resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
@telroy @celia I have msgs trapped on #Protonmail because of a #CAPTCHA that hits every time I attempt to login. I'm a bit baffled that #Hydroxide is feasible because the Protonmail API pushes #CAPTCHA which would not be possible to pass through over IMAP.
@dublinux @profoundlynerdy just a heads up, #ReadTheDocs.io is an exclusive walled garden (#Cloudflare), so you probably to want to avoid that if you intend your work to be open to all.
@gerowen @VictorVenema @VictorVenema @redstarfish @dreiwert #Debian's #Gitlab instance (salsa) is a non-starter for me because they impose a #Google #reCAPTCHA upon registration, which in turn imposes #nonfreesoftware on users. Apart from that there are some decent Gitlab forges: https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md
@simon @kev @JohanEmpa Even my boss bitched about me not top posting so i made an exception just on msgs I sent to the boss. But I saved the company money on whatever monthly fee they paid for the leasing & maintenance of the Windows laptop. If I ever take a gig that's largely on Windows, my rate must double-- which happened once but I'm quite happy to generally price myself out of that market.
@JohanEmpa @kev @simon So the take-away is, you might have a longer leash than you realize, and it pays off to be a rebel & test it.
@simon @kev @JohanEmpa my last gig used linux for the serious work but we were also given Windows laptops to use office tools. I was the one rebel who used gnus for email instead of Outlook. People bitched at me for /not/ top posting. The office had a Windows server that we could reach remotely from linux, so I told the IT dept. "come & pickup the Windows laptop that I'm using as a footrest." They did.
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Is fax making a come back or is it just me? I've basically quit sending email. I can't even recall when I last sent #email. But I send a #fax almost daily. The fax machine never forces me to solve a #CAPTCHA & the receiving side very rarely rejects my fax on the basis of not liking how I sent it (probably ~1 in 100 get rejected because I send using caller ID rejection). Fax #justWorks.
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@dreiwert @VictorVenema @VictorVenema @redstarfish a project to do that is already underway. I forgot what they were calling it though. Maybe "fedilab"?
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@resist1984 @VictorVenema@fediscience.org @VictorVenema@bonn.social
When I find bugs, I want to report them as a responsible user. But if the project uses Github, I can't do it.
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@VictorVenema @VictorVenema A developer just told me they would be willing to expand & enhance a #FOSS tool, but because the project is in MS #GitHub, they opted not to. I just want that on record for those who think putting their project on Github encourages support.
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@VictorVenema Scientists are practised at making comments look like questions. So as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy was there I asked:
"Mr. Sheehan, is the White House #OSTP aware that the main Open Source Code repository #GitHub is forced by the US to block several countries, which makes it useless for scientific use?"
@VictorVenema @VictorVenema A developer just told me they would be willing to expand & enhance a #FOSS tool, but because the project is in MS #GitHub, they opted not to. I just want that on record for those who think putting their project on Github encourages support.
@cryptoxic @hyperrealgopher a list of forges is maintained here => https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md
@Coffee lynx is broken on Ss for me too. If i run "torsocks lynx -noreferer -head 'DNT: 1' $URL" it's instant death. Strangely, it goes a little further if I run lynx inside of a tor middlebox and firejail.. it prompts for ssl cert acceptance. But then it still fails anyway. Ss requires do-not-track to be enabled, but -head should have achieved that unless i wrote it wrong.
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@zacchiro There really needs to be an online service where you can report #censorship and also search the db for censorship actions before participating on a project.
@joerebelloharley@tilde.zone One good point in your response is that there actually is one good reason to learn C#: to be able to port code from C# to something else.
@joerebelloharley@tilde.zone When I see C# appearing in job ads, it disgusts me not just because the language feeds MS, but also because it's bad for business to make itself needlessly platform-dependent. It's a display of how lousy business people can be at their own trade. I'm glad I've never been desperate enough for work to have to take a C# or .net gig.
Joined Mar 2019
