João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

SFC's Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, has written a comprehensive analysis of the situation with the #RHEL (#RedHat Enterprise #Linux) business model, and how it relates to the software rights & freedoms promised in the #GPL agreements.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

#CentOS #RedHat #OpenSource #copyleft #FOSS

The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.

peak capitalism

We're going to post something that isn't allowed on Twitter: a brief history of the term "cisgender"...

When #META invites you to secretive talks about the #fediverse and you are told to not share anything about those talks, be it by spoken agreement or an NDA — remember admiral Ackbar. It's a trap.

"De la merdification des choses", une tentative d’expliquer en français le concept #enshitification lancé par @pluralistic

https://ploum.net/2023-06-15-merdification.html

#merdification

thanks to @cas for the hard work over the years!

i started to follow your work about 2 years ago, and its cool that you can get a oneplus 6T and get linux working on it in less than 30 minutes!

Oh, the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress works with #kbin ❤️

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Oops...Inheritance

#programming #developers #programminghumor

Yesterday, my friend's son turned four. They had his party at the lake. Since there wasn't really an address to share, my friend sent me the GPS coordinates.
I plugged them into Puremaps and it led me straight there while I was also listening to a podcast.
#mobilelinux and the #librem5 have come a long way.

A foreign journalist asked me: #Berlusconi funded #mafia for years, and yet he got #State funeral, national mourning, and your President of the Italian Republic,whose brother was killed by the mafia, attended his State Funeral. Why?
Me: don't ask, I have no answers for you

Haven't seen anyone posting this yet, so I figured I'll share it: during our recent #Gnome #mobileLinux hackfest we got the experimental #libcamera pipeline handler for the #purism #Librem5 to work and make a video call with @dino. There were still some serious issues we didn't have time to debug any more - but hey, it's something :) (featuring @cas )

The list keeps growing :)

I think Mastodon people should use the "like" button more.

People are told not to like because liking doesn't broadcast posts like boosting does, and the site needs boosts. And replies are preferred because they're deeper engagement or something.

But, on some level, we want people to keep using Mastodon. If someone posts something and followers like it, they know stuff is getting seen here and they'll want to keep using the site. I just don't see what's gained by holding back on the likes

Registration for DebConf23 (September in Kochi, India) is now open!

https://debconf23.debconf.org/

This screen that #Google shows on #Android when installing #FDroid really bugs me. It is purely based on the integer value targetSdkVersion, without considering our security model, public audits results, track record over 10+ years, exclusive use of memory safe languages, or even what our code actually does. It is as if #FDroid marked anything that comes from Google as containing ads and trackers. 1/2

Google made it official that important apps like Messaging and Dialer are no longer maintained in the Android Open Source project. A free Android on its own is pretty much useless now.

https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/packages/apps/Messaging/+/2614297
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/+/2613992

It's summer on the northern hemisphere again 😎 so #phosh's automatic high contrast mode got two updates that are already merged and hence will very likely be in 0.29.0:

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