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Sburlot, 20 days ago to random

I’ve been using Prowl (https://www.prowlapp.com/) to programmatically send push notifications to my phone since 2009. No fancy tricks, just works. It does one thing, and it does it well.

That’s how most services should work IMHO. No need to add shiny thing, just do the basic things you’re designed to do and provide a simple API (use it via curl or use the available librairies available in most programming languages)

akosma, 20 days ago to random

Some ideas https://akos.ma/blog/running-programming-workshops/

anderseknert, 21 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo has been down all morning. First time I've seen that, from what I remember. Hugs to whoever is working on getting search back right now.

akosma, 22 days ago to random

Just learned about the passing of Gordon Bell, computer engineer legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell

fj, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random French

Quelqu'un d'autre a remarqué que #Mixtral a tendance à répondre en anglais à des questions formulées en Français?

Vous avez des solutions pour faire répondre le modèle français dans la langue de Molière?

akosma, 23 days ago to random

TIL that Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/IMG files. No need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI supported. MBR and GPT partition style supported. OS supported: Win/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen. 1200+ ISO files tested.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

akosma, 23 days ago to random

“One of my preferred restaurants was “Carlitos”, in the corner of Vergara and Libertador, whose owner and cook was exactly the same Carlos Ciuffardi from Villa Gesell. Once a month my mum took me to the Pumper Nic in the corner of Yrigoyen and Libertador to have a “Mobur” (a sandwich with ham and a fried egg) with “Frenys” (French fries).”

https://akos.ma/blog/thirty-years/

akosma, 25 days ago to random

"Tax policy groups have been lobbying to close this loophole for years, and Congress nearly did it in 2022, but Senator Kyrsten Sinema took $2 million from the private equity industry (aka Owners) and saved their $14 billion loophole. It’s well known that our leaders are whores. What’s more surprising, and disappointing, is what cheap whores they are ($2 million for $14 billion)."

https://www.profgalloway.com/earners-vs-owners/

akosma, 25 days ago to random

20 years ago, Steve Ballmer loved his iPod more than he liked to admit.

(BTW: Ruffle and the Internet Archive make a great team.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050206093642/http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/ballmer/

santiago, 26 days ago to random

The latest KDE neon with Plasma 6 looks pretty useable nowadays. My Linux Desktop is still secondary and serves mostly as server and TV display. It either shows videos or a huge 40” full screen terminal above my Mac workstation.

It runs Pop-OS now which is also based on Ubuntu so switching would be possible (but it’s work). I’ll keep KDE Neon in mind if I ever manage to fully drop Mac OS.

akosma, 26 days ago to random

there’s clearly a thread here @hisham_hm @santiago

jcfischer, 27 days ago to random

Memories of #reboot7

(also the place I'll be spending the next few nights, dancing Tango)

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akosma, 30 days ago to random

"Alta Fidelidad" by Mercedes Sosa and Charly García is the album I miss the most on Spotify. It's the pinnacle of music for my Argentine inner self. Thankfully it's available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WU0e4YLXRs&list=PLUOtsU9asy6HfiroBfq7HM-EaXHg1ixIB

juandesant, 30 days ago to random

I think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846

santiago, 30 days ago to random

I read a 350 page book about NeXT and it took me about 100 page to realize it was from 1993 so it missed all recent events including a billion iPhones running its descendent.

In 1993 NeXT was a (financial) train wreck and Jobs was a loser in addition to the usual asshole. It’s amusing to read this in 2023. Not a very good book for me as it has really few tech details. It’s mostly about business.

akosma, 1 month ago to random

"Something happens when one tries to have rational conversations about downsides with people strongly advocating expansion of type-level programming capabilities (…) This happens all the time once extensive type-level programming facilities are available in a language–they immediately get misapplied in ways that makes code harder to understand, excludes beginners and fails to convince those from the outside."

Don Syme, creator of F#

https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243#issuecomment-916079347

akosma, 1 month ago to random

OK so now my better half is asking where to buy tickets for the next year’s edition dammit #esc

akosma, 1 month ago to random Italian

OMG 🇨🇭 #esc