João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Nothing really substantial, but two of my new repositories are GPL now and I like it as my new default instead of MIT.

I laughed at FOSS before, but somehow, OSS not being enough for companies anymore pushes me towards OSS also not being enough for me.

While they migrate away to source-available proprietary software, I feel like I want to achieve the exact opposite with my work - to ensure that it helps to build the commons.

I may have some light criticism concerning the fact that "Bash inside a string inside YAML" has become the universal language for cloud computing

Do you have an old #PinePhone lying in the cupboard?

Dev versions of #ModemManager now support #GPS without a SIM card. Consumers of the MM API need some changes for this, so I submitted pull requests to #Geoclue (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/173), gnss-share (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/gnss-share/-/merge_requests/15), and my own simple #GNSS app Satellite (https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite/releases) (all 3 in different languages).

Soon it will be possible to use SIMless mobile phones for things like navigation and fitness tracking.

#MobileLinux

We are proud to be home to #Redict, the #fork of the formerly free (but no longer) Redis project. We are using #Redis on our own infrastructure for caching, and we are looking forward to migrate to the new version, then fetched from Codeberg. A small world … 😉

Missed the story? Get up to date here: https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

Directly check out the code? Check the #Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

The Redis thing underscores a key point: _open source is not enough_. We need _community built software_ -- free and open source licenses are just one aspect of that.

If a company requires you to assign copyright (or equivalent re-licensing rights) in an asymmetrical way, they will inevitably eventually decide to take that option once they want to cash in on the goodwill you've built-them (let alone the code).

So Redis is no longer open source... well, it is, but it's no longer BSD licensed. It's now licensed under a Greed License: "You can't use the software if you make money unless we also make money." Naturally, there is fork of the last BSD licensed version: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
#redis #opensource

Quando ouves, no meio de grupo de pessoal "bem", entre conversas cruzadas: "mas agora, com o PSD, isto vai funcionar", sem uma ponta de ironia.

O esquerdalho em mim:

Compliance is the root of all evil. So, you want to destroy the SSD? Drill all SSDs. Destroyed finally. All data is safe. Let’s go home.

The SSDs:

Centre-right and centre-left neck and neck in Portugal's tight election
https://flipboard.com/video/euronews/29cb82de10?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The far-right surges but it's too close to call Portugal's election
https://flipboard.com/video/euronews/47c9284170?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@joao este monte de esterco abertamente a dizer que aquilo que abril nos trouxe é para ser destruído... quem vota nisto não pode andar com a desculpa que é de protesto.

Que um privilegiado defenda os seus próprios interesses, eu até dou de barato. Que um privilegiado defenda os oprimidos, contra os seus próprios interesses, é nobre. Que um oprimido defenda os seus opressores, para mim, é aberrante.