josemanuel @josemanuel@social.cleverlibre.org
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Joined Sep 2020
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"Installation: we recommend that you use Docker."
what I'm supposed to see: "hey, it's a simple one-liner! Such clean install, much wow."
what I actually see: "we couldn't figure out how to install this thing on anything but our own machine, but hey, here is a well-compressed image of our entire disk, use this instead so that we can stop trying"
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This year at #elsconf: Charity auction and print sales of the Y Combinator Codex!
During this year's ELS, we will be selling prints and hosting an auction of the original of The Y Combinator Codex, a 42cm x 240cm calligraphy piece.
All proceeds, sans printing and shipping costs, go to Lisp-related organizations.
More information at https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/mzrwwt/els_2021_charity_auction_and_print_sales_of_the_y/
Attached: photo and a low-res scan of the piece.
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man, hearing a cd/dvd drive whirring or a floppy drive clicking around is such a nice thing that's just been lost to time
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I talk about it often, but man do I miss the early 2000 Internet, where everything was exciting as fuck. The billions software download websites and the likes. The indie managed ones would have free upload albums where people would post boomer funny pictures
You Zoomers don't know what you've been missing, it was paradise
You Zoomers don't know what you've been missing, it was paradise
Speaking languages other than English helps when trying to find different ideas and points of view.
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Excellent news! RMS now officially has the full support of the FSF. Until now, the FSF has been silent on the matter of his return.
The Free Software Foundation has now made an official statement regarding Richard Stallman's return to the board of directors: https://fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman
RMS made a separate statement: https://fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
I hope we can all move on past the divisive, hateful politics of recent weeks.
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RMS addresses the free software community https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
@freemo Is it possible to avoid Markdown parsing of usernames?
I just realised I have sent a Markdown reply to someone whose username parsed to cursive and now I don't know if it reached him.
Programming has been slowly losing its fun for me, at least at work. Ironically, I never wanted to work as a programmer. I wanted it to be a hobby. I liked it because it was a creative endeavour, but it doesn't feel creative anymore.
Everybody's first reaction when faced with a problem no longer is: “Well, how should I solve it?,” but: “I bet there's a library that already does what I want.” There's no longer any trace of individual expression anymore. Everything looks the same, both to the user and under the hood. And then everyone complains about bloat. How could they not?
Same with paradigms and design patterns: “We have to follow this paradigm created by someone with no, or very little, programming experience, and designed to solve a very particular problem they had and which is completely different from ours. And we can't deviate from it one milimeter.” Sure, seems like a good idea. Gödel be damned.
More and more I feel like Harry Tuttle in Brazil.
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長山洋子 (Yoko Nagayama) - 博多山笠女節 (Hakata yamakasa onnabushi) https://videos.pueseso.club/videos/watch/a533228f-0b78-4490-a959-1ce44d1ea5e7
I think @whitneywebb is awesome, but she's fediversing wrong. Most of what I see of her are replies to people on Twitter, which is fine (it even includes the links), but the thing is, if I'm here, it's, at least in part, because I'm not interested in Twitter and I'd rather not have to go there, not even for context.
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34% of WFH workers say they’d rather quit than return to full-time office work
And if they do need to come back to the office, even part-time, employees said they expect some changes. For example, they’d want their employer to cover their commuting costs, and also provide some form of childcare.
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Launching a PeerTube instance
I'm in the process of launching a branded PeerTube instance that's intended to serve as a small community of creators. The brand is called Spectra, and while nothing has officially launched yet, I'm slowly building up plans. Ideally, the instance would be designed to be self-funded by creators and viewers, but I'm in a financial position to carry it for a long while.
The goal is to create a well-moderated, invite-only instance with closed sign-ups. People on the instance will create video content and have links for financial support like Patreon featured prominently, and we'll start out by selectively federating with good instances that don't just flood the video catalogue with crap. It would be a concentrated, curated effort, but the intention is to create two incentives:
1. Give the video fediverse actually good stuff to watch.
2. Give video creators an incentive to make something, as well as a community with other people who also want to make something.
If you're a video creator, either on #PeerTube or elsewhere, and you'd like to take part in this weird experiment, please respond to me either here or in a DM.
The goal is to create a well-moderated, invite-only instance with closed sign-ups. People on the instance will create video content and have links for financial support like Patreon featured prominently, and we'll start out by selectively federating with good instances that don't just flood the video catalogue with crap. It would be a concentrated, curated effort, but the intention is to create two incentives:
1. Give the video fediverse actually good stuff to watch.
2. Give video creators an incentive to make something, as well as a community with other people who also want to make something.
If you're a video creator, either on #PeerTube or elsewhere, and you'd like to take part in this weird experiment, please respond to me either here or in a DM.
TIL that Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne fame) died a year ago of COVID-19 complications. This year marks the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut. I remember listening to Sink to the Bottom and Radiation Vibe on the radio back then. (Only many years later I could afford to buy the album.) Such fun songs. Such good times.
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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Fleetwood Mac seems to me the band with the best choruses and the worst verses.
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:ignucius:
This repository is made for those who wish to support Richard Stallman, yet (for ethical reasons) wish to stay away from github.
https://codeberg.org/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter
If you happen to visit this page but don't have/want to make a codeberg account, you can send a signed patch to signrms@prog.cf to show your support :)
https://codeberg.org/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter
If you happen to visit this page but don't have/want to make a codeberg account, you can send a signed patch to signrms@prog.cf to show your support :)
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
-- Malcolm X
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