NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

#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

A list of various #cooperatives in #Berlin http://www.kollektiv-betriebe.org/ (in #German only for now; I'm in contact with them to maybe provide a translation into English)

So apparently there's a new subreddit being run by Google manifesto guy. It's nominally about exposing tech company bad behavior, so I've started posting some relevant but anti-right-wing news and articles. If others could assist, I think this is a good way to potentially actually change some minds. The sub is /r/StopBeingEvil, and I'll warn you, it's a fairly hostile environment.

"More harm has been done throughout history by obedience
than by malice. The arsenals of all the world’s militaries are the physical manifestation of our willingness to defer to others. If you want to be sure you never contribute to war, genocide, or oppression, the first step is to stop following orders."

alpha male (n.): a man whose behavior is not considered stable enough for public demonstration.