Agreed! I've heard nothing but good things from those who use it.

His is an excellent performance, thank you for sharing!

I can understand giving up on FreeBSD--OpenBSD at least offers to install & configure a graphical environment with a graphical login screen during the installation process, which makes it much easier to get up and running for desktop or laptop use (on supported hardware).

• Emacs 29 (featuring improvements to the built-in help system)
• NetBSD 10.0 (which has been in development nearly 3 years!)
• The FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook (the working title is Why We Love FreeDOS)
• Long shot: better support for GNU Guix to run on GNU Hurd

The gesture support will be a welcome addition!

Note that it's a text mode RSS reader, but it can be easily configured to open up feeds in a browser for viewing any relevant images. I use links running in graphics mode. It's a pretty simple setup.

snownews -- complimentary screenshot

If one has an e-reader, standardebooks.org is an excellent place for English language texts.

Android strives to be a lightweight OS so it can run on a variety of hardware. The first version of the OS had to squeeze into the T-Mobile G1, with only a measly 256MB of internal storage for Android and all your apps, and ever since then, the idea has been to use as few resources as possible.

Emphasis mine. Now, I know graphics improvements and support for various versions of Android take up a lot of the space used, but gee willikers! It's amazing to think it began with storage requirements far under a single gigabyte.

This is a good read (and a tad easier than the article above). I'm glad such measures of inclusion can make such a tangible difference for people :)

Oftentimes, for words especially of Latin origin, German will adopt the English term, perhaps slightly fitting it to the language. This type of term (in my experience) has tended to become the favored variant, such as Compiler for the English compiler. However, there is typically a more German-like variant of the English (or, ultimately Latin), as evidenced by Kompilierer, or a straight translation of the term into something more easily understandable, whereby compiler becomes Übersetzer.

The internet age, international communication needs, and the prevalence of the latest documentation being available first (or only) in English is likely to blame for this trend. Books especially use either a German-like Latin derivation or (preferably) a native term.

This is cursory illustration of the situation on the more technical side of things. No one would think to use a term like user interface over the well-established Benutzeroberfläche, or memory over Arbeitsspeicher.

Ultimately, both English and German, as West Germanic languages, operate similarly enough that the friction due to terminology is minimal.

Note: SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page.

This is a good write-up of the potential avenues and pitfalls associated. The third option strikes me as the most likely, if Google ever were to index the Gemini Space. I suppose I am most glad that gemini://geminispace.info offers a good way to traverse the Gemini Space already, and will undoubtedly improve with time.

Luke Smith's videos are generally a good catalyst for examining one's own thoughts on a given subject matter, disagree as I might.

It would be interesting to get numbers on how much of any given series children watch(ed) and their ages, as I but rarely caught episodes of any of the cartoons mentioned. I am far more familiar with books that do the same, like The Magic Tree House (children's series) and the numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. I wouldn't be so quick to ascribe to the episodic format of any given media the blame for instilling a false sense of permanence andor futility in anyone. I would be much quicker to look at how recent and rapid technological advancements have altered our perceptions of our lives.

Continuous cartoon consumption, as it is now more an on-demand experience than ever, may be symptomatic of something more fundamental, say, how quickly the rewards of hard work oughta be reapt.

And some more, after a few more months of looking at more built-ins in the documentation:

• calculator - great for most simple desktop calculator needs
• ps-print--with-faces - creates a postscript printout of the current buffer or region

Unfortunately, the ps-print--with-faces commands do not preserve the markup features of org-mode, but the structure of the buffer or region is faithfully displayed, save the occasional wrapping of a long line or `?' in place of an unrecognized character. If you have a printer, this can allegedly even deliver postscript printouts directly to it! It's not exactly a novel idea; elvis has boasted such a feature for a good while, but it's nice to see Emacs has it built-in as well!

This is sadly a less informative re-write of the Linux Mint blog post by Clem, which includes pictures of its previewed features.

I would fully agree that other internet protocols are much better suited to information not meant to be broadcast publicly.

Civility is great, and should be highly encouraged. That's largely why I like Lemmy. Each instance can guide its community in line with its values, whatever those may be, block offenders, and generally forge the space it wishes.

However, I think Besse's comments on setting the correct expectations in the public sphere are worth considering.

For a different internet example: all the messages I send in any chatroom on an IRC server will inevitably be logged by someone, especially in popular rooms. Any assumption to the contrary would be naïve, and demanding that people not keep a log any of my publicly broadcast messages would be laughed at by the operators. It's a public space, and sending anything to that space necessarily means I forgo my ability to control who sees, aggregates, archives, or shares that information. My choice to put the information into that space is the opt-in mechanism, just how books or interviews do the same offline in print.

It's not so much the protocol as it is how making things public fundamentally works.

I think Besse makes a great point here:

I think blurring the lines between public and private spaces is the opposite of informing consent. Cultivating unrealistic expectations of "privacy" and control in what are ultimately public spaces is actually bad.

I tried to single out the world wide web, as opposed to the internet at large, because the two are not synonymous. It's rather absurd to publicly serve webpages to any querying IP address and maintain that the receiving computer is not to save said pages to disk.

All this to say: I find it difficult to argue that web publications should or could be exempt from aggregation and archival (or scraping, to put it another way). I understand that the ease with which bots do this can be disconcerting, however.

If we stay with the cafe bulletin board, getting a detailed overview of all the postings on the board is akin to scraping the whole thing. If we extend our analogy instead to a somewhat more significant example, library catalogs do the same with books, magazines, and movies.

This is the cost of publishing, be that in print or online. It must be expected that some person has a copy of every- and anything one has ever written or posted publicly, and perhaps even catalogued it. A way around this might be to move away from the web to another part of the internet, like Matrix, as alma suggested.

I assume the non-consensual collection of various (meta-)data is what you refer to when talking about intrusion and money making. Lemmy, like many projects, seeks to offer an alternative to corporate, data-gobbling social media sites, but doesn't eliminate the ability to search through its webpages.

And here's the point at which we go off the rails (towards the end of the thread; the earlier section is quite well expressed):

Most people in tech do not want to hear this, because it invalidates the vast majority of their business models, AI/ML training data, business intel operations, and so forth. Anything that's based on gathering data that is 'public' suddenly becomes suspect, if the above is applied.

And yes, that includes internet darlings like the Internet Archive, which also operates on a non-consensual, opt-out model.

It's the Western Acquisition, claiming ownership without permission.

It's so ingrained in white, Western internet culture that there are now whole generations who consider anything that can be read by the crawler they wrote in a weekend to be fair game, regardless or what the user's original intent was.

Republishing, reformatting, archiving, aggregating, all without the user being fully aware, because if they were, they would object.

It's dishonest as fuck, and no different from colonial attitudes towards natural resources.

"It's there, so we can take it."

We then have some reasonable responses from others in the thread:

Rich Felker @dalias@hachyderm.io

Re: Internet Archive, I think many of us don't believe/accept that businesses, organizations, genuine public figure politicians, etc. have a right to control how their publications of public relevance are archived & shared. The problem is that IA isn't able to mechanically distinguish between those cases and teenagers' personal diary-like blogs (chosen as example at opposite end of spectrum).

Arne Babenhauserheide @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social

*snip*

This is the difference between the internet archive and an ML model: the archive does not claim ownership.

Finally, a thought of mine own:

Sindarina seems to fundamentally miss the central idea of the world wide web, that is, publically sharing information. This does not mean the work may be used for any purpose whatsoever, as the content of many websites is either copyrighted or CC-BY-SA. But publishing anything on the www or in print, opens it by necessity to aggregation and archival. I routinely save webpages to disk.

To run with the cafe analogy that has been brought up, one cannot post a note to the cafe's bulletin board and at the same time expect that no one else may take a photo of it, then perhaps share it with some acquaintances.

This is a far cry from the data harvesting done by Google, Microsoft, Apple & co., or the dubiously collected data used to train "automated plagiarism engine[s]," as Arthur Besse put it not too long ago.

Thank you for all the good work! LibreWolf on a BSD is exciting news indeed!

An excellent image, and one I hope to use myself in the future! Did you put it together, or find it somewhere?

Oh, my! What a treat it is to behold such wonders! Many thanks for sharing! :D

I am a great fan of this series! I couldn't get any of my family to watch it with me, however...

This is awesome! Who wouldn't want a radio hat like this one?

Brilliant article. It's just a shame that so much free software is written in C already, else I'd learn another language.

matplotlib.pyplot, numpy, scipy, and os are fantastic for solving the problems I deal with. The ease of use is much appreciated. Granted, there are other languages, like FORTRAN, that are still often used for scientific ends, but I've yet to learn any.

None of these pique mine interest enough to try them, but I was surprised that the oil shell didn't make an appearance. Besides fish and nushell, it was the only alternative shell I'd heard of.

Thanks!

Perhaps the best known of all his orchestral works Bax's Tintagel is a vivid tonal impression of the castle-crowned cliff of Tintagel in Cornwall. Here the legends of King Arthur and the scenic grandeur of the Atlantic Ocean fired Bax's imagination into producing some of the most vivid sea music ever written. Bax himself wrote that the music brought, "...thoughts of many passionate and tragic incidents in the tales of King Arthur and King Mark... and that the piece ends as it began, with a picture of the castle still proudly fronting the sea and wind of centuries"

In case the linked video ever gets taken down, the above is information from the description, as it appears on the CD sleeve note for the performance by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones. It is much better than the Wikipedia blurb above.

As an addendum, stations often offer Android apps, if that is desired.

There is likely a way to stream local (public) radio stations using a browser, granted one likes the music of at least one station that does so. I find this provides excellent recommendations and tons of helpful information about the picks for the playlist, which itself is typically logged by time.

This provides no built-in download option, though if great recommendations are the focus, nothing beats public radio.

I love Gustave Doré's illustrations in classics. New editions with his illustrations are still in print; people on eBay sell older ones too, often at an excellent price, if one doesn't mind a little wear and tear.

These are excellent! I became an instant user of both the tab-bar and the desktop-save/read functions. Gems indeed. Thank you for sharing! As for lesser known Emacs built-ins I appreciate, here's a short list that may qualify:

• remember - a mode for remembering data with as little structure upfront as possible
• todo - create and manage to-do lists with minimal effort
• speedbar - calls a new frame for quick navigation in directories and info nodes

I have but one regret regarding this survey: not taking it using eww.

I recently began playing Doom (1993) and StarCraft: Brood War (1998). The soundtracks for both are fantastic.

Another solution would be to have a persistent, live pendrive that boots on all the computers one develops on. Something like NomadBSD comes to mind. From a quick search, it looks like Ubuntu can support persistence as well.

It is possible to hide the voting status by un-checking Show Scores on the Settings page.

My assumptions might be more telling of which parts of the Fediverse I haunt than bespeak anything which generally holds true, then.

Sure thing. Having a few required fundamentals of technology classes (including the drawbacks, privacy issues, etc.) in schools would go a long way, given there are enough qualified teachers available. I myself had a mandatory touch typing class as a wee lad.

I picked FOSS instead of technology enthusiasts, as I observe many technology-oriented people still primarily using traditional social media for its polularity, without much regard for the freedom and privacy issues. Is there a better term, perchance?

As for the Fediverse, I perhaps naïvely assumed that many people encountered it through their online interactions in Linux communities on other social media sites, or through FSF promotion. I don't use Mastodon or Pleroma, however, I would be surprised if there were a sizeable portion of non-Linux users scattered around the Fediverse.

A site somewhat similar to Reddit, whose userbase is predominantly male, Lemmy is a smaller project in the Federation, another niche social media collective, that is itself composed of a portion of FOSS enthusiasts, who, themselves comprise a subset of Linux users, which are a veritable rounding error in the PC market. To boot, until the growth of lemmygrad recently, posts unrelated to Linux or other computer nonsense were scarce.

I am thoroughly impressed that we have any women here at all!