This is Garfield, he sleeps at #Milliways, wake him up by calling 91255 #ninjaempire #youhavedoublecrossedit #39c3
As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many applications now require an internet connection to function.
:drake_no: CCTV
:drake_yes: CCCTV¹
¹: streaming.media.ccc.de
I was checking how old the install of one of the freedesktop servers is... and uhm... one of them is like from 2004 🙃
yeah.. that's 21 years ago.
Zuckerburg is paying only $190M to settle an $8B lawsuit by Facebook shareholders for failing in his oversight duties in the Cambridge Analytica crime.
A reminder that even $8B would’ve been only 3% of his net worth, and $190M is only .08% of his net worth.
About $75 for ordinary working people.
Another reminder that “If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”
uhm, did you know that waypipe with ssh is fast enough to use blender remotely over wi-fi? what? this works much better/faster than x11 forwarding ever did
Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"
Devs:
(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )
PSA: I'll talk about x86 emulation in FEX this coming Saturday at #39c3 !
If you want to come and say hi during the event, I'll be hanging out at the Dolphin assembly - any interruptions appreciated! 😄
Until then, happy holidays all!
Since there's CCC and FOSDEM coming up, the next #BoilingTheOcean is happening in February!
The weekend of February 14-15th we'll be hacking as usual, but on the 13th we'll also have an evening of talks and discussions on identity in peer-to-peer systems, with @bumbleblue and @shibacomputer ✨
More details TBA :)
@adz and @tbernard will be talking about @modal , Reflection and @p2panda : Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop, at
@fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!
They'll introduce you to Modal, a collective focused on bringing local-first principles to Linux Desktop and Mobile. He'll also showcase Reflection, the GTK-based text editor, and p2panda, the underlying peer-to-peer stack.
Come listen to them and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00.
It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#8-p2panda-modal-reflection