@whitequark@mastodon.socialthe sheer gall of a guy calling his fork "something libre" to claim that it's apolitical
not only this is wilfully ignorant, but it also, on its face, entirely dismisses the value of FOSS as a political project
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialYep, seems like different parts of the Fosstodon mod team just keep doubling down on "we are apolitical" – as if that was a real thing and not just reinforcing the existing power and abuse…
And in true fashion for FOSS priorities, the admin can't seem to get a statement out as it's more important to first pick a blogging platform.
This could fit into a FOSS-centric reboot of that Silicon Valley comedy show if it wasn't so sad 😅
#fosstodon
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Two other things come to mind:
The use of snowflake as an insult to me implies something about the person's political allegiances.
1. I wonder if he realizes that FOSS is itself a political movement, one that may be incongruent with his other views.
2. If not for the fact that they're an active threat to life, it would be hilarious that the p…
@denkbeteiligung@digitalcourage.socialKennt jemand einen #PositionsTracker der ohne Google und Apple einsetzbar ist?
Am besten mit #FOSS auf dem Gerät?
#GPS
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@e8johan@social.linux.pizza#fossnorth 2025 is over and I wrote a short summary: https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2025/04/foss-north-2025/
See you next year!
@mro@digitalcourage.socialAlways saddening seeing #FOSS projects holding contributors hostage at AI-gullets like github.
@janneke@todon.nlGeert-Jan Meewisse and Raoul Kramer presenting "presenting the FOSS stack for schools" in Kleine spoel at @…
@…
#tdose
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Toru Takemitsu & Ji Hyung Park:
🎵 In the woods for guitar: no.1; Wainscot Pond - after a painting by Cornelia Foss
#ToruTakemitsu #JiHyungPark
https://open.spotify.com/track/6J5DoqwYQSAyK9YEY8xMlo
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@kubikpixel@chaos.socialWhere Projects are Evaluated – To see if they're as free and open source as advertised
The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
🧑💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSubtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.
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@detondev@social.linux.pizzaOpenStreetMap doesn't have as many streets documented as Google, but we can make it a killer app by mapping what Google won't! For an easy first destination, I propose we have a group of FOSS-loving volunteers commit ritual suicide and then map ring 2 of the 7th circle of Hell in accordance with Dante's Inferno
@mapto@qoto.orgOpenFest 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria is open to your submissions
#FOSS #openSource #openArt
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgremembering what open source was like before it was called “open source” https://lobste.rs/c/9i6xqh
@Captain_Faraday@social.linux.pizzaHey everyone! I've made the jump from Mastodon.Social and wanted to introduce myself. I'm an electrical engineer living in the southeastern USA.
You'll find me tooting about Linux, FOSS, Python, and scripting. When I'm not on the keyboard, I'm into photography, hiking, and enjoying nature with my spouse.
Also, I have two black cats that pay rent with their winning personalities and love. lol :rickdance:
Looking forward to connecting in this community! D…
@beeb@hachyderm.ioIt's release time for lintspec!
This new iteration brings a new experimental parser which increases the overall performance by 2-3x and a bunch of minor fixes, especially around the highlighted source code spans in the diagnostics.
#rust #RustLang #FOSS #solidity #benchmarking
@arXiv_mathPR_bot@mastoxiv.pageHeavy-tail asymptotics for the length of a busy period in a Generalised Jackson Network
Sergey Foss, Masakiyo Miyazawa, Linglong Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23310
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaOkay. So I've entered the true void and gone over to the dark side. Firefox, with all its faults and failings (at least on the Mozilla part), remains an advocate for FOSS. Testdriving it now. Even experimenting with Mistral, one of their AI offerings. Still have Yokoffing's user.js installed though.
Firefox still deserves our support.
@hynek@mastodon.socialWatching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS of LLM-based coding helpers, I've come down to 3 points that explain why ppl seem to live in different realities:
Most programmers:
1) Write inconsequential remixes of trivial code that has been written many times before.
2) Lack the taste for good design & suck at code review in general (yours truly included).
3) Lack the judgement to differentiate between 1) & FOSS repos of nontrivial code, …
@hey@social.nowicki.io@… and no passkeys support. This is the one with ready to merge branch and the developer busy with something else.
inb4: a FOSS developer CAN be busy with something else, it is none of our business, it's fine
@dploeger@mastodon.socialKennt jemand eine gute Einkaufszettel-App? Gerne #selfHosted oder als Backend #NextCloud und #FOSS, aber mit den üblichen Funktionen:
- Vorgefertigte Produkte
- Mengensupport
- Unterst…
@rettichschnidi@swiss.socialWäre cool, heute noch ein paar neue Gesichter zu sehen: #FOSS
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaEris tossing an apple of discord into the FOSS conference that reads "for the most functional" (last word scratched off), then mysteriously disappearing
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIncredibly, with 30 hours to go, @… are less than €8500 from their stretch target of €75,000.
Part of the motivation of this drive was, as far as I can tell, to see if the #fediverse actually liked @… and their software, guess we know the answer to that one now then...
Bravo #Fedizens...
And Bravo #Framasoft for all your #FOSS work..
👏👏👏
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@tgpo@social.linux.pizza @candide@vis.social @rettichschnidi@swiss.socialThanks for yet another informative day!
#OpenChain
