Colin Marquardt

@cmarqu@dresden.network
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Wenn 'KI' nicht 'lernen' kann, ohne alle Literatur der Welt zu stehlen, und das für alle OK ist...

...müssten wir dann im Interesse "der Wirtschaft" nicht auch SchülerInnen, Auszubildenden und StudentInnen erlauben, ihre Fachliteratur umsonst zu beziehen....?

Frage für ein "Land der Ingenieure".

Idee für ne neue Serie - wie Höhle des Löwen aber umgekehrt. Ein Milliardär muss fünf für Mindestlohn arbeitenden Menschen erklären, warum er nicht enteignet wird.

Why I 🧡 the web.

https://drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Draw a Fish Dot Com

Draw and create your own fish. Share your fish creations, vote on others, and watch them swim.

DrawAFish.com

Mein Vorschlag für das #Anwohnerparken: Ein Anwohner-Parkausweis kostet 58€ pro Monat und Auto, dieser muss bis zum 10. des Vormonats digital beantragt werden (App oder Website). Er kann nur bis zum 10. des Monats zum Ende des aktuellen Monats gekündigt werden, ansonsten verlängert er sich automatisch. Beim Beantragen wird das Kennzeichen registriert, mehr ist nicht erforderlich.

Die Kosten werden automatisch an die Inflationsrate gekoppelt und werden dadurch zu Beginn eines Jahres angepasst.

Obstacles I hit when trying to send a patch to a C++ project, as an experienced C++ dev who's been doing mostly Rust for a few years:

- Figuring out their custom build system (because Make, CMake, Ninja, et al are build system _kits,_ not build systems, and different in each project)

- Figuring out their implicit style rules (most don't use clang-format or equivalent and want you to do it by hand)

- Working out which C++ standard is being targeted (it's often not stated explicitly and sometimes varies across platforms)

- Discovering which subset of APIs available in that C++ standard are fine to use, and which will cause a violent immune reaction (this is rarely stated anywhere, but the "UNDER THIS ROOF WE DON'T USE {x}" reaction, where x is usually exceptions or errno or iostream or printf or initializer lists or templates or multiple inheritance or ... is strong)

This is before we even get to "working out the lifetimes of pointers." And let's not talk about adding a library dependency.

(Before anyone gets smug about C, don't make me write the C equivalent, it's just as bad.)

(Now, english.)

Here we go, it's mature enough that we can start sharing it: the new version of the website https://deborderbollore.fr is now live.

https://piaille.fr/@editionsburnaout/114890705291125666

Because in order to face concentration, we must embrace our multiplicity. In response to the monopolisation of the means of production, we must support openness and the widest possible dissemination of our texts and tools.

#opensource #openaccess #publishing #independentPublishing #freeSoftware

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Déborder Bolloré

Dans le contexte de la campagne Désarmons Bolloré, et en emboîtant le pas au boycott appelé par les « libraires antifascistes », nous, éditeurices indépendant·es, coéditons collectivement le recueil *Déborder Bolloré* pour prendre part depuis notre secteur à la réflexion générale sur le démantèlement de l’empire Bolloré.

Déborder Bolloré

I sometimes get asked why my terminal has reminders of tools installed on my system, so I wrote a short blog post about why and how I did this.

https://www.judy.co.uk/blog/using-fortune-to-reinforce-habits/

Using fortune to reinforce habits

A tutorial showing how I use <code>fortune</code> to remind me what tools I have installed on my computer.

Mark Smith

Results of my little survey. Why is Linux growing?

19% believe it is because of sunsetting of OS versions. Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 on people and a lot of people are not happy with that and some are just not able to run it. So with a choice of replacing the HW or the OS, plenty of people choose the OS.

20% believe it is because people are just discovering how good Linux truly is.

41% believe it is a combination.

21% think it is something else, with some mentioning SteamOS as a reason.

Whatever the reason, more and more people are seeing Linux as a great choice, which is only good news to me.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer #Technology #Vivaldi

Wrote some notes on Toad, Will's new not-yet-open-source-but-soon terminal coding agent built on Textual

He's charging companies $5,000 for early access to the preview before it goes open source, I'd love to see that model work here! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/announcing-toad/

https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan/114903277078338762

Announcing Toad—a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal

Will McGugan is building his own take on a terminal coding assistant, in the style of Claude Code and Gemini CLI, using his Textual Python library as the display layer. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog