@alcinnz@floss.social
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alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social

A browser developer posting mostly about how free software projects work, and occasionally about climate change.

Though I do enjoy german board games given an opponent.

Pronouns: he/him

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grueproof, to random
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If you can’t get to it without an app or account, it’s not a podcast.

claudinec, to random
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The old web never went away

https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-05-26-indieweb/

typeswitch, to random
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hot take: garbage collection should be a microarchitectural concern.

lanodan, to random
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tfw I'm really felling the 3rd one…
The 3 stages of Tech Literacy.jpg

lanodan,
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@alcinnz I'd say aiju (9front dev) quite did: http://aiju.de/electronics/aijuboard/

foone, to random
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With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.

I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.

The Intel 80486.

foone,
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Microsoft's all open sourcing ms-DOS 4.0, Intel should open source the 80486.

They're about the same age.

obviousdwest, to climate
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Cambridge claims that using recycled cement as flux in steel furnaces (which can use recycled steel and renewable electricity), the resulting slag becomes Portland cement again, usable in concrete. This can reduce global co2 emissions by 7.5%. #climatechange #recycling https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cement-recycling

courtcan, to fantasy
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Y'ALL.
FINALLY.

MY NEWEST BOOK IS OUT. 😃🥳🎶💃😁

THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!

Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.

https://www.amazon.com/Accursed-Courtney-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B0CVSKRTP2/





AnimatedShortOfTheDay, to usa
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The Forbidden Zone (2021) [11 min] by Zach Tolchinsky |

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYlBD6eNZpw

kattni, to queer
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For various reasons, I've moved servers, and due to timing, am welcoming a number of new followers. This seems like an excellent time for a new post.

Hello! I'm Kattni (she/her).

I am a maker, photographer, programmer, mentor, community builder and maintainer, intermittent chef, one-time gardener, and collector of excellent bags. I am and from many angles. I am tolerated by a cat who continues to let me live with her.

I am a content creator, creating approachable information, project builds, and tutorials. I am passionate about sharing what I learn and know with others who are interested, and this is my opportunity to do that full-time. Everything I find interesting is a potential topic, which means anything from history, to community, to tech, to programming, to photography, to biology, to office organisation, and onward. You can find me on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors. I am currently sharing all of my content on my blog, kattni.com. I am working to build a community around my content, so please consider joining me on my new adventure.

I am Conference Chair for PyOhio 2024. We're back in person for the first time since 2019. This is the first time I've done any kind of volunteering or conference organising of any kind, and it has been an adventure full of a ton of work. I am grateful to my amazing team, all of whom have made this situation possible for me. I will be Chair for 2025 as well, though I am hoping to spend next year spinning up my replacement for 2026.

I've done various speaking engagements, including being a 2019 keynote speaker at PyOhio, even though public speaking terrifies me. My most recent talks were at three summits at PyCon US 2024: the Education Summit, the Community Organisers' Summit, and the Documentation Summit. It was great to share things I was passionate about, but three talks at one event was entirely too much. I don't recommend it.

I left my job in September 2023 to pursue my passions. I spent the previous six years working with the CircuitPython project. I was an open source community leader, technical writer, new contributor coordinator, embedded software developer, CircuitPython library codebase manager, and embedded hardware designer, among other things.

There is definitely more to me than this, but I think this is a solid introduction to my current situation. Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you around the Fediverse!

mayank, to random
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one day we'll have "real" HTML modules and CSS modules

(i can hope)

zersiax, to ps5

Been doing a lot of , and web testing this week. Let's add web spinning to the list! In an hour, we'll be revisiting for the from an perspective. Come see how a fully blind progresses (or doesn't progress) in this game :) https://twitch.tv/zersiax

Seirdy, to random
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Hastur PR 949 mentioned meesee :gura_pleading:

I love being perceived by people working on things I’m interested in out of the blue. It gives me the fuzzy feelings.

b0rk, to random
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finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

Lana, to random
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1990 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

2000 Internet: Literally all the information in the world accessible to everyone so easy a toddler could do it

2020 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

davidbisset, to random
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RIP to a real web tech.

" will stop working
from June 26".

https://icq.com/desktop/en

I think this it for ICQ. I used to remember my ICQ by heart.

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

josh, to climate
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A reminder: epidemics and pandemics are expected to increase in frequency as the climate crisis advances [1] and as humans build deeper into wildlands [2].

So what do we do?

  1. Address the climate crisis!
  2. Embrace urbanism, controlled growth, and leave wildlands alone.
  3. Push for infrastructure improvements for indoor air quality.
  4. Push for better healthcare and sick leave policies.
  5. Advocate for better funding for scientific research.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk4500
[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2020.11.002

jplebreton, to random
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There's a real Rube Goldberg quality to many of the attempts to find real use cases for LLMs: take regular desktop screenshots, OCR them, "find meaningful patterns" 🤔 so the system can answer queries... the amount of compute being chucked on a fire speculatively is absurd - so much of it already rolled out to users! The carbon cost of that is immediately alarming but there's also just something repellent about it from a systems design perspective. The desperation of these companies is palpable.

rysiek, to random
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> Look, I'm no luddite…

First of all, why do tech writers feel they need to be apologetic when criticizing bad technology decisions by Big Tech?

I don't see similar hedging when the piece is about the tech underdogs – say, small FLOSS projects. Being a vicious critic is then somehow okay?

Secondly, just embrace your inner Luddites. Luddites were not against all technology per se, they were against how technology was being used to abuse people:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant

Sounds damn valid to me!

civodul, to guix
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Call for contributions to the infrastructure 👇
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-05/msg00183.html

Many areas where you can help, with different time commitments and prerequisites: funding & spending, hardware hosting, system administration, and coding.

vidak, to random
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look, tell me i'm wrong...

but the tech industry in the west is too far gone. there are no redeeming features.

didn't some firm sack 9% of its workforce after posting an astronomical profit?

these social institutions are evil. goodbye google, amazon, microsoft, apple...

kirschner, to random
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Please help us to create a 2D animation movie of "Ada & - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" and publish it as an by the end of the year.

Please become an @fsfe supporter today an enable us to spark children's interest in coding for the next years to come: https://fsfe.org/donate

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alcinnz, to random
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Tangentially to current events...

Who's your favorite AI from fiction?

I say HERA (Michaela Swee) from Wolf359 in a heartbeat! You?

Go as obscure or mainstream as you want...

Willy_Heineman,
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@alcinnz I know I'm late but another favorite is Mosscap from "A Psalm for the Wild-built" by Becky Chambers

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