Holy SHIT!
Plain English Programming... for true!
And nobody told me!
IMPRESSIVE ! ! !
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A Silicon Valley VC-funded startup succeeds or fails based on how fast it can grow. At the start, it needs YOU to grow. It will put its best face forward and promise to be nice. Once it has grown enough and it no longer needs you (see: network effects), you have little to no power to affect its behaviour. That’s when you get screwed. Maybe not all at once (see: slowly-boiling frogs) but eventually, sure enough.
So exercise your power when you have it. At the start. By looking the other way.
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Su LibriVox potete fare due cose:
-Ascoltare
-Registrare.
Gli audiolibri LibriVox sono letti da volontari di tutto il mondo; sono gratuiti per chiunque, e si possono ascoltare, sul proprio computer, tablet, altri dispositivi mobili, masterizzare su un CD o salvare su una chiavetta usb.
Tutte le registrazioni LibriVox sono di dominio pubblico.
Obiettivo di LibriVox:
Rendere disponibili tutti i libri di pubblico dominio in formato audio su internet.
I principi fondamentali di LibriVox:
-E' un progetto non commerciale, senza scopo di lucro e senza pubblicità
-Cede le sue registrazioni come pubblico dominio
-E' sostenuto da volontari
-Mantiene una struttura fluida e aperta
-Accoglie volontari da tutto il mondo, in tutte le lingue.
Ascolta un libro pure tu!
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@chjara @io it works really well for me though!
but just, what the fuck is going on in the free software community? google sabotaging linux in general, attempts at cancelling people who have done more for free software than anybody else, some coke-sniffing californian killing freenode, this shit with the LAC, then audacity
are we all failing to stand up to schoolyard bullies?
but just, what the fuck is going on in the free software community? google sabotaging linux in general, attempts at cancelling people who have done more for free software than anybody else, some coke-sniffing californian killing freenode, this shit with the LAC, then audacity
are we all failing to stand up to schoolyard bullies?
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Wow.
"Edsger W. Dijkstra: a Commemoration
This article is a multiauthored portait of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra that consists of testimonials written by several friends, colleagues, and students of his. It provides unique insights into his personality, working style and habits, and his influence on other computer scientists, as a researcher, teacher, and mentor."
PDF at [ https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commemoration-2021.pdf ]
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I just learned that Philippe Aigrain passed away, in his house in the mountains, near Argeles (in the South-West of France). I am so sad.
Philippe had been my inspiration for my research on software patents when I was a student.
Later we co-founded La Quadrature du Net together.
In addition to being an incredibly generous and sensitive person, a great friend, Philippe was a brilliant thinker, philosopher, writer, programmer, strategist, poet...
What a loss for the world... :((((
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If MS can do it with code... https://fairuseify.ml/
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RT @nilocram@twitter.com
#uMap un #softwarelibero per creare #mappe personalizzate. Una raccolta di #tutorial tradotti a puntate, prima puntata: intro +2 tutorial: https://s.devol.it/umap_tutorial_intro @Le_Alternative@twitter.com @napo@twitter.com @informagicien@twitter.com #OpenStreetMap
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@Shamar @rysiek @tindall @chebra I talked with her on Twitter (in German) and she wasn’t even aware that Copilot reproduced Quake’s Inverse Square Root Hack, including the “// What the fuck?” comment. And what she said about no copyright would be better for copyleft is plain BS: Then everybody would be able to only distribute binaries.
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Comunicato stampa del Garante.
"Il meccanismo di acquisizione del consenso on line dovrà innanzitutto garantire che, per impostazione predefinita, al momento del primo accesso ad un sito web, nessun cookie o altro strumento diverso da quelli tecnici venga posizionato all’interno del dispositivo dell’utente, né venga utilizzata altra tecnica di tracciamento attiva (ad esempio, cookie di terze parti) o passiva (ad esempio, il fingerprinting)."
https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9679893
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A sad day for #FreeSoftware, #Kerala forgets its legacy in leading the world and falls for Google's 'free of cost' service.
I think we should educate teachers and general public about dangers of surveillance capitalism where you pay with your data, privacy and even at the cost of losing our political agency to big companies. #Google is providing 'Free of Cost' only because they know to make money out of people's data and has a monopoly in online ads. Would you join me?
Sketch of The Analytical Engine invented by Charles #Babbage.
The notes of #AdaLovelace are really REALLY something any programmer should read.
In particular, the famous Note G first lines are prophetic.
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It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself in another manner. For, in so distributing and combining the truths and the formulæ of analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine, the relations and the nature of many subjects in that science are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more profoundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all extensions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, various collateral influences, besides the main and primary object attained.
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@scruss @cypnk Wow. “We might serve you malware links” is a new one I wasn’t expecting.
“The adverts are filtered to block ‘bad’ adverts, but occasionally a bad advert may slip through. A common form of “bad advert” is what we refer to as “the Big Green Button”, which is an advertisement that attempts to lure visitors to download unwanted software or malware.”
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I wonder.. if #GitHubCopilot can output original code (don't worry, it cannot... but follow the reasoning) why #Microsoft did not use #Windows11 sources to "train" it? Or maybe #IIS's or #Office365's one? Or #Azure sources.
Why violate the copyright and trust of #GitHub users? 🤔
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Some bot inception going on, this is a twitter post about Github copilot and a AzureDevOps account thinking its a windows 11 bug report on twitter
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I guess it is.
Maybe you would like to try #TempleOS, a very innovative operating system that was explicitly designed as a playful learning platform from a recently passed #hacker named #TerryADavis.
It's deeply inspired by #Commodore64 (in particular the UI), and it's completely written from scratch in #HolyC, a #C like language that is... somewhat unique.
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A new user in #TempleOS:matrix.kiwifarms.net made some technical TempleOS videos: https://rumble.com/user/CravenCrypto
We need more videos like this, I regularly search on YouTube for recent TempleOS videos any 95% of the non-Terry videos are someone literally just booting it in VirtualBox, flailing around for a minute or two, and then ends.
We need more videos like this, I regularly search on YouTube for recent TempleOS videos any 95% of the non-Terry videos are someone literally just booting it in VirtualBox, flailing around for a minute or two, and then ends.
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There are two orthogonal forces at work in the Squeak team [...] the incremental improvement plane (which #AlanKey calls the "pink" plane) and the paradigm shift (or "blue") plane. [...]
The forces in the pink plane have to do with making an ever-better Smalltalk-80 system [...]
The forces in the blue plane have to do with [...] an exquisite personal comuputing environment. [...]
One aspect is that things must stay small and simple enough that they remain comprehensible and accessible to a single person.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20050406063507/http://squeak.org/about/headed-prev-vers.html
I'm always amazed to see how ancient is the quest for #simplicity.
#Jehanne, #Wirth's #Oberon, #TempleOS, #Squeak... we are all looking for the same Holy Grail, dreaming the same dream but in a different way...
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
