It's Liberal Software, not Free Software @r0ml@mastodon.social
West Nyack, NY
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I made myself a Photos Extension to crop pictures of book covers for my online book reports. It is available on the App Store:
apps.apple.com/us/app/quadcr…
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Continuing my series of book reports on “technology and social”, I’ve just published the latest entry. This one is on a book about the dangers of AI. ockham.online/computer-power…
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I published yet another book report on “the intersection of technology and social”. This one rockets forward in time to the 1970s with a book that reminds us that “the intersection of technology and social” hasn’t moved very far in the last fifty years: ockham.online/freedoms-edge-…
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I’ve published my latest book report inspired by #monktoberfest . This one is on literacy. ockham.online/the-muse-learn…
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I’ve started a publication on Medium (inspired by #monktoberfest ) to review books about “the intersection of technology and social”. So far, the topics range from programmer productivity to literacy to the Carolingian renaissance. ockham.online/
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The 22nd amendment sez: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”. If we all concede that Trump won and was elected in 2020, then he is ineligible to run in 2024 (or ever again). #22A sez nothing about serving as president — only “be elected”.
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Just got back from the #Monktoberfest . That means I’m now inspired and energized. Sated in body and spirit.
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Their insurance premiums should also be raised — given that they might be spreading the disease and raising costs for the insurance companies by infecting others.
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Indeed. SQL support in the browser is long overdue — but we also need better HTTP support in the database to connect the two.
Then your “website” login is your database userid. And with the right schema, SQL injection isn’t even a problem.
Poor @r0ml has been trying for years to get people to understand this was possible all along ;)
(I can't find the original @recursecenter talk recording about it, but here's his library for doing SQL straight from the browser: github.com/r0ml/mod_pg)
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Looks like “free software” has interest declining over time until there is no longer any interest.
If I look on Google Trends for “free software”, which includes software you don’t pay for and also politically-oriented software, I see this:
trends.google.com/trends/exp…
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If I look on Google Trends for “free software”, which includes software you don’t pay for and also politically-oriented software, I see this:
trends.google.com/trends/exp…
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It’s not “defense”, it’s “aggression”.
2020 Military Spending:
🇺🇸$740 billion
🇨🇳$193 billion
🇮🇳$64 billion
🇬🇧$62 billion
🇷🇺$61 billion
🇫🇷$55 billion
🇩🇪$51 billion
🇯🇵$50 billion
🇸🇦$49 billion
🇰🇷$40 billion
🇦🇺$31 billion
🇮🇹$29 billion
🇧🇷$22 billion
We should not spend more than the next 12 nations combined on defense.
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Today I learned that my copy of the OED does not include the word “software”. Not even in the supplementary section. Either I need a more recent edition, or the word is too new for its meaning to stabilize.
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Got my second Pfizer jab today.
Fourteen day countdown to all the things: restaurants, movies, the mall, and karaoke!
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By popular demand, a linguistic, rhetorical, epistemological exploration of the figure of speech: “free as in …”
r0ml.medium.com/toccata-and-…
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As a followup to my @usesthis interview, here is the long answer to the question “why did you stop using open source software?” r0ml.medium.com/giving-up-on…
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