Akshay @NerdyPepper@freeradical.zone

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posting my desktop -- i wish mastodon didn't resize images though 🙍‍♂️

Prediction: within 5 years Google will have successfully turned the web into a closed platform, with DRM and spyware being ubiquitous and efforts to circumvent them becoming ineffective

good morning

Wrote a really quick RSS reader, using Python, bash and w3m. I have two scripts—'fetchrss' and 'readrss'.

The former fetches feeds from a given text file and populates '~/feeds' (stored as HTML). The latter views the HTML using w3m (with images!) and marks it as read. I have 'fetchrss' run on a cron, populating the feeds dir every hour.

Note: I did all of this because newsbeuter has shitty keybinds.

So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.

So the fruits of my waging arrived yesterday—the Ducky One 2 SF.

#ghibligif #ghibli #studioghibli #bot

pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google’s interests than good engineering

https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-sucks.html

Google does not get credit for Go. Credit goes to a small number of language designers, whose backgrounds and prior experience came from outside Google, and a small number of obvious inspirations, also not of Google. If Google had not signed the check, Go still would have been made and would have been exactly the same.

All of Go's flagship features: goroutines, channels, garbage collection, even GOPATH; are direct descendants of Plan 9 at Bell Labs.

I feel trapped in a world which is extremely incompatible with my values

I really, really, really, really fucking hate chat programs and protocols, except for IRC