it's the only license i've seen that accounts for the power dynamics fundamental to capitalism: class struggle between proletarians and the bourgeoisie. it takes a stand for the working class by defining a commons where people and their orgs are granted access while for profit enterprises will need to negotiate for access. this line of differentiation is the one that matters the most, under the current mode of production. read the telekommunist manifesto for more context, well worth it
"Magic? Are you for real? That stuff is all make-believe," the youth huffed in exasperation.
The elder remained unperturbed. "What makes you so certain?"
"Ugh! I... I tried it all, ok? The incantations, the ritual components, the freaking wands! I wished over and over again and nothing happened, and right now I just need this to end, so I'm not wasting my time with all that trash again."
Still unperturbed - but now with a glimmer of understanding - the elder placidly responded. "Ahh, yes, you've been taught the usual lies. No matter - the truth is easy enough to learn... if you'd like."
The youth was obviously still skeptical, but offered no objection.
The elder spoke - quietly at first, growing more and more animated with every word, until the room itself seemed to struggle to hold the conversation.
"A wish, my dear, is not a commandment which we use to impel reality to become different for no reason! No, this is silly! Of course what you were told didn't work, because none of it is true! A wish is an invitation - it is the feeling of reality asking us if we'd like to be a part of changing it! That is the way the magic flows. And if we say yes, well... that's when things get interesting!"
Microsoft: „1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code“
That would mean @bagder rewriting 5 #curl projects into Rust in a month.
Microsoft revising the „rewrite over a weekend“ meme to it actually taking them 6 days. For a person they have not hired yet. With tools they still have to invent.
If you are a MS customer, you‘d better start putting more money into Copilot right away!
I donated to #eff as I think they do great work trying keep our internet free. They also have nice things like privacybadger extension. Check them out. They do hope to unlock matching funds if they get enough members before the year ends.
I donated to @conservancy I think they also do important work supporting lots of free software projects, managing legal waters and supporting software freedom. They are also fighting the good fight to make sure the GPL is actually enforceable.
They do have a match in effect now until jan 15th.
Software freedom is critical to many of today’s most pressing social issues, but it’s only effective when FOSS is for everyone. Support Conservancy today to help make that happen!
I also this year donated to the internet archive. I think people tend to just take them for granted, that they will always be there archiving our internet history, but if we don't support them, they won't be. ;(
They provide the wayback machine, sooo many old archives of things (recently I found all the old dragon magazines are available there).
The media in my country is poor and getting worse. propublica has been doing actual news reporting, things that no one else is willing to do and speaking truth to power.
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Finally a reminder: your company may have a donation matching program. If it does, do remember to request matches for all your donations. The group will then get 2x your donation. Win win!
This post was contributed by the Fundraising Committee from the GNOME Foundation. This week we are launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME...
Sometimes when people ask me how I perceive myself as an autistic person who can’t see images in my head, the best way I can describe it is.. I feel like Krang.
I feel like I am a brain, just floating around in space, badly controlling this body that is attached poorly to me.
That sounds similar to how I perceive myself (blind from birth so no visual perception or notion of one). But not sure if it's the same or it just reads like it.
#dobréRáno priatelia fediverse, prajem vám šťastné a veselé Vianoce s kávou v ruke a nadhľadom nad vecou. Veľa darčekov a rodinnej pohody. A kto je sám, tak málo smutných myšlienok, na to je vraj dobrá prechádzka. Každopádne hlavu hore, za pár dní je to za nami.
@marcozehe ich find das Lied auch nicht schlimm. Die Weihnachtsbäckerei finde ich wesentlich schrecklicher. Gerade läuft Fairytale of New York, das mag ich sehr. Ein Freund hört es sich immer an Heiligabend an zur Erinnerung an seine Mutter.
já dávám přednost jisté skromné variantě vídeňského salátu (nostalgie, dělali jsme jej doma)… salát s majonézou atd. můžu, ale není mi tak blízký; když už, tak ale bez masa
Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺
I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.
I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).
In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.
Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.
Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).
Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.
Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.
CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!
it's pretty funny when right wing trolls are like "no politics in software!!" followed by "rust is woke!!" like. my man. you just made it about politics
It occurs to me that the recent #NVDA issue with IPC between 64 and 32-bit libraries (in particular voice synths) may be a perfect place for this solution: ekxide.io/blog/iceoryx2-0.8-re…
the next version of NVDA will be a 64-bit program, so it cannot easily directly interface with 32-bit libraries, and many voice synths (especially older ones) are built as 32-bit artifacts. Eloquence being one of them. This might be a way to create a mechanism for NVDA to interface with such libraries, possibly.
Přátelé #fediverse, přejeme vám klidné a pohodové Vánoce, dostatek pohody offline i online a do nového roku hodně zdraví, energie a dobrých lidí kolem sebe. Díky, že s námi držíte otevřený a svobodný internet a pomáháte, aby byl lepším místem. 🎄 #oscloud #opensource #privacy #foss #community
Guten Morgen! Ich wünsche euch einen schönen, geruhsamen und nach euren Wünschen verlaufenden Heiligabend! Und dann zwei Weihnachtsfeiertage, die natürlich auch genau nach euren Vorstellungen verlaufen mögen. Die einen werden's feiern, die anderen werden ob der Familienverpflichtungen gequält aufstöhnen, die nächsten werden's ignorieren, und all das ist voll OK! Nichts davon ist falsch. ❤️
Brailab, the Hungarian-only speech synth people love to make beatbox with random consonant-combos and yet I grew up with, is now updated to use a faster wrapper architecture and modernized with NVDA 2025.3. This does lay the groundwork for Brailab to work across future NVDA versions, as the audio it produces is now piped directly into memory with the wrapper rather than the DLL just piping it to the Windows audio API. eurpod.com/brailab-2025.nvda-a…
Y’all realise that the entire computer industry just pivoted to ‘AI Support’. Manufacturers of components (GPUs, CPUs, storage, RAM) are either exiting the consumer market (ex: Micron, Samsung) or severely limiting their offerings (NVIDIA, AMD, Samsung). Instead they are making products specifically catered and offered to AI/datacentre use.
You thought not being able to upgrade your RAM was a problem. Wait until you can’t buy a computer, and only rent one.
What can I say. Brailab wrapper works. It has some quirks but I built one. Now onto firstbite. I heard the voice, it won't be no Doubletalk style, because it is SmoothTalker 4 whereas I believe the other was version 3. But it does sound cool. I like that voice. Sort of like a hybrid of Keynote and old eloquence. I got it working under XP. But modern Windows, it has a memory corruption errors.
Mark Carney took a cabinet committee name and speech ideas from billionnaire-funded pro-AI and oil&gas booster group 'Build Canada' last May.
DeSmog and National Observer wrote about it 2 weeks ago and The Tyee wrote about the DOGE proponents among them in February but no legacy media have followed up. #media #cdnpoli
This mudslides app for iOS. I guess it's the next mudrammer? I've heard it's a testflight beta. How does one get access to this? I haven't had a mud client on my phone for years.
Hey people that follow @RainbowRemedy@moonbow.garden can also follow me here if you'd like. :) I plan to have both accounts up because I like both spaces for different reasons xx
There's a topic on the AudioGames forum where someone was asking if the Blastbay Film Score Themes CDs are available anywhere. Philip Bennefall has kindly made most of these available. The exception is the Epic Romance CD to which he sold the rights a few years ago. His links are available for a limited time, so I've downloaded them and combined everything into one zip file, around 1.5 gigabytes. These files are in wav format. The AudioGames topic has a link where you can purchase the Epic Romance pack, again as wavs, so I am not including that since it's still for sale. Share and enjoy! Zip file: bluegrasspals.com/BlastbayFilm… AudioGames forum topic: forum.audiogames.net/topic/581…
Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion about the use of goto.Created...
how can we cut our CI times by 50–90% and reduce our dependency on #github actions, securely and cheaply enough for a large public #rustlang codebase?
we did exactly that for @servo by building a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, all for barely 400 EUR/month!
Normally I love hearing airport announcements. But tonight, I wish the announcers at FLL would just shut up. It feels like the announcements are never-ending. This gate is loud. And there's a kid who seems to love the sound of their voice. And this chair is hurting my bum. And this is why I generally avoid flying at this time of year. But the first two flights I wanted didn't pan out. One sold out, and by the time my s.o realized his sister booked a flight for tomorrow, the one for yesterday had gotten too expensive. And, here we are.
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