James

@james@jvalleroy.fbx.one

I contribute to free and open source software projects such as FreedomBox and Debian. I also play games on Steam Deck.
pronounshe/him
Fosstodonhttps://fosstodon.org/@jvalleroy
bloghttps://jvalleroy.fbx.one
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Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
@njoseph@social.masto.host

Today, I met a FreedomBox for Villages volunteer, Satya at a local conference. It was pleasant surprise to know that they have recently deployed a community Wi-Fi network in a remote island village in the Narmada river that barely has cellular phone signals. The village only has an elementary school (until class 4), so the main thing they needed to provide was Moodle with some K-12 educational content.

Another non-profit might set up satellite Internet in the near future.

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    Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
    @njoseph@social.masto.host

    Gleam is an interesting new functional programming language. It is an ML-family language with syntax very similar to Rust, but it's not a replacement.
    If you like Rust and don't like Go (or Elixir's Ruby syntax), Gleam might be worth considering for I/O bound applications needing high concurrency.
    Gleam can also replace Elm on the browser. Code written in Gleam is apparently 30% faster than hand-written JavaScript.

    gleam.run

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      Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
      @njoseph@social.masto.host

      I bought an Android TV 4 years ago. Only today I had a working idea to get rid of ads on it.

      Google's launcher is set as the default. It shows ads at the top which considerably affects the TV's performance. It also deceptively keeps showing titles from the Play Store as if they are available from one of your installed apps.

      So, just get another launcher. You can install one from the Play Store and set it as default.

      No Google Launcher, no ads. :blobcatgooglyshrug:

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        James »
        @james@jvalleroy.fbx.one

        I developed a very small program to practice some coding in Guile Scheme:

        https://git.sr.ht/~jvalleroy/lister

        It's a TUI and CLI program to manage a list of items in a text file.


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          Techmeme » 🤖
          @Techmeme@techhub.social

          Redis, the popular in-memory data store, returns its main system to open source license AGPL, after facing criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model (Lindsay Clark/The Register)

          theregister.com/2025/05/01/red
          techmeme.com/250501/p40#a25050

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          Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
          @njoseph@social.masto.host

          I started using GitHub Copilot for work to generate both test and production code in January.

          Since the refactoring work it was generating for me was too much, I stopped using it for production code a month ago.

          It keeps creating test files in the wrong directories and breaks half the scripts in the repository (not consistently though 🤦‍♂️). Yesterday, this got pushed to the main branch and broke scripts for everybody.

          The day has finally arrived! I've completely given up on AI-generated code.

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          Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
          @njoseph@social.masto.host

          If I get fired for something, let it be for a mistake I actually did, not for something that's so stupid that it's unlikely for a human to do such a thing.

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          Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
          @njoseph@social.masto.host

          Used VS Code without Copilot for a day.

          While I'm at it, why not ditch Micro$oft VS Code as well? It's not a hard requirement for TypeScript.

          Trying out nvim+lazyvim setup. A friend recommended that I also try wezterm. So, learning Lua seems inevitable at this point.

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          Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
          @njoseph@social.masto.host

          After switching to Neovim (no AI plugins this time), I feel like the joy of programming is slowly returning.

          LLMs are like energy vampires. They suck the joy out of everything.

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          Freedom of the Press »
          @freedomofpress@social.freedom.press

          Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group!

          To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signalapp offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.

          Learn about Signal’s identifiers:

          freedom.press/digisec/blog/sig

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            Freedom of the Press »
            @freedomofpress@social.freedom.press

            From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

            Update: The Associated Press sued White House officials today over ban on its access to White House events, Oval Office and Air Force One because wire service continues referring to “Gulf of Mexico.”

            It asked court for emergency order rescinding ban:

            pressfreedomtracker.us/all-inc

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            Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
            @njoseph@social.masto.host

            I have one prediction for 2025 that I am most confident about.

            2025 will be the hottest year on record (since 1850), just like the two years before it.

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              Freedom of the Press »
              @freedomofpress@social.freedom.press

              Of everything they could've questioned Tulsi Gabbard about, Dems chose to grill her for past support of whistleblowers and the Fourth Amendment.

              Because now's a great time to signal hostility to people who may leak evidence of government criminality.

              freedom.press/issues/trump-att

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              Kunal Mehta »
              @legoktm@wikis.world

              New blog post: Three years of

              blog.legoktm.com/2025/01/31/th

              This is the longest I've ever held the same position at a job, so a few notes on what I've been up to over the past year and what I enjoy.

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                Freedom of the Press »
                @freedomofpress@social.freedom.press

                Congratulations to the ACLU, EFF and everyone else involved in this significant win for the Fourth Amendment.

                aclu.org/press-releases/court-

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                James »
                @james@jvalleroy.fbx.one

                Tried making one-pot pasta, but I used too much tomato paste.

                A plate with pasta

                Alt...A plate with pasta

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                Kunal Mehta »
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                Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
                @njoseph@social.masto.host

                MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs

                github.com/MaggieAppleton/digi

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                  Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
                  @njoseph@social.masto.host

                  Using Python uv tool as a replacement for Poetry for a small Python utility I'm writing. It feels a lot like Rust's Cargo.

                  All that I can say for now is that it is certainly a better experience than setting up a virtualenv manually.

                  I am writing this proprietary tool for a team of JavaScript developers. I think they will feel that it is just as easy to use as npm/yarn or whatever is the new hotness this week.

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                    Techmeme » 🤖
                    @Techmeme@techhub.social

                    A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru (Anisha Sircar/Rest of World)

                    restofworld.org/2024/uber-shut
                    techmeme.com/241207/p8#a241207

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                    James »
                    @james@jvalleroy.fbx.one

                    Christmas tree is up

                    Very small, artificial Christmas tree with lights.

                    Alt...Very small, artificial Christmas tree with lights.

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                    James »
                    @james@jvalleroy.fbx.one

                    Food, meat [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I made a "savory pumpkin pie" for Thanksgiving dinner. It contained bacon, onion, rosemary, cheese, and a bit of black pepper and cayenne. I think it turned out pretty well!

                    Pie in pan on oven. The pie is covered with cheese.

                    Alt...Pie in pan on oven. The pie is covered with cheese.

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                    Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
                    @njoseph@social.masto.host

                    Problems with Free and Open Source Software
                    njoseph.me/blog/posts/foss-pro

                    My last blog post for September. After not writing any blog posts for 4 years, I wrote 4 in one month!

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                      Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
                      @njoseph@social.masto.host

                      New blog post!

                      Using small AI tools on Debian GNU/Linux
                      njoseph.me/blog/posts/small-ai

                      I am using the word as it is meant to be used, as click-bait. 😉

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                        Lu wilson »
                        @TodePond@mas.to

                        check out this beautiful post by @jimmyhmiller on What It Means To Be Open

                        jimmyhmiller.github.io/raised

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                          Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx: »
                          @njoseph@social.masto.host

                          I have started quoting liberally in my linkblog (subscribe via RSS).

                          njoseph.me/shaarli/

                          Earlier, I was only writing my own summary or opinion of the subject, but quoting adds more context. This is inspired by the writing style of Pixel Envy blog. pxlnv.com

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                          New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2024) bits.debian.org/2024/07/new-de

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