@steven@todon.nl @lunduke @purism @paulfree14 @gabriele@social.lucci.xyz just out of curiosity, what's the issue in purism having a fork of mastodon?
I would actually be concerned if they didn't have the option to fix issues without waiting for upstream. Just from a development perspective.
@hund@linuxrocks.online pretty unsatisfactory. It definitely erodes trust that they would make such a claim about respecting privacy only to be disproven by a 3rd party later.
Atleast they seem to have come around with a fix according to the article update.
"UPDATE: Version 0.1.4 of Librem Chat has been released and contains zero trackers."
Best i can hope is that these are unwitting mistakes of a company venturing into new territory, but I guess time will tell.
@alcinnz interesting :)
I never thought about memory allocation much, until a few months back, when I read another pretty good article but from a higher level programming perspective.
It starts out about how ruby memory allocation may be unnecessarily wasteful but actually ends up explaining a lot about how multiple different memory allocators interact.
Might be of interest to programmers who never "need" to think about memory allocation.
https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-causes-ruby-memory-bloat.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..."
@emsenn @alcinnz @codesections i personally prefer to return 418.
Not many exploits available for teapots.
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!
@lightweight that's just the beginning. All our mailboxes are in 365, we use Azure, their OMS logging platform, "advanced threat protection".
It would take years maybe decades to get out if Microsoft decided to screw us over.
@hirojin@dev.glitch.social @zkat sometimes it lasts into July but I usually bounce back.
@lightweight I work in government and manage to get by with libreoffice, but it is actually crazy to me that we license Office for 5-8 thousand employees.
What's almost comical is that every time someone sends me something in Word or PowerPoint format it'll end up being incomprehensible and I have to spend time communicating with them to even figure out what they actually want.
I think we'd be better off discouraging the use of these tools internally. Even if it were open formats.
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
@emacsen indeed. It requires mix of stricter enforcement and rethinking the frame for how large corporations can be punished.
Clearly the framework is outdated and not capable of dealing with corporations the figurative size of countries.
@alcinnz nice :)
Giving me flashbacks to functional programming class in university. I don't miss everything from that time but a lot of the stuff taught there was really interesting.
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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