Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa@mastodon.online

Hello Fediverse!
Almost 9 years after our very first tweet announcing the creation of the project, we're now happy to publish our very first toot

We are an international team of contributors of code and otherwise. Together we work on the the most popular open source podcast app for Android. And we would love to get you on board 👉 https://antennapod.org/contribute

What we like to do in our spare time? Listening to podcasts!

#introduction #podcast #OpenSource #FOSS #Android #Java

Carl T. Bergstrom on Twitter: "We have a new paper out in PNAS today, in which we address the harm wrought by dramatically restructuring human communication of the span of a decade, with no aim other than selling ads."

Explanatory thread in plain language: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1407099264363208706

📄 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118

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忍びの者にゃ

Are you based in Europe? Make sure to set libpaper's /etc/papersize to a4 😅

#ohno #linux #tips

WhatsApp reverses course, now won’t limit functionality if you don’t accept its new privacy policy - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22458805/whatsapp-privacy-policy-no-plans-limit-functionality

Not that the Egyptian security services have seen any change since the #Mubarak days, but let us not forget who put the current government in place and what their democratic credentials are.

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Italian judge orders trial of four Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered four senior members of #Egypt's security services to stand trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio #Regeni in #Cairo in 2016.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-prosecutors-ask-judge-try-egyptian-officers-over-regeni-murder-2021-05-25/

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

@moftasa And then if you want to learn more advanced concepts, like OO or data structures, they are right there in the language you already know.

The most significant down-side I know of is that, for people who _do_ go on to learn more programming, there are certain pretty common concepts that might be more confusing for them -- notably static typing.