Notices by Aaron 🤯 (aaronm04@fosstodon.org)

Now that Meta is actively rolling out its content policy changes, we are deeply concerned that they will harm vulnerable people. If the company truly values free speech—and its users—it’s moving in the wrong direction. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free

Caught Charles Stross faving my posts about Forth. So *this* explains his stories about programming being a noospheric trap door to unspeakable sentient horrors from outside the realm of time and reason

@discatte our company name will be "Dream IT"! Get it?!? *guffaws*

@michaelc unless you feel very tech-inclined and are prepared to take some time to learn things and read wiki pages, choose Ubuntu. I actually recommend the KDE variant though, Kubuntu. It's just as well-supported as Ubuntu.

If that does apply to you however, give Arch a whirl! The wiki pages are must-read

@michaelc no tech company can do that shit and credibly claim to be green! Internet-connected computers simply cannot be used without security updates

@nina_kali_nina related question: have you tried Nix or Guix? I feel like it might work for maintaining legacy package ecosystems like that. I haven't tried it myself though

@nina_kali_nina I think the shaming into silence part is very accurate (and sad). It's good that you found a way to overcome it!

I think this is tied into the seemingly popular idea that everything you do has to have a goal of making money at some point -- the implication is that aspiring musicians should gain a large audience or stfu. Obviously I disagree with that...

@thezoq2 I've been using egui at work for a desktop demo app and I have been _struggling_ with layout. Have you?

@thezoq2 I tried app.surfer-project.org and I suddenly realized "hey, I know this. It's an egui system" :blobhaj_sunglasses: