JC @jc@librem.one

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

Mark your calendars, July 13th-16th SFC will be hosting the first annual FOSSY Conference in Portland, OR! A conference dedicated to the communities of people who use, make and love software freedom. https://fossy.us

AgonLight Open Source Hardware Retro Computer is captured in KiCad and updated by Olimex https://olimex.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/agonlight-open-source-hardware-retro-computer-running-bbc-basic-was-captured-in-kicad-and-updated-by-olimex/ #retrocomputer #bbcbasic #z80 #OSHW #embeded will be available for pre-order next week at special Christmas price of EUR 50 for assembled, programmed and tested board

i.MX8MPlus for MNT Reform is booting a mainline kernel (plus some DSI patches)! Now it's that typical dance again to get the display to actually show something. But tomorrow.

thread on MNT Reform community contributions. If you want to help, chime in: https://community.mnt.re/t/community-contributions/1327/3

There are two types of people in this world:
“Crap, sorry, my computer just died.”
And
“Hold on, I need to find an outlet because my battery is at 89%.”

RT @ZackBornstein
I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

Up next in #GNOMEAsia2022 Track 2 is Getting Started as a GNOME Contributor and Leveraging the In-Community Opportunities to Build a Career Around FOSS with Mantoh Kuma.
https://events.gnome.org/event/100/timetable/#20221203

✨ Over 2600 people joined the https://fediverse.info/explore/people fediverse directory so far!

I'm going to make the directory easier to browse with additional data, and better handle bio/topic updates this weekend. #fediverse #fediverseInfo #peopleDirectory

Reminder that Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, and Bandcamp will be giving 100% of proceeds to artists.

Also, Music makes an excellent gift, and it's the holidays.

#shopsmall #BandcampFriday

Photographic proof! Thank you @smallsco for writing Macstodon and making this possible! This is an amazing project.

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Just in case you're wondering, the fight against authorizing the use of deadly force via robots by the SFPD isn't over yet. There is one vote left before the policy becomes effective. If you live in SF, you can use this Action Alert to tell your Supervisor to vote "no."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/let-them-know-san-francisco-shouldnt-arm-robots

The Latest VLC Media Player Update Adds RISC-V Support

https://www.omglinux.com/vlc-now-supports-risc-v/

#opensource #vlc #riscv

If you're reading this, and you're struggling in any way...

If you're depressed, anxious, angry, bitter, heartbroken, confused...

Just close your eyes for a while and focus on anything that makes you smile. Listen to your favorite song. Think about someone who makes you laugh. Shut everything else out.

It gets better. Just believe that.

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.