João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

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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.

Eu sempre soube que vivia rodeado de atrasados mentais e de filhos da puta. Mas durante muitos anos, os resultados eleitorais pareciam desmentir-me.

Aí está a prova. Aí estão eles, os atrasados mentais e os filhos da puta, perdida a vergonha.

Por outro lado, isto também é resultado direto de TODOS os partidos tratarem desde sempre o Algarve com o mais profundo desprezo. Incluindo o meu.

Estas merdas pagam-se. Muito caro. #legislativas2024

Deixar o Xunga participar na governação é como entregar a gestão das economias familiares ao tio alcoólico e drogado. Um acto de fé cega numa tragédia garantida.

Periodic reminder that as long as birth certificates have a "gender" section, then your government is literally running a children's genital registry.

I'm proud to announce that a Wesnoth has turned 20 years old! Starting with version 0.1 tagged on June 18th 2003, Wesnoth has grown with the help of hundreds of volunteers continually improving all aspects of the game. And while admittedly Wesnoth is no longer at the peak of its popularity, there are still many developers, translators, add-on authors, moderators, and players helping to keep Wesnoth going strong. Thank you everyone for all your work, and here's to another 20 years of Wesnoth!