bitzero

@bitzero@corteximplant.com

Carbon-based developer, KM project manager and tech writer. FOSS and openness are my mantra but I still seem to be a bearable person.

Tribalist techno-anarchist before and after it was cool. I metaphorically still live in the Zion Cluster.

Permacomputing and collapse computing believer. I love strange dev languages, namely Lisp, Assembly, Forth. Even if it's clear they don't always love back.

Founder of the Cult of Max Zorin (see pinned post) and cofounder of the imaginary but nonetheless revolutionary Солнечная Вспышка collective.

My larius is a postdigital bear. He/him is ok.

Originally on social.techncs.de (2017) and fosstodon.org (2022)

#softwaredevelopment #permacomputing #solarpunk #lisp #forth #riscv

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bitzero, to random

... things I forgot and I should remember: Pico CMS doesn't work if you just follow the official instructions... yes... let's go on...

bitzero,

@revengeday I have just to set the right dirs for apache, no prob

bitzero,

@revengeday But I still think that a “light” cms is lighter than this. I’m tempted to use default Apache and plain html again.

bitzero, to random

Modern capitalist IT is a vicious circle where things get more and more complicated so people/companies has to spend money to use/manage it and tech vendors' shareholders get richer. In this perspective, stuff thet "just works" is bad, because it doesn't generate value.

Having to work in this environment, like me, one actively tries to avoid too shitty stuff and, in personal pet projects, looks for specific - and mostly useless, I swear - niches where to have fun again with tech. Good news: it's easy.

No, I'm not actually trying to make a point here. All this is a matter of fact most of you already know. I'm just thinking out loud because it's friday, I'm trying not to do real work and so I'm wondering which new niche I'm going to explore. So many ideas, so little time.

bitzero, to random

08 pm: meh it looks like a boring evening
09 pm: waiting in ER room with friend

bitzero,

@revengeday Yes, thanks. This moron made a mess with his meds and now his values are all upside down.

bitzero,

@revengeday Eh. When you should take x pills a day and forget to do it for two days, the solution is not taking 3x pills the third day. Guy’s a genius.

bitzero, to random

Anyway, as usual there's nothing really new under the sun. AI enshittification of the media space will drive most of us to have - correctly - doubts about everything. Problem is, if nothing is probably true then everything is probably true. It's the perfect base for 1984's doublethink. ("1984" the book, not the Apple ad).

liztai, to magASEAN
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

Am I lactose intolerant? Yes. Did I order mango lassi anyway? Yes!

#MakanApaToday mutton kebab and capati. uh should've just asked for one mutton kebab 😅😅😅

bitzero,

@liztai I envy you so much now :blobcatthumbsup:​

bitzero, to random

AI for stupid SEO articles on the web? Why just that? Scientific publications too! https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/

bitzero, to VisionPro

With all due respect for those who are now working with Apple Vision Pro (which seems, huh, quite good btw)... I guess the more immersive is a VR app, the better. Why should I have gigantic calculators and calendars in AR in a living room?

Am I missing something?

#VisionPro

astronomerritt, to random
@astronomerritt@hachyderm.io avatar

female-presenting person on Mastodon: "wow the level of unwanted and unasked-for tech advice here on Mastodon is unreal and often it is super condescending, I have to keep putting disclaimers on my posts to avoid it"

male-presenting people in the replies: "well it's not like that for me here!"

also male-presenting people in the replies: "omg don't make this a gender issue, it hurts my feelings"

you have to laugh, really.

bitzero,

@astronomerritt I wanted to write a reply starting with "Actually.." because it would be perfectly fitting. But it's the end of the day, my head is almost empty and my creativity is low. Sorry. Next time maybe? 😀​

bitzero,

@astronomerritt
Never! What about...

"Actually, it's exactly this passive-aggressive behaviour that makes you misunderstand the positive disposition of males around you. The fact that the average male knows more tech stuff than the average female is well documented in a big number of well known scientific articles I now cannot link here but I've seen multiple times. Somewhere.

So, it's statistics. Numbers don't lie. If only you girls studied maths, you'd know. It hurts many good men's feelings that today everything must be judged with this evident bias. After all, what we simply wanted to do is helping damsels in digital distress. We could have simply stayed in our caves not minding you.

Also, don't overestimate your point of view. Here - I mean this thing called "the i n t e r n e t", you know - I've found countless nice and kind girls thanking me for my efforts to help them. At least, they looked like girls so they should have been girls. Whatever.

Kindness, as you may not know, goes a long way."

bitzero, to random

No, you don't necessarily have to be a productive and "successful" member of your society. Calvinist ethos is overrated.

bitzero, to random

Apple changed policy for web apps in EU: devs are not forced to use webkit engine only. Now some devs are complaining.

Per The Register:
“What happens if someone in the EU runs into a bug that isn’t happening in other browsers?" pondered Jason Grigsby, co-founder of Cloudfour (...) "How do we troubleshoot it? (...) The closest I can come to is the earliest days of mobile when the Android browser was different on each carrier. But even then, I could go to a carrier store to test and/or buy a phone if I needed more time with it. What do I do now?"

My humble answer: stop making web apps. They're bad.

bitzero, to random

A Risc-V board with Micropython on t, to emulate a NES system... ooh the rabbit hole I'm now looking at

bitzero, to random

The Солнечная Вспышка collective is imaginary and does nothing. But it's nonetheless revolutionary: in this age of estreme productivity, doing nothing is the ultimate form of revolution.

Do nothing, comrades.

@5tern1 @THOMSOTRON

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bitzero,

@revengeday Just beside me, now.

bitzero, to random

"Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels"

What could possibly go wrong when ClippyAI manages your uranium cores?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/microsoft_nuclear_hires/

kzimmermann, to security
@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org avatar

It's easy to point to dad and laugh at him in this case, but this got me thinking. What if the situation was different, and dad instead was a Linux user in his home PC - would you feel confident of the argument in that case?

In other words, in your own opinion, is "I use Linux, so I can download and open anything from the Internet without worrying about " acceptable?

bitzero,

@kzimmermann
No no no. Linux PCs too are a target for malware and other bad stuff. Simply, they are slightly more complex to break into. So, it's less likely to be targeted and infected.

We all are targets, in the end.

bitzero,

@kzimmermann
How likely? Hard to say.

What I meant is that desktop Linux per se is a target as good as any other. It's breakable, if you try hard enough.

That said, there are - my opinion - two main points to consider.

  • The average Linux user is still quite tech-savvy, therefore able (I hope) to avoid phishing scams, malvertising and other forms of basic attack that are instead effective with Windows/macOS users.

  • The average Windows/macOS system is much easier to compromise than the average Linux desktop, so much that there is little financial incentive (for criminals) in targeting the latter. The effort/gain ratio is worse.

Of course, this is about average users. If Big Company CEO uses Ubuntu at home, he's well worth a spear phishing or social engineering attack. Even an ad-hoc malware.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Could you be in an Open/Poly Relationship?

P.S. This is a place to discuss your own personal opinions about yourself and your choices, or ask earnest questions of others if they wish to answer. If you've come here to preach or degrade other's choices, that is a block from me.

bitzero,

@RickiTarr Oh my, I couldn’t. Too much energy. I consider it a miracle when I’m able to juggle a single relationship.

liztai, to tv
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

What I love about #ThreeBody is that it shows countries around the world working together with China to defeat this threat. They are all equals in this conflict. There was a conversation between our main lead with one of the leaders of a European nation which I found moving. It showed that they were both humans with loved ones to protect.
I have real worries that Netflix adaptation would forgo this cooperative element and paint some countries as baddies.

#CDrama #CDramas #TV

bitzero,

@liztai

It could happen, I'm afraid. Cooperation witch China is probably a too complex concept for the typical US-oriented Netflix audience.

There's still hope, anyway. "The Wandering Earth" is on Netflix (at least for us in the EU) in the original version. So, maybe, we'll be able to watch Three Bodies in the new and in the original releases.

One can always hope. 😀​

bitzero,

@liztai
Also, I wonder how much the Netflix audience know about Liu Cixin. And Chinese SF style in general, when not "mediated" by well known sino-american writer and translators like Ken Liu or Ted Chiang.

bitzero, to random

RIP Niklaus Wirth. I spent many and many hours with Pascal and Modula-2 and both gave me satisfaction and, well, some money. Pascal in particular was one of my first dev languages and gave me a real sense of agency on my first “serious” computers.

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