I love older consoles and a while ago I made Wizards & Dinosaurs for Atari 2600 and Oopi's Quest for Nintendo NES. Both are free, can be played in the browser or on their respective console; https://kenney.nl/games
I don't fully agree with all that's in the article "Open source is neither a community nor a democracy", but I think its good if in general there was better distinguishment between #FOSS i.e. "The Work" vs. FOSS creators i.e. "the workers". Too often when we say "FOSS" we implicitly refer to some imaginary homogenous culture, and derive expectations on the moral/ethical behavior in a "community" that doesn't actually exist.
@smallcircles I somewhat disagree with the whole premise that "community implies that we're all participating on some degree of equal footing", seems like a strawman to me (or maybe large parts of the world do understand it in that way, but I think he extrapolates entitled users too much). The rest of the post has indeed some good points. I 100 % agree with your 1-toot summary.
@smallcircles I have misgivings about FOSS, but it’s mostly about corporate welfare & lack of public support for open source software. I’m not reading anything that utter disappointment of a human wrote, though.
Good thing is that Theia is not a fork of VSCode in the same way that VSCodium is. It is its own IDE from the ground up, but reusing some (OSS) parts from VSCode. While they implemented the VSCode extension API they also implemented their own extension mechanism and aren't dependent on MS marketplace.
I dunno if Theia is good alternative for all uses, esp. if one is programming for .NET it may not be. I think I'll give it a try.
@smallcircles Yup agree with that. Open VSX is a nice solution and I'd love to see it gain traction. I might give it another try too. Used to use Theia a few years ago as an online/remote ide which worked fine but then I stopped when vscode had remote development.
This is the #Scotus headline at talkingpointsmemo.com. I don't know why it isn't the headline at the NY Times and the Washington Post and everywhere else. It’s certainly accurate. The Supreme Court is granting itself powers not anticipated by the framers, who thought Congress and the executive branch had a role to play.
@notjustbikes don’t know if you mentioned this before in one of your videos, but apparently Spain has introduced 30km/h speed limits on most urban single lane roads back in 2021, decreasing the number of traffic deaths considerably. I’m in Salamanca now and it seems to be working fine, most drivers stick to the rules and 30km is also the speed limit on most double lane roads in the city. https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/speed-limits-towns-20220517101946-nt.html
@hayify surprisingly that didn't come up in any of my research on 30kmph cities, but it's great to see!
I think like most thing urban planning, switching to 30kmph speed limits gets a lot of pushback, but when it's actually implemented things go fine and the majority of people like it.
@notjustbikes yeah, i agree. I have been perfectly happy with the decrease to 30 in Amsterdam. Feels a bit weird on roads that weren’t designed for it but you get used to it and it definitely feels a lot safer.
🇬🇧Five more years of von der Leyen? Just look at what her EU Commission proposed in the past five years:
💥the end of private messaging and secure encryption #ChatControl
💥mandating unique citizen identifiers #eID
💥working group to resurrect indiscriminate #DataRetention#EUGoingDark
💥essentially unchanged online tracking & micro-targeting practices #politicalAds
💥legalising #Europol's unlawful bulk data collection practices
💥ultra-fast cross-border online content removals without court orders #TERREG
💥#biometricMassSurveillance in the #AIActgranting
💥industry access to our #healthdata without our consent #EHDS
> Yet the whole thing was simply painful to watch, mostly because it was useless on any practical level. This much ballyhooed confrontation between two political foes for the most important office in the world turned out to be featherlight on substance, policy, interest, intellect, imagination, vision, energy, ideas, humor and hope. It was heavy on one thing (besides cringe), though: ego.
@makiki@ShadowJonathan Social media that completely reject any sort of nudity are weird to me. Like it is pretty easy to not come across it on most platforms just by having nsfw functions and filters.
Third and not last, Roberts has the 6-3 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, affirming the Fifth Circuit on the Seventh Amendment jury trial issue. The court does not reach the other issues. Sotomayor has the liberals' dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-859_1924.pdf
Sotomayor is reading from her dissent in Jarkesy. #SCOTUS
A likely outcome is that the executive agencies, including the SEC, is just going to stop bringing enforcement actions. They don't have the resources to bring everybody to trial. So people are just going to get away with financial fraud... which, again, is what Republicans want.
Once again, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is saying out loud just how corrupt and politically motivated the Supreme Court majority has become. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112685094145453092