Michał "phoe" Herda @phoe@functional.cafe

I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzcon’s organizers quietly decide nobody needs a Q&A session this year.

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1184524556268163073

Amnesty International: "Young people have the right to learn & talk about sex! But today Poland will vote on a bill which would make teaching or promoting sexuality education to under 18s a crime punishable with for up to 3 yrs in prison. Support people in Poland opposing this. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/poland-law-criminalizing-sexuality-education-recklessly-retrogressive/"

[#humanrights #news #bot]

Sadly, Switching.social was discontinued but, thanks to the efforts of @tobias, it is being reincarnated as Switching.software.

Follow here: @switchingsoftware

Site: https://switching.software/

Thank you, Tobias. And thank you to the original anonymous person who created and maintained it until now.

Modern software design philosophy: expend exactly zero effort on helping the user gain competence and mastery. Then, proclaim that users are idiots, and treat this as the core axiom of design process.

RMS pulls a serious power move (read: dick move), unilaterally appointing a maintainer to Guile without consulting the other co-maintainers or community, because the current co-maintainers disagree with him on governance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00005.html

@kaniini The GPL only applies to the software used by people, not the people used by the software.

okay i can't do any more of this, but, again, if you do not like being exploited, don't let yourself be exploited:

1. don't contribute to 'open core' software projects

2. don't reassign your copyrights

3. carefully weigh the value you derive from contribution to a project against the possibility that any of the key players in the space may use your contribution to profit

4. if you don't feel happy about the way things are going in a project, walk.

i did it with Alpine. some say that was one of the stupidest decisions I've ever made, but my happiness is more important than Docker's bottom line.

All the #Meetup hate is justified..

Yet, I have didn’t see anyone talking about alternatives, whereas @Framasoft is literally building a free and open source alternative as we speak and they deserve every piece of attention and support for it possible.

Go ahead and take a look: https://joinmobilizon.org #mobilizon

PS: And put your money where your mouth is

Delighted to see that #DeleteFacebook is becoming a thing once again

Good morning all

Better get that #ActivityPub meetup platform ecosystem going soon...

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Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/14/cultural-diplomacy.html

Latest uBlock Origin Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store. No time like the present to switch to Firefox.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745

pass a law requiring any software distributed with an auto-update function to allow the update server to be end-user configurable and to publish the necessary API documentation to allow for third-party update server development and operation.

decouple software "sales" from software "service" across the board by decree.

if you're gonna have a state, use if for something decent, dammit.

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay. Take some time off or meditate like Karmic Koala 🐨 . 💕 #art #illustration #mastoart #krita

aired fully today. the worst, very dangerous points made by this shit, as I think:
- "LGBT wants to legalize paedophilia"
- calling LGBT an ideology every single time
- displaying videos from BDSM March (not associated with LGBT in any way) to frighten the viewers
- "Pride March participants are paid for it and go to marches in many cities"

#LGBTinPL #plpol

For those who need it, I maintain a Gitea instance for my code needs.

If you're looking for a place to move, check it out https://code.playvicio.us/

Just found this opensource.com article about Greenpeace becoming an 'open source' organisation. Quite ironic, since a few months ago I met one of their principal IT managers, who openly mocked our efforts to use #foss and #opensource IT in-house. Greenpeace relies 100% on Google's Gsuite. Any comparison with fair trade coffee was met with a "yeah but this is easier, we just don't care about Google's dubious side."

https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/open-platform-greenpeace

Sesame Street, a show created for public access television to help kids from low-income families learn to read and write, is being put being a paywall which will prevent the kids who most need it from accessing it.
The past 50 seasons are also included in that so they can't be streamed anywhere else.

Fuck capitalism.

Pirate Sesame Street.