"Slide" Brombek @brombek@social.privacytools.io
So you want to know about how starships work, huh? Well you came to the right place.
Joined Jun 2019
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"The web is optimized for transmission of large chunks of minimally-styled text; using it to simulate native applications, while impressive, is a terrible idea and should never have become normalized."
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@jared
that way of thinking about software "apps" and "users are sheep that like shiny UI and addictive buttery UX" is a problem in itself. users should be more active participants in their experiences with software. that's a big ask for people who are used to the crack people distribute these days, but if we move the line that divides developer and user a bit things might be a lot better and easier to develop and grow.
https://xj9.io/posts/2019/programming-for-the-next-billion/
we can't compete with megas on their terms, we need to come up with something that doesn't make sense to them that they can't copy without destroying their business model.
https://xj9.io/posts/2017/kill-the-web/#let-s-talk-about-infrastructure
that way of thinking about software "apps" and "users are sheep that like shiny UI and addictive buttery UX" is a problem in itself. users should be more active participants in their experiences with software. that's a big ask for people who are used to the crack people distribute these days, but if we move the line that divides developer and user a bit things might be a lot better and easier to develop and grow.
https://xj9.io/posts/2019/programming-for-the-next-billion/
we can't compete with megas on their terms, we need to come up with something that doesn't make sense to them that they can't copy without destroying their business model.
https://xj9.io/posts/2017/kill-the-web/#let-s-talk-about-infrastructure
@rra
There are 0 technical reasons for the internet to run on coal.
There are plenty of political, capital and perception reasons though... clean and safe energy production is a solved problem.
https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/eco2mix-mix-energetique-en
@octet33
There are only like 5 floors 😃 I recon it is for access cards/fobs although they don't look like in use currently.
Minified JS is probably not much more readable than decompiled WebAssembly compared to full source code.
On the other hand WebAssembly is faster, safer and can be a target for any language.
That said running random code downloaded implicitly from the internet as you try to read some text is a bad idea regardless how you implement it.
I bet that if browsers natively implemented top handful of ethical use cases for JS most websites would not need any scripts to work.
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@wizard
Today lift in my office displayed: "No Database!" and refused to operate... what a time to be alive
@alcinnz
With all the "standards" that browsers need to support makes it impractical to develop new browsers, so yeah. Also web tends to promote centralisation due to how URL work and how linking and HTML lacks semantic information.
This are by design, so a new standard that could help avoid this issues would be good.
That said web is here to stay and all the data there so any work to improve things is important.
@ajroach42
@ajroach42
The promise is still there but www (HTTP/HTML...) is a lost cause. We can still create new open protocols that won't get turned against their "users".
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The Open Book Project
"The Open Book aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves. The Open Book should be comprehensible: the reader should be able to look at it and understand, at least in broad strokes, how it works. It should be extensible, so that a reader with different needs can write code and add accessories that make the book work for them. It should be global, supporting readers of books in all the languages of the world. Most of all, it should be open, so that anyone can take this design as a starting point and use it to build a better book."
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Linux Kernels. Compiling
compiling linux kernels are an all-day affair for me. There. Now that I've accepted that into my heart, I find the process actually relaxing. It's passive, and you get to see all the text flying by. Is it pretty? No. That would be too strong a word. Something one less than that perhaps.
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extreme sarcasm, tech rant, don't open
The next big #innovation after Electron apps is putting your compiled Flutter apps into Android Docker containers and packaging them with the Docker runtime into virtual machine images.
A new Golang utility will be created to easily run this multi-Gigabyte monstrosity. $Utilitynetes will help orchestrate this kind of apps on your desktop.
A security upgrade is simply replacing the VM. No data is lost, since you never had it anyway, it was in the Cloud.
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After my talk at the European Parliament today, I asked a question at the end of the second panel (03:35:47) and a corporate lobbyist attempted to tone police me (03:44:50). This was my response (03:45:06). If I’d been any younger he’d have heard “OK Boomer” :)
https://web-greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/the-future-internet-regulation
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Python: We made this really great programming language, you should use it!
Me: Okay, hooray!
Python: We made a bunch of minor improvements, please rewrite all your scripts to use this new version!
Me: Uh, why? My stuff works. I'm busy. Leave me be.
Python: Use our new thing or we break your computer.
Me: Fuck you, I'm going back to writing C code.
Me: Okay, hooray!
Python: We made a bunch of minor improvements, please rewrite all your scripts to use this new version!
Me: Uh, why? My stuff works. I'm busy. Leave me be.
Python: Use our new thing or we break your computer.
Me: Fuck you, I'm going back to writing C code.
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@deshipu For me, it's not that I'm technophobic but that I don't get pulled by in as much by the tech industry's marketting or "hype". I understand technology, leading me to know how empty (or worse dangerous) most of that is and how much better computers can trivially be if everyone wasn't chasing lock-in.
Unfortunately saying that technology has to serve an actual purpose can look like technophobia.
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"oh a computer could definitely be conscious for sure. a pity that would require at least a millenium of sustained, cumulative effort and we're gonna lose all progress and/or die in the next century"
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Basically, I want an encryption machine that a non-mathematician can trust without having to put faith in anyone else.
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"In my work with mature students, I have found that inviting them to consider collapse as inevitable, catastrophe as probable and extinction as possible, has not led to apathy or depression."
@tuxom@mastodon.at
From "4.1.4. Implications for Shell Companies":
"(...) Group Planning felt there was a possibility that an increasing awareness of the greenhouse effect might change peoples' attitudes towards non-fossil energy sources, especially nuclear."
"It is thermodynamically unfavourable and technically very difficult to remove carbon dioxide from the air other than by planting trees."
Nuclear power and planting trees was seen as a way forward in combating greenhouse effect.
So you want to know about how starships work, huh? Well you came to the right place.
Joined Jun 2019
