Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Your important reminder of the day:

"The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS). [...] Most people in the industry don’t realise that the web dev economy is primarily extractive."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/

Interesting to come across this from 2012: https://gizmodo.com/googles-broken-promise-the-end-of-dont-be-evil-5878987 Turns out, society loses respect for those who fail to live up to their stated principles. And fair enough too.

Interesting - I went from Apache -> Nginx about 10 years ago... never looked back. https://linuxiac.com/nginx-most-popular-web-server/

"The First Amendment prevents the government from forcing private publishers to publish the government’s preferred speech, and from forcing them to favor politicians over other speakers. This is a fundamental principle of our democracy."-EFF's @davidgreene https://www.eff.org/press/releases/unconstitutional-florida-law-barring-platforms-suspending-politicians-should-be

RT @lgbtq_economics: Today CLEAR joined @eff and 20+ organizations in calling on @paypal and @Venmo to provide more transparency and accou…

Sometimes the best debugging technique is taking a nap.

Freenode: "The new freenode is launched. You will slowly be disconnected and when you reconnect, you will be on the new freenode. It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS. freenode is freedom. We're so happy to welcome you and the millions of others."

How delusional can this still get? What a megalomaniac.

The “only” arguably makes it impossible to dual-license.

Hmm, yeah it seems so although if one used MsPL they probably are not interested in dual-licensing (because it just came from MS) and changing the license of a project that we don’t have copyright is not allowed in general. Say we distribute Sequoia under GPL and someone says “well I can’t dual-license it under Apache!”. D'oh!

Thanks for the point Rysiek, see you later!

@lightweight MsPL has a clause added specifically and only to make it incompatible with the GPL and related licenses.

When I was doing FLOSS activism back in the day, I had a meeting with some "FLOSS Evangelist" from Microsoft, they were pushing hard the bullcrap of "FLOSS-friendly" MS. So when they asked what can they do to make the FLOSS community trust them more, I said "remove that clause".

The guy got *actually* offended. How dare I suggest such a thing?!

Wow, I get really frustrated when I see FOSS communities falling for Microsoft's "pro open source" PR spin - note, they never say anything positive about Copyleft (the "F" in #FOSS). They are no friends of FOSS - they're a parasite. Microsoft loves OSS like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system - exploiting what others produce for their own (proprietary) self-interest.

@lwriemen

I've detected a certain incongruity in thought cycles that seem to take the form of: 1) "we live in an entrenched system with evils built into it and nothing is going to disrupt it", combined with 2) "serious disruption always favors consolidation of power."

There's a certain "we can't win, we can't break even, and we can't get out of the game" fatalism to all this that I find profoundly frustrating.

It seems that hydrogen can be used to replace coking coal for smelting steel. If that hydrogen is made from surplus energy from renewable generation, that's a huge potential reduction in carbon emissions:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441832/tiwai-point-eyed-up-for-hydrogen-production

#RenewableEnergy #hydrogen #steel #coal #CarbonEmissions

#Linux shell redirection:

>: STDOUT, overwrite
>>: STDOUT, append
2>: STDERR, overwrite
2>>: STDERR, append
&>: STDOUT/STDERR, overwrite
&>>: STDOUT/STDERR, append
<: read file to STDIN
<<: read multiline string to STDIN (heredoc)
<<<: read single line string to STDIN

The audience award of this year's #BigBrotherAwards goes to … #Doctolib for their appointment scheduling portal for medical doctors which leaks personal information to third parties, breaking patient–doctor confidentiality.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/health-doctolib

It is closely followed by #Google who received the award in the new #WhatMakesMeReallyAngry category for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet #adtech market, for starving creators and the media, and for dispossessing our digital personalities.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-angry-google
#BBA21