danielittlewood

@danielittlewood@fosstodon.org

Free Software / Open Culture / Web Standards / Linux. Follow back if you want to, but don't feel like you have to.

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kzimmermann, to linux
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Using #Linux in a Corporate Laptop for work

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/linux_work_laptop.html

Longish post that I've been meaning to post for a few weeks now. I tried to run only #FreeSoftware for work for a month and the result was amazing. Here's a few tips on how I did it in case you want to try it too.

Needless to say, I have zero intentions on going back. Long live Free Software: Liberate your Hardware today!

53 out of #100DaysToOffload

danielittlewood,

@kzimmermann I think the booing for chromium is probably drowned out completely by the booing for Office 365. I assume like many places your office is completely dependent on the Office suite and you couldn't survive without it? Where I am, we're owned by Google Docs, but most of the time I can download the file and open it in libreoffice without trouble. I guess you have particular requirements, since the dependence on Office is probably the biggest actual freedom problem you mention.

amolith, to random
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Dev-focused tools that solve generic problems exclusively working with either GitHub or GitLab repos is really saddening. The software development world does not revolve exclusively around these two platforms. It is entirely possible to build most of these awesome tools in platform-agnostic ways. The creators choose not to because it's easier and they don't care about those platforms, even though they end up excluding large swathes of the software development ecosystem.

danielittlewood,

@amolith I'm not as familiar with GitHub, but what's a GitLab repo (do you just mean a repo that's hosted on GitLab)? If so, what's platform-agnostic about savannah, or sourcehut? Or do you mean to suggest something else?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I never knew this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

danielittlewood,

@lowqualityfacts

rachelnabors, to random
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"perhaps it isn’t CSS itself but our unwillingness to examine our sexist ideas of what is worthy in web development"

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css

danielittlewood,

@siderea @PeterLudemann @rachelnabors

What do you mean by "toxic content/appearance paradigm"? Do you think the separation of content from appearance is a bad idea, or that HTML/CSS doesn't do it well, or something else?

I looked up your example https://fosstodon.org/@siderea@universeodon.com/110687656577995679 and while it sounds like maybe there's a feature missing (greater control over line breaking?) it sounds more like something that could be patched than "this technology is a mistake". What do you hate about it?

danielittlewood,

@siderea Big answer lots to reply to! Thanks!

Agree that stable numbering matters. Is that an argument against dynamic numbering? If I insert item X between A and B, obviously X should not become B. But it probably should be X either? (since that's out of order) so it seems both approaches force you to only append to existing lists (or violate stability). Splitting 2 into 2a/2b could be done with dynamic or user-defined ordering.

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danielittlewood,

@siderea

I didn't cover this one in the other thread because I think it's different - I think this is weird behaviour whether they're content or presentation. The example that confuses me is how highlighting <q> doesn't include quotes. Who's copying quotes without the quote marks?

@PeterLudemann @rachelnabors

danielittlewood,

@siderea I think you've convinced me. Have you considered (ab)using <label> for this purpose? I reworked your example to demonstrate it, see what you think: https://jsfiddle.net/f84c3a96/1/

RE width, are you referring to media queries? If so, I understand (if not, not).

nantucketebooks, to random
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I listen to a number of synthwave/vaporwave mixes on YouTube. I've been discouraged by the number of them that are using AI thumbnails. I try to avoid those videos.

danielittlewood,

@nantucketebooks ! Have you seen Jason Sanders? I love his mixes so much. He always credits the art in the thumbnails too.

nantucketebooks, to random
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Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON and author of JavaScript: The Good Parts, on why people should stop using JavaScript. https://youtu.be/lc5Np9OqDHU

danielittlewood,

@nantucketebooks Here was me hoping for "We should stop using JavaScript because it's bad for users". Oh well :(

danielittlewood,

@privsecfoss Never used XMPP - how do you get started?

raccoon, to random

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A lot of people don't seem to understand III when pointing out that a lot of money was wasted, that could have been better spend on . Arguing this way is having it backwards.

danielittlewood,

@raccoon Do you mean "backwards", or just "wrong"? It's quite possible that for broader political reasons the UK requires a silly ceremony, which is why I try not to get into those details when arguing about the monarchy. It's wrong because it's anti-democratic.

aral, to random
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Encrypted messaging provider: “We make our money selling this to the police.”

Tech folks: This is cool and normal.

#matrix #element #privacy #acab #e2ee #messaging

danielittlewood,

@aral I think this is cool and normal! Not all support of the police is the same. In fact, police and governments encrypting their communications seems like all good no bad, since the majority of what they talk about is likely to be sensitive data about citizens. The only downside is that maybe occasionally someone snoops unencrypted police comms to prove wrongdoing (has this ever happened? in the UK the recent scandal was of course around whatsapp messages)

nantucketebooks, to random
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Anyone have issues with VLC not playing any DVDs? I assume this has to do with DRM, but search results on the topic are limited.

danielittlewood,

@nantucketebooks @lns There is a wiki article about adding an extra repo: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/enable-dvd-playback

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