Steinar @Steinar@snabelen.no

1/ This is a comparison more people should be making. In 1898, a couple thousand white supremacists successfully overturned an election in North Carolina, destroying a powerful, anti-capitalist coalition of poor white and recently emancipated Black farmers (the Fusionists).

I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride - fasterthanli.me

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride


I have a lucky pattern of ignoring popular tech that i get a bad gut feeling about, and somehow being right. Go is cursed. This is depressing. You can’t fix these mistakes this late in the game. RIP Go

@catherine Here's one:
http://www.industriall-union.org/over-250-million-workers-join-national-strike-in-india

telling people your own age that you're proud of them feels like being a dog and discovering that you, too, can give headpats

Hey so, Salesforce just bought Slack. Salesforce has a history of monetizing things they buy in really aggressive manners so I'm expecting some Changes there soon.

If you use Discord, I'll also note that when a thing's main competition has a problem is when companies choose to make Big Moves so don't be shocked if Discord makes major changes or either gets bought themselves very soon.

I've been banging the drum of "Have backups for your communities" for years now, but it's more serious now.

Um um um um ummmmm... is this what it sounds like? Google is blocking browsers it doesn't "approve" of... apparently just letting in Firefox and Chrome? https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/guidance-for-our-effort-to-block-less-secure-browser-and-apps.html

The web as an open standards platform is rapidly falling apart. :\

@aujawindar Vi som driv fri kultur har laga ein norsk instans!

https://treffast.no/

er foreløpig berre demo då

Joho godtfolk, og god laurdagskveld! Eg har eit lite oppdrag til dykk nettverksskallar: Eg har omsett #Mobilizon ferdig til nynorsk, og bed dykk prøve ut herlegdomen på https://demo.mobilizon.org/. Eg sjølv har sett nokre glepptak i omsetjinga, og tek gjerne imot fleire rettingar.

Eg synest dette er ei bitteliti markering verdt, fordi eit fint alternativ til Facebook-grupper og -hendingar no er opna for norske brukarar. Eg tek eit glas raudt, i alle fall, så får de hine gjera som de lystar.

"These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one... Short of using an external network filtering device like a travel/vpn router that you can totally control, there will be no way to boot any OS on the new Apple Silicon macs that won’t phone home, and you can’t modify the OS to prevent this."

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

How I got started with Vim.

https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2020/11/12/how-i-got-started-with-vim.html

#Vim #Neovim

Gig-economy companies aren't part of the productive economy – they're part of the finance economy. They rely on investors, not profits from delighted customers, to stay afloat.

They will never be profitable. Ever.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-there/#jack-ma

Her er endelig beretningen om hvordan jeg brøt meg inn i Facebook-hvelvet for å hente ut mine egne gamle innlegg, slik at jeg kunne legge dem ut på nettstedet mitt: https://bearstrong.net/tech/2020/11/det-store-facebook-tyveriet/

Her er forresten resultatet: https://bearstrong.net/facebook/ Ganske verdiløst, men gøy å ha gjort det, bare på trass.

What FOSS application or service do you wish existed?

Please Boost 🚀

when apple decided to simplify the new iphone by combining all the ports into one single port, they reinvented the cloaca

"Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer."

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

"""
Subtitles are not currently a feature in Supernatural but is definitely on our radar for something we want to implement down the road. We're constantly updating Supernatural to be the best workout experience possible for as many people as we can support. Your feedback helps inform which direction we steer future updates to the app.
"""

Asking for #accessibility and #subtitles for #deaf yields usually rather depressing answers, but not always. Thanks, #supernatural!

If you want to leave GitHub due to their recent bad behavior but still need a presence there, you can absolutely do that.

What FOSS developers provide them is credibility. If you move your cool projects elsewhere and mirror them to Github with a pointer to the real repo, the message is clear: you're only on Github because you have to be.

Boycotting $BIG_COMPANY 95% of the time is almost as effective as boycotting it 100% of the time; this isn't an all-or-nothing deal.