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by ploum 2y ago
Trying to read it and I find it quite ironic that a website called "the luddite" requires you to have Javascript (which I don’t have in my default browser)
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by ploum 2y ago
Well, the results are quite strange. Mine ( ploum.net ) is said to have 7 links to youdoblog. (which is false, there’s only one link to that website in all my 900 blog posts).
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by ploum 2y ago
Mine is listed as "personal growth" and I find it quite funny (that’s probably the last category I would think for my blog posts)
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by ploum 3y ago
That’s the essence of consumerism, isn’t it? "how to milk out users as much as we can" (with variation around "milk gently lot of users" or "milk hard a few addicted junkies", with everyone dreaming of being
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by ploum 3y ago
I’m sorry I’m sounding condescending. I was trying to be funny. The point is that there are so many problems that it is even a problem to list them. Those problems are so evident to me that I didn’t thought people might not understand it. 1
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by ploum 3y ago
"Being in love with the tech doesn't make someone a good CEO." I never said that this was a sufficient condition. I said it was a necessary condition. We have spent decades trusting tech-illiterate CEO’s because "they kn
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by ploum 3y ago
What I find weird is how many professional web developers contact me to ask what theme I’m using on my blog, a straight HTML website with 42 lines of inline CSS. I even was asked once with JS library I was using. (there is no JS, it’s a blo
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by ploum 3y ago
Let say for a moment that it is acceptable for the CEO of a corporation working on the independence of the Web to not have her personal independent webpage. I know, absurd, but let’s assume. Let say for a moment that it is acceptable that t
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by ploum 3y ago
That. Exactly. Nothing to add. Anybody without a personal ten years old website using some hand-made HTML should probably not be CEO of Firefox.
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by ploum 3y ago
At some point, we should stop thinking about engine/theme. This is a "normal" website. This kind of blog/website can easily be done by writing every blog post in a separate html file then doing a quick script to put toge
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by ploum 3y ago
Battery life was about a week and is now about 3 days but it really depends on which apps you want to "freeze" and which apps you never want to "freeze" (to receive notifications). There’s also a "super saving mode&
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by ploum 3y ago
I’m using Pure Maps and OSM And perfectly well. The only downside is that, on some maps, the grey-water is the same as the grey-road and it happened a few times that I thought a canal was a road when doing bike trip. Google Maps is working
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by ploum 3y ago
I’ve been using an Hisense A5 daily for the last 4 years (so it is the previous model, which is less powerful and without Google Play store). https://ploum.net/se-passer-decran-avec-un-telephone-e-ink/i... Ask Me Anyth
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by ploum 3y ago
Indeed, that’s probably the reason I was looking for.
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by ploum 3y ago
It is simply a way for the first stage to keep an updated URL where to download instructions about what to do. Hardcoding URL won’t do it because your URL might be taken down quite quickly. In my days, this was done by connecting to an IRC
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by ploum 3y ago
Carbon is not only about weight. It has many interesting properties like dampening, stiffness in the right direction while being lean in another. A carbon bike could be completely different from another. It’s like hiding springs in some par
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by ploum 3y ago
Velocity is indeed a nice idea. According to XKCD’s law, the probability to have an xkcd reference is proportional to the number of comments (see https://ploum.net/xkcds-law/index.html ) But adding velocity is really n
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by ploum 3y ago
I’m following Drew’s blog and don’t remember anything particular about trans rights (except some "I condemn those attacking LGBT’s rights", which is not particularly radical). Also, the attack (which had an obvious cost) would ha
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by ploum 3y ago
On a more serious note, I’m really wondering about the motivations. I see the following hypothesis: 1) Test/demonstration of a DDOS against a random target. 2) Attack against a project hosted on sourcehut to make it unavailable (there
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by ploum 3y ago
There’s also Kakoune, which is very similar to Helix. See https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-09-20-why-kakoune/
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by ploum 3y ago
I’m working on a lot of things which, when I think about it, are all related to the "smolnet/smallweb". (offpunk, mainly, but also other email/gemini/blog related stuff). It is funny because it seems that I’m now a
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Let's build a bright future for PeerTube(joinpeertube.org)
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by ploum 3y ago
Well, that’s the definition of a private company, isn’t it? It would be naive to think a company could behave otherwise in the long term.
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by ploum 3y ago
" helping conferences in places you'd not be able to attend because you simply would not be safe there? " I’m avoiding visiting lot of countries where I know that people like me are not safe. Sometimes to the astonishment of
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by ploum 3y ago
You are perfectly right that asking people to not care about the laws of a country is problematic. For personal safety and also as a moral stand point. But that should not be a reason to not fund conferences in those countries, conferences
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by ploum 3y ago
My blog landed me multiple book deals: I wrote the very first book in history about Ubuntu because a publisher found my blog. I published my first novel because the editor found it published as a serie on my blog. I’ve never asked for it. H
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by ploum 3y ago
We all live in bubbles. But, for some reasons, people think that some places are "bubble free". They see right-wing fascists all the time on the television and think it is normal. They see a few moderate leftists on the fediverse
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by ploum 3y ago
This could be achieved with chafa.py : https://chafapy.mage.black/ https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
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by ploum 3y ago
In the same spirit but more modern, I’m developing Offpunk: https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/ (with 2.0 just having been released last week : https://ploum.net/2023-11-25-offpunk2.html and discuted
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by ploum 3y ago
I don’t believe it is "the past" which is appealing. We live in a very graphical society, with (moving) pictures everywhere, all the time. But to "think", you need words. As Neal Stephenson put it in "In the beginni

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