Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR@octodon.social
@charlag
Not sure if you've heard of it but on Android there's F-Droid, which is an app store for free software:
The catch is that people have to check the "Allow software from third parties" box in the preferences, which all the fearmongering security "experts" say not to do. But it's there and it has some good apps.
@pzmyers
I don't think it's hard. Just find a quiet place (or use noise-canceling headphones or foam earplugs), set your phone's alarm to 20 minutes, and nap. I've found 30 minutes works better for me, vut 20 minutes is better than nothing.
This is some good shit.
"The proper response to crazy is: Shut. Up. Just shut the fuck up. I’m not going to debate you, because I simply don’t respect your stupid bullshit enough to bother. Nobody does. Fuck off or I’m getting out my Magic Marker."
Thanks to @gamehawk's post here I found some nice links on diceware and passphrases:
- EFF's dice passphrases page is great and clear: https://www.eff.org/dice
- The Diceware FAQ, especially the "how long" part, are very interesting http://world.std.com/%7Ereinhold/dicewarefaq.html#howlong
#contextpatrol https://mastodon.social/@gamehawk/99933096559696045
Here's a guide to those #CreativeCommons icons:
- Creative Commons
- attribution
- share alike
- no derivatives
- non-commercial
- public domain
- remix
- share
@alice or use an addon like "Neat URL" that does that automatically with all known tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/neat-url/
if your application uses this kinda ui without giving me the option to paste a path then fuck you
@mwlucas The reason why the states each took control of road-building in the first place was because of the abysmal conditions of the privately-owned-and-maintained auto trails, and before that the turnpikes that existed before the automobile.
Sounds like Michigan's politicians want to back to the 18th and 19th centuries. They certainly didn't learn their history.
Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.
A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."
People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.
Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.
@cypnk
Why use awk when the cut command can do the same thing with less overhead and is just as available?
cut -d ':' -f 1 /etc/passwd
I've spent the afternoon trying to package something (Go+Rust) that has so many layers deep in the developer's build framework of expecting to be able to fetch data from the internet and from Github/Crates.io that there's clearly no end in sight.
Proper cleanroom build environments like FreeBSD uses for packaging requires everything be provided with the application source code and no internet access be available during build time.
Sadly this is completely incompatible with modern workflows. You end up chasing down thousands of dependencies by hand, trying to get them all in the right place for the build, and just when you think you've solved the problem the build process runs a command that expects to be able to query a website.
Fucking insanity, man.
Reminder: You did good enough today, even if all you did was get through one more day.
The battle is over. The next generation of programmers reinvented the wheel and it's full of razorblades. I think we should focus our resources on containing this mess with jails/containers. There's no other viable solution. It's our grim reality now.
To those who have sent me follow requests:
It's nothing personal if I reject your request. It's that I want to keep my account on Octodon more personal & I don't know you well enough to be comfortable accepting your request.
If you want me to get to know you, you can follow me on my social.coop account (@ND3JR) which is public. Then after we interact you can try again and you'll have a better chance of your request getting accepted.
@pzmyers There's more than one airport named after that president. Is it the one in Denver or the one in Washington, D.C.?
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@a_breakin_glass
Nah, they do it with printf. Who needs visual representations of newlines when "/n" will do?
@mwlucas @enkiv2
No tech sabbath today for me since I have company here.
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
