Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

When I woke up this morning I didn't expect to spend my day arguing with a programming language.

But you know... JavaScript and I, we do have very different ideas of scopes.

US Justice Department accidentally reveal that they're charging Julian #Assange. What an absolute joke guys. Just leave poor mate alone. #security #privacy
https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/indictment-wikileaks-julian-assange.html?m=1

"Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication." https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

@bob @Shamar That’s because Simon is squarely about Open Source. Open Source was a reactionary immune system response by the business community to Free Software (in its original form, limited to copyleft licenses). They could see the value in free as in free labour and the value of privatisation but they didn’t want the “share alike” aspects of Stallman’s licenses. The only thing that Open Source and Free Software have in common is that the source is open.

❤️'s you

Another kernel written in Rust!

https://github.com/hermitcore/libhermit-rs

Rust tooling/docs must be making operating system development more accessible, as there is an impressive number of these projects.

I'm watching The Lord of the Rings.

It occurs to me that Sauron could've solved all of his problems if he'd just made a belt instead of a ring 🤷‍♂️

When I say, "Disney is a rent-seeking parasite and shouldn't be allowed to extend copyright another 20 years in Canada"

If you interpret that as me saying, "small artists should have no protection for their creative works at all"

Then you fell for this trick HARD

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

@MatejLach @Purism an older Kobo running koreader is a decent stop gap

Lately, many people that I truly respect have answered to the ' #google product or #apple customer ' question by switching to iOS.

It makes some sense to choose the platform of a customer-oriented company instead of the tracking-oriented one's, cos you need here and now a smartphone that just works.

But only a #foss platform can give back to the users the control of their devices.

Let's not fall into the "lesser of two evils" trap. There are foss mobile initiatives out there. And they need our support.

Private by Design: How we built Firefox Sync – Mozilla Hacks

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/
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