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, 2025English
4·1 year 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 $20kEnglish
1·1 year 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 research
1·1 year 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 BetterEnglish
56·1 year 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.English
32·1 year 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.
20·1 year 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.
561·1 year 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 hopesEnglish
21·1 year 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?
41·1 year 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.English
17·2 years 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?
14·2 years 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?
18·2 years 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”
51·2 years 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?English
16·2 years agoOpen source.
barryamelton@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine teamEnglish
33·2 years agoDidn’t you leave Lemmy?

Because we are losing the class war