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njoseph

@njoseph@social.masto.host

A software developer going through a mini-retirement phase. Developing some small tech solutions to recover and rediscover the joy of programming.

Might consider doing paid remote work for free software or cooperatives.

Admin of https://social.masto.host

#Privacy #FreeSoftware #FreedomBox #SelfHosting #SmallTech #nobot

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njoseph, to random
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The people who are seen as the winners under capitalism are constantly depressed and taking illegal drugs. 😐

https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-microdosing-ketamine-lsd-magic-mushrooms-d381e214?mod=djemalertNEWS

nicemicro, to RedHat
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blogpost ends with "Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere. This is a real threat to open source".

I'm sorry to say, but redistributing unmodified version of the code is one of the software freedoms, and is allowed by the .

If you don't want that, you're not making , and you're not GPL compatible.

It's not an opinion. It is fact.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

njoseph,
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@nicemicro "Simply rebuilding code" is literally what every Linux/BSD distribution does.

Only a small percentage of packages in distributions have additional patches added by maintainers. In case of Debian, such patches are usually merged into upstream and removed in later releases.

njoseph, to random
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The software industry might do more to reduce carbon emissions by boycotting all work for fossil fuel corporations than by obsessing about the energy efficiency of their servers and applications. :blobthink:

Also, generally not doing unnecessary big data projects including those for obsessing over the energy usage of applications.

But the economy must GROW at all costs!!!

njoseph, to random
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Some things are just easier to understand when Cory Doctorow explains them.

Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/

My favorite lines from the essay:

"The banality of evil gets even more banal when it's done in service to maximizing shareholder value."

"The crimes that monsters commit in the name of ideology pale in comparison to the crimes the wealthy commit for money."

njoseph, to random
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I try XFCE and LXDE once in a while, but always end up switching back to Gnome. 🤷‍♂️

The main reason being Gnome shortcuts are similar to macOS which I have to use for $dayJob.

njoseph, to linux
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12 Bookworm release date is approaching. 2023-06-10

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html

njoseph, to random
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I am quite fascinated with the term "ferocious love" that I picked up from Naomi Klein's book "This Changes Everything".

Maybe it was originally from Rachel Carson's works.

njoseph, to random
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Note to self: When working on a project that lasts decades, always document all of your decisions. Your memory is more fallible than you think. Also, your age increases monotonically.

This also qualifies as a periodic reminder.

njoseph, to random
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Today, I was setting up a development environment for in a Debian virtual machine. Firefox is too expensive to run in the VM (it was crashing in a loop).

Fortunately Gnome Web, a.k.a Epiphany is stable and light enough to run with the limited resources.

craigmaloney, to random

Just going to call it: if Hulu makes it into 2025 without getting assimilated into the Disney+ hive it'll be a miracle.

"Hulu Content Will Be Added To Disney+"

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/05/10/2148202/hulu-content-will-be-added-to-disney

Note: not the place to tell me about the evils of streaming or how we're rebuilding cable. We're on the same page, Sparky.

njoseph,
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@craigmaloney A few years ago, I expected that Amazon Prime Video will swallow Netflix, but that didn't happen yet.

njoseph, to random
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Added 3 new entries to my link blog today.
https://njoseph.me/shaarli/

njoseph, (edited ) to fediverse
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When I talked to the Pleroma devs years ago on whether they would like to create a distributed actor system out of Pleroma for large instances, they weren't interested.

The GotoSocial devs aren't interested either in enabling building large instances, in this case by scaling out app servers.

There are also projects like Epicyon and snac2 for AP servers with tiny server footprints.

This is good. Let's keep software in the realm of .

njoseph, to fediverse
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I was living under a rock and didn't know that there's now a newer and better performing fork of Pleroma called Akkoma.

Announcement:
https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/development/2022/06/24/akkoma.html

Website: https://akkoma.social

njoseph, to random
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Class-action lawsuits against large GPT models when?

bob, to internet

"Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on 'personal data stores', but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts" https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

njoseph,
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@bob The same old business model then.

The corporation gets to sell ads placed in between content produced for free by others. This time, with the storage costs also borne by the content creators themselves.

Sounds like it could potentially be more profitable than Twitter, if we also consider the apps made for free by open source developers etc. The distribution server should just make ads indistinguishable from the legitimate content, just like Quora.

njoseph, to books
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tip to merge different formats of one book.

When you buy online, many publishers and indie bookstores give you the same ebook in multiple formats.

  1. Add them as separate books in calibre
  2. Select all of its versions (search the book by name or author if necessary)
  3. Right-click -> Edit metadata -> Merge book records -> Merge into first selected book - delete others

The third step above has a shortcut. Just select the books and press M on the keyboard.

njoseph, to random
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I just uninstalled 50+ so-called "system apps" on a sub-$100 Android phone using Universal Android Debloater.
https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

It would've taken hours to identify the bloatware apps and uninstall them using adb.

njoseph, to random
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Sometimes the lack of purpose in the work that capitalism provides you to retain a roof over your head can be deeply exhausting, even more than the work itself. 😫

alcinnz, to random
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Service-as-a-Software-Substitute (SaaSS) is a judgemental term coined by the FSF to indicate there is no technological reason for some software to be an internet service. Only presumably financial ones.

Notably not all Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) qualifies as SaaSS, and many cases we may need to make SaaSS judgements feature-by-feature rather than product-by-product.

This is an important concept since proprietary software has now shapeshifted into SaaSS. Any favourite examples?

njoseph,
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@alcinnz
The SaaS business model assumed that people find it convenient to let somebody else run the software that they use. This assumption has worked well so far.

In SaaSS, the implicit assumption is that people are losing something in not getting a copy of the software. People are more concerned about not being able to export their data in an interoperable format.

If the FSF really assumed that there is no need for software running as an Internet service, would the AGPL exist?

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