Still coding free software — Created htop, Teal (typed dialect of Lua), LuaRocks package manager, GoboLinux distro
PhD (PUC-Rio), interested in dataflow, PL ∩ HCI
Occasional music and cat content
en/es/fr/pt/de: he/él/lui/ele/er
| remember personal websites? | https://hisham.hm/ |
| my newer music | @signifier |
| my older music | http://colorbleed.com.br/ |
| toots in pt_BR: | https://masto.donte.com.br/@hisham |
Remember to celebrate love and friendship whenever you can!
Here are the pics, videos and setlist(!) from my birthday party last week:
https://hisham.hm/2026/06/14/aniversario-do-hisham-2026/
Last Thursday night I rented out a studio space, invited my friends over and had several of my past and current bands play. I did this last year and it's now becoming sort of a tradition!
“[so-and-so] is correct that cutting off financial sponsorship is a form of cutting off expression”
I don't know who needs to read this but:
The failure in this argument is that what is implied is that the former-sponsor is cutting off the formerly-sponsored's expression. But what instead is happening is that by cutting off financial sponsorship, the only expression being cut off is that of the _sponsor's_ implied support for the sponsored. The sponsored's freedom of expression is intact.
The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.
Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.
The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.
Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.
If you speak Portuguese, in about 10 minutes I'll be speedrunning the history of FLOSS (and tech in general!) in this online event, being streamed here:
⏯️ Também postei no BR-Linux chamada pro evento ao vivo de hoje, em que uma galera daqui (como @melissawm, @anna e @hisham_hm) vai palestrar, e está sendo transmitido ao vivo no canal da galera da Cumbuca Dev.
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ASSISTA AO VIVO HOJE: NOSSO OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT, ENCONTRO ABERTO SOBRE FLOSS
Vem da fundamental Dra. @melissawm o aviso de que está no ar, ao longo deste sábado, a transmissão ao vivo da primeira edição do Nosso Open Source Summit.
Vem da fundamental Dra. @[email protected].
The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
For more, read on!
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RE: https://freeradical.zone/@tek/116186131628243462
IPv6 is 10 years older then IPv4 was when IPv6 spec was published
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