falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
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World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase.
Time to seriously tax the rich and shut down the offshore tax havens once and for all
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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
Haiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/
To Qt or not Qt, that is the question...
Also moving away from Berlin into Hamburg... 🤔
A very hard choice 🥥
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There are a lot of interesting videos on PeerTube nowadays! However, it's sometimes difficult to discover them.
To help, here is a VERY long thread full of good PeerTube accounts to follow, grouped into topics.
YOU DON'T NEED A PEERTUBE ACCOUNT! You can follow all these from Mastodon. The videos will appear in your Masto timeline, you can like them by favouriting, comment by replying etc from within Mastodon.
You can also browse these accounts and more over at https://fedi.video
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huh somehow Firefox renders this much much better than Chromium... 🤔
On Chromium the audio is choppy and graphics render at around 20FPS, also making the fan speed considerably.
Firefox plays this without a hitch and can render at 60FPS.
Cool then
Having an online version of our tools is the best for quickly verifying random things.
Was just speaking with SurgeXT devs about them disabling 32bit builds as "it didnt get any testing and could be broken".
Well I was never aware they thought that, let me prepare a quick patch....
https://cardinal.kx.studio/live?patchurl=https://kx.studio/Paste/raw/4AlxI
There, Surge-Rack spring reverb working on a 32bit environment (wasm is 32bit by default yes)
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This is fine...
"We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group."
Silly scammers trying to get me with "Your Prime membership is renewing on January 3, 2024".
You fools I do not have an amazon account, much less "Prime" 🤮
Jokes aside, that seems to be the latest trend on email spam, write about some missing payment or subscription renewal. It involves money so it does get my attention at a first glance, but then it is obviously fake of course.
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Mixxx is proud to announce that we do not have a #Discord server.
Our reference material is stored on a wiki (https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/) and user discussions are hosted on a Discourse forum (https://mixxx.discourse.group/).
We do have a Zulip instance for realtime developer discussions (https://mixxx.zulipchat.com/), but it does not host any material.
No service is completely insulated or safe from #enshittification but some choices carry obviously higher risks.
TIL if we have a diff/patch file that does not apply cleanly, we cannot assume the behaviour of the `patch` tool is consistent.
After a long debug session I found out that depending on the `patch` tool version we have, it might or might not apply an unclean patch file.
It applied fine locally, so I didn't notice the issue.
Really did not occur to me that this could be a thing.
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At #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.
Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.
People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.
The talk https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains is quite amazing, and entertaining too in a somewhat sad state of affairs way.
The train manufacturer had conditions in place to have those trains automatically stop working and needing servicing. 😱
Read about the hacker feats before, but didn't expect them to be so young. Great work 👏
200 CI jobs for the PawPaw project, now that is quite the sight 😅
https://github.com/DISTRHO/PawPaw/actions/runs/7365078279
This is to to cover as many cases as possible, I promise I am not trying to break a record or anything like that
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The mental gymnastics skills of folks attempting to justify Mozilla paying their CEO $7 million while asking for donations.
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I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
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Ok so im reading this article on Roman Glazing and slowly I begin to realise that it was written by an AI. Witness the section on “What existed before windows” where it suddenly starts talking about MS-DOS….
https://www.learnancientrome.com/did-ancient-rome-have-windows/
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Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050.
A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.
The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.
Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.
https://theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/
#GlobalWarming #Oil #BigOil #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Drinking #Problem
