Patrick @p@librem.one

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/opinion-the-unspoken-truth-about-managing-geeks.html

git push -o skip-ci

^ now supported on git.sr.ht

You can specify any other push options and they'll be forwarded to any webhooks you have configured, where you can use them for arbitrary behaviors

So got #postmarketOS booting on the #pinebookpro

Only from SD for now since u-boot is the most annoying part.

Apollo 11 vs USB-C Chargers

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

So, SourceHut is not hosted in anyone's cloud. I own all of the hardware outright and colocate most of it in a local datacenter.

I just built a new server for git.sr.ht, and boy is she a beat. It cost me about $5.5K as a one-time upfront cost, and now I just pay for power, bandwidth, and space, which runs about $650/mo for *all* of my servers (10+).

Ran back of the napkin numbers with AWS's price estimator for a server of equivalent specs, and without even considering bandwidth usage it'd cost me almost TEN GRAND PER MONTH to host JUST that server alone on AWS.

AWS is how techbro startups pile up and BURN their investor money.

https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising-industry-is-systematically-breaking-the-law/

#outlawads

Following up on "Hello world"

https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/08/Re-Slow.html

Hello world

https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/04/Slow.html

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Big picture, in the next decade, I would like to see:

1. Federated free software services become the dominant platform for social media and messaging.

2. A more privacy-oriented and cryptographically-literate public, and simple, standard free software tools anyone can leverage for this purpose.

3. Open hardware, especially RISC-V, becoming the dominant approach for new hardware development.

4. Recapturing the mobile market from proprietary walled gardens, instead favoring models which put the user in control of their devices (e.g. pmOS).

5. Average (read: non-SV CEO) technologists becoming more politically engaged, including running for and winning offices, and using political will to reinforce the above and start making a difference outside of tech

Screenshot of sway running on #postmarketOS on a #pinephone

https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/09/Developers-shouldnt-distribute.html

http://cursors.io/

Linus Torvalds: Git is a distributed version control system, which means even if you lose a remote, you still have your local copy, so your code is safe, unlike centralized VCSes.

Developer Community: wut?

Microsoft: Hmm. How about you use our Visual Studio Online and push it to GitHub, both hosted on our computers, so that you don't have a local copy?

Developer Community: Yaay! Such innovation! Very cloud! Much wow! 🎉

Trump: Thou shall not use US services.

Developers: Where's my code? 😭

https://drewdevault.com/2019/11/20/China.html

Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/f60bee0e-31d3-4aca-9e49-6fcdc87ad40d

Info page for the talk I'm giving at PLUG this Wednesday:

https://drewdevault.com/talks/foss-contributors-mindset.html

I give GNOME a lot of shit but they don't deserve to be targetted by patent trolls. Support them here:

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

Give some money to Gnomies fighting the good fight! https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

Repost

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks