laumann @laumann@mastodon.xyz

As of two months ago
Rust depends on a proprietary password manager to build.

If you want to use their official packaging system (crates.io) you must have a github.com account.

Rust is free software only in the barest technicality of the term.

I've been playing with i2c on #FreeBSD and did a writeup of the basics https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-and-i2c/

Next step is getting #FreeBSD support in the smbus2 Python library https://github.com/kplindegaard/smbus2/issues/66 which in turn will open the door for #FreeBSD support in Qwiic_Py_i2c https://github.com/sparkfun/Qwiic_I2C_Py/issues/2

An app written in C without any dependencies is streaming pixels back to drawterm using 9p.

Imagine hosting these tiny applications online, and using drawterms to connect and use them. This is the true web app.

The applications themselves won't include any rendering libraries like SDL, but stream responses to libdraw queries.

I wonder: If we required all programmers to use a slower device than their target for development would we see improved software? Limitations do breed creativity, after all.

"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle -- could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.
-- David Graeber

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don't trust data to be always available.

scrape it. now.

Happy Orbit fedfrands—

“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”
— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/

new article on #lowtech magazine that I'm sure will resonate with a lot of folks here:

'How and why I stopped buying new laptops'

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html

#recycling #linux #thinkpad #laptop

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.
-- David Graeber

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