Øyvind Kolås @pippin@mastodon.xyz

Struggling to deal with the organisations shunning the FSF for the sake of inclusivity and equality

who are still comfortable with Google and IBM's patronage, orgs who are doing a great job ensuring that the future (w/biased AI, algos) will be very unequal and shut out minorities.

(also, the Gebru/Mitchell episode)

oh boy this is actually working!
variable fonts in shoebot!

Female researchers as a percentage of total researchers by country.

"What’s funny to think about is that if instead C had not done that and used 1-based indexing, people today would certainly be claiming how C is superior for providing both 1-based indexing with p[i] and 0-based pointer offsets with p + i."

https://hisham.hm/2021/01/18/again-on-0-based-vs-1-based-indexing/

hey - does anyone in berlin want a huge (prints on A2), old, amazing pen plotter? (image of it attached).

i got it when i lived there, and i've since moved and had huge hopes of trying to move it back to nyc but it's just not going to be possible. you can have it for free as long as you go and pick it up at my old flat, it's heavy as shit.

includes all needed cables and a lot of repair / maintenance / operation manuals that don't seem to have been digitized anywhere.

“Polkit now depends on Rust”:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-12/msg00147.html

Specifically, Polkit depends on mozjs, which now depends on Rust.

The introduction of #Rust at the core of free desktops has important implications on portability, #bootstrapping, and overall system complexity. These issues seem to be often overlooked.

GTK 4.0 is here! After four years of hard work from our dedicated developers, GTK 4.0 was released today. Some highlights from this release include media playback, drag-and-drop, and scalable lists and grids. Learn more about what's new in GTK 4.0: https://blog.gtk.org/

#GTK #opensource #FOSS #release

@aral @conservancy I think Conservancy should drop associations with Google. This would have been a controversial opinion a few years ago, but now it's much less so.

There's no doubt that in the world of tech, having almost all organizations and conferences sponsored by Google is having bad effects.

Quick reminder (or clarification) about the workflow on SourceHut

GitHub has trained you to open issues for *everything*, including support requests, asking questions, feature requests, bug reports, and so on.

On SourceHut, you should not do this. We have mailing lists, and your first stop should be a project-discuss or project-users mailing list. Only when you have confirmed that you have a new bug or accepted feature request should you file a ticket on the bug tracker. This prevents clogging up the bug tracker with duplicate or poorly thought-out tickets, and usually gets you better support for your problem too.

Thinking about changing the default permissions for trackers to prohibit public posting to re-enforce this.

#mozilla has done a lot of good for the web, but the hybrid "for-profit owned by non-profit" model is and always has been a mistake.

You get the worst of both worlds -- a layer of nonprofit bureaucracy on top of for-profit business practices, compensation structures, and decision-making.

It reflects Mozilla's history, being born in the ideological swamp of hypercapitalist Silicon Valley, which frowns upon nonprofits, and which pursues profit, growth & "disruption" above all else.

Honestly the vibe at HN in the past year or so has become obscenely bootlicker. The capitalist worship, anti-freedom and anti-FOSS, support for China so long as it makes money... it's on another level lately. I should just quit the site, I can't deal with it

@klardotsh @tija I didn't say that they deserve to vanish. I said the world would be a better place if they did.

My sincerest fuckings to the megacorp rank and file programmers, quit your job and work somewhere else already you morally bankrupt pricks

*Opens random email* “Pls help I’m getting these errors!!!" [screenshot of system errors]

Me: I’m confused, are you getting these when you run Site.js as a daemon?

Reply: No, whenever I use my Linux laptop. Pls help! [another screenshot]

Me: ??! *sigh* *looks at second screenshot* OK, sounds like your hard disk is dying.