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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable

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aral, to random
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A fine is just that: it’s fine. Just pay us a cut of your profits and keep doing what you’re doing.

gwynnion, to random
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It's really reassuring having repeated confirmation that the ruling class and their courtiers in the media are mostly a bunch of unprincipled sociopaths who can't understand doing anything except for money and power.

aral,
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@gwynnion Sadly, it’s not just the US, either.

jbzfn, to gamedev
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🐍 Programming Retro Games in Python | 80s Usborne Computer Coding Book
➥ Kari

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kdM9wyglnw

#Gamedev #Python #BBCMicro #Retrogaming

aral,
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@jbzfn I used to love that book :)

aral, to random
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Had knives in my throat (not Covid, probably… at least tests were/are negative) so went to see my new GP and we ended up chatting about the OneWheel I rode in on (he took up skating later on in life and tried one in France apparently), the shit factory that is Silicon Valley (he used to be a software dev there before he became a doctor), the Small Web (he digs the idea), and, yes even my sore throat (I’m on antibiotics now). Needless to say, I like my new GP :)

aral,
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@glitzersachen 💕

aral,
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@benpocalypse Oh no, I’m so sorry.

aral,
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@glitzersachen That’s good to know. Also, DickDuckGo 🤣

aral,
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@jotbe Thanks, Jan :) 💕

aral,
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@GulfCoastJake It’s definitely a possibility. I treat it with a lot of respect :)

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I don't want to carry a gun for work anymore but I'm not seeing a whole lot of options.

aral,
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@micchiato @Adam_Cadmon1 What he said.

w7voa, to random
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The FCC announces it has fined wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent and failing to protect that information against unauthorized disclosure. Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of $12+ million and $91 million, respectively. AT&T being fined $57+ million and Verizon told to pay nearly $47 million.

aral,
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@w7voa Cost of doing business.

anna, to random
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I painted my nails for the first time in a long time because today I'm going to sign one of the most important documents of my life.

aral,
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@anna Congratulations 🍾 🏡 💕

minkiu, to random
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@aral thanks for this write up: https://ar.al/2018/07/15/flashing-stock-firmware-onto-a-samsung-galaxy-s9+-sm-g965f-on-ubuntu-18.04-using-heimdall/
I was getting frustrated that there was no real explanation on how to do this in a clear way!

aral,
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@minkiu Glad it helped :)

aral, (edited ) to random
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It’s amazing to me that folks have such a hard time with the very basic concept of “follow the money.”

This isn’t rocket science, people. Where/who you get your money from matters. The people who you surround yourself with matters. The success criteria you adopt matters.

aral, to random
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Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)

aral,
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@cweickhmann It’s both. The EU could have stepped in at a moment’s notice and ensured that Mastodon was well funded and didn’t need to look elsewhere.

aral,
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@cweickhmann Yes, sadly, you’re right. It’s how it should work.

aral,
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@ipaschke Not. Funding. Mastodon. Properly. Was. An. EU. Fuck. Up.

Not everything you don’t like is a far right tactic. I’m about as left as it gets. Which is also why I’m blocking you.

aral,
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@peterainbow We can easily compete with them at the levels where it matters. But it requires long term thinking and an EU that doesn’t frame success through “Digital Single Market.” The amounts we’re talking about are a drop in the bucket. Instead we have folks begging for scraps from NGI, NLNet, etc., to implement “this or that feature”. This piecemeal approach is the problem.

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

aral,
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@tallship Sorry if it was confusing; I copied the contents of it into the thread.

aral, to javascript
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Realised last night that JavaScript Database (JSDB) doesn’t run the constructor on persisted custom objects (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types) when deserialising them because I didn’t know that you apparently have to define your constructor manually when using Object.create().

Will fix it today but it’s something to watch out for if you’re using Object.create() directly.

For more info, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/create

aral,
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Just a quick update on this: after some experimentation and further thought, I feel the way JSDB works currently is the right trade-off.

While it could run the constructor of persisted custom objects when loading them back in, that would impose a rigid authoring flow that would sacrifice ease of use for simple use cases. I find the latter more important in this case.

(I’m off to document this ‘feature’ now as it is currently undocumented and that’s not good.) :)

More: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb/issues/12

aral, to mastodon
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Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

#Mastodon #BizStone #SiliconValley #BigTech #Threads

aral,
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@ninavizz Indeed. We’re living this ourselves and have been for the past however many years. I had to sell two family homes to stay independent. Laura contracts with the mainstream so we have a roof over our heads as I work on the free/open stuff. This is why I spoke at the parliament about how we must fund tech from the commons (https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/). And this is why I’m building Domain so that it can be sustainable in this current (shit) system. But you must also limit growth.

aral,
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@ninavizz Of one instance and one org, yes. Of the protocol and platform, no.

aral,
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@ninavizz Well, now that Threads is federating, they don’t even need that, they can just use Threads. I guess time will tell where things go but I wish we could learn from the mistakes of the past. Regardless, I should start caring far less about what Mastodon is doing and focus on the alternative I’m working on.

aral, (edited ) to Vivaldi
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@Vivaldi Bug report:

  • OS: Fedora Linux 40.20240424.0 (Silverblue) x86_64
  • DE: GNOME 46.1 (Wayland)

After signing in after sleep, Vivaldi renders at @1x even though my screen is set to @2x.

(Moving the window around or resizing it, etc., re-renders it at the correct resolution.)

#vivaldi #gnome #fedora #fedora40 #resolution #scale #bug #bugReport

aral,
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@ruario Thank you :)

Version: 6.6.3271.61 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Revision: 44e5da5a9aa5c707f3a6a779710221ccebcac676

aral,
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@ruario I believe so. Will check and update you next I’m at my desk :)

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