Shamar @Shamar@social.cleverlibre.org

#mastoadmin

hi, the bsd.network instance has blocked FLoC on all pages and media that our web servers serve.

We previously, currently, and in the future, will NEVER had ads, and we do not support any efforts to track our users.

Google is an important part of the advertising cabal, and is quite evil thank you very much.

(here is the snippet we use in nginx:
add_header Permissions-Policy "interest-cohort=()";
)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#sysadmin #privacy

And this leads us to the second struggle, which is the struggle for a less toxic community.

I have read the statement from RMS https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community and wondered if this is the first time he openly speaks about his condition.

I have been myself part of a local DIY community with a leading figure in the spectrum for long enough to see the toxic fallout on the community. Autism is not an autist's fault, but it is highly problematic for a community if not openly acknowledged: tone-deafness gets normalized, becomes common culture, and of course this happens at the expense of those that have been taking shit for centuries, basically everybody not white cis male.

So, what becomes apparent for me, is that the social dimension of FS practice has been dramatically undervalued on a systemic level for a long time.

And it is basically this neglect, which is now blowing up in a bizare power war.

first: I think that the power war is about corporate interests, which has never been shy in using any means - now they use a conflict in the community (struggle 2) to divide it, in order to consolidate power.

It is the dilemma of FLOSS, that its achievements are being used to amass immense profit and power by the platform industry. In commons theory, this is called "enclosure" and means the exploitation of "free" resources. free means "owned by no one" (and economic theory knows only two types of ownership: state and private) - even if in fact, these resources are maintained by informal communities. this is the case in land-grabbing from indigenous communities around the world, and I think in a way also in FLOSS.

It also points to another aspect in FLOSS: I was inspired by feminist activists to read the FSM as a feminist manifesto - because it addresses exploitation and offers a way to change it. And indeed, if you look at it that way, it is all about protecting a social practice (of programming). But the solution it takes, in form of the GPL, is acting on the level of the product of that social practice, not the social practice itself. This mindset of valuing the product over the social practice is also alive in the principle of meritocracy.

@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

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

Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman (RMS): https://u.fsf.org/3bf

@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.

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.

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…

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

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.

Il populismo non è lotta popolare, è aizzare masse sfruttate verso guerre e sfascismi per arricchire duci che regnano sulle macerie.

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.

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.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-secret-project-bernanke-revealed-in-texas-antitrust-case-11618097760

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https://stallmansupport.org/

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.

#SupportRMS #DefendRMS #RMS #richardstallman

I'd like to share a comment by @BR 549 ☎ with you:

the gnu C compiler was an amazing achievement. many of us have taken a compiler design class, in which we write some little routines that push a few symbols around.

rms' first achievement is writing this compiler, the derivatives and descendants of which are everywhere. but what made it so successful was rms defending its freedom. if anyone else had created it, the compiler could easily have been swept up into some proprietary project, buried under licenses and nda's and forgotten.

essentially every line of code I have written since college has been part of some corporate project. and those projects are now obsolete, abandoned, and gone. one little hardware tweak i suggested was patented, back in the '80s, and may be now a tiny unrecongnizable part of some chip design library. any software i wrote does not exist.

there is no doubt that this controversy involving rms was entirely the creation of the enemies of free software, and had nothing to do with any requirement for the fsf to have neurotypical board members.

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#gnu #c #compiler #rms #software #proprietary-software #proprietary_software #free-software #free_software #floss #libresoftware #libre_software #story #effort #value

I Giuristi Democratici esprimono sconcerto e indignazione in merito alla vicenda delle intercettazioni indebitamente disposte a carico di attivisti, giornalisti e avvocati (tra cui Arturo Salerni, da sempre difensore dei diritti umani, cui va tutta la nostra solidarietà) nell’ambito dell’inchiesta sul presunto favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione clandestina da parte di alcune Ong, condotta dalla Procura di Trapani.
Tali intercettazioni —come emerge non solo dalla ricostruzione operata dagli organi di informazione, ma altresì dagli atti depositati all’esito delle indagini— risulterebbero effettuate in violazione delle norme procedurali e sostanziali che le disciplinano, e comproverebbero l’ingiustificata lesione di diritti costituzionalmente garantiti. #diritto #giustizia

https://giuristidemocratici.it/Comunicati/post/20210410175240

Roman Anin's apartment being raided by the #FSB today is most probably in connection with this story (from 2016):
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/5523-the-secret-of-the-st-princess-olga

The least we can do now is read and spread it. Clearly there is a reason why Russian authorities would like to stifle this kind of reporting.

#NoGoogle is a #publicdomain #Google domain #blocklist.

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Website 🔗️: https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #security #surveillance