Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org
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- Alexandra Elbakyan
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Aspiring linguist. Itch-your-own-scratch programmer. Emacseur.
Doing an MA in English Linguistics at Hacettepe University.
Joined May 2017
I promised I'd submit the assignment today. It's 23:34, so it still counts if I'm quick enough, right? 🤦♂️
I mean there is still a few months before the proposal, but I think I just came up with a nice idea.
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Kiri 
Anybody know if the System76 laptops require any blobs? Or could I just straight up run, say, Trisquel on it?
cd ~/Research
git init MA_Thesis
I haz a popsocket! These silly little things are neat.
@frustratedantiquarian Yeah. They were there for a purpose: save metal and time. Eszett is a letter by now, and fi is... okay, but when I see e.g. ffi or st ligatures in new digital text I cringe. It sticks to my eye as a statement of geeksnobbery and I can't look past it.
Gonna admit it's pedantry on my side too tho 😛
Maybe I should take up German again, after 15 years.
It's very hard to think of ß as s + z and not a funny B. And as if that wasn't confusing enough, it's substitute is "ss", not "sz".
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Hey, in case you haven't noticed: society now nearly completely operates in a super networked way; COVID-19 accelerated that.
So working on user freedom issues (software, network, etc rights) has never mattered more. And there is much good we can do.
#Recommend me #FOSS #PDF readers that can annotate. My favourite is Okular right now, and Emacs PDF tools second-place.
Ultimate Writer: A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen.
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I like it when even Cloudflare starts to de-Google-ify.
"We recently migrated from Google's reCAPTCHA to the independent hCaptcha. It helps address a privacy concern inherent to relying on a Google service..."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/
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When the first blog post on a new project breaks all the traffic records... 👀
More than 32,000 different people read the "Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website" post within the first 24 hours!
https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ is unavailable due to "legal reasons". The illegal thing probably being *linking to* SciHub given that was the whole purpose of the thing.
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Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours:
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@MatejLach I told everybody for years, don't use Qt, licensing is not clear, use GTK+. Nobody listened.
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Looks like the #Qt devs are using COVID-19 as an excuse to effectively make Qt proprietary software.
"last week, the company suddenly informed both the #KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months"
A year in the software world is eternity, may as well not release it.
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@eylul
> or alternatively a static site creator with a gui.
FWIW, there is https://getpublii.com
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#linguistics #emacs #ComputingFreedom
Aspiring linguist. Itch-your-own-scratch programmer. Emacseur.
Doing an MA in English Linguistics at Hacettepe University.
Joined May 2017
