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Politics. Programming, Software Architecture, Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematical Logic
Joined Aug 2021
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Bedside tables, left Elon Musk, right Boyko Borisov, former Bulgarian PM.
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This is how much the decision-makers at for-profit companies respect your privacy folks...
“We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”
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If you, like me, want to support the military effort of Ukrainians (because Western decision-makers are slow to produce proper support which can speed up russian capitulation), you have a great chance to do so!
To protect #GrainExport and ensure deoccupation of the Black Sea, #Ukraine is building a fleet of #NavalDrones, under the supervision from the administration of President #Zelenskyy.
Donate here: https://u24.gov.ua/navaldrones
@lightweight Reminds me of one (bulgarian?) joke:
A policeman (traditionally all policemen are very dumb in Bulgarian jokes) sees a man in the sidewalk, selling something.
- what are you selling?
- apple seeds
- apple seeds?
- yes, they make you smart!
- really? How much are they?
- 5 euro for 2 appleseeds
- ok. I'll take 2.
The policeman pays. Takes the seeds and eats one of them. Than says:
- Wait! For 5 euro I could have gotten a kilogram of apples!
- Well you see - You've eaten just half the dose and it already works!
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@ianbetteridge that kind of investing system always seems to be more about cults of personality than competence.
Then again, it's all about economics, which appears to be the bastard child of astrology, after they had a one night stand with mates, where growing up astrology tries to teach it their fathers culture as best they understand.
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@extrn @nzlemming the real problem is that now no businesses can ever be freehold with technology - they'll always be paying escalating rental costs, and have no mobility because most are voluntarily locking themselves into one supplier's proprietary cloud. Which is dumb. I explain why here: https://davelane.nz/mshostage
@nzlemming @lightweight You are right. I hate my company's dependance on gmail, google docs, Notion, etc. We had a small crisis recently, with some documents being put on private accounts of former employees... I would much prefer to have these services running locally and managed internally.
@nzlemming @lightweight Hm. The model is good - it allows on demand scalability and sharing resources/costs. Imagine the whole internet running on one cloud - when user attention shifts to slashdot its share of resources grows and reddit's share shrinks. When there are more users on reddit its share grows and slashdot's share shrinks. The two sites effectively share resources/costs, which means more efficient operation. Of course, the devil is in the details - more precisely in the billing 
@freemo 30000 followers and no blue tick for only $7.99? 
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Don't Read Off The Screen - Stuart Langrdige "As Days Pass By": https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2022/10/18/don-t-read-off-the-screen/ (Embedded YouTube + transcript)
Simon Willison's endorsement: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/4/dont-read-off-the-screen/
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Since on Mastodon there's a higher chance of non-followers seeing this, I might as well do an #introduction :)
Hi, I'm Arturo, I tinker with #electronics, #pcb, #kicad, #firmware, #opensource, #openhardware
I'm the founder of a company named Solder Party, if you're in the electronics community, you might've seen my stuff. Everything I release is open source, SW and HW.
《Facebook has seen its market capitalization crash by $700,000,000,000 (seven! hundred! billion! dollars!). Zuckerberg greeted this news by telling his investors that he was “pretty confident this is going in a good direction.”》
Haha, I totally agree with this mf. This is a good direction 
@noelle @GraySpots @lapis also there was the same idea but for paintings from the renaissance (for example)
@Natanox @aral @glynmoody opens fine for me (on mobile)
Politics. Programming, Software Architecture, Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematical Logic
Joined Aug 2021
