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by sourcepluck 3y ago
"Encryption, distributed systems, anonymous networks, and related technologies are the only effective means to provide a counter to the asymmetric threats that endanger our personal agency." Here here, well said.
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I'd heard of John Wiegley from Emacs, and now here he is doing more great stuff. Love to see it!
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
There are: + Invidious, FreeTube, yt-dlp for music and videos + Internet Archive for loads more films, shows, music, University courses in their entirety, etc + Metager/Qwant/Ecosia for search, Duckduckgo for image search + Anna&#
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
"Come join the Fermyon Discord community!" The "die-hard free software enthusiast" inside me made it through the whole article, and was already low-level triggered, and then really got shot into the stratosphere with thi
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
What I find interesting is the size of the assumptions people are capable of casually making in order to make a point of theirs sound legitimate. You are implying that the creator of the project is pushing this onto their daughter merely fo
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Soothing Lisp (and Shen) Agitprop(invidious.flokinet.to)
3 points by sourcepluck 3y ago|1 comments
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W6GBFtmYxw -- here's the Youtube link for those who use that. Mark Tarver, creator of Shen, made some really cool videos introducing Shen. If you like the history of computing, language
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://invidious.flokinet.to/playlist?list=PL7qUW0KPfsIIOPO... Here's the same course, but on invidious, for those who don't go onto Youtube "proper". Is there a HN policy on this? Seems more "neut
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://www.fsf.org/associate/about-the-fsf-jitsi-meet-serve... If one becomes an associate member of the FSF, one of the perks is access to a Jitsi server that they run. It's two clicks and you're in, easy p
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
In a similar boat to you. Is there something out there that: + is committed to free software + respects the users + none of the poisonous big tech giant companies involved + is cross-platform + does text, calls, videocalls, file-transfers +
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
There is "punk", the mass-produced apolitical corporate aesthetic, and there is "punk", as in, Mark Fisher's k-punk blog, Wikileaks, The Internet Archive, a lot of Aaron Swartz's work, knitting your own hats, D
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-3.6.0.org Nyxt browser is written in Common Lisp and is going from strength to strength. Think of an attempt to provide the power of Emacs, but built on Common Lisp, and obvi
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
Did no-one else cringe at the gargantuan oversimplifications necessary to keep this alleged cultural distinction afloat? Was no-one else a little queasy seeing a U.S. person talk about the entire continent of Asia - pushing towards 4.8 bill
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I wholeheartedly encourage others to have a browse around the author's other stuff, here's one I loved: http://dpk.io/moderncomputers Here's an index of articles: http://dpk.io/articles
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
Personal opinion upcoming: "WTF" reads petulantly and doesn't suit the subsequent piece at all. I had the strange experience of seeing the title and saying to myself, uh-oh, this will be some gossipy thing, I'll read it
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
> "Scheme belongs to a list of at least two dozen historical programming languages that have introduced very important innovations". What are they? Or, where can I go read something more about this? Any tip-offs greatly and sin
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
Really nice article, it's cool to see people working on GNU/Hurd.
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I sincerely appreciate the replies but can't respond to them all. I was tempted not to reply, because I feel we'd be talking past each other. This article here illustrates my point better than I could, and coming across it prompte
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
Still not entirely sure how the people on here seem to largely continue to support companies like Apple. I get it - they have the high-paying jobs, they make shiny toys, they have slick marketing and symbolism, caring about things like priv
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I don't know how I'd missed this resource until now. Brilliant stuff, cheers, I'll be going through some of these tutorials.
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I can't code in anything, and I'm using Emacs since a couple of years, know some basic Elisp, and have recently started doing Common Lisp. Still baby steps, but it's really very fun, and I don't find it so hard. Doing th
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
It was a joy to read this. Very well said! Your comment gave me one of those funny moments where you realise something that should have been obvious but you never saw it being done, or heard about it being done, and simply never thought of
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I've only read that one, but had been meaning to read more. It's been bumped up the list. Cheers
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/ "In this groundbreaking book, Alfie Kohn shows that while manipulating people with incentives seems to work in the short run, it is a strategy that ultimately fails and
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by sourcepluck 3y ago
I have just made an account after quite a while as an occasional reader because I feel the answers here to be lacking. Presumably you're all reasonable folk and just don't have the same experiences as me, so I'll share. I saw