. Now I just have the remains of a fever.
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@ida @Trev
pleroma is made by competent engineers and can run on a raspberry pi ( check my alt which runs on one @xj )
mastodon has like five databases and runs like shit
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Ugh, having just shaken gastroenteritis I got from drinking the water in China, I now seem to be going down with influenza.
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@thatbrickster You must be mistaken. It is well known that (1) Girls don't fart. (2) If in doubt, see (1).
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Nothing that uses cloudflare is worth using
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A book I've been waiting for: The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness. University of Westminster Press - buy a paper copy or free download. Presenting the latest research demonstrating the PM's general validity and updating it.Β
https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book27/
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The Nazi Party: IBM and "Death's Calculator"
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-calculator-quot-2
'IBM has consistently refused to allow access to its Swiss office files, its Polish files, its Romanian files or its Vichy files. "We're a technology company, not historians."'
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@lain No but I've read it.
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@delores Moi aussi. I'm after a new workstation and a replacement for some and I'm looking for systems that _don't_ include Intel CPUs.
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Reading a plain ASCII CSV file in python - easy peasy. Reading a UTF-8 CSV file with a byte order mark in python - what fresh hell is this?!
I h8 python.
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@delores If you could have it do automatic pile cream application...
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