Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Today, we kick-off the OpenWebSearch.eu project.

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2022/open-web-search-project-kicked-off/

Do you write code for free and open source projects? Would you like to learn the basics of the Rust programming language? I’m offering to teach the basics of Rust to free and open source software programmers, for free.

https://liw.fi/training/rust-foss-dev/

#Rust #RustLanguage #FOSS #Training

ISSUE 03

☁️💦💧Water Bodies💧💦☁️

our call for pitches now open through 12 OCT 2022
https://link.hypha.coop/compost-cfp

Two tears in a bucket, fuck it.

Our Instagram account has been Zucked under the guise of "promoting dangerous individuals and organizations." Our last post was promoting a mutual aid event in Portland.

Please encourage your friends to add and follow us here - let's build up this space.

Our Matrix server recipe now supports bridging with Telegram, Discord and Signal! If you're looking to bridge online community chats, drop in to our Matrix channels to get some help setting things up. We have at least one fellow-hoster using and maintaining the bridges so far... see the configs on https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/matrix-synapse

Sorry @lightweight but in this case you've got it exactly backwards. Trickle down economics is the idea that it's best to let The Market™ redirect income into the pockets of the 1%, because from there it 'trickles down' to everyone else (in the form of goods+services, wages+salaries etc). By this logic, govts taxing and spending on social and environmental goals distorts The Market™, because that's money the 1% don't get, so it can't then 'trickle down' from them to benefit everyone else.

This is a good, brief post on the software supply chain situation from the perspective of an open source maintainer: https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/

For better or for worse, a supply chain has emerged. We can agree that “supply chain” isn’t the right wording, and that the problem shouldn’t exist. But here we are. And here we will be. I do expect some big changes in the open source ecosystem that companies and other critical software providers need to adhere to, which almost certainly won’t be a positive for small open source authors/maintainers

Today I learned that the appropriate expression, referring to someone who is anxious about something, is to be "on tenterhooks". I thought it was tenderhooks, but I was wrong. Good to get it right.

In case anyone still think's it's A-Ok for us to have critical digital infrastructure and data storage dependencies outside of NZ... consider https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/475218/telikom-says-cable-repair-could-take-up-to-two-months - we are just as much on the "ring of fire" as PNG. This could be us. Could we currently cope if our international data connectivity was compromised. I'd suggest that no, we could not. We've become so complete obliviously dependent on foreign services, our economy and rule-of-law would stop dead. Society wouldn't be far behind.

Mom's sharing our closely held family gardening secrets on one of those other social media sites, smh.

If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.app/

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Big (BIG) sigh. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full

Finally wrote a post that's been stewing for a while: What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub

Many researchers, entrepreneurs, open source sustainability commentators, et al. assume that GitHub activity is a reasonable proxy for FLOSS as a whole. It's not.

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/what-you-miss-by-only-checking-github/

Goes over some examples, a marketing graphic that made my eyebrows go up, research about how unrepresentative GitHub can be, and some tools to try.