@scott@carfree.city2026-04-12 00:29:29
There was some kind of street festival on 24th St today and I felt sorry for the exhibitors. Total ghost town because of the rain. I did learn about the SF Living Wage Coalition, which confusingly uses the same purple and yellow color scheme as SEIU 1021. https://www.livingwage-sf.org
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-12 22:24:43
WR Austin leaving Steelers to sign with Giants https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48187908/wr-calvin-austin-iii-leaving-steelers-sign-giants
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-10 23:00:11
libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-03-12 19:46:40
Israel just attacked a university in Beirut, Lebanon, killing a dean and a researcher. Like it did in Gaza, where it systematically bombed all universities.
https://www.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-11 15:45:04
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2026-03-11 15:42:31
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-11 09:17:58
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
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-04-11 13:25:11
POL-SZ: Pressemeldung der Polizeiinspektion Salzgitter/Peine/Wolfenbüttel für den Bereich Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede Salzgitter-Lebenstedt und Salzgitter-Thiede (ots) - Fahren unter Einfluss von Betäubungsmitteln Salzgitter, Lebenstedt, Theodor-Heuss-Straße, 10.04.2026, 22:11 Uhr Am Samstagabend wurde durch Zeugen gemeldet, dass ein 19-jähriger männlicher ...
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-10 07:00:14
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-12 02:33:27
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Jethro Tull:
🎵 Living in the Past
#JethroTull
https://magnacartarecords.bandcamp.com/track/living-in-the-past
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gT03ljMtJBaVBTmVUbbat
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