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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

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๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Cape Town ๐Ÿ‘ผ๐Ÿผ Pope ๐Ÿค” INTJ โšก Resistance is not futile ๐Ÿ”Œ Survival is insufficient

@unredacted_org Wait what!? Why?

Israel has killed 700 civilians in Lebonon since Monday. Jesus Fucking Christ what's wrong with you people!?

In light of the whole word press situation, I would like to reiterate that free software institutions should be giving the same kind of attention and support to project governance as they do to licenses.

It's badly overdue. I think we can say it's dereliction not to.

I was busy furiously eating my sandwich and as I finished the last bite, my watch vibrated and very cheerfully displayed "Calorie Goal Hit!" ah good times.

@foone Yeah but at the same time Linux is also getting even more Linuxier. Did you see that the latest version finally has the RTOS stuff merged? Take that QNX!

My book ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web is on its way to the virtual printers tomorrow, which means it will be available for purchase from all your favourite e-book stores at various points during next week. I will be taking this opportunity to have an online reading and book-signing party. The event is on September 30, 2024 at 9PM ET. You can follow this meeting link to join.

Iโ€™ll do a reading from parts of the book (the parts that are very accessible to everyone, not the code samples!) and a Q&A. Iโ€™ll also be doing a book signing for people who have already bought the book (or who buy it during the event). How do I sign an ebook? Simple: you show me proof that you bought the book, and Iโ€™ll post a note on the fediverse with whatever text you want and tag you in. Itโ€™s an instant collectible.

Iโ€™m looking forward to having more people read the book, and I really hope it helps more people write programs for the social web. Please feel free to join!

https://evanp.me/2024/09/19/book-signing-party-30-sep-2024/

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REST API IS NOT ENOUGH

ADOPT REST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Yes, it's a year old, but this is a reminder that Texas is run by Nazis. They aren't even trying to hid it anymore.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban

@nixCraft This week I discovered what a gem lsblk actually is. With "lsblk -J O" it will spill many of your disk's secrets and in a json readable format!

@xjuan @GTK I suggest shipping a NEWS.md or CHANGELOG.md along with the README.md file that contains changes and especially important breaking changes that people should consider when upgrading

@xjuan @GTK Nice! I learned about it recently while working on packaging Cambalache for Debian. Casilda is just waiting on one dependency then all of it can go in.

Tencent ported my python 3 code to python 2. And violated my copyright by replacing my copyright notice with their own and changing the licence from GPL to BSD.

I filed a DMCA takedown request with GitHub over a month ago. They said it would be processed soon but have not replied to my questions asking how much longer it will take since.

https://tech.lgbt/@obfusk/112764377831333163

Update: likely as a result of all the attention this post got โ€” thank you! โ€” Tencent has finally responded and removed my code.

Ah that's quite cool, I didn't realise that you could potentially do NFS and SMB over QUIC (although it makes sense now that I think about it), Exciting times!

@werdahias @awai It reminds me quite a bit of Calamares although using the Gnome backends instead of KDE... almost like a Galamares :P

@awai Ah nice, haven't seen that one it, always interesting to see how people implement it and what problems they are solving!

Still too early to share anything really, but I have various pieces of vapourware that are evolving to the point where they can actually talk to each other to work together as a system installer. Long-term I think I can put together a better universal installer than Calamares, imho they got a lot of things right, but we need something that's not tied to a specific GUI toolkit and that's more modular. My focus this month is mostly on partitioning stuff.

@CryptoJones @zackwhittaker everything I know about Ohio is from the Drew Carey show and that 70's show

Whoah!
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