Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

I'm confused, POSIX seems to standardize on argument options with the pattern:

-opt_arg

But in real life it seems like everyone uses:

--opt-arg

Anyone know what that is?

I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

LB context: #500px is removing the ability to upload, download, or search for #CreativeCommons licensed images, with basically no warning. Follow the instructions provided by @eq if you can: https://cybre.space/@eq/100290879824956894

A reminder of why browsers automatically executing code that was automatically downloaded was a bad idea from the beginning: a new SPECTRE proof of concept in the browser, which works around SPECTRE mitigations that browser vendors have added.

https://alephsecurity.com/2018/06/26/spectre-browser-query-cache/

"The power of the Internet historically arose from its edges: innovation, growth, and freedom came from its users and their contributions, rather than from some centrally controlled core of overseers. But today, for an increasing number of users, there is a powerful center to the net—and a potentially uncompetitive and unrepresentative center at that." -- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants

@cstanhope nope but the full archive is online, here. http://hparchive.com/hp_journals

I love this little guy:

https://basicengine.org/

Video by EFF, featuring @mala and Julia Reda, to discuss the #LinkTax and #CensorshipMachines proposals and what we can do to stop them:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=wjqCT9Exq58
"Vote will most likely be 4th of July"
#article13 #article11 #uploadfilters #freespeech #humanrights

Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming - Lawfare
https://www.lawfareblog.com/whos-really-crossing-us-border-and-why-theyre-coming

After Six Days, Portland’s ICE Blockade Is a City of More Than 80 Tents
http://www.wweek.com/news/2018/06/23/after-six-days-portlands-ice-blockade-is-a-city-of-more-than-80-tents/

"Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras that have been marketed as the newest conveniences are now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control."

"One of the women, a doctor in Silicon Valley, said her husband, an engineer, 'controls the thermostat. He controls the lights. He controls the music. Abusive relationships are about power and control, and he uses technology.'"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

Co-ops, democratically run and emphasizing long-term sustainability over short-term profits, are a key part of the #SolidarityEconomy.

Earlier this month, Wired UK published a brief but interesting profile of "CoTech, a growing network of tech co-operatives in the UK. There are currently 30 tech businesses united under the CoTech banner, which range from filmmakers to programmers; they collectively employ more than 250 staff and have revenues of over £10.2 million."

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cotech-tech-cooperatives-blake-house-outlandish

"Comparing open source infrastructure to “roads and bridges,” Eghbal provided not just a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing open source, but also a call-to-arms for more users of open source to care about its economics, and ultimately, how these critical projects can sustain themselves indefinitely."

Silicon Valley read the writing on the wall and is already hard at work to monetize FOSS in a way that will suit THEM and not the people. We need to act FAST.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/

Passed the #Choctaw Monument today and explained it to my kids: https://www.choctawnation.com/news-events/press-media/choctaw-irish-bond-lives
It made me think though, there is so much more we can do to express our gratitude than a monument. I'd love to see cultural overtures, like youth exchange programmes. Or a trade or intercultural education thing, or even direct finance to help the Choctaw Nation thrive in modern America. How many Irish people are alive today because of their help?
#Ireland

Yesterday I visited a record factory near my hometown. Was quite interesting. Here are some impressions:

https://pixelfed.social/p/thomas/4079

#record #vinyl #music

Mildly tecchnical article about a new technique for recovering early photographic images on daguerreotypes which had previously been considered lost. It.potentially means the recovery of 200 year old photographs.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-06-team-uncovers-lost-images-19th.html?utm_source=related&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=horz

Put some time aside to read about this Mississauga nursing home that radically transformed how it cares for residents with dementia: http://projects.thestar.com/dementia-program/

I've written an #emacs plugin for searching for text with ripgrep: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

rg is a fantastic search tool, and deadgrep.el includes everything I've learnt with several hundred users of ag.el!