Additionally, I guess, as a developer, I want to be closer to upstream. The sources I did see have quite a bit of changes that I fear could lead to slow update cycles with backporting and possible conflicts of interest with the upstream project plans.
That's just speculation of course, but it is what it is.
FYI, I'm trying out a new instance: rune@mastodon.nzoss.nz
It seems like a good instance and I've already found @lightweight to be a cool person.
This is mostly inspired by the fact that the #purism instance source is somewhat obscure.
There are multiple repos on source.puri.sm that *could* be the servers source, but none of them look official and none of them have a tag for v2.8.2, which is what the server UI claims to be running.
And the webui just links to the official mastodon git...
Diffu is a Free Software allowing authors to publish all kinds of texts or articles and to aggregate the reactions they generate on social networks, especially through #ActivityPub such as #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Pleroma, #PixelFed, #Funkwhale, #Hubzilla, #GNUSocial ...
Diffu is a kind of free and federated alternative to #Medium or other applications that are not always easy to install.
More information about @Diffu on the mockup site
https://mockup.diffu.social/?/main/read/art-1
ReToot are welcome 😉 !
KDE has adopted non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix
KDE is now officially using Matrix for collaboration within KDE! Matrix is an open protocol and network for decentralised communication (which means you can follow and comment from a different instance of Matrix where you already have a presence), backed by an open standard and open source reference implementations for servers, clients, client SDKs, bridges, bots and more. It provides all the features you’d expect from a modern chat system: infinite scrollback, file transfer, typing notifications, read receipts, presence, search, push notifications, stickers, VoIP calling and conferencing, etc. It even provides end-to-end encryption (based on Signal’s double ratchet algorithm) for when you want some privacy. https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10e38e7cf4ed8190091da003199908b4b6
I love it when people get excited about how their favourite tech and my work might combine and create new things.
I love it a bit less when they e-mail me out of the blue suggesting I rewrite all my code to use $TECH because of $BENEFITS.
I'm sure they mean well, but that's just wrong on so many levels.
If you want to help a project, help the project!
Telling people what to do just isn't helpful: the average value of unsolicited advice is negative. Politely saying no is hard, tiring work.
I'm catching up🏃♂️with developments in MATE Desktop after having been away galavanting for a week. @popey@twitter.com and I have claimed to regularly have a large number of browser tabs open. Today I learned we a rank amateurs 😕 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/issues/394#issuecomment-501443518
I found this overview of free software developers income quite informative: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
My personal journey from MIT to GPL
https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GPL.html
@ischade "I wrote this incantation after being awake for 40 hours straight. I keep re-reading now and by all rights it shouldn't work, but it does. This word here doesn't even seem to serve a purpose, but the spell stops working if I remove it, so..."
GParted 1.0, #AMD Ryzen 3000, Zorin OS, Krita, #HiddenWasp, Google #Stadia | This Week in #Linux 69
https://tuxdigital.com/twinl69
Also on EP69: HerbsluftWM, IceWM, Snap Store, #System76, Dell, PyGamer, Unity Editor, #PopOS, Happy Birthday to #distrowatch & #phoronix
"While the Microsoft Alternatives project is ambitious, it’s also a unique opportunity for CERN to demonstrate that building core services can be done without vendor and data lock-in, that the next generation of services can be tailored to the community’s needs"
Open source everything.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/cern-ditch-microsoft-open-source-malt
Hackers, Freedonians and Everyone Else...
You may not know me but I produce and edit a Free Software podcast called Libre Lounge. I want to take the podcast in some new directions, either LL itself, or a new podcast with a similar aim, but to do that, I'm going to need some help- production and editing especially. If you have those kinds of skills and can help, please send me a direct message or email me at emacsen@emacsen.net!
Prison Abolition and dealing with "The Dangerous Few"
https://twitter.com/lackingceremony/status/1132437030774796289
I found this super compelling and it resolves my only holdout argument against prison abolition.
GNU/Linux phones cannot come fast enough.
I am exhausted reading about corporate monopolies abusing people and then lying to them telling them it's for their own good.
It is time.
https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/master/Notifications.md
Hackerspaces can and will outlive Maker, and Free Software will outlive Open Source, because ultimately movements built on community, principles and people will always live longer than those built on brands and trends.
Don't be sad about Maker Faire. It's just an opportunity for you to create your own community-driven event in your area.
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Mixed feelings about Maker Faire shutting down. I feel sad because it was a cool event in principle, but the corporate sponsorship and corporatization of it made me uncomfortable in the same way that Hackerspaces became "Maker Spaces".
If that pattern seemed familiar to how Free Software became co-opted to become Open Source, you have the same man to thank, Tim O'Reilly.
But what this shows us is another clear lesson that we can't build community on "benevolent corporations".
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