NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

Of course, from a capitalist POV, this is really beneficial.
But as anti-capitalists, maybe we should reflect on how FOSS has been a kind of free lunch for capitalism and silicon valley especially.
I feel FOSS has become a common, shared, constant capital that everyone can benefit from. However, capital makes a very big difference in how you can leverage such shared thing.

Is it time to build anti-capitalist FOSS? Something that capitalists couldn't benefit from?

#LRT

So Reddit becomes closed source, but they explain they « will continue to open source tools that are of use to engineers everywhere ».
It's nice and all, but this is obviously a shitty capitalist move. Why? Because this kind of company always open source scraps. In the FOSS world we call that "coopetition", a shared effort to improve components that are not competitively strategic (for instance, no one really compete on the Linux level).

So what can you actually do with Linux? A guide for beginners
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/104398
#gnu #linux #linuxmint

tbh fuck software projects that think "oh, we're programmers, we can write good documentation and take care of all the stuff that normally non-technical people do"

Yes, Google Uses Its Power To Quash Ideas It Doesn't Like

http://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437?IR=T

I asked the Google people if I understood correctly: If a publisher didn’t put a +1 button on the page, its search results would suffer? The answer was yes. ..

I published a story headlined, “Stick Google Plus Buttons On Your Pages, Or Your Search Traffic Suffers,” ..

I was told by my higher-ups at Forbes that Google representatives called them saying that the article was problematic and had to come down.

Signal is looking for a someone to work with them [1]. Of course they are based in SF. Of course the candidates have to be in the US.

You know what? If you want to make a difference in the world today, don't make your tech US centric.
Why the fuck all of these company make a point to be in SF. What is the idea behind that?
A lot of the mass surveillance problems are tied to silicon valley itself. If you don't even reflect on that, why bother?

[1] https://twitter.com/whispersystems/status/898259918184103936

"What's Functional Programming All About?" http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/WhatsFunctionalProgrammingAllAbout.html

imo great overview of how functional programming is, at core, dataflow, instead of control-flow

In response to the thread by @NerdResa and with inspiration from this thread (https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/de-making-the-german-translation-more-gender-neutral-while-also-accessible/468/3) by @maunzikation, I opened an issue on the Mastodon github about making the German localization more gender neutral.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4755

Suricrasia Online is a Toronto-based internet service provider staffed entirely by gay shark girls in maid outfits

tired: gender binary
wired: gender complex IEEE 754 floating point (including all the nan values)

I think it's cool how you can cram hundreds of frequencies down a single fibre and each of those frequencies can do up to like 10 gbps

and the best part is the fibre is as thick as a human hair

I wish we would use optics in more places

An interview with the people behind the social.coop Mastodon instance https://medium.com/open-collective/social-coop-a-cooperative-decentralized-social-network-c10980c9ed91