Pheonix @pheonix@fosstodon.org
Fellow nerd.
(MS computer science. BE electronics engineering. Probably a PhD in procrastination and imposter syndrome)
Joined Aug 2020
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dear maintainers,
gh pr list --state open | grep "docs" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs gh pr close
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It takes a significant amount of effort to un-clutch yourself from the addicting aspect of social media.
Dark patterns and dopamine inducing internet 'points' are validation measures crafted to force your brain into coming back (to that conversation).
The first step is identifying these exist. The next step may be cold-turkey or gradual retreat depending on how you function. It's tough, but doable. Gaining back that control is fun.
Zuck's official response to netflix’s The Social Dilemma is really something 
[pdf]
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/What-The-Social-Dilemma-Gets-Wrong.pdf
Time for browsers to integrate context-mapping into their bookmark managers.
The current ones are reverse chronologically arranged links within folders. It can be so much more than that.
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And this, kids, is yet another example of why we block arbitrary #Javascript and advertisements.
You discover a time machine which can only take you forward in time. A one way trip.
1. Do you take the ride?
2. If yes, what year do you decide and why?
I learned about these alternatives to git today.
Which one do you use and why?
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Why Fedora?
"Enable your 2FA, before they do it for you"
- my professor on scammers [circa 2018]
Pheonix
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OMG, am dying!!!
Someone used the bug GitHub refused to fix, that allows you to add a commit to a repo you don’t control... to upload YouTube-dl to the DMCA request repo on GitHub.
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
Fosstodon is cool as in, one toot on (the local timeline) tells you all that's happening with an open source project.
And the very next toot gives you a tiny glimpse into someone's life, like a collective mini-journal - free from algorithms.
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If you want to leave GitHub due to their recent bad behavior but still need a presence there, you can absolutely do that.
What FOSS developers provide them is credibility. If you move your cool projects elsewhere and mirror them to Github with a pointer to the real repo, the message is clear: you're only on Github because you have to be.
Boycotting $BIG_COMPANY 95% of the time is almost as effective as boycotting it 100% of the time; this isn't an all-or-nothing deal.
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wtf youtube-dl got DMCA'd by the recording industry
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Requesting #pinephone users to vote. Boosts appreciated.
What do you reckon is a realistic timeline for the phone to be "mainstream ready"?
Question : How many monitors does your setup have?
Pheonix
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Afternoon walk in Bluebell Wood, Morpeth, England
Falsehoods programmers believe about time.
https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca
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Is there a good alternative to #Authenticator https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator for #postmarketOS ?
The app is broken and nobody seems to care about releasing a new version. A fix a has been proposed and merged months ago...
