It still blows my mind that some party with less than 1% representation managed to win a Presidential election TWICE in the DR. And that the President was advised by Rudy Giuliani (a living ball of rotting shit). And the party's based on such .... weird European basis ideals.

Most of the things I've been experminting/bulding/tinkering with live over at git.jacky.wtf or on GitLab, mainly. Ideally, once the space develops something for federated Git forges, I might just move that to be something like how https://ragt.ag/ has their repos on their site.

Ugh just a few moments into this thing and I love it. The family of *school tools are great for more complicated plugins that provide a lot of functionality like this one.

After working with Clojure for nearly a year and Ruby for longer, I've been eager to get Conjure (a REPL tool for Vim) working with Rust. I see this page https://github.com/Olical/conjure/wiki/Quick-start:-Rust-(evcxr) with some info. Might need to do the tutorial to see if I can get this working well.

Preicsely! The fact that we can KEEP stuff going and going (outside of repairs) is something I'd want more than some TPM crap

I'm not going to make a Web browser shell. Not I. I don't have the brain, time or energy. BUT https://github.com/antoyo/servo-gtk looks promising on first glance. Going to try building this. Does anyone know of efforts to bring Servo into the free desktop communities?

Okay, so cooling down a bit, I did some hunting and lol, thoughts were a bit confirmed. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205350. I really want to know what it'll take to integrate something like Servo so we move away from Apple's Webkit. It looks like there's tests for WebAuthn support (vaguely) when looking at https://github.com/servo/servo/search?q=webauthn.

inb4 "omg no one uses Linux on the desktop in 20xx, Jacky", we didn't even get the public a chance because of companies like Microsoft and Apple (who, tbh, fuck them to eternity) and loyalists of either place that really, really think closing off things people HAVE to use every day is the best way to make them work.

I hate capitalism so much; it runs into everything. Everything!

So I'm looking to integrate WebAuthn to a project (still kind of bullish on this) and this chart constantly annoys me. Ubuntu is free to run and even to test but not even mentioned or attempted. Whatever. https://simplewebauthn.dev/docs/advanced/supported-devices

We're either in or probably rapidly entering a world where "content purity" is coming to be a necessary thing with the (unneeded) rise of AI in the space of content creation. It's ironic that it's such a thing in the midst of writers finding it harder to get work and artists seeing large companies abusing places of content promotion. I can't see this ending well for workers (but only very profitably for people who don't associate with the working class, like corporations and people who don't look behind the branding of a tool).

This is a placeholder post to look into this. https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/spill-twitter-alternative/.

I have respect for inventors, makers and the like. I also have no need to respect people who warp those things and turn them into a profit engine based on some false notion of improvement (usually when they take said ideas, their audience and influence and milk it into profit).

I have to mute anything from mainstream news because it routinely feels like a slap in the face. This recent 'swap' got me really thinking that the whole advent of "representation" worked more to keep people docile than to nudge progress for the people who need it the most (which was one thing you'd hear A LOT). Small progress feels like a compromise, comparing it to everything that's been done in the past.

So yeah, I'm mad that instead of doing something ACTUALLY worthwhile, like making healthcare free or any form of healthcare that was impacted directly by her BODY (it's not lost on me either that she was a disabled Black woman, again people who the outlets REFUSE to listen to) especially to disabled folks, they put up a fucking statue in the same place of a former slave owner. Should have just salted the earth and made nothing there.

Appreciate this! I especially like the last bit - all of this is done by us. Best we document what we do to help people along the way (and hopefully, find a way to automate it).

Also, for researchers, open access to your research means people like me can use it as a basis to build things for the commons (like I'd license it as such if I find content mapping that in licensing and access). And I'm willing to pay.

Where's a good place to get academic papers without paying a super high premium? I'm down to pay (though not for publicly funded research, that's stupid) for access but things like https://www.academia.edu/ seem WAY too high unless I'm mistaken.

What are some books that a senior software developer should be looking into reading? I'm into books on theory and practice. For example, https://pimbook.org/, https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/ are two in the realm that I can think of (either applied theory or theory through practice, respectively).