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@msw I think that accepting resources from corporations who are well known to actively undermine #Copyleft is unfortunately not a neutral act. It signals an implicit acceptance of those donors' actions, and an obligation from the OSI to give them the benefit of the doubt. We need to convince democratic gov'ts to fund #FOSS as digital critical infrastructure, and shun corporations and their donations entirely. A smart gov't would recognise that. Few, if any, are. @alcinnz @downey @skyfaller

@downey yes, I haven't completely given up on them yet, as I have on the Linux Foundation, but I'm certainly very sceptical these days. I'm not an ally of 'open source' except to the extent that it's used by many when they mean Free Software, and I accept their passion if not correctness in terminology. @skyfaller @alcinnz

Interesting.

#OpenSource Initiative #OSI using a proprietary issue tracker software for its new website.

Gotta appease those sweet sweet corporate sponsors, I guess. Even when said sponsors are selling proprietary software.

#openwashing #hypocrisy #GiveUpGitHub

https://github.com/OpenSourceOrg/dotOrg

this interview with the Mozilla CEO is really baffling to me

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai

first off she talks about how Mozilla isn't really anti-microsoft or anti-big-tech, which ... uh, what? and then not very long after that she's talking about how Mozilla has always been anti-tracking... how do you reconcile that? how out of touch do you have to be to think you can be anti-tracking without being anti-big-tech

later it gets worse:

> Q: Do you think that you have to build generative AI products into Firefox to take advantage of that disruptive moment?

> A: Well, at some level the answer is yes, because that’s the new technology.

everything she says on this topic is a tremendous nothingburger of meaninglessness; we have to invest in this because it's new, even if we have no idea what it's for or why it would be helpful

the silicon valley brainworms really show no mercy

The thing about calling machine learning "AI" constantly is that it creates the widespread expectation of actual intelligence and there is none, zero, that is not what is happening here.

It is obscene that governments effectively require people to have internet connectivity to be able to function in society but abdicate responsibility for ensuring that people actually have that and delegate it to for-profit enterprises instead

Fun fact: Branding and forking aside, #LibreOffice's initial codebase (Star Office) predates #Microsoft Office by three years. #opensource

With the new Navigation API, you can now show the native spinner + stop button for any asynchronous operation - all you need is a Promise.

#Obsidian saved my ass at work today. Thanks to my booster shot, I have very vague memories of what I did on Friday. (Among the side effects I get from vaccinations, it is brain fog. Fun stuff.)
Fortunately, I take detailed project notes with interstitial journaling so I got updated quickly and managed to report on what I did.

#ObsidianMD #PKM

Cisco gets super weird because they didn't want to keep supporting new hardware, so back in the mid-2000s they actually started running a Linux kernel. There was some guy at Kiwicon 2016 (I think) who showed how he hacked a Cisco router and broke out of ios into the base Linux shell.

The base Linux only shows once Ethernet adapter because the others are implemented using PCI-E userspace drivers (which is apparently a thing) and ios is one massive binary (I think it was a few hundred megs) that's run as the only process.

They somehow adapted the entire OS to run as a userspace process on a Linux kernel.

#InfoSec FYI: There's a massive #typosquatting campaign targeting PyPI. Someone's clearly reached the automation section of "Black Hat Python" 🙄

This is the same actor as highlighted by Phylum yesterday - currently they're pushing a cryptostealer everywhere they can, but who knows what's next.

Recently, they've started typosquatting the following packages (& showing example typosquat):
* xlsxwriter (ex. xlsxwwriter)
* urllib3 (rllib3)
* simplejson (simplejsn)
* requests-toolbelt (requests-toollbelt)
* discord-webhook (disocrd-webhook)
* discord-py (discod-py)
* websocket-client (weebsocket-client)
* openpyxl (oepnpyxl)
* pillow (pilloow)
* click (clickk)
* pysocks (ysocks)
* psutil (psuil)
* gitpython (gitpythn)
* pycodestyle (pycodestye)
* prompt-toolkit (prompt-toolkiit)
* beautifulsoup (baeutifulsoup)

Reports headed out to PyPI soon.

If your company uses your own PyPI mirror, I'd recommend disallowing new packages released within the past ~week (as a general precaution, tbh).

While refactoring my personal #KnowledgeGraph I asked #ChatGPT what's the relation between #ObjectOrientedProgramming and #FunctionalProgramming.

I was expecting something in the line of opposition and alternative. But it replied "complementary".

Clever!

Cactus Comments - Federated Web Comments

https://cactus.chat

Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the web, based on the Matrix protocol.

#Disqus #FreeSoftware #Alternative #Matrix

It’s just absolutely wrong. Households are struggling to pay to heat their homes and yet the fossil fuel companies are reporting record profits. I don’t know how the people that work for these companies can sleep at night, disgusting.

The great big Matrix 2.0 main-stage talk from #FOSDEM2023 is now available online! Come see how we're making Matrix go voom 🏎️ with the world first demo of iOS Element X beta; the Waterfall SFU for Element Call; P2P Matrix & scriptable Third Room in WebXR! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5IE

I am glad that some of the finer points of protective reciprocal licensing (aka "#copyleft") are still recognized and discussed, even outside the software context.

IMO, the main goal of copyleft is to ensure that the same freedoms given to you are passed on to others, with no additional restrictions.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #DnD #OGL
https://twitter.com/rsdancey/status/1622488085719285764

I wrote some code to estimate the gender ratio of speakers at #FOSDEM. My code looks at the personal pronouns used in the speaker biographies and if that fails it uses the gender-guesser Python library to guess the gender from the name.

There were 786 speakers, these are my results:

male: 656
female: 82
unknown: 48

If we ignore the unknowns then 12.5% of speakers are female.

#WomenInTech

@rbreich

You say oligarchy, I say plutocracy?

US and the world being buggered by the 1 percent fits.