Tootfinder

The excellent Streets of Rage 4 is free on the Epic mobile store in regions where it is available. #freegames

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Free Throw:
🎵 Pallet Town
#FreeThrow
https://polarislandpkwy.bandcamp.com/track/free-throw-pallet-town-short-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MxG5l4bd3HgVzEuY5EvMt

@… can you recall how the corruption occurred?
Post-recovery, I see the absence of free space before the ESP; and the change in free space after partition 4.
#FreeBSD

#Free #Anthropic courses
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/

Series two lesson two of Free Association's improv course is about a thing they call "grounding".
For a scene to be believable, it must be grounded in reality (or in a fantastical scene at least grounded in an emotional truth).
Improvisors can often jump quickly to the bizarre or the outlandish to try and get a laugh, but especially in early in scenes the audience needs to first know who these people are and what is going on and why they should care about any of it.
Three hours of scenes deliberately drilling practice of to have nothing strange or out of context happening, scenes in which everything goes according to expectation and nobody tries to be funny.
A useful skill to drill perhaps, but you can see why Free Association get a reputation for being too serious and not laughing enough.
Three hours of scenes where mostly nothing happens might be the most dull improv evening I've had.
#improv #london #freeAssociation

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

Oh, shiny, now I found something else I want! 😁
#FreeCAD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Free Zorba The Hooligan:
🎵 Amerika
#FreeZorbaTheHooligan
https://open.spotify.com/track/3B15llsMvZ8rUfsLQj48Dq

I Audited the #Privacy of Popular #FreeDev #Tools — The Results Are Terrifying

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul:
🎵 (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind
#SirJoeQuarterman #FreeSoul
https://open.spotify.com/track/6SgpqxZDVN1zBsHodwiqy3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Free the Robots:
🎵 Jazzhole
#FreetheRobots
https://open.spotify.com/track/3WfLsIeKFsLLnZSGaIEEt9

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Queen Latifah, Shades & Free:
🎵 Mr. Big Stuff
#QueenLatifah #Shades #Free

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Free Love:
🎵 Open The Door
#FreeLove
https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/track/open-the-door-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Urb7Keza81BRViccXW3GK

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Expansions
Freeez:
🎵 I.O.U. (DJ Sliink Edit)
#Freeez
https://hlynur.bandcamp.com/album/freeez-i-o-u-hlynur-s-lvi-re-mix
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5g2Aw5ZsDT3UaQgeEEu1nN
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

New on #blog: "Money isn’t going to solve the #burnout problem"
"""
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work.
While I’m definitely not opposed to giving people money for their FLOSS work, if you think that throwing some bucks will actually solve the problem, and especially if you think that you can just throw them once and then forget, I have bad news for you: it won’t. Surely, money is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only reason people are getting burned out. It’s a systemic problem, and it’s in need of systemic solution, and that’s involves a lot of hard work undo everything that’s happened in the last, say, 20 years.
But let’s start at the beginning and ask the important question: why do people make free software?
"""
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #Gentoo