Adrián Pérez @aperezdc@mastodon.social

slack during daytime

work at night

You probably heard @RIAA used #DMCA to get @microsoft's @GitHub to remove youtube-dl, but did you know Microsoft funds RIAA as a member? We call on Microsoft (& any organizations who purports to support #FOSS) to resign from RIAA in protest.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/

#DivestRIAA

Someone made a PR on GitHub that merges youtube-dl's history into the DMCA repo. https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8142

Which means the source and history of youtube-dl is now mirrored at https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f

😂

Last thing I have to say on this: cloning the yt-dl doesn't affect these bad actors in the industry. They frankly don't give a shit if you have the code. They aren't stupid, they know how git works. They want to send a message.

So if it makes you feel great, clone it. But don't deceive yourself into thinking it's "sticking it to the man" or "activism". That comes from hitting them where it really hurts: pushing for copyright reform.

Write to your congresspeople.

In case you thought the RIAA had gone away or gotten less evil: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

@aperezdc @kepstin @piggo @cassidyjames Additionally, signing into Chrome signs you into Google websites... and vice versa.

It's also unexpected and a dark pattern. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

You know what I would love for Mastodon client, an option follow whole instances at the instance level, to create a "neighborhood" feed between local and federated, made of these instances' local feeds.

Alternatively, a way to whitelist instances that shows up in the Federated feed, it would have the same effect.

@neauoire thismakesme wish i could have custom timelines and follow whole servers

This is the most #Russian thing I have heard of this week. Perhaps even this month.
https://tass.com/science/1212465

> Russian cosmonauts trace air leak aboard orbital outpost with tea bag
> The tea bag’s sway in zero gravity conditions towards the air leak was registered by cameras

Difficult/dangerous issue? ✅
Space exploration involved? ✅
Simple, effective solution? ✅ ✅
Tea involved? ✅ ✅

(two check marks for 🍵 because you can bet your бабушка they had celebratory tea afterwards)

Multi-touch swipe to go back/forward in Epiphany and Ephemeral (thanks to WebKitGTK) single-handedly keeps me using these browsers more often than Firefox. It’s so smooth and handy!

cursed
"ethflop is a DOS TSR that emulates a floppy disk drive. The emulated (virtual) floppy disk is, in fact, stored on a Linux server as a floppy image. All the communication between ethflop (the TSR) and ethflopd (the Linux daemon) is exchanged over raw Ethernet."
http://ethflop.sourceforge.net/

I highly recommend anyone getting started with GTK/GNOME app development starts with GTK4 at this point. GTK4 performs better, makes it easier to make custom widgets, and simplifies a lot of things that were more complex before.

If you start with GTK4, you also won't need to worry about porting later :)

Slightly updated my guide for nanotodon (CLI mastodon client) on #OpenBSD , to fit recent nanotodon changes. Enjoy, terminal lovers!

https://gist.github.com/ao-kenji/c734809b784fd451a56147601adb200b