@ber@social.tchncs.deDear #FreeSoftware engineers, do you know concepts and implementations where an #editor runs all code related things on a remote system, but the more trust worthy parts on a local system?
Background: With "supply chain attacks" like
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaPhew, it's been a long time since I've really been online—a nasty infection completely knocked me out for more than two weeks. But now I'm back to do Linux stuff! Let's go!
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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIt’s amazing how you can make #FreeTube so simple and distraction-free!
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsJust to repeat / recap what others have said already.
"No politics in my #OpenSource project" is a political statement. It's a statement of "I'm fine with the status quo, and I don't want to be bothered by people who are hurt because of it."
"Neutrality" doesn't make you look professional. It makes you either look ignorant or complacent.
The whole #FreeSoftware movement is a political movement. So is the idea that you can freely use, modify and redistribute software.
So you should really think where you want to stand. Do you really want to be the complacent fascist enabler, or do you want to actually try making a difference?
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizzaI think it is a nice idea to highlight why we like working with #Nix and #NixOS to remind us, why we all are doing this in the end.
For me it is still the best experience in #freesoftware I…
@crell@phpc.socialAnonymous help:
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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSome mornings I just wake up to find Microsoft being terrible once again, business as usual.
#Microsoft #FreeSoftware #FOSS
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Zoals @… in 1997 al schreef in een essay, een vrije, democratische samenleving is onmogelijk zolang niet alle software vrij is.
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIt is oft repeated that you can't solve social problems with technical solutions.
However, there's a flip side to this: you can actually create social problems via technical choices.
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsPeople have this weird idea that commercially maintained software would be of better quality, because there are paid developers working on it. On the contrary, the main difference is how much red tape #OpenSource contributors have to go through to get the fixes in. Or the amount of effort necessary to even get someone to look at the pull request before the stale-bot closes it.
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@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaI've been thinking about trying OpenSuSE Tumbleweed for a few days now. My last attempt was several years ago.
#linux #opensource #freesoftware
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWayland: The Future is Now.
#Wayland #Linux #FreeSoftware
@rasos@fairmove.net#Tux is running today in Berlin showing #FreeSoftware as a great alternative to #BigTech #GAMAM (Google, Apple, Meta,…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen you see that a person with #Debian .org e-mail address is the maintainer of BLAS packages in #Gentoo: "what a nice collaboration…"
When you realize said person just took #GSoC money in 2019, and disappeared immediately afterwards: …
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve been checking out the secureblue project recently, and it’s actually pretty interesting.
I’ll admit, online privacy feels like a straight-up meme in today’s world of surveillance capitalism, but secureblue is pushing out some genuinely unique projects that are absolutely worth looking into.
From what I can tell, secureblue feels a lot like the desktop version of GrapheneOS, taking that same security-focused foundation and bringing it into the Linux desktop space in a meaningful way.
#secureblue #GrapheneOS #Linux #SurveillanceCapitalism #Capitalism #Surveillance #FreeSoftware #Privacy