Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 36

Advice To Young Web Developers: https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/2934-Advice-to-young-web-developers

A "back to top" button is an interface design element used only and exclusively on web sites. Do large text documents have it? No! Do books have it? No!

The only thing that comes close is the "rewind" button on movie and music players.

They were invented during a time when all computer users had keyboards with a Home button: the original "back to top". That home button is why large text documents don't need a separate button.

Mobile devices with no home button had yet to get popular.

@syntacticsugarglider
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that I have no legal grounds for a copyright action unless;
a) I am the copyright holder, or
b) I have legal documents empowering me to act on behalf of the copyright holder

I'm guessing that copyright trolls are banking on most people not knowing that, and assuming that GPL gives anyone the right to enforce compliance (AFAIK it doesn't).

@liaizon

Join us in IRC tomorrow at 2pm(ET)/6pm(UTC) in #conservancy on freenode for our weekly chat. Tomorrow is an open conversation -- no special topic. Got topics you think we could discuss in July? Let's hear 'em! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/mar/12/virtualchat/

In 2019, LibreOffice's Design community @liboDesign worked on the NotebookBar user interface, along with menus, icons, the sidebar, a "Tip of the dialog" box dialog and much more. Discover all in our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/06/24/annual-report-2019-updates-from-the-design-community/

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the rise of "source available" licenses (both morality licenses and the no-commercial-use ones) herald the end of "open source". Not because the practices of code sharing and collaboration that has gone under that name will end. But because the only people who will stick with licenses that honour the Open Source Definition are those who come to understand that computing freedoms are the point, not shared source:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

#FreeCode

Apparently you have to be logged into a GH account to read a Gist now? Another sign of the MS rot setting in.

#Gist #GitHub

Environmental web design & use tips:

* Wherever possible, choose text. Text is by far the most efficient (and as I like to illustrate, universal) medium.
* Make sure everything on your site has a good reason to be there. Avoid frameworks to further this.
* Compress your images & video.
* Especially avoid JavaScript, it adds significantly more processing effort to rendering.
* If you love something, download it. Buy it. Avoid advertising.
* Make sure HTML & CSS downloads fast.

Going to move all my code away from #github. Althout this means that i can't publish a #rust crate.

Many brands have announced a July boycott of Facebook over its content moderation practices.

Great, but that's not the only reason why brands should reconsider advertising on Facebook. Check our investigation to learn more 👇

https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/advertisers-facebook-who-heck-are-you-and-how-did-you-get-my-data

@jcbrand Fair :) I'm in the process of rebuilding Disintermedia, including my CV page, after the heat death of CoActivate. I will post a follow up to my job-beg post when that's done.

My wife and I are going through a bit of a rough time at the moment. We're privileged to be in a better position than a lot of people right now, but we're stuck indefinitely outside our country of residence (China) and surfing from couch to couch. Most of our money is in a Chinese bank account we can't access while outside China (looong story). If anyone can offer me some paid work I can do remotely from #Aotearoa (#NZ), that would really help.

If the only way you can help is a boost, cool :)

Always Bet On HTML: https://gomakethings.com/always-bet-on-html/

Describes what I love about HTML (and CSS)! It doesn't break, and is far more capable than people give it credit for.

I do take the stance that ideally we wouldn't have JS on The Web, but as it is today: yes, JavaScript has it's place.

My sister might be moving to Minneopolis/St. Paul, MN area September-ish 2020 and is looking to find some good poetry &/or creative non-fiction writing groups. Anyone have any experience in that area recently?

Clarification: For point one, we actually need the ability to store arbitrary ammounts of data.

The Turing Machine used an infinitely long tape for memory, which is why we still consider hypothetical.

The basic theory as that as long as a computer can do these four operations it can compute just about anything:

1. Remember data for later reuse
2. Do different things for different data
3. Repeat instructions
4. Communicate to, or ideally with, people, otherwise what's the point?

Anything else is a convenience.

And any language/machine that provides these four operations can simulate any other machine which also satisfies them.

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One of Alan Turing's most famous discoveries is "Turing Completeness", which speaks to how broadly applicable computers can be.

The argument ultimately relys on intuition to argue his hypothetical machine can infact define "every possible algorithm", but the independant discovery by Haskell Curry strengthened the case.

It was Curry shortly after who coined the term "Turing Machine", as both men wrote addendums to their papers arguing that the others' ideas were equivalent.

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Always bet on the thing that just works (HTML) https://gomakethings.com/always-bet-on-html/