swashberry @swashberry@social.linux.pizza

So sad some website specifically blocks #lynx(error: 403). In case you really need to visit that website with lynx(like your life depends on it), then change lynx's user-agent header (while visiting only that website)to a popular webbrowser(e.g., firefox's user agent).

Step 1: create a diverse ecosystem of successful open-source software, dominating the software market and defeating Microsoft once and for all

Step 2: Put it all on one proprietary software forge

Step 3: Microsoft buys the basket we conveniently put all of our eggs into

Wait

I fucking hate Docker and the generation of shitty "engineers" that were raised on it. Docker's answer to "it works on my machine" is to ship the fucking dev's machine straight into prod. It's the most reprehensible, garbage idea to come out of the already fucked "devops" culture. Then they put _thousands_ of knobs on it so that everyone can break it in their own special way, revealing their "infrastructure" for the pile of popsickle sticks and glue it was always made out of. They spend the weekend fixing it and the CEO thinks their engineering team is working really hard while the ashes of their burning VC money gently settle in a small pile at their feet. Docker is the opposite of engineering.

For the youngster among you, maybe this can lighten up your day :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire

I have created a TUI for mastodon.

It's still an early release and far from done, but it has all the features to be quite functional. For now it's targeted at Linux.

You can find a binary under releases at Github.

https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut

I don't think 'i have nothing to hide' and 'mainstream metadata harvesting is not targeting/going to harm me' are arguments with any validity.

Neither are 'everyone uses mainstream social media, and I won't be in the loop', or 'the metadata collected about me aids me, and knows me well', or, especially in the case of activists: 'we need to go where the masses are' (virtually the same argument as: 'we should publish all our material in a Rupert Murdoch newspaper'

when I spend some time explaining movies like Facebookistan and books like The Twittering Machine, people I talk to quite often turn to fatalism and moral relativism in order to answer my arguments: 'there has always been surveillance', 'you believe in a utopia, there isn't a single right way for everyone'

there has also been some bizarre arguments levelled against me that Facebook is easily accessible to disabled people, therefore I am an ableist by saying they shouldn't use it...

The doublethink and doublespeak around mainstream social media is really worrying. I suppose I keep talking to people to whom the system is treating kindly, and that don't seem to worry about how things are going to turn out for them

De-Googling My Life - 2 Years On - Kev Quirk
https://kevq.uk/de-googling-my-life-2-years-on/ #deletegoogle

⚠️ PSA to all Germans ⚠️

Starting tomorrow, Telekom and Telefonica will hand over your phone's movement data to the government and other authorities.

It is opt-out, not opt-in!

Deactivate ASAP.

Telekom: https://www.optout-service.telekom-dienste.de/public/anmeldung.jsp

O2: https://www.telefonica.de/dap/selbst-entscheiden.html

"What?! You dont use Windows at all? How do you even manage to do so?"

"I can't imagine me life without Windows"

"Pff, why are you using Linux? Do you like the 90's look and performance of your PC?

"Oooh you poorfag"

Just some of the reactions I get when I say that neither me or my family use #windows

"If Techrights is a Conspiracy Website, What’s the Big Conspiracy?"
http://techrights.org/2020/03/21/if-techrights-is-a-conspiracy-website-whats-the-big-conspiracy/
personally #techrights is one of my favourite websites.

The EARN IT Act is aiming at destroying encryption. We must take action now: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/earn-it-barr-encryption

What editor do you use to program in?