Maybe(oz)
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So what do I tell my students? Give up and go home?
Daniel Appelquist
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Who would have thought that anyone would think it is a good idea to ban regulation of AI and algorithmic content? This is a seriously bad idea.
I continue to believe that we should ban user profiling and the use of user profiles for advertising and content algorithms. Given where we are, I think that is the right thing to do and I think more and more are seeing that as the only way to solve the issues we have today.
#Vivaldi#AI#Regulation#SurveillanceCapitalism#Windows#Macos#Linux #software#Computers#Politics
https://www.theverge.com/news/666288/republican-ai-state-regulation-ban-10-years
Michael Dexter
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I've been using OpenBSD on my main desktop for a while now. Honestly, I would probably say this is my favourite OS at the moment. There are a lot of points going for it which I appreciate about it, as well as some negatives which I'll address.
I really like how efficient OpenBSD is. On average, a Linux installation image is around 800 megabytes in size, the mini-memstick image for FreeBSD requires 500 megabytes in size, and OpenBSD with miniroot uses 5MB. Insane. Additionally, the full operating system with everything you could ever want installed is ~782MB, literally 781.568832MB. This number was summed using https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/amd64/ and Python.
I do wish that Git was adopted in place of CVS for development though. FreeBSD moved to Git from SVN with pretty much no issues as far as I'm aware. You would also get the benefits of having branches, as well as the ability to commit changes without instantly pushing to origin, alongside the benefit of being able to author your own patches because of the two reasons above. There isn't really a reason to use CVS in the modern age is what I believe.
There are also many projects I want to work on that require some tooling which only works on Linux. My idea was to create an Alpine virtual machine using VMM and enabling OpenSSH with X11 forwarding but I have yet to see if that even works. Wish me luck. :P
I still love FreeBSD and would recommend it to anyone willing to start using *BSD operating systems, but as for now, I plan to main OpenBSD. I'll try and maintain my own ports for FreeBSD in the meantime using virtual machines as well but I don't guarantee it's success. Thanks for the fun, FreeBSD. :)
I've been using OpenBSD on my main desktop for a while now. Honestly, I would probably say this is my favourite OS at the moment. There are a lot of points going for it which I appreciate about it, as well as some negatives which I'll address.
I really like how efficient OpenBSD is. On average, a Linux installation image is around 800 megabytes in size, the mini-memstick image for FreeBSD requires 500 megabytes in size, and OpenBSD with miniroot uses 5MB. Insane. Additionally, the full operating system with everything you could ever want installed is ~782MB, literally 781.568832MB. This number was summed using https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.7/amd64/ and Python.
I do wish that Git was adopted in place of CVS for development though. FreeBSD moved to Git from SVN with pretty much no issues as far as I'm aware. You would also get the benefits of having branches, as well as the ability to commit changes without instantly pushing to origin, alongside the benefit of being able to author your own patches because of the two reasons above. There isn't really a reason to use CVS in the modern age is what I believe.
There are also many projects I want to work on that require some tooling which only works on Linux. My idea was to create an Alpine virtual machine using VMM and enabling OpenSSH with X11 forwarding but I have yet to see if that even works. Wish me luck. :P
I still love FreeBSD and would recommend it to anyone willing to start using *BSD operating systems, but as for now, I plan to main OpenBSD. I'll try and maintain my own ports for FreeBSD in the meantime using virtual machines as well but I don't guarantee it's success. Thanks for the fun, FreeBSD. :)
ajuvo ✔
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Oooh, when you hit a software bug where your plane goes into "automated ground-operation mode"... while flying.
CNN: F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska
"...After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said. ..."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml
So what do I tell my students? Give up and go home?
Oooh, when you hit a software bug where your plane goes into "automated ground-operation mode"... while flying.
CNN: F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska
"...After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said. ..."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml
alcinnz
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Marketing people should be let anywhere near the software versions!
Windows: 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Unity: 5.6, 2017.1, ..., 2022.3, 6.0
iOS: 18, 26
Now one guy at Unity (me) has to change iOS min version check to also include check for non-existent 19-25 range. Hopefully it is not me in the future who'll have to deal with those skipped version somehow coming to existence.
Elena Rossini ⁂
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Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Teaching moments from @elena, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenArchiver - an #email archiving platform, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #development #app #apps #software #fediverse #activitypub
Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Teaching moments from @elena, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenArchiver - an #email archiving platform, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #development #app #apps #software #fediverse #activitypub
For Social experience design, a solution development method, I defined #FSDL to refer to the end-to-end #FreeSoftware development lifecycle.
Since the definition under #SX of #SocialNetworking means "any direct or indirect human interaction between people" this means that any #software that interacts with people has a #social experience that might be part of the #fediverse.
Hence I consider overloading FSDL to also mean "fediverse social development lifecycle" and both uses are equivalent. 🤔
#lispyGopherClimate #interview w/ @bandali
https://communitymedia.video/w/tPo3DYdNFT35VKo69egtBL
#archive at 8pm Boston time Tuesday / 0UTC Wednesday.
https://communitymedia.video/w/tPo3DYdNFT35VKo69egtBL
#archive at 8pm Boston time Tuesday / 0UTC Wednesday.
Amin Bandali gopher://kelar.org/1/~bandali/https://kelar.org/~bandali/ of #emacsconf / GNU
I expect to talk about #emacsconf #smallnet #smallweb #gopher #software packaging,
viz #emacs/conf @eduardoochs ' eev and @ramin_hal9001 's view of emacs' linux-app-platform
Lots of things. I want to know what Amin's @corwin's-dungeon-mode is.
Two questions about hacker communities
Alan Zimmerman
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#Schemacs minor milestone reached
With pull request #50 the Schemacs Elisp interpreter is now able to load all of two very important Emacs Lisp source files:
…which are two files that define most of what you could call the the Emacs Lisp “core” language (by which I mean macros like defun and lambda).
With these files now loaded, I can proceed to the next task, which is implementing enough of the C-level built-in functions in Scheme to be able to run ./lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el, which is in-turn one of the dependencies for running the Emacs Regression Tests (ERT) suite.
Once ERT is up and running, it will be much easier for anyone to contribute code to this project as you will just be able to pick a failing regression test and write whatever code is necessary to make it pass.
#tech#software#Emacs#EmacsLisp#Lisp#Scheme#SchemeLang#R7RS#FOSS#FreeSoftware
alcinnz
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Imagine if only 50% of the energy that is currently used to talk about #LLMs and "#AgenticCoding", was instead used to talk, teach and practice #TDD.
Imagine what kind of #software we will have in either scenario 10 years down the line...
Should Test-Driven Development (TDD) Be Used MORE In Software Engineering? - by the channel Modern Software Engineering:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=6yb7jKpxTjM
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yb7jKpxTjM)
Imagine if only 50% of the energy that is currently used to talk about #LLMs and "#AgenticCoding", was instead used to talk, teach and practice #TDD.
Imagine what kind of #software we will have in either scenario 10 years down the line...
Should Test-Driven Development (TDD) Be Used MORE In Software Engineering? - by the channel Modern Software Engineering:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=6yb7jKpxTjM
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yb7jKpxTjM)
#Schemacs minor milestone reached
With pull request #50 the Schemacs Elisp interpreter is now able to load all of two very important Emacs Lisp source files:
…which are two files that define most of what you could call the the Emacs Lisp “core” language (by which I mean macros like defun and lambda).
With these files now loaded, I can proceed to the next task, which is implementing enough of the C-level built-in functions in Scheme to be able to run ./lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el, which is in-turn one of the dependencies for running the Emacs Regression Tests (ERT) suite.
Once ERT is up and running, it will be much easier for anyone to contribute code to this project as you will just be able to pick a failing regression test and write whatever code is necessary to make it pass.
#tech#software#Emacs#EmacsLisp#Lisp#Scheme#SchemeLang#R7RS#FOSS#FreeSoftware
Le Alternative
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📢 Woohoo! Version v6.3.0 of Firefly III has just been released 🎉. Check it out over at GitHub, Docker, or download it using your favorite package manager.
#opensource #oss #newrelease #php #software #personalfinance #selfhosted
📢 Woohoo! Version v6.3.0 of Firefly III has just been released 🎉. Check it out over at GitHub, Docker, or download it using your favorite package manager.
#opensource #oss #newrelease #php #software #personalfinance #selfhosted