Tomo in Saigon @tomosaigon@fosstodon.org
Tech entrepreneur living in Vietnam for a decade. Open source hacking since the 90s. I sometimes make techno with Renoise tracker (supports Linux). Fan of noodles, NLP/linguistics, parsing data in Python, decentralized protocols, and shell scripting his/him life. Bird site: @tomosaigon | @tomoXtechno
Joined Jan 2020
@hopeless @wholesomedonut don't forget ChromeOS!
"Elsevier and the USDOJ have declared war against Sci-Hub and open science."
Help preserve access to millions of scientific articles by seeding them before they get taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/
#icymi Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin sent 49 trillion Akita Inu tokens (AKITA) worth approximately $5mm at the time of this posting to the Gitcoin Community’s multisig wallet. This wallet is used to offer matching funds for Gitcoin Grants rounds. https://gitcoin.co/blog/announcement-gitcoin-community-receives-generous-gift-from-vitalik-buterin/
@mdrights Wear a mask :)
@XxAlexXx Never heard of POApplicant. Or are you proposing it as a future standard which schools/employers should accept?
Just learned about the University of the People (UoPeople), a nearly free online college accredited in the US w/ B&M Gates Foundation funds. They offer BAs in Computer Science, Health Studies, and Business Administration, as well as an MBA.
Why take on 6-figure debt for education anymore?
@jrballesteros05 Heck, Windows might protect users against hackers better than Linux desktop today.
Even open source vulnerabilities can exist for years before getting fixed.
@xpil A guy from my high school lost a game once. He didn't play anymore after.
Why is running Linhx more secure than Windows? I stumbled upon some convincing arguments:
1. Most virus files are .exes which Linux can't run.
2. Linux has 2 passwords, Administrators and Roots.
3. Windows has more kernels so it's more dangerous.
@billy writing code and browsing the web is a majority of what I'm doing on a desktop so linux is still a good choice. Questionable for other workflows though!
@starbreaker Indeed. I ran OpenBSD as daily driver many years ago and it probably had even less software than today (I made some ports contributions). Fortunately, I can do a lot with web apps instead of unsupported native ones.
@starbreaker Me neither (as in, nobody pays me at all for any concern).
But since I run linux as I suspect many on this instance do... it is worth considering a world with less available software.
@starbreaker What would replace all the web apps? Windows-only apps, sometimes with a Mac version?
@huy_ngo Sorry, got that reversed. It has been a few years.
@urusan @huy_ngo @ralismark False cognates, or faux amis ("false friends") in French.
One day MacBooks will have PgUp/PgDn above the left/right arrow keys. And Apple will act like they invented the keyboard.
@claudiom Totally feel the same about putting people on pedestals. Let people's words and works speak for themselves. Especially since we're mostly contributing voluntarily.
@claudiom if folks think rms is an asshole, they're gonna love theo 😅
Maybe time to consider the daemon-worshipping BSD folks (and their alternative free software license).
Tech entrepreneur living in Vietnam for a decade. Open source hacking since the 90s. I sometimes make techno with Renoise tracker (supports Linux). Fan of noodles, NLP/linguistics, parsing data in Python, decentralized protocols, and shell scripting his/him life. Bird site: @tomosaigon | @tomoXtechno
Joined Jan 2020
