McSinyx @mcsinyx@librem.one

This year we had great candidates for GSoC and it wasn't an easy choice, but we could only pick two. Congrats to Alejandro Domínguez and Kai A. Hiller. They will work on Fractal-Next to achieve feature parity with current Fractal and add multi-account support.

What's the point of using GPL license if you're also dual licensing it as permissive license or even proprietary license?

> We support the establishment of
a public institution that is fully financed with public funds, is neutral regarding the producer, and will
support audiovisual entertainment content on any screen or platform.

ie "we want to fund RIAA/MPAA/Music Canada with your taxpayer dollars" #yalereport GET FUCKED

@purism please add the local/federated timelines and direct messaging back into librem social.
it just takes away functionality for no reason.
it gives a compelling reason to just use another instance. i can't find any new people to follow without the timelines and i can't continue a toot thread in private with anyone. it makes librem social very boring and anti-social.

Here's a video about this prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxmGxuCM4g

"Elsevier and the USDOJ have declared war against Sci-Hub and open science."

Help preserve access to millions of scientific articles by seeding them before they get taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/

Rocket (https://git.sr.ht/~alva/rocket) is a WIP #GTK/#libhandy #Gemini client written in #Zig.

It's now listed on https://linmobapps.frama.io.
#LINMOBapps #LinuxPhoneApps

I'm gonna alias the shell command "lick" to touch a file and change the owner to me.

#shotonpinephone

as we talk about the morality of vaccine patents

i think it is a nice time to also remember historical precident

jonas salk did not patent the polio vaccine. he went out of his way to make sure it was not patented.

he never got rich. he actively made sure he didn't get rich off of it.

but that history is full of stories about how for the rest of his life, jonas salk did not have to ever pay for a beer in any bar in this country. he would get on airplanes and once somebody recognized his name, the entire damn plane would stand up and clap for him. he constantly had hotel rooms comped, meals for free at restaurants, thus and so.

because he was surrounded by people who knew he had saved their children from having to ever consider the fear of an iron lung, and were overwhelmingly grateful for it.

he was always modest and demure when recognized thusly. but i think that when people start saying "well why else would someone make a vaccine, if not to get paid for it and hold the patent", i think it is good to remember these stories. the world did not punish jonas salk for not patenting the polio vaccine. the world loved him for it. maybe not in the structures that billionaires are most used to. but they did love him for it, in small ways, in humble ways, on the individual level.

I'm not seeing a lot of people talk about this so I'm not sure if you even know?

1. France is making the hijab illegal for everyone under 18 (in public. In other words, they're making it illegal for underage hijabis to fucking *go outside*). Hijabis also won't be allowed to accompany their children on school trips

2. Germany is making it illegal for hijabis to work in public office, like as a teacher

#islamophobia #misogyny

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost

See https://standardebooks.org/

#technology #opensource #ebooks #reading #nodrm

European petition against patent on covid vaccine https://eci.ec.europa.eu/015/public/

Where are some places/communities you see CC licenses being used on software? (Other than Stack Overflow, which is the first one I think of.)

(Yes, boosts appreciated!)