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"I am like the grass, I thought. My efforts prevent the erosion from being worse. Even if the flood washes away my efforts, my resistance will have absorbed some of the flood's energy and lessened the erosion that otherwise would have happened."
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The price of not getting stuck in one's ways as one gets older is a constant, painful, reassessment of almost everything.
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Extrapolating a thing which is true within a certain context as being true in all contexts can be one of the most harmful ways of thinking.
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"Conservatives don't like this blaming of the market; if there is a problem with the economy, in their hearts, they know the true cause must be government."
#JosephStiglitz, 'Freefall', 2010
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me with the simplistic moral framework of an alienated teenager: giant corporations are evil.
me later, as a mature grown up person who works for a living and understands that things are complicated: giant corporations are just made up of humans and mostly people are doing their best and there are lots of complex reasons that people and systems do what they do, many of them pretty understandable in context.
me now: giant corporations are evil.
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"if i replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?"
this argument is known as the ship of thesaurus
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@NGIZero first off, you’re expecting google to do something good, the same company that took AOSP and turned it into a spyware machine. Second, the customers who invested in the service by buying games and hardware do deserve their money back. It’s theirs, it’s not of the FOSS community, nor of google (as google rightfully understands).
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*nod*. plus, it's not at all bad to remind the audience when corpses could do good and choose not to
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@NGIZero Are you serious right now? You do know what Google is, right? You do understand what their business model is? I thought NGI/NLnet was purportedly about finding and supporting *alternatives* to surveillance capitalists like Google, Meta, etc., not trying to improve their PR by perpetuating the myth that they’re generally a force for good who sometimes (often) make silly mistakes.
Do better.
#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet
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Guess I missed the meeting where the definition of "right wing" was changed to 'anything that liberal centrists might have a kneejerk reaction to' ;)
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We are still a massive €254 short for the server bills for mstdn.social, misskey.ai, mastodon.coffee, pixey.org and some more free open source services 
Hopefully next month I can pay most of it with a new job but that doesn't help now..
If you can, please think about supporting me in paying the bills for the various #Fediverse services I host for free❤️
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
If not me perhaps your own server admin 
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Hot take: it is useful to add issues to your issue tracker even when it's technically an "upstream problem":
* it makes it easier to find the issue for others running into it
* it provides a place for users to share workaround for this particular instance of the problem
* it reminds you to help upstream fix it
* sometimes there is a fix in using upstream differently (or even replacing it)
Debian gets this right and even has some nice standardized metadata for this (https://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage#Working_with_upstream)
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Computer, ARM history
The ARM chip was also designed to run at very low power. [Sophie] Wilson explained that this was entirely a cost-saving measure—the team wanted to use a plastic case for the chip instead of a ceramic one, so they set a maximum target of 1 watt of power usage.
But the tools they had for estimating power were primitive. To make sure they didn’t go over the limit and melt the plastic, they were very conservative with every design detail. Because of the simplicity of the design and the low clock rate, the actual power draw ended up at 0.1 watts.
In fact, one of the first test boards the team plugged the ARM into had a broken connection and was not attached to any power at all. It was a big surprise when they found the fault because the CPU had been working the whole time. It had turned on just from electrical leakage coming from the support chips.
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@bhaugen
Yes, it's an issue. The ultimate solution is to get all jurisdictions to do what NZ did and remove software from the scope of patent law. In the meantime, compromises such as defensive patents may be necessary. But since they also implicitly endorse the patenting of software, it's crucial to have robust debate about whether they really are necessary and what other defensive options exist for libre software communities.
@tetrislife @gert @clacke @matslats @organizingInFedi @mike_hales
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@bhaugen
> another company that filed a patent for using Holochain
Ah ok, that makes more sense. A blog piece that tells that story would be useful here. IANAL either but ...
... rather than filling for their own patent, couldn't the HC folks have used the same money and prior art to invalidate the other patent? Wouldn't that create a precedent that could strike down future patent applications involving HC?
@tetrislife @gert @clacke @matslats @organizingInFedi @mike_hales
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https://tomasp.net/commodore64/
The Lost Ways of Programming: Commodore 64 BASIC
"When Commodore 64 starts, a welcome screen from BASIC awaits you. Even if you want to use it to just play games, you start with a programming environment. This tells you that you too can become a programmer and you certainly do not need to download gigabytes of tools and wait hours for your XCode or Visual Studio to install. "
@dcz ah, so, Erlang/Elixir? Or are there more declarative options? A far-out option is Parasail (Ada with implicit parallelism but not declarative). A more Prolog-y option seems to be Mercury which has implicit parallelism. A mundane option might be GNU parallel?
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@dcz late to the thread, but I am a recent follower of Prolog. https://www.swi-prolog.org seems to have threaded execution, not sure whether it is implicitly parallel under the hood. But why not gorge on bountiful free/open software? Write Prolog that generates a Makefile and run it with 'make -j $CORES' ? Or run many Prolog instances (pengines?) designed in a control hierarchy?
@clacke @strypey in hindsight, the drama over the drafting process of the #Holochain #CAL seems to be fear of it being more effective in promoting #FLOSS than #FSF or #OSI #Licence s. You did voice concerns about FUD, but wouldn't you say that FUD against GPL failed (people serious about software were not all sheeple)? And I bet the people behind that FUD themselves free-loaded off GPL'ed software (and stayed silent on the more effective AGPL - probably stayed silent on the CAL too?).
