"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"
"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"
"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"
"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"
What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".
@sankakujin
I don't even get a local timeline, so I guess nothing to complain about here. But when half of my feed is from a specific instance, it makes me think about it.
@neauoire
@neauoire
"We have detected"... How did they do that?... using JavaScript?
@sir
How many of them addressed you by an incorrect first name?
@sir
Where the tools actually slow you down?
I mean, if it were more efficient, wouldn't all the 'uber for grocery shopping' workers be doing it already?
@bionade24@mastodon.social
Procedural.
In college, we just learned these three:
1. Procedural
2. OOP
3. Nobody likes lisp
@sir
@purism
Wow. Now there's a goal for number of app votes?
I should have just donated less money more times, so I could have more votes :P
@purism
I love this! What I'm wondering is how much money do you need and how many people need to click "Hold my order" in order for me to get my Librem 5 phone this year 😜.
Introducing: Fund Your App
Vote for the mobile phone apps you desire to see working on the #librem5 phone!
https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/
"Fund Your App is a great way to show how far we have come with the Librem 5 and PureOS, it also allows people to vote on what is our app development priority."
@ewm@floss.social
@silence
How does silence handle pairing between devices before starting end-to-end encryption?
Any plans to port to the linux phone software projects?
While the messages are being stored encrypted on one's device, how are the decryption keys stored?
@slisne
What kind of features are you using?
@slisne
It's cold, and dark, and it gets everywhere!
@beegrrl
From the pinephone wikipedia page
> Because no software development costs are incurred by Pine64, the PinePhone's selling price (US$149.99 for the basic model[26]) is lower compared to other Linux phones, notably the Librem 5 (US$749.99[27]),
I wish @purism had spent more effort in getting community members to share the SW development burden.
Nothing says "We love open source" quite like "join our Discord channel".
Also... #Mattermost (open source self-hosted Discord alternative) is sponsoring #DigitalOcean #Hacktoberfest ...? That makes no sense.
Spamtoberfest
https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html
gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.gmi
@neauoire
Wow... I didn't know about this before. Time to #quitDigitalOcean?
Anybody got recommendations? I might just switch to self-hosting, but the power/internet isn't always reliable at my house.
Just your average linux user (above-average computer-person) with fullstack web dev experience.
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