Wisellama @Wisellama@mastodon.wisellama.rocks

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

Day 1 of my BSD Challenge is now out ^ ^

https://youtu.be/asElPnacpMA

#bsd #freebsd

who rember bumptop? wasn't that the coolest shit ever?

It is proven!

Android apps can be built using only standard packages from Debian Buster!

https://gitlab.com/Matrixcoffee/hello-world-debian-android

"This project helps to document the Android tools in Debian by providing an example build, and can serve as a base template for new projects for those who would like to develop Android apps using only truly Free and Open Source software."

RT @AndrewMohawk@twitter.com

Finally completed my writeup on building a trunk scanner to listen to trunked radio ( police, fire, EMS, etc). I'm using 2 @nooelec@twitter.com RTLSDRs!

https://www.andrewmohawk.com/2020/06/12/trunked-radio-a-guide/

You can listen at
https://openmhz.com/system/sfcers_am

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AndrewMohawk/status/1271586322969313281

Lunduke's 2020 installment of "Linux Sucks" is out now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZN5n6C9gM4

MNT Reform (open hardware laptop) campaign is live: https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

And here's the Launch Announcement:
https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/the-campaign-is-live

Thanks to everyone who helped and supported us to make this happen.

Friendly reminder: "X as a service" is just a misleading corporate euphemism for "pay forever for not owning it".

"Software as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the software".

"Games as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning games".

"Infrastructure as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the hardware".

And so on.

There is no "cloud", it's just other people's computers

Announcing Debian Social https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/03/msg00008.html

Donald E. Knuth did it!

"The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5" is out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134671791/

#MastoArt #PixelArt #CreativeToots #animation

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Honestly if anyone's gonna solve the impossible programming problem of the century, it's not gonna be a silicon valley startup looking to optimise their subscription-based ingredient delivery service, it's gonna be the guy who makes dwarf fortress because one day he decided to try and implement something like randomly generated recessive genetic disorders in sheep

being an emacs user means being doomed to seeing compilation errors like "error: n: unbound variable" because you weren't holding the control key for a fraction of second.

The Daily Dweebs https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/7b2eff2a-35f2-4403-9d88-d0dd6e4b5ba1

i've been... blessed

Most everybody has heard about it, but have you actually read Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral & The Bazaar"?

I can still highly recommend it if you're interested in open source and/or software development:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html

#Firefox logo graffiti in #Bratislava (found it on Reddit)

Holy smokes.

LibreOffice runs on the Librem 5!

AND IT WORKS.

Saving files, opening files, typing... the UI is a bit cramped (it's a desktop app on a phone)... but hot-diggity! It works!