Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org

@urusan I don't agree with everything Stallman wrote, but I really loved his article on copyright:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.en.html

Site.js version 17.3.4 released

Upgrades JSDB to version 1.2.2 (CJS backport of 2.0.6; details: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107548661864126393)

Site.js is the Small Web construction set.

https://sitejs.org

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

GPL is basically the software equivalent of Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike.

Those who have a problem with it do so because they don’t want to share alike.

They want to take but not give.

So you decide how you feel about that.

Encryption is the key to personhood.

If you’re looking for an excellent app for annotating/marking up PDFs on Linux, try Xournal++

https://xournalpp.github.io/

#linux #pdf #annotation #app

Disney has a long history of being an enemy of content freedom, most notably how they twisted and manipulated copyright law to something distincly NOT in public interest, for their own pocketbooks. Disney+ is the climax of that same ignoble mission so far. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/idad-2021-counteracting-disneys-attack-culture

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

Before you buy that e-book from Amazon, do yourself a favor and see if the publisher has a website with direct sales.

I've found a number of books that I was interested in DRM-free, in EPUB format, and sometimes at a discounted price, just by poking around a little.

Sounding like it's already passed Ditch-LastPass o'clock 😬

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised/

Let me talk out the architecture I've got planned for my "Haphaestus" browser engine for TVs & eReaders.

I'll tackle the rendering engine first, so let's start there.

I plan to use GPU-rendering to avoid the need for more complex optimizations elsewhere. Rendering all the "fragment" pixels (in GLSL) for each element simultaneously is an unusual programming paradigm, but should be easy enough!

I'll parse relevant CSS properties directly into GLSL input within this module.

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@alexandra So we have invented this essentially undeletable database, it's horribly inefficient but it works, right, so shouldn't we be using it to record all of humanity's knowledge as well as evidence of crimes against humanity, instead of using it for funding ransomware and making a few people richer?

After three decades of using email I just sent my first message using the protocol directly by talking to an SMTP server interactively and typing in all the commands by hand.

Have to say, was actually simpler than setting up some of the email clients I’ve used over the years :)

"Sigmund Freud called this “the narcissism of small differences.” He noted that the fiercest fighting doesn’t happen between people with big differences, but between those with relatively insignificant differences. The Romans used this bit of human nature in their “divide and conquer” strategy, turning locals against themselves and their neighbours for easy plunder, and colonialists and corporations have been doing the same ever since, wherever opposition springs up."

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2021/07/19/how-the-narcissism-of-small-differences-is-holding-back-community-transformation-work/

How many holes does this shirt have?

Hint: you are probably wrong.

Protonmail have introduced full, on-device email content search 🙌 ("The contents of your emails remain entirely invisible to Proton")

That's the big feature I was worried about missing. (In truth I haven't actually needed it yet, but I expect the need will grow as the inbox grows!)

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/search-message-content/

@Linux_in_a_Bit@linuxrocks.online It breaks stuff that by all rights shouldn't need any JavaScript at all.

Though if you're willing to put up with having to click over to it and grant some permissions very often you'll find that you can often block a lot of the 3rd-party JS without breaking the page.

@mathew @DHeadshot @alcinnz @avalos it (and Silverlight) should serve as strong messages for *anyone* opting to build anything important on any technology that's proprietary to someone else. This sort of thing will inevitably happen, and you (the person building stuff on it) will lose. So don't. Build on #FOSS platforms. At least that way you always have a fighting chance!

alright, it is time

the spam thread y’all asked for

Linux From Scratch

@brainblasted C is simple as in you simply have no idea what type of data you're actually working with and neither does the compiler.