Notices by Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 (mcepl@en.osm.town)

@SuperDicq

This is such https://xkcd.com/743/ moment, I cannot believe it to be possible. Who could think Microsoft would abuse their monopoly position?

So much for the federated merge requests via #ActivityPub.

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/260#note_2910231358

When I called in https://lwn.net/Articles/963427/ @sir position as the pragmatic one, I was called disingenuous.

(And, BTW, https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/9225 doesn’t seem to be finished either).

#GitLab #ForgeFed #SourceHut #Forgejo #Radicale

@gumnos @nixCraft

I understand that, but this is a suggestion for absolute geeks with a lot of free time to struggle with SpamHaus and other institutions targeting peaceful operation of the server. I would prefer if we all promoted as an alternative to GMail/Outlook/etc. other purely commercial providers like Fastmail et al. instead pushing normals to something where they will eventually and necessarily burn out.

@gumnos @whitequark

I was running my own server for years. I didn’t give up because of my incompetence (I hope), but because I found that I have better things to do than constantly battling with SpamHause, Google, Microsoft, and others who try to cement the monopoly in the email delivery. I just outsourced that job to Fastmail, and I am very happy with the result.

And yes, his second point is absolutely correct. Let somebody else deal with it. And he still ends with “with everyone but M365.”

Ač v žádném případě nejsem příznivce levice, spíše naopak, ale právě jako konzervativně (skutečně konzervativně) naladěnému člověku mi připadne smutné, že kdysi ctihodná Sociální Demokracie skončí s takovouhle fotkou. To jsou opravdu truchlivé postavy na truchlivém konci kdysi hrdé strany.

@ozdreaming @AbandonedAmerica

https://youtu.be/K6NgMNvK52A And many other resources.

Podepsal jsem https://gov.cz/e-petice/1205-petice-za-povinne-zverejneni-zdrojovych-kodu-softwaru-pouzitych-ve-verejne-sprave

Učiňte také tak!

#eGovernment #Czechia #FLOSS #PublicCode

@BrodieOnLinux

Some kind of bitmap, I believe. I am not sure whether #TrueType fonts were available at all yet.

@BrodieOnLinux

Plus, with absolute 100% certainty all relevant distros would ignore the forked kernel. Linux kernel is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ and nobody cares about anything else.

@mgorny

Czech one used to be called ČÚZAK (BTW, collaborates very intensively with the Czech #OpenStreetMap community), but that sounds too rude (no, I will not explain!), so it is ČÚZK now (https://cuzk.gov.cz/).

@soapdog

Exactly: a programming language is either like Python (“batteries included”) or it is like C (“do it yourself”; although there is a large stdlib called libc). The first is good for a general scripting, the second one isn’t. Yes, no sense adding file functions to Lua embedded in WoW, but e.g. Neovim (and any other editor like vis) must develop their own stdlib. Thus, “we don’t like you to use Lua for anything smaller than a project large enough for you to develop your own stdlib”.

@BrodieOnLinux

Well, it is a special (although probably not unique) that it is memory safe without giving in to garbage collection. So, Rust fangirls and fanboys are at least partially right, but partially right is the worst kind of right.

@soapdog

So, if I understand it correctly, TL;DR of the article is “Normal users hate #Lua, because they miss standard library; the feeling is mutual, we hate them as well. Lua should be used only by large (semi-)professional projects, which build they own standard library.” Did I get it right?

(Meanwhile, I have to fight about https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/vis/commit/d19f12337e440 being included into #vis).

@soapdog

If there is one thing I started to really dislike in the last couple of months, it is that everybody (from McDonald’s downwards in terms of sleaziness) started to force me to lie, that I would ever return to that choice later. No, I will never give to Ronald McDonald Charity (for reasons), and I will never change my mind about it! Now I see the similar forcing me to lie in FLOSS projects. Ugh!

RT @pluralistic

> Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.

Preach it, brother, preach it!

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/