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Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🌅
完美因为完美不存在 🌅
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Good Morning Fedi!
💿 DaTuRa 『ダチュラ』ダンスプラクティス動画
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgQeozSt3w
🎵 https://song.link/y/bbgQeozSt3w

I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the remaining bits are ones I can't control really: banking payments, DK state ITs love affair with microsoft, apps needed to access state services.
And if someone can come up with a way to persuade teenagers this is cool. That would be nice.
Of course what the piece misses is the huge commercial reliance on the back end stack.
We desperately need #Eurostack.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116554305782688437
Ruth_Mottram - Life without US tech - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e6d8cec7-b20c-4707-b963-88348726215a

„„Eine Neutralitätspflicht, so wie das Schulamt sie definiert, gibt es nicht für Lehrer.“ Lehrkräfte seien dem Grundgesetz verpflichtet und damit per se nicht neutral.“
Toller Text, toller Lehrer:
https://taz.de/Neutralitaetsdebatte-in-der-Schule/!6179783/

KI frisst Software: Top-Investor stößt Microsoft-Aktien ab
Einer der größten Hedgefonds der Welt baut seine langjährige Microsoft-Position fast vollständig ab. Grund sind KI-Sorgen um das Softwaregeschäft.
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KI frisst Software: Top-Investor stößt Microsoft-Aktien ab
Einer der größten Hedgefonds der Welt baut seine langjährige Microsoft-Position fast vollständig ab. Grund sind KI-Sorgen um das Softwaregeschäft.

I did it! New 15x11 inch Kallitype print (on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, 100% cotton, 300gsm paper). Available as limited edition soon.
#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography …

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Ohne #Parkplätze an der Straße gehen die Geschäfte pleite!“
Seit Jahren wird mit dieser Angst Stimmung gemacht, wenn Städte verkehrsberuhigte …

Autolobby-Mythos: „Ohne Parkplätze an der Straße gehen die Geschäfte pleite!“
Weniger Parkplätze gleich weniger Umsatz? Studien zeigen: Verkehrsberuhigung kann den Einzelhandel stärken – nicht schwächen.

Good Morning Fedi!
💿 【MV】僕らのシンフォニー / TENRIN
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWcsconP7ms
🎵 https://song.link/y/HWcsconP7ms

Good Morning Fedi!
💿 【MV】今何してるの？ / MelToxin Music Video
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OecC7aPzOVQ
🎵 https://song.link/y/OecC7aPzOVQ