It’s always this exact article “on the topic” that gets posted in response. I remember his posts on social networks though.
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barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025English4·2 months agoJust compile everything to webassembly and ship that,using your preferred language and libraries.
Which means that we will get blobs to interact with, instead of JavaScript code that can be “reviewed” or monkey patched away.
Fun times. Thanks, monopolistic assholes like Goggle, Microsoft and Apple.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20kEnglish1·2 months agoThey sell emergency car lights that you pop up on top of the car ala secret police (but yellow). They have a modem that when activated automatically notifies the road services of you being there stopped.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research1·3 months ago*in principle, not in principal.
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Are you Russian?
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World BetterEnglish56·4 months agoTech is a tool. It can be benefitting the oligarchs and restrictive, or benefitting society and open source.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.English32·5 months agoThey have been moving things to apps so they can substitute piecemeal the open source OS with their close sources: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
That article is 12 years old. It has only gotten worse.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•UK trying to pass law to let AI take anything on internet unless you opt out.20·5 months agoHow do you opt out for already created content in the past?
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•UK trying to pass law to let AI take anything on internet unless you opt out.561·5 months agoCopyright and license laws for you, not for me. This is the biggest theft ever.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopesEnglish21·5 months agoWell taken care citizens are more productive (yet can revolt better) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?41·6 months agoThere’s a solution for reducing population while increasing birthrates: war, pandemias and forced
inoculationsinseminations (physically or by peer pressure).Edit: I’m not an antivaxxer, that’s just idiotic. I’m talking antiabortion and religion.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Obama from ages 6 to 10 lived in Indonesia and can speak Indonesian.English17·9 months agoBahasa is incredibly simple. It has no articles, genders, time conjugations or adverbs. You just say “I eat yesterday cake” for example
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How would you teach digital literacy to 13-18 year old students?14·10 months agoFollow-up: teach them to learn to troubleshoot and search. Take the fear of breaking something from them by providing them with a VM with windows where they need to fix something or install a driver. Provide them with a Linux VM just for them to try too.
Teach them mistrust. Make them upload things to a copy of Google docs or something, and then show how you have access to everything.
Teach them about open source as a precondition for being able to trust software.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How would you teach digital literacy to 13-18 year old students?18·10 months agoI would go with tasks where they get to “hack” or learn about each other. Give them usb sticks, make them put a silly trivia on an encrypted 7z with passwords that are somewhat crackable. Then, take their usbs from them, and distribute them randomly, and let them use jack the ripper or so. Twist, you would have added a virus or something into the USB stick, so they get infected with a “silly pop up” once they start jack the ripper. They get to play, and the exercise will stick with them.
Teach them about 10 minute mails pages, to open a silly account t somewhere.
Make them use a VPN like mullvad or some that you have set up to access a specific page or make web searches. They can notice the difference in content depending on the country they are exiting with. Twist: you control the VPN, provide them at the end with a list of accessed pages so they understand how the vpns do not ensure privacy. Explain simply what a VPN is (tunnel,etc).
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”51·10 months agoNot even, it will suffocate on its own by having the capitalists keeping their changes from each other. Like a bucket of crabs; where if one crab is about to get free the others grab onto it and pull it down.
Kernels really benefit from being “forced” to share the code changes as the GPL license, they are too tied to HW, and HW needs a lot of capital when iterating.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•How can we return to techno-optimism?English16·10 months agoOpen source.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine teamEnglish33·10 months agoDidn’t you leave Lemmy?
Because we are losing the class war