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Jarkko Sakkinen
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I'm going to order this: https://www.ifixit.com/en-eu/products/iphone-se-2022-battery
In a repair shop it is 100% more expensive.
In a repair shop it is 100% more expensive.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@troed So the way I think I'm still happier that Matrix is used rather than Slack or other proprietary service. So it is least worst option at least to IRC :-)
Also: having work a lot with cryptography (as an engineer not as mathematician) over the years, I'm sure the standard could be leveled up to provide sane way to exchange room keys.
Also: having work a lot with cryptography (as an engineer not as mathematician) over the years, I'm sure the standard could be leveled up to provide sane way to exchange room keys.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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@janantos I can show the first IRC server in the world :-) It's in the local museum: https://www.vapriikki.fi/en/
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@fsfe OSI is an org where corps say what they want or makes sense for their benefit only, and it is represented as a some kind of one voice of the open source community. This is at least how this looks like. Total and complete loose of trust to this entity.
"AI = Open Source"
You can't make this shit up. It's the most insane argument I've heard for ages.
"AI = Open Source"
You can't make this shit up. It's the most insane argument I've heard for ages.
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@aks Not pointing out fingers here, and do not even try to change this madness but at least I have right to complain and whine ;-) Making sure that an open source project somehow linearizes its history of communication is an incredible asset and definitely worth of pursuing for. I would do my job factors worse if e.g. kernel ML archives and lore.kernel.org did not exist. At min once a week I'm looking for some old discussion or similar just to check up on things.
You don't have to do this or make effort on establishing such ecosystem, that is true, but I'd look it also as an competitive advantage to have a documented history of work done.
You don't have to do this or make effort on establishing such ecosystem, that is true, but I'd look it also as an competitive advantage to have a documented history of work done.
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@aks The features you described are what I would consider harmful features [1]. In the past there was thing called a meaningful chat history, which could be interpreted and studied years and years after the discussion took place.
IRC is also the only protocol of which raw protocol dump is easily interpretable without help of a machine. XML/JSON protocol dump is waste or human interpreting it manually can be claimed to be a subject to brutal torture :-)
I'm not capable on understanding what is going on in a typical workplace chat overall even for the span of a single day because they are full of videos, code snippets and countless other distraction signals. By any practical means, they are usable only in that moment when the messages are being exchanged. It's literally like having a workplace discussion by using the walls of a public toilet as the main medium for discussion.
IRCv3 adds some of the modern ideas but not at the cost of retainable chat history.
[1] Thanks to Github who created this culture of bad quality. Steady stream of bad and worse chat services such as Slack, Discord and many others followed the lead.
IRC is also the only protocol of which raw protocol dump is easily interpretable without help of a machine. XML/JSON protocol dump is waste or human interpreting it manually can be claimed to be a subject to brutal torture :-)
I'm not capable on understanding what is going on in a typical workplace chat overall even for the span of a single day because they are full of videos, code snippets and countless other distraction signals. By any practical means, they are usable only in that moment when the messages are being exchanged. It's literally like having a workplace discussion by using the walls of a public toilet as the main medium for discussion.
IRCv3 adds some of the modern ideas but not at the cost of retainable chat history.
[1] Thanks to Github who created this culture of bad quality. Steady stream of bad and worse chat services such as Slack, Discord and many others followed the lead.
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jarkko
Edited 10 months ago
What is this:
https://opensource.org/ai
"Open Source" is "Open Source AI"
OK, cool.
This must be then an AI:
```
int main(void) {}
```
For me this has an appearance of a scam, and it also reflects a recent outbursts such as e.g. this one from Microsoft:
https://www.techspot.com/news/103609-microsoft-ai-ceo-content-open-web-freeware-ai.html
Not pointing out to Microsoft here in particular. It was just so arrogant, obnoxious and ignorant take from Mustafa Suleyman that it carved to my brain forever.
IT giants have put way way way too huge stakes on top of the AI game board. There's also a strong motivation to compound "Open Source" and "AI" as interchangeable concepts to justify evil corporate tactics. Right from the get go OpenAI picked up a name, which misleads by implying "openness" (with no anchor to anything actually open).
Standards share no resemblance to this eye roll trick. I read them a lot as part of my work (the most recent was DWARF4 spec few weeks ago), and I know what a standard should look like, if anything.
This is not an opinion about AI way or another but I recognize a fake standard 100% when I see one, and this is as fake as it can ever get. It could be at worst interpreted as an attack against open source and free software governance, and the values that we believe in.
RT @fsfe
https://opensource.org/ai
"Open Source" is "Open Source AI"
OK, cool.
This must be then an AI:
```
int main(void) {}
```
For me this has an appearance of a scam, and it also reflects a recent outbursts such as e.g. this one from Microsoft:
https://www.techspot.com/news/103609-microsoft-ai-ceo-content-open-web-freeware-ai.html
Not pointing out to Microsoft here in particular. It was just so arrogant, obnoxious and ignorant take from Mustafa Suleyman that it carved to my brain forever.
IT giants have put way way way too huge stakes on top of the AI game board. There's also a strong motivation to compound "Open Source" and "AI" as interchangeable concepts to justify evil corporate tactics. Right from the get go OpenAI picked up a name, which misleads by implying "openness" (with no anchor to anything actually open).
Standards share no resemblance to this eye roll trick. I read them a lot as part of my work (the most recent was DWARF4 spec few weeks ago), and I know what a standard should look like, if anything.
This is not an opinion about AI way or another but I recognize a fake standard 100% when I see one, and this is as fake as it can ever get. It could be at worst interpreted as an attack against open source and free software governance, and the values that we believe in.
RT @fsfe
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
Cheap #3D #printing services in the #EU region? I just need to print one a spare part that is not complex and #ThingVerse is feasible for acquiring the model.
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E.g. I get room keys as a security feature. I did read the Matrix spec. But IRL I find myself carrying USB stick from computer to another in order to have anything readable if a room is encrypted. I.e. I can either use recovery key or authorization request to activate a client but it gets you only hafl-way there.
This makes me feel that UX was designed to fit the security features and not other way around. And if you talk to a Matrix cult member they will say to you that you're not getting it.
This makes me feel that UX was designed to fit the security features and not other way around. And if you talk to a Matrix cult member they will say to you that you're not getting it.
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I miss the 90s, IRC and Polish hacking groups bombing IRCNet with regular netsplits :-) And who needs security when you have OTR (innovation from 2004).
In software security a protocol built without security is easier to guard than a protocol with "security features". IRC has this right too. I feel that this some annual thing to praise the IRC and hate the world 🤷
In software security a protocol built without security is easier to guard than a protocol with "security features". IRC has this right too. I feel that this some annual thing to praise the IRC and hate the world 🤷
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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Stéphane Graber
stgraber@hachyderm.ioThe CFP for the Containers devroom at @fosdem 2025 is now open! https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/fosdem-2025-containers-devroom-call-for-papers/21956
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
Edited 10 months ago
After four weeks doing Rust it became clear to me that LSP is quite useful sometimes, when you have to deal with a language that was not designed to be written by humans.
[That said: even less so by Copilot, Bob or Clippy]
;-)
I've managed mostly with vim and rusty-tags so far but to help with code exploration I installed vscodium. Seems to do the job since it has a vim emulation plugin and works together with rust-analyzer. And LSP does not work too well in terminal anyhow...
PS. This is the most useful documentation that I found on topic: https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2020/elce/opdenacker-using-vs-code-for-embedded-development/opdenacker-using-vs-code-for-embedded-development.pdf
[That said: even less so by Copilot, Bob or Clippy]
;-)
I've managed mostly with vim and rusty-tags so far but to help with code exploration I installed vscodium. Seems to do the job since it has a vim emulation plugin and works together with rust-analyzer. And LSP does not work too well in terminal anyhow...
PS. This is the most useful documentation that I found on topic: https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2020/elce/opdenacker-using-vs-code-for-embedded-development/opdenacker-using-vs-code-for-embedded-development.pdf
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