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(#dvf3yka) @tkanos@twtxt.net I like to ask the same question about PRISM. Just look at the reach the NSA had in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#The_slides
Boy, I wonder what they’re doing with the massive Utah Data Center which was completed in 2014.
(#zf2p6fq) @bender@twtxt.net No, it was known, but if you talked about it you were a Racist Spreader of Misinformation and needed to have a disclaimer below the post saying so.
(#zf2p6fq) @bender@twtxt.net I’ve committed the cardinal sin of the Internet: Linking to a website with a conservative bias. At least they’re open about it.
(#gj52j7a) @marado@twtxt.net I guess it’s that time of the year again, huh?
(#zf2p6fq) @tkanos@twtxt.net @abucci@anthony.buc.ci
The biggest question is what is “misinformation”, I believe the answer change according your beliefs.
Exactly. I remember when it was an insane, racist conspiracy theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab, now it’s right there on Wikipedia.
Conversely, do you remember that study from Imperial College that projected 2.2 million deaths from COVID in the US alone? Total misinformation.
(#dngfrxq) @abucci@anthony.buc.ci
Misinformation purveyors have very detailed strategies for how to draw unsuspecting people into an echo chamber and keep them there.
I’d say a pretty good way to get people into an echo chamber is to force them into their own space where their ideas get no pushback at all.
(#rgv7q3a) @eaplmx@twtxt.net This is really cool. It works great without JavaScript, too.
To make the amount of options less confusing, how about putting each day into an HTML details element? Also, is the source available yet?
(#ijtgw3a) @logout@i-logout.cz Very cool :)
I have a Dual 2GHz G5 in storage. I wanted to set it up with a modern OS and have a usable non-x86 machine, but I don’t have much time to tinker nowadays.
(#ijtgw3a) @logout@i-logout.cz I see. I misunderstood your post. You’re talking about emulating PowerPC Windows, not emulating Windows on PowerPC. Congrats on getting it running on actual hardware.
Did you run Leopard for all that time on your G5?
(#ijtgw3a) @logout@i-logout.cz Windows can run on QEMU on Apple PowerPC machines, but I think you need a G5 Quad for it to be even remotely usable. Here’s Windows 7 on a dual PowerPC G5. I’ve seen QEMU running Windows on a G5 with GNU/Linux as the host OS as well.
Microsoft also had their Virtual PC software for PowerPC Macs.
(#z3scrdq) @akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee I can relate.
(#ehpotda) @prologic@twtxt.net I thought we were punctuating our posts with the names of programming languages, since you said “Go!”
PHP!
(#ehpotda) @prologic@twtxt.net I agree. Lua!
(#vebflzq) @prologic@twtxt.net Here, I’ll paraphrase the README for you.
a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity
more information chatternet.github.io [Editor’s note: 404]

a web of self-signed semantic documents.
Activity Pub protocol federated platforms Mastodon
self-signed data model
a semantic, self-describing JSON data format
public-private key pair cryptography
does not rely on a specific network stack or protocol
wget | bash
npm install
Typescript
(#rqifctq) @abucci@anthony.buc.ci Wow, that’s really cool. How is the actual data stored?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Now I can’t play either CDs or LPs since I don’t have a player.
Sure, but you still own that music. You can buy a player at any time and play them. You can take them to a friend’s house and play them there. You can even rip all your albums to digital files and copy them to your flash modded iPod.
In terms of durability, both CDs (pressed, not burned) and LPs will last a long time if you take care of them.
Youtube, Spotify, and Amazon offer convenience, but that convenience comes at the cost of your freedom. You are not permitted to do what you want with the content you paid for. You must also understand that you will lose access to that content at some time, occasionally without warning, and that time may be closer than you think.
The best of both worlds are DRM-free marketplaces like Qobuz, Gogs, and HDtracks.
(#vh5pwrq) @prologic@twtxt.net
are there other examples?
Python, Ruby, Perl, Rust. Sometimes even Go. There’s a little bit of this in every language with an official package manager. I’d say Python and NodeJS are the worst offenders, though.
I feel like I pick on NodeJS / NPM too much
I don’t think we pick on NodeJS/NPM enough.
(#vh5pwrq) @prologic@twtxt.net
“dependency hell” comes from this “exponential dependency tree” that we inevitably see in ecosystems like NodeJS / NPM
Yes, and these “ecosystems” try to put a band-aid on it by allowing packages to specify which version of a package they need. All that means is you get 7 different versions of the same package bloating up your node_modules folder and 6 critical vulnerabilities from one package.
Then, it’s impossible to keep track of all 1200 of your dependencies and sub-dependencies, so you get a robot to do it for you: Dependabot. What happens when Dependabot dies? Absolute chaos.
NodeJS library authors could just write better libraries and avoid breaking changes every update, and NodeJS software developers in general could fix their programs when they break, but they don’t. It’s on the “ecosystem” to solve for this, and it inevitably does a terrible job.
(#vh5pwrq) @eaplmx@twtxt.net There can’t be a concrete rule for this sort of thing. I’m generally in favor of reinventing the wheel to certain extent, but using a library can be very useful if you want to focus on the end result.
When your 5 dependencies each have 5 dependencies of their own, then you have a problem.
(#vh5pwrq) @prologic@twtxt.net All I know is, this problem is much less prevalent in languages without official package managers, like C or Lua.