@aral You have been quoted in https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-and-the-case-for-regulating-big-tech

Can you confirm the Eric Schmidt's sentence?

It is very... indicative! ?

@grainloom @Tau_Leonis

#Hackture is another interesting title for a course.

It's about #hacker #culture, from the very beginning.

The problem is how to engage them?

You could teach them my (slightly modified) One Time Pad algorithm to crypt and decrypt messages, but without a proper context, it's just a show of your knowledge.

When and why it is important to encrypt messages? When noise is even more important? How much you can encrypt? What about metadata?

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@grainloom @Tau_Leonis

A 45 minutes pilot with 13-14 yo is an interesting challenge.

The problem is to engage them while still giving them useful informations.

I started from the name of the course that was "#Informatics #Elementary" (it was in an elementary school to 10yo). So most of the first lesson was to explain what informatics is all about.

I gifted each of them a cheap address notebook to let them write their personal hacker dictionary starting from those in http://www.tesio.it/documents/vademecum.txt

@olimex's A64-OLinuXino makes me feel the impelling need to port #Jehanne to #64bit #ARM

Booting procedure apart (Jehanne is currently booted through multiboot that AFAIK is just for x86), it shouldn't be that hard (tthere are 7 assembly files in the kernel and 30 in the whole user space)...

Anyone want to help?

https://microblog.pub/ a single user #fediverse server based on #ActivityPub: very interesting project!

@dev @t

@ng0 is a GNUnet developer.

@ekaitz_zarraga is a friend that is always welcome to challenge my opinions.
He knows I prefer C and, as a good hacker he proposed something I can't really like... :-)

It was not to challenge GNUnet, but to challenge me (that can cause VERY weird conseguences, and he knows it :-D)

@amz3

Help!

I'm desperately looking for an article I've seen on the fediverse but I can't find it anymore anywhere.

It was about something similar in concept to @vertigo's #kestrel's project, but smaller in scope.

The goal was building a little programmable PC for something like 30$ to be used as a console or something like that, just for learning purpose.

HELP!

I can't find it anywhere!

@alcinnz

I don't even know where to start.
Near the end I went back to the beginning to double check that it was not published on April 1 last years!

I think @bob summarized my opinion well: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/101700686236282442

It basically attack a straw man: it setup a dumb metric for success (even distribution of 2019's users) and then argue that SMTP (!!!), XMPP, HTTP and ActivityPub (that the author do not even cite) failed because they didn't produced such metric.

Except nobody ever had such goal.

Just learnt about https://studio.code.org a website for schools and kids to learn "coding".

First thing I thought was: nice!

Second: who pay for this?
https://code.org/about/donors
Fine: it's #Microsoft, #Facebook, #Amazon and #Google interest to have more cheap AND talented developers, so it's a reasonable move to fund such kind of charity.

Third: they won't exploit the kids tho!
https://code.org/privacy
They use #GoogleAnalytics and #YouTube, #Amazon's #CDN and share links to #FB and #Twitter.
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@kai @alxd @ekaitz_zarraga

This also means: if you want #FreeSoftware that works in a specific way and you don't want to code it yourself (maybe learning what you ignore in the process) there is ONE way to act: pay a team of developers to develop it according to your specification.

Even this, is totally fine and welcome, EVEN if they fork the original software.

But people are not entitled to free work from volunteers and hackers.

@kai @alxd @ekaitz_zarraga

Guys, I have strong opinions on this.

#FreeSoftware is a gift.
As such it binds the receivers more than it binds the #hacker that create it.

It's totally fine to provide suggestions, new ideas and patch.

It's totally fine to #fork a project.

It's WRONG to try to impose your will to #hackers. It can not go well. You either annoy the hacker enough to make it stop the development or subdue his creativity hurting whole #humanity.

FORKS ARE FINE.
FORK IT.

@Wolf480pl @ekaitz_zarraga

Guys these people like "stored procedures".

I mean, the develop global ledgers with financial transactions and they have NEVER seen a real world banking #database!?!!

Stored procedures! As a good thing!

This is wonderful....

I got it: they are #Oracle #PR!

When will they rediscover the beauty of #AS400 programming?

No really, I cannot facepalm enough.

@ekaitz_zarraga

Because they should call it "Immutable Heat Source", instead!

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@Wolf480pl @alcinnz

It's a matter of who lose more from firing them all. To a software company it would be end of games. To a fired programmer it was just an annoyance.

@Wolf480pl @alcinnz

In general, when you debug a system you need to understand it deeply as a whole so that you can foresee the effects of an input down to the final output, beyond the boundaries of your own code.

If #MSTF tomorrow decide to fire ALL of its programmers, there will be no MSTF anymore way before the equity market close.

Same for #Google or #Facebook or #Amazon.

If we ALL decide to simply ignore their input, there is literally NOTHING they can do about it.

@Wolf480pl

If all programmers at #Mozilla repent and decide to mitigate the attacks I described turning #JavaScript execution from opt-out to opt-in, there is NOTHING Mozilla can do.
(But I would suggest them to join #Memex under @alcinnz leadership :-D)

If all programmers at #Microsoft tomorrow decide to work on LibreOffice or NetSurf, there is NOTHING Microsoft can do to prevent then to.

@Wolf480pl

No.

If all programmers in #Google tomorrow decide to completely ignore the management and work on Jehanne for fun, there is NOTHING Google can do about it.

And note that I'm not arguing for a union.
A union can only serve our (legitimate) economic interests: we can do much much more.

We just need to understand that WE can change the world for the better and to decide to do so.

My fellow programmers, I have a shocking revelation for you all.

You are among the few workers who fully control the means of production.

It's on your shoulders.
It's your mind.

You control the means of productions that create the infrastructure of our new cyber world.

Think about it for a moment.
We OWN the means of production.
Nobody can take them from us.

Do you feel the #Power?

We don't need them.
We don't need the Capital.

#Informatics stands to computers like #Math stands to abacus.

Suggestion for kind people.

Some people need to polarize groups around them, more or like adolescents do to build a personal identity by contrast with parents, but for a personal and sometime economical gain.
This is happening on the #fediverse too. Some "twitter refugees" learned the #AI craft of #market #segmentation and are trying to reproduce this shit here too, but to their own benefit.

Don't let them win.
Be kind, even if they insult you because of your race or gender.
And ask questions.

Why I love #Dijkstra:

"I never felt obliged to placate the logicians. I (kindly!) assume that their customary precautions are needed and sufficient for reaching their goals. If they can help and correct me by pointing out where my precautions have been insufficient and where my own discipline has led or will lead me astray, they are most welcome: I love to be corrected. (Besides being a most instructive experience, being corrected shows that the other one cares about you.)"

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