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aral

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I make small things.

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

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jimmac, to random
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One of the reasons I've been subscribed to vimeo for maybe a decade now, was that it never did the automatic copyright filtering for my fpv videos like youtube.

Now it's been properly enshittified with a filter that doesn't work, so finally allows me to not renew my sub. Good job, Vimeo!

aral,
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@jimmac Oh ffs. Why can’t they just host bloody videos :(

aral, to random
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Washed up.

pafurijaz, to random
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Today in Western societies you can say anything but not what undermines the founding pillars of neoliberal oligarchic power. If you do so then you become an enemy.

aral,
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@pafurijaz This. All protest is welcome as long as it can be commodified and doesn’t actually threaten the status quo.

raganwald, to random
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“The Big Web has users – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.”— @aral, “What is the Small Web?”

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

aral,
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@jmeowmeow @raganwald Yep :) And while it’ll happily serve you a static site from 1993 (as it should, being a web server, after all), the most important aspect is that it will hopefully enable a peer-to-peer web of Small Web places people can use to both be public (should they wish) and be private (actually private), e.g., see https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/

And, eventually, set these places up in ~10 seconds without technical knowledge. (https://codeberg.org/domain/app) :) 💕

aral,
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@raganwald @davew @jmeowmeow Love that :)

Susan_Larson_TN, to news
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This his by after a spent “ in a .”

wants to set an for who don't often in the .

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/this-amazing-news-anchor-surprised-his-colleagues-by-coming-out-on-air/

aral,
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@Susan_Larson_TN 💕

aral, to Israel
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Humanitarian operations ‘near collapse’ in Gaza, says World Food Programme - The Guardian

https://www.inkl.com/a/YBlbxGHnxmn

KimPerales, to tech
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I believe many execs (& many of their enablers) are evil & diabolical, & they only care about their bottom line, esp. , , ...:

"Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2010 about how the best founders are naughty because they break the rules.

Then he has an interesting anecdote about Sam Altman...

Interesting lens through which to view why OpenAI keeps showing up in the news for doing obviously bad things."
-buccocapital

aral,
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@KimPerales Alt text:

  1. Naughtiness
    Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination. (1/2)
aral,
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Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage-hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications. (2/2)

aral, to random
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@vote VOTE PRNY RUGG NRCI

twizzay, to random
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@aral

This is honestly such an awesome project.

aral,
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@twizzay I can’t see what your post is in reference to but if it’s Kitten, thank you :)

aral,
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@twizzay No worries and thanks again :) 💕

aral, to SmallWeb
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:kitten: Kitten’s interactive shell (REPL) now saves session history scoped to your app so it will still be there when you next serve the same app.

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten-s-interactive-shell

I think I’m done with the REPL feature now.

Going to take a little break, step away from the computer, and make a plan for the next week of work on Kitten and Domain¹.

¹ https://codeberg.org/domain/app

samwho, to random
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✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!

You can read it here: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing.

It starts off by showing what happens when you have no queue...

A screenshot from the post. It shows the first visualisation, an orange circular button on the left and a black rounded square on the right. The button is clicked, and a request travels to the black square, the server, and gets processed by slowly disappearing in a clock-like fashion.

aral,
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@samwho @erAck Excellent article.

firusvg, to random
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Hmmm ... Is there a genuine need for this?!🤨

amber - The Programming Language compiled to Bash. https://amber-lang.com/

aral,
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@firusvg Ooh, given the number of foot-guns in bash, this actually sounds really nice :) Will definitely be checking it out and might rewrite my installation scripts in it.

StableGeniusLib, to Israel
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If the use of civilians as human shields is a war crime, then it's a war crime for both.

Can we agree that Israel should be held to a higher standard?

aral,
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@StableGeniusLib Holding Israel accountable for its actions? Sounds antisemitic to me.

aral, to windows
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Folks who might be looking to move from Windows to Linux: another option, if it’s financially feasible for you and you don’t want to mess with installing Linux, is to sell your Windows machine and buy a Linux one.

Yep, they exist.

Folks like @starlabs in the UK, @tuxedocomputers in the EU, and @system76 in the US sell Linux machines that just work out of the box.

aral,
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@AstaMcCarthy @mauricepinzon @starlabs @tuxedocomputers @system76 Unless I’m missing something, frame.work doesn’t come with Linux pre-installed and running (it only does that for Windows). You can install Linux yourself on the DIY model so it’s more for enthusiasts.

aral,
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@pthane @starlabs @tuxedocomputers @system76 @tanquist Yeah. Sadly, the HDMI out on mine never worked properly.

aral,
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@alx I’m sure some folks would disagree but I really think Fedora Silverblue is the best distribution right now (it’s what I use myself):

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

Additional bonus: you never have to worry about updates. They just work.

aral,
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@alx (And I’m happy to help if you run into any issues.)

aral, to Israel
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Love someone the way Biden loves genocide.

https://www.ft.com/content/6700a246-e0cd-49d8-b5ef-d2379e86290f

#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #internationalLaw #Biden #USA #UnitedStates #sanctions

aral,
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@badrihippo @Jennifer @racingdaily Never has.

aral,
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@alx Yep.

aral, to random
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“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/blinken-suggests-the-world-food-program

aral,
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@Miro_Collas @adachika192 @palestine 👋

dgar, (edited ) to random
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is participating in the Fedivision Song Contest 2024.

I will be representing the fictional faction known as Dizzy Corp. My four-letter vote code is DIZZ.

My entry is a new song called “All Zombies Go To Heaven”.

You can listen to all 72 entries here:
https://fedivision.party

Instructions on how you can cast your three (3) votes can be found here:
https://fedivision.party/vote/

Follow the and hashtags, and the @announce and @vote accounts for updates and voting!

aral,
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@dgar 💕

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