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mro_name

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About mro_name

Builds the social web bicycle https://Seppo.mro.name with #OCaml supported by https://NLnet.nl/project/Seppo. Maker of things deemed impossible.

Rents out Linux laptops https://mro.name/laptop

Former JEE and iOS developer, seasonal tree planter. Casual lightning talker https://mro.name/talks. Netizen since the mid 90ies. https://SIGCHI.org, https://CCC.de, https://FIfF.de, https://NOYB.eu, https://Blaetter.de.

Likes https://mro.name/FreeBSD-XFCE and https://AlpineLinux.org

@social@mro.name

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43078642

    exactly. Once we stop treating TwiX like a public good but rather like the private website of a a gaming cheater with a lot of guests, things would be more obvious, wouldn't it?

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    Comment #42735635

    yes it does. The world is full of 'another's.

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    Comment #42573282

    frankly I find rot quite appealing. Rotting produces compost, fertiliser. And at the same time makes way for new things. Great, isn't it?

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    Comment #42254973

    another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.

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    Comment #42116336

    There's this earthquake phrase in past tense: > We felt like we had agency.

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    Comment #41913275

    in german law it's even impossible to transfer copyright (Urheberrecht). There is but one way: inheriting. What can be transferred though is usage right - licensing.

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    Comment #41836577

    how is your tea different from https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/teash/ ?

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    Comment #41819621

    is the user base shrinking or why should we? IMO pulsating, vivid stability is more important than growth.

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    Comment #41553973

    glimpsed into it, looks fancy but find it apologetic. IMO it's double-standards to campaign against "the next datacenter from being built" without reducing personal usage and deman…

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    Comment #41384241

    I have some like this http://rec.mro.name/podcasts/zuendfunk/broadcasts.atom (and .rss, too) which plays the audio nicely e.g. in https://miniflux.app but I remember having trouble…

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    Comment #41345802

    100% includes iTunes or Podcatchers in general where I hardly find documentation for but would be interested for (my) https://mro.name/radio-privatkopie/ Can you give me a pointer …

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    Comment #41299374

    The "Why RSS" doesn't mention why instead of RFC4287 Atom.

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    Comment #41244685

    … and Aaron Swartz's "Building for Users: Designing URLs" https://codeberg.org/mro/ProgrammableWebSwartz2013/src/branc...

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    Comment #41211959

    > And yet, no matter how you look at it, this can’t just be a simple coincidence. why not?

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    Comment #41138129

    for curiosity - what wisdom do you intend to draw from visualising relations of single gut bacteria? Or is it grains of sand in the sea? How many of them will you zoom into? Maybe …

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    Comment #41069372

    My mother can't. And she doesn't mind.

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    Comment #41069347

    I always acted as if there were no such thing as private data on github. Maybe even the internet as a whole.

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    Comment #41003470

    heavy clouds this morning. Maybe time to reconsider how solid a ground clouds are.

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    Comment #41003297

    What do card houses do for a living?

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    Comment #41002943

    but nginx or caddy can't run CGIs, they want scalability to the billions. Disclaimer: I build a personal social web server https://seppo.social like that on top of shared (apache) …

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    Comment #41002891

    which is great for human scale! Don't serve billions and burn the planet doing so.

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    Comment #41002798

    Wonderful! Lucky she, has a space to put it unmonetarized and under her (parents) agency and responsibility. I host a youth computer club and help at holiday camps and see this a l…

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    Comment #40808303

    but I see the problem https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-06-26/suprem...

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    Comment #40726997

    that's not what I am talking about. I talk about that today it's not allowed to abolish democracy which - believe it or not - was allowed and happened 1933. See e.g. https://www.ge…

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    Comment #40716764

    …it may have a different name, though…