Notices by Worik (worik@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft

> Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats".

I know that is not completely true.

I was talking with others, today, on a Linux musicians group

Perhaps we are not a threat?

Is it just harder core groups concerned more explicitly with hacking?

@MediaActivist

> Andy Yen of Proton (who have had a lot of my money over the years, but not for much longer) spouting "both sides" bullshit,

What are you referring to?

@MediaActivist

Thank you

I am not disturbed by what I see their

Encrypted "host proof" platforms must serve everybody. Freedoms are for people we hate, otherwise they are not.

@nixCraft Toggle switches on the control panel

@nixCraft epoll. Late to the party, I know

@nixCraft you do not have to use their products.

I do not

@nixCraft what about those of us south of the equator?

@nixCraft

the year of the Linux desktop was 1995

@nixCraft Releae it now, I don't care about....

@nixCraft me

@arstechnica and another thing

LLMs are her3 to stay

We need to stop complaining that students, and other writers misuse them, and teach them to use them well

They are a huge boon when used correctly and an hilariously stupid when misused

@arstechnica why?

I do not need a watermark in the text I get from it. It can only do harm

@nixCraft

xterm

@nixCraft That is not free.

@nixCraft I do not see the problem

Was any of the material they used not on the public internet?

It is available to read, see, watch, listen to, and learn from

The last thing we need is tighter IP laws, they will be to benefit the powerful over the weak

@aral
> Mozilla: We’re adding literal shit to our browser.

What is that about?

@nixCraft still love Perl

Use it every day

Nothing beats it for text processing

@feld @acdha @drwho @iagox86 @lcamtuf

> The government should *not* have absolute control over currency issuance like this. It always ends in disaster. The American founders knew this and warned about it.

The current iteration of the USA$ has been very stable, through crashes and booms

A central bank setting rules for credit creating independent banks turns out to work better than anything ever tried

Who else but the state can set those rules?

@nixCraft or even better they could be designed with end of life disposal in mind

@nixCraft tmux