Bart Groeneveld @BartG95@mastodon.host
#Christian | Since '95 | Software developer | #GNU enthusiast | #stoppeoplefarmingnow
Toots are deleted after ~4 weeks.
For now I settled with QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org/). Does everything I want, except, of course, fetching while I am offline. So if the feeds don't cover more than ~12 hours, I will probably miss something. Well, that is worth it.
I think you'll find this free software app, RSS Box, useful: https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/
For your privacy online:
https://prism-break.org/
Creating Curling Waves in Blender with FLIP Fluids [$] https://www.blendernation.com/2018/06/30/creating-curling-waves-in-blender-with-flip-fluids/ #b3d
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/BlenderNation/status/1013067791052754944
Thread by @colmmacc: "Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it's for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html
Does anyone know if Feedbro is open source? (https://nodetics.com/feedbro/) Seems an awesome reader, but I want to see the source.
"Wireshark (German: 'Kabelhai'),"
"How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia"
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/29/eu-copyright-proposal-will-hurt-web-wikipedia/
Photo site #500px removes all #CreativeCommons photos.
Goodbye 500px. Deleting my account as of now.
https://www.cnet.com/news/500px-photo-site-abandons-freely-shareable-images-with-commercialization-push/
"Can You Help Me With My Computer?" https://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/computer-help.html
Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:
1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.
~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
Dissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial http://blog.ieeesoftware.org/2016/04/dissecting-myth-that-open-source.html?m=1
@joeyh posted about two security vulnerabilities he uncovered http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/two_security_holes_and_a_new_library/
Notably the ActivityPub appendix warns about these kinds of security vulnerabilities: don't fetch from uri schemes you don't know (be sure your http lib doesn't accept file://) and don't fetch from localhost (though sadly it's hard not to do this one... "localhost-only" is mostly doomed).
But Joey's post also points out that even if you filter out the scheme and localhost yourself, redirects may bite you
In case you were curious about copyright law and how it is abused to make people broke without doing anything useful: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/28/the-continuing-saga-of-buck-ro.html
One of the heirs to the estate that controls Buck Rogers wants to make a movie about the Public Domain novel that the Buck Rogers comic strip was based on (in which an Anthony Rogers is hurled in to the future.)
The other heir and the trust that controls the estate are suing him to prevent him from making this movie, and doing some shady shit.
selfie, Art11/Art13 protests Show more
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-tech-avengers-1530285064
TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.
If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that.
@rysiek @scroom
Any non-geek buying a win10 pc and clicking through will be sending a *mountain* of info to redmond.
Even a geek can't stop it entirely during install on a business pc. The only 100% cure is to cfg the router I suppose.
For a friend I'd... <screech!> ... well, I wouldn't let a friend use the thing or any ms code.
20 years ago I told everyone if they wouldn't use gnu/linux or bsd they could find another someone to help them. Lost exactly zero friends, but lost a lot of probs
