@tanakian@ծմակուտ.հայ
Out of curiosity, in your opinion and experience, what are the advantages of Oberon-2 over Oberon-07?
(I don't think it's a matter of worth: that page explicitly states that "It does not document variants, e.g. Component Pascal, Oberon-2, unless those are treated as extensions", that in fact looks reasonable to reduce confusion, given the site name...)
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@https://qoto.org/users/Shamar i am the author of vishap. i think the page mantainer doesn't think voc is worth puting there, or may be because it's not o-07 compiler. i hope voc can be used, it shows itself very good in tests.
look here: https://github.com/vgratian/CosineBenchmark
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RT @GianfredaStella@twitter.com
Perché nessuno (o quasi) parla della liberalizzazione dei brevetti visto che è l'unica cosa che potrebbe realmente sbloccare la questione #vaccini? #COVID19
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GianfredaStella/status/1381490248899821569
Yeah, #softwarefreedomconservancy.
Donate to them if you want that #Google employees can safely violate #GPL: https://medium.com/@giacomo_59737/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-contributing-to-open-source-dd63acd20696
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Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman (RMS): https://u.fsf.org/3bf
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@https://qoto.org/users/Shamar @https://qoto.org/users/Shamar omg! did you check https://github.com/vishaps/voc?
also there is modula-3 compiler, and it got a new release recently.
@tanakian@ծմակուտ.հայ
No, I didn't new Vishaps's #Oberon compiler. Pretty interesting!
Maybe they should add it to http://oberon07.com/compilers.xhtml
My favourite one is #OBNC https://miasap.se/obnc/
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I always think that if you're making a new theory and it's *more* complex than the old theories it's trying to replace, you probably did something very wrong.
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The comments on this answer are very interesting and explain some physical advantages of the unix pipes-and-filters strategy with many small programs.
Sure, it's great for composability and unanticipated code reuse, but it also helped with use of physical RAM!
unix.stackexchange.com/a/45088…
Sure, it's great for composability and unanticipated code reuse, but it also helped with use of physical RAM!
unix.stackexchange.com/a/45088…
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HTML is powerful. You often don’t need JavaScript #SymfonyTurbo
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RT @everestpipkin
how did i not know about the html <details> tag?? oh my god??? brb gotta rewrite my website to remove the last remaining javascript
https://twitter.com/everestpipkin/status/1381053241543245825
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I really should get back into drawing. I enjoy it far more than programming, but it doesn't pay the bills. I actually learned to draw long before I got into computer science or anything related to technology. I did this drawing of Richard Stallman 2 years ago.
Trouble is, I only get the inspiration to do art once every blue moon. It's really hard to get motivated. My time is otherwise consumed writing code and wielding a soldering iron.
This is totally unfair. 🤣
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Il populismo non è lotta popolare, è aizzare masse sfruttate verso guerre e sfascismi per arricchire duci che regnano sulle macerie.
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I wonder whether one could abstract the MVC model into something like "data and control streams" and get from there to something like the Unix pipe model but for arbitrary networks of runtime-composable components.
@tanakian@ծմակուտ.հայ
Yes. It's one of my source of inspiration. In particular the language.
Sorry @pluralistic but this "mind-control ray" framing is a bit of a strawman.
You don't need mind control to statistically orient a population if you control a sufficient amout of the informations that each of its members receives and also monitor their behaviour 24x7.
Such influence is not individual: no single person changes her mind just because of what #Google, #Facebook and so on... show them.
BUT they can raise or reduce the probability of a certain behaviour among a population by influencing those more inclined to it, and cohordinating the positive/negative feedbacks among the rest of the population.
Thus the problem is not economic, put geo-political.
The money they get from #AdTech is a tiny tiny fraction of the power the get from the personal data they collect.
Data that do NOT come only from #Analytics, CDNs or Apps and services like #GMail, #GoogleMaps or #WhatsApp: they also come from any third party application run on their #cloud services!
And the vast maiority of people influenced by Google (and friends) are not US citizens.
So ultimately these corporations are #US weapons, like mines capillarly spread all over the world.
As such they should not be simply broken as monopolies, but disarmed!
Breaking them into smaller companies is not only much needed but NOT ENOUGH!
Personal data collection and exchange should be out-lawed and prohibited world wide and the distribution of software that technically allow it, likewise forbidden.
All the data collected so far should be destroyed.
And in the long run, we should cap corporate dimensions (number of employees, number of customers, total #energy consumption and so on...) so that something similar cannot happen again.
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Though Google insists that this was just an industry practice, the leaked document reveals that Google kept this a secret from publishers. Its internal presentations claim that they made $230m in 2013 alone from this practice.
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Something very wonderful, written in HTML by a very wonderful person, is now live. I didn't make this site, but it's an entire site defending RMS.
The cancellers are officially on notice.
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
