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 @kaia Ah yes countries sorted alphabetically but by native language name (Deutschland). 
 robot gf that’s running an obsolete computer architecture so you keep a 5 year old linux instal... 
 Time to go home 😥

I'll definitely miss this view.

https://minidisc.tokyo/files/e50b92b5-8a0e-4ce8-a2b5-e70a402ab3a1 
 nostr:npub1g4x8s96tznuhsaw70vje4qanu4gcewcqh7xdywc4fywhsnsrxcjsyrm0az Say "sike" right now. ​:r... 
 @b17a3b4f @:netbsd: Nishi I mean he's bald now because of chemotherapy but he seems to be taking it well because he's as happy as ever. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 Ah yes, docker style softwa... 
 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I think this is also where the distro-hopping phenomenon comes from.

People use a distro for like a week until some generic easy to fix issue pops up and instead of spending 10 minutes of time to learn to solve it they "blame the tool" so to speak and install something else. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 Makes me wonder how they de... 
 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I really don't know. You know have the kind of people who always just reinstall their OS or actually buy a new computer if something like that ever happens. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 Yeah, seasoned git users ar... 
 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: There is nothing wrong with hand-editing patch files by definition but you should definitely test if your edit still applies the patch correctly expecting before committing it. 
 @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I notice that I often have to deal with merge conflicts because they are handed of to me because the junior developers have some kind of negative emotional response to is while I just see it as a regular part any other programming work. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4
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lol. lmao, even 
 @John Paul Grips He literally has cancer so I can understand he's concerned about being infected with covid on top that. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 proofs? 
 Holy shit rms has cancer and is bald now 
 It's starting 
 For anyone attending #gnu40

I have CDROM.tokyo and MiniDisc.tokyo stickers with me so please mention me if you want to have them. 
 nostr:npub1edheru285xdsuf6vsl67w9jq697xf57xrvmtutzxj9c7g8mg5ltqsvm47n nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6... 
 @c90eef37 @cb6f91f1 I'm a free software developer so yes.

Making money with free software is very straight forward. You just sell the software (selling copies) or you sell hours like I do, as in clients pay me an hourly rate to develop custom software for them. 
 @32d1cccb @cc700677 I can't believe you feel like sharing anti Stallman propaganda on the day where we are celebrating GNU. And on YouTube of all places. We don't care. 
 @cb6f91f1 Yes 🇨🇭 
 @cb6f91f1 will I see you at #gnu40 today? 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 are you in Switzerland? 
 @cb6f91f1 Yes 🇨🇭 
 Many thanks to https://ecopol.net/ and https://ynternet.org/ for hosting me and providing this amazing view. 
 I am in Frankfurt am Main ​:tomscott:​ 
 @822a3c32 Also this entire post is bullshit. I don't know a single language that does not either have pronouns or any other gendered stuff in it. 
 @822a3c32 This is what I imagine any software whose projects are hosted on Discord is gonna look like. 
 why does poast have a wikipedia article 
 @buy robux today :ROBUX: Well it shouldn't: >The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for web content. 
 @Alex Gleason Alex, that guy looks exactly like you except with shorter hair. 
 @c9e2181f I have no trouble making websites for clients but making websites for yourself is agony. I started over 3 times designing my own website. 
 @c9e2181f And if I ever want to redesign my own website I'm probably just gonna pay someone to do it or something. 
 I’m consider redesigning my website again. 
 @c9e2181f I have no trouble making websites for clients but making websites for yourself is agony. I started over 3 times designing my own website. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 old screensavers were an art. 
 @0xa1baa1baa1baa1ba The pipes and maze screensaver were also top tier. 
 @0xa1baa1baa1baa1ba When I was in elementary school there was a Win3.1 computer at the back of the classroom and whenever no pupils were using it it had this screensaver on it and I have spent considerable amount of time watching it as a kid. 
 New Noriyaro Itasha video. These are my favorite type of videos that he does. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RhFYPCQGozU 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 these improvements you ment... 
 @c721880c With household appliances such as toasters I think you could actually argue that toasters from the 80s and 90s are much better than toasters today, as many appliances today are made a lot more cheaply and aren't built to last. 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 it's not really your opinio... 
 @c721880c I think the entire smartphone market is basically Apple doing random stuff and all the other companies just trying to copy that.

I don't think if mature market is the right word for that, it's mostly monopoly maybe? 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 it's a mature technology in... 
 @c721880c I don't think so, there's many things they can improve on like power efficiency, making phones actually smaller, adding actual useful features, improving repairability, improving product lifecycle, using more eco friendly materials, and especially making their software more freedom and privacy respecting.

But instead of doing actual good things phone companies just be like "add another camera and call it a day". 
 @c721880c There has also been a complete halt to any meaningful innovation in the smartphone space for the past 10 years. There really is no reason to buy a brand new smartphone other than a 2% performance increase or having 6 instead of 5 cameras. 
 how does one define progress, economically? 
 @cell 
LINE
GO
UP 
 I made a map of all the Dutch Hackerspaces that shows if they are open or closed.

https://sr.ht/~jiyu/SpaceAPI/sources

https://minidisc.tokyo/files/6652890e-4a8b-4a37-a557-a919d14b0cfd 
 is any of this even reaching people? 
 @28b35dc2 We're experiencing some federation issues right now. Sorry 
 One day i will go to swissland and eat fondue with puniko 
 @0e1c925a I'm going to Switzerland at the end of this month. 
 My car is official "old" now. ​:miata_pat:​ 
 I would like to live in a world where I could just put

if (PHP_OS_FAMILY === 'Windows') {
    fw... 
 @28f46dfb You can just do it. What's stopping you? A few angry emails from Windows users? 
 nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 Well that's kind of the mag... 
 @Shebang! :blobpeektrans: I personally think every social media platform should have to communicate with people on that platform without using that platform, aka through some kind of federation system, i.e. activitypub.

If that is not the case you'll always end up creating a closed echo chamber with a company behind that is essentially a monopoly. 
 Also since when did Minds.com federate?

That's a bit interesting. Minds struck me as ok, but lik... 
 @Shebang! :blobpeektrans: Been like a month or something I think? 

I feel a little like their audience doesn't quite fit into the fediverse. "reward based social media" feels a cryptobro scam to me. However I've had no issues with them and software is free software so can't really hate on it. 
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 @c9202e22 100% of GNU/Linux systems having audio support is just completely unnecessary. Do you even know how many devices that don't even need audio run GNU/Linux? Like servers, embedded devices, etc.