Marcel van der Boom @mrb@mastodon.nl

I have setup a Trunk instance for the #Dutch speakers.

Voor de Nederlands-taligen onder ons: de Trunk is bijna klaar. Suggesties voor lijsten hoor ik graag. Ook als je op de lijsten wilt.
https://trunk-mastodon.nl

Als je Trunk niet kent: het is een tool waar je mensen kunt zoeken om te volgen op de Fediverse.

Graag boosten als je NL-talige volgers hebt ;-)

The developer of #FairEmail Marcel against #Google
Sad sad news https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087

#foss #fdroid #app

One thing I don't see #selfhosting advocates talk about enough: the last 6-10 years of my website's existence have been a flight from bad actors, by which I don't mean anything as interesting as hackers: I mean misbehaving bots, spammers, trolls, things like that.

Just wave after wave of shutting down functionality just to avoid having to deal with them.

Emacs legit changed my life. I remember when I first installed it. It was because I wanted to use SLIME with SBCL. Actually no, it was years before that, I wanted to build a simple static generated website. I didn’t have any money to buy a ‘professional’ IDE, and I trusted GNU, so I used Emacs seemed like a good choice.

it was so easy to plug all these things together. it intuitively made sense to me how these three systems should be installed. I never not had Emacs installed on my PC

Before Emacs, I used KDE’s kate.

I have been using EXWM as my X window manager for about 2.5 years now. My Guix PC literally boots up to Emacs buffers, and nothing else after that. That’s all Linux does for my system.

I wanted the Lisp machine of my dreams, and I got it, really. I believe so much in the Lisp tradition and its happy-hearted and open friendliness. This is really well demonstrated in the Land of Lisp book.

But I do acknowledge some of its shortcomings. There is a famous joke that David Moon once said to a grad student: ‘you cannot simply cycle the power on a Lisp Machine without understanding why it crashed’, and then cycled the power, and the machine worked. This is a very big Lisp ‘mood’.

Lisp is often slow, and exhibits a lot of undefined state, sometimes, because it uses a heap and then, as a secondary citizen, the stack.

But I am a Lisp acolyte because I believe in its utopian vision of its brand of automated intelligence. It is my chosen model for computation. It is ambitious and beautiful.

https://www.builditsolar.com/ is still one of my favorite places on the internet.

Open source activist Justine Haupt has created a "Rotary Un-Smartphone". The video where she first explains her motivation before walking through the entire build process (including practical tips for SMD soldering) is one of the best put-together howtos that I've ever seen. This is the work of a female engineer and it shows. Ingenious solutions and broken conventions. Bending things that are not exactly meant to be bent, intentionally crooked connectors and loose screws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0euCWf0FpOA