Ben Zanin @gnomon@mastodon.social

Has anyone ever tried to make a BSD for old iPhones?

I’m wanting a more user-freedom-respecting platform, but I have working hardware that I’m not quite ready to part with yet.

(I know Darwin has BSD roots, but I’m thinking a fork of one of the modern fully open distributions)

When someone does a whole writeup about a feature you merged into your app, which is basically a step to disallow connections to certain harbours of hate, you know you done good. I'm so happy to read these words today.

And happy that I'm on a server where I've been protected from most of the hate. <3

#TuskyVsNazis

https://cjslep.com/c/blog/on-tusky-rickrolling

Library versioning experts, what do you think of this for bzip2? https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2/issues/19

Audio uploads? In this economy?

Deleted Fedilab. Nazis don't fucking deserve a platform, and any platform that disagrees won't get my clicks.

Back to Tusky.

It's time to stop using Fedilab folks. The dev of that app just announced that he will not be blocking Gab. This is despite overwhelming support for the block from users and devs in a poll that hasn't even completed yet.

I attempted to have a conversation with him yesterday because he gave the appearance of good faith, but he's made it clear that he's fine with Nazis and White Supremacists as long as it doesn't affect him. Receipts will be attached over several toots.

Folks on this site who take interest in and uplift others... you're awesome. You're what makes this place worthwhile. I appreciate you.

as promised: baby pidges

The next #GTALUG meeting on Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30 PM. We're having Lightning talks.

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2019-07/

If you would like to give a lightning talk at our next #GTALUG meeting please send an email with talk title to speakers@gtalug.org

Google to reimplement curl in libcrurl: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/06/19/google-to-reimplement-curl-in-libcrurl/

Timezones. Grr.

Calendaring. Grr.

posing for the camera

Hmmm https://cal.streetsblog.org/2019/06/18/parking-protected-bike-lanes-even-when-built-on-the-cheap-work-really-well/#new_tab

@qrs frankly if the QR code read "NO NERDS AT OUR WEDDING" that would have been amazing

Successfully reconstructed the PNG by hand-generating a correct CRC and fixing the IHDR fields so that the QR code can be displayed (after OCR'ing the fine print on the invitation, figuring out the rotN-cipher and uudecoding the text). Hopefully I'm cool enough to go to their wedding now that I have decoded the invite.

Forget the official name, I heard a better one:

Panopticoin.

It's so apt and succint.

can we as a society finally acknowledge that touch screens are worse than physical buttons in most applications

my fave thing about reactors is, we have this super complex process to refine uranium into the isotopes we want for fission, make a super complex system of control rods and other things to control the reaction, work out how all the byproducts affect the neutrons affecting the self-sustained uranium fission that creates heat... to boil some fucking water like a bigass kettle