Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

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If your business cannot afford to pay a living wage to all your employees, your business has no right to exist.

Today we're kicking off the #GNU Assembly!

https://gnu.tools

This is a new umbrella for GNU people seeking transparent decision-making and built around consensus. It's the result of a decade of struggle to make #GNU inclusive, transparent, and community-driven.

#GNU contributors: consider joining!

#FreeSoftware activists: help us spread the word!

That went smooth:
🍵 Gitea has been updated to version 1.13.7
🐼 Cryptpad updated to 4.3.1
🗑️ Privatebin to 1.3.5

Thank you for flying Disroot....

#mastoadmin

hi, the bsd.network instance has blocked FLoC on all pages and media that our web servers serve.

We previously, currently, and in the future, will NEVER had ads, and we do not support any efforts to track our users.

Google is an important part of the advertising cabal, and is quite evil thank you very much.

(here is the snippet we use in nginx:
add_header Permissions-Policy "interest-cohort=()";
)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#sysadmin #privacy

Greenspun's Tenth Rule strikes again.

Deep in a large #C++ codebase, I just found some polymorphism using std::variant and visitor pattern. There are three visitors: main one returning a result, and a pre- and post-processing visitors returning nothing.

The latter two are basically :before and :after methods from #CLOS in #CommonLisp.

Only thing missing in this picture are :around methods, and the ability to compose the visitors...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Oh sweet! #Emacs native-comp branch is going to be merged into master in about a week from now!

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-04/msg00484.html

https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/07/The-next-chat-app.html

Drew DeVault has some correct criticisms of Matrix. Although I haven't run a server myself directly, I've been in close contact with people who have, and I know what a task it is.

However, DD seems to think this disqualifies Matrix all together. I'd like to think that it can overcome these difficulties, maybe with upcoming implementations like Dendrite.

Yet another #clim hack. Here you can see an unmodified (simple) demo from McCLIM examples running in a frame manager implemented for a hunchentoot acceptor.

#lisp

Joe Marshall published two small pieces on early Lisp that show how McCarthy developed the first version of apply and eval (plus a small set of other basics) on top of β-reduction from lambda calculus and how this evolved from a buggy substitution version to call-by-value semantics.
https://funcall.blogspot.com/2021/03/early-lisp.html and https://funcall.blogspot.com/2021/04/early-lisp-part-ii-apply-redux.html @lisp #lisp

BREAKING: Finally. Google granted fair use for implementing JAVA SE API by the Supreme Court. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf

When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".

It's okay to say that it's "free software".

It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.

It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".

Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.

Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.

Piękna akcja!

Ordo Iuris, #Wypierdalaj!

Your first draft isn't as bad as you think, and some of it is much better than you dared hope.

#WriterEncouragements

hello fediverse

if you have like, two minutes, please consider filling out this survey i have to do for school

it's about how many books you read. don't worry if you don't read books very much, that's actually one of the things we're looking for

it's a google form. sorry

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMlVeRqo0f1uEZek4ZkjhxsVsVbF44GxQ9ncSAFuIfBVQ3OQ/viewform?usp=sf_link