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Noticing how https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/microsoft-acquires-github/ and its comments manage to present "open core" as if it were something that had positive connotations.
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@karolat @maiyannah @codewiz
> i personally have never used these accounts for block circumvention
You mean deliberately. But are you sure? Surely you are following people on one instance that you wouldn't be able to follow from another?
I mean, I was suspended for block circumvention without knowing that I was doing it. I thought I was just routing around software deficiencies.
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@arx
> It would be much more proportional to write a *shocker* article every single day about how almost all emails are sent with no e2e encryption at all.
THIIIIIS
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#pumpio 5.1.1
http://pump.io/blog/2018/05/pump.io-5.1.1-docker-images-and-node-4
In other news, AS2 support will be merged Any Day Now, Evan and Alex have been hard at work for this. At that point we'll have a pump.io 5.2 or 6.0, and full AP support will happen not very soon after that, joining the Fediverse and its long lost cousin once again!
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> On Thursday, the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (TTAB) dismissed SFLC's claim of fraud against Conservancy, as we predicted.
Good. Good.
> We continue steadfast in our previous position: the entire matter remains a waste of resources for both organizations, and SFLC should do the honorable and right thing and simply withdraw their complaint.
Indeed.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/apr/30/sflc-trademark-4/
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@herrabre
> I wish #Briar were out of beta. It's the only one that is actually radically decentralized!
#tox https://tox.chat/
#ring https://ring.cx/
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@benis @dolus @moonman @noyoushutthefuckupdad @lnxw48a1 @karolat
It's not even mostly about Java, it's much bigger. This is a landmark case.
This has implications on every single interoperability project ever. And that means it has the potential to shut down almost every successful strategy humanity has had for liberating users from proprietary lock-in.
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Pasterack is a really cool service! Here someone posted their (plot) code and the graphical output is shown inline:
http://pasterack.org/pastes/59894
/via https://www.mail-archive.com/racket-users@googlegroups.com/msg37649.html
#racket !scheme
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This is awesome stuff.
https://blog.agayon.be/xmpp_auth_django_demo.html
/via https://identi.ca/tsk/note/u5UG67d6RTanmy6KSuyjUQ
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Meanwhile in the *positive* news on the state of federation and free software:
> With the March release, we’ll be updating the chat system in EVE Online, moving from the custom solution we’ve been using since EVE was initially designed, to an industry standard XMPP chat server that will offer better performance and flexibility for the future.
Awesome!
https://www.eveonline.com/article/p4g5k3/preparing-for-the-future-retirement-of-eve-voice
/via https://medium.com/processone/eve-online-chat-is-moving-to-ejabberd-8e73d40fa887
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Best fediverse synchronicity ever?
@tomas @xj9 https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1373603
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https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
contains all LISP code from "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming", *and* the PDFs of the book (split in two).
/via https://twitter.com/xach/status/968233276375732225
!lisp
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Slack people are closing down their XMPP and IRC gateways. The embrace period is over, now moving over to extinguish.
They're so intent on owning your user experience that you can't even read the announcement without signing in.
https://archive.is/hlUjg
I have a Slack account, so here's the lede:
> Saying goodbye to Slack’s IRC and XMPP gateways
> As Slack has evolved over the years, we’ve built features and capabilities — like Shared Channels, Threads, and emoji reactions (to name a few) — that the IRC and XMPP gateways aren’t able to handle. Our priority is to provide a secure and high-quality experience across all platforms, and so the time has come to close the gateways.
Then it goes on about their great screen reader support, and how their Real Time Message and Events APIs can be used instead of writing IRC bots.
/via https://web.archive.org/web/20180310133248/http://gwolf.org
gwolf also links to https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57735-7_1 (front page links to a PDF with the actual content), which analyzes the phenomenon of free software projects organizing using centralized, non-free communication tools.
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Here's a reminder that http://bootstrappable.org/projects.html is pointing to cool stuff people are doing.
If you're tired of glue code, do something fundamental and help oriansj and janneke build the GNU of the future from a tiny, human-auditable binary core and then Source All The Way Down.
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People are exploring ways of expressing per-user services for #shepherd in #guix.
This is awesome. One more step on the way toward better #userops.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-02/msg00047
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> MIT P is about to print the second edition of How to Design Programs and it is supposed to appear later this spring. We have therefore moved the on-line edition of HtDP/2e to htdp.org <http://htdp.org/>, and I encourage you all to quickly check the new web site. The first edition is still reachable through
this site too.
> Having said this, when we pull the plug on my personal HtDP/2e site, we will also launch the effort to rewrite the second edition into a third one. Once again we have permission from our MIT P editor, Marie Lufkin Lee, to host the new draft on line.
https://www.mail-archive.com/racket-users@googlegroups.com/msg37038.html
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Linus Torvalds:
>> What matters are the people - and companies - that actually develop and contribute code, and make the future happen.
Matthew Garrett:
> Sure. And do you want 4 more enterprise clustering filesystems, or another complete rewrite of the page allocator for a 3% performance improvement under a specific database workload, or do you want a bunch of teenagers who grow up hacking this stuff because it's what powers every device they own? Because honestly I think it's the latter that's helped get you where you are now, and they're not going to be there if the thing that matters to you most is making sure that large companies don't feel threatened rather than making sure that the next 19 year old in a dorm room can actually hack the code on their phone and build something better as a result. It's what brought me here in the first place, and I'm hardly the only one.
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003585.html
/via https://lwn.net/Articles/719610/
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> Increasing reliance on open-source frameworks like React means engineering and security teams can’t just worry about their company’s own code. It has to mingle with changes to open-source projects that can cause unforeseen trouble. It’s like if the ingredients in one of your prescription drugs subtly changed, so your preferred over-the-counter pills suddenly caused a dangerous interaction.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/05/mixpanel-passwords/
Ugh. Is this writer aware that you can rely on Other People's Code without even having the freedom to view and change the source code? How is that better? Then you probably won't even discover an issue like this.
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https://social.heldscal.la/url/1249242
"Victory for libre networks", @cwebber doesn't just write a press release that AP is now a Recommendation, but also a review of 3 years of standards work and his personal background and motivation, and finally an overview of whay this all means.
/via @jordigh @lobsters https://lobste.rs/s/ye5j7u/victory_for_libre_networks_activitypub
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Your emotions betray you. https://social.heldscal.la/attachment/1217361
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