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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@slrpnk Very one-sided… and there's a bigger world in the open-source ecosystem than just Linux (#BSD says hi).

However, I wonder how the economics will change if, say, the US decided to put export tariffs on software/services exports?

Personally, I support open-standards more than open-source. kollectiva.media is a PeerTube instance. My instance is a Mastodon instance. Both talk W3C ActivityPub… we can communicate and share: what more do we need?

Even if the EU ultimately stays with Microsoft implementations of standards, they should still be moving towards using de-jure open standards (e.g. ISO-26300) over proprietary ones.

We need to work on teleconferencing platform interoperability. We have good quality streaming CODECs, it should not matter how one side generates them and the other consumes them, so long as both sides agree on CODECs and transportation methods.

It should not matter if I fire up Zoom (for example), and you Teams, we should still be able to directly call each-other with both clients using a common protocol.

I think that's our challenge going forward. Geopolitics will do the rest for us I think.

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Scrivolical

What is your preferred BSD-for-desktop and preferred Linux-for-desktop?

In terms of something that reasonably approximates (what used to be) the stability of (previous versions of) macOS / early-release-Windows 10, for use by someone who routinely uses current macOS and isn't a command-line/power user.

#BSD#Linux#FreeBSD
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@JessTheUnstill @bohwaz @punkfairie @ajsadauskas @tomiahonen @fuchsiii

Granted, @tails_live @tails / #Tails and @torproject / #TorBrowser are propably one of the best & most battle-tested options that are useable for #TechIlliterates...

THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

If not for being absurd then for the fact that people need to get things done!

  • And it's not as if I haven't taught people how to get started, ranging from having to crash-course someone remotely via chat to hand-on #CryptoParty sessions: If it's way more complex than an AKM chances are people won't stick with it!

So you can imagine how glad I was when @thunderbird merged #Enigmail into #Thunderbird so there's no more fiddling around getting #PGP/MIME to work!

YouTubeLord Of War - AK 47By Angelking762x39
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Pat

I've made a fraction-based calculator, for simplifying rational expressions (written in ANSI-C using vi)

I was aiming to merge a scientific calculator with "bc", because I often need to simplify various fractions and whatnot. Quite happy with the result!

Uses shunting yard algorithm to evaluate the expressions, and a naive descent parser (I think?) to tokenise

Aside: OpenBSD's "editline" is very easy to use

Please ask any questions :)

patpatpat.xyz/data/frac

Screenshot of a terminal running "frac". Each line contains an expression, followed by the result
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💓 EV∆ ∆ΠΠ∆ 💓

🌐📡 Open Source Experiences 📡🌐

A podcast for your morning, afternoon, and all other UTC offsets. This episode features the BSD community's renowned leader for all things CFT, OpenZFS, FreeBSD, and many more Open Source topics in-between: Michael Dexter - @dexter

"Open doesn't Always Mean Accessible", from My Open Source Experience Podcast

So then, let's listen to tales of OSS in the episode! Links to various syndicated apps below.

- Podverse: podverse.fm/episode/kr9LJXJi3
- Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/
- ACast: shows.acast.com/my-open-source

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PodverseOpen doesn't Always Mean Accessible - My Open Source Experience PodcastBy definition, open source projects and communities are supposed to be accessible. And while the code is always openly available, the remaining parts of the ecosystem might be further out of reach than you would thinkIn this episode of the My Open Source Experience Podcast, Michael Dexter, Ildiko and Phil explore the open source ecosystem from two perspectives: business and accessibility. Businesses rely on open source software, soemtimes unknowinlgy, all around the globe as digital infrastructure doesn't exist without it any more, and yet, making it integral part of the business strategy is a constant struggle for companies. And yet, even when companies and individuals reach the point of investing their time, money and resources into open source projects it appears to be more difficult than it is supposed to be. Michael, Ildiko and Phil are discussing these challenges and digging into how to address them.Learn more about:- The relationship between open source and business interests- The fragility of funding in the open source ecosystem- The role of open source foundations- Stages of involvement in open source projects- Maintainer shortage and how to bring people (back) into open source projects Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#foss#oss#OpenSource
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Peter N. M. Hansteen

You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.

Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?

More at nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_ins (from 2024)

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