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• Post #4487094

  New Sovereign Tech Agency job opening just went live. If you live in Berlin or are able to independently relocate & work there, this is an opportunity to give #opensource maintainers access to deep human expertise: security audits, post-quantum encryption work, Cyber Resilience Act conformance, and more. Alongside our direct investments in maintainers, this program focuses on paying for resources that keep projects secure & make them more maintainable over time. Learn more about the j...

• Post #3356703

  * If you are in Berlin or willing & independently able to move there, and * You have a program management (or reasonably comparable) background, and * You have deep, technically grounded understanding of open source and free culture ... I would really like to hear from you about this role on my team. Both of these programs are really powerful ways to invest in the people behind the code -- and to grow the understanding of why public investment in critical open source infrastructure matt...

• Post #3183729

  if I come back as a ghost I will personally haunt every web designer who messes with the normal operation of the clipboard

• Post #2553154

  Pure fediverse, baby. Thus spoke @davidpierce: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

• Post #2514760

  Not sure that there's a better illustration for the relationship between capitalism and the commons than searching for "Wikipedia" in the app store and being presented, above the Wikipedia app, with a paid knock-off app that seeks to monetize the volunteer labor that makes Wikipedia possible.

• Post #2478573

  The "bookmark" feature (next to the star in the web UI) may be the least loved and mentioned feature in Mastodon, but it's darn useful. 1) Hm, I might want to read this later. -> Bookmark 2) What a great picture! -> Bookmark and Fav and Boost!!11 3) Do I want to follow this account? Let me take a look later. -> Bookmark 4) I should boost this again sometime. -> Bookmark Search (somewhat deliberately) sucks, making bookmarking essential t...

• Post #2233404

  TIL there's a more modern fork of Xournal (which I use all the time for small PDF edits). Nice: https://xournalpp.github.io/

• Post #2222403

  The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces. System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits. The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in commun...

• Post #2038252

  This is a big deal: The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c The future of the open web is .. the open web.

• Post #2013043

  When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source". It's okay to say that it's "free software". It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name. It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin". Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshad...

• Post #2007025

  Good session about Mastodon + ActivityPub at #OpenSourceBridge (#osb18) -- touching on governance, alternative implementations like #Pleroma, new services like @pixelfed. Thanks to Aaron for notes: https://pad.riseup.net/p/OSB-Mastodon

• Post #1871371

  Currently stranded at an airport thanks to Crowdstrike, like so many others. What I find most infuriating about the whole thing is how many governments continue to throw billions of dollars at Microsoft, instead of jointly funding secure open source infrastructure for all. Imagine all schools, libraries and roads were run by SchoolCorp, LibraryBiz and RoadWare. For some reason we accept that for 21st century digital infrastructure.

• Post #1181374

  It's really okay to stop sharing screenshots from X dot com. That website is weird

• Post #818630

  Even Mark Zuckerberg's dumb ideas can't be sustained forever. Looks like his Second Life clone is finally shutting down: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-on-meta-quest/ (https://archive.is/vE4cn) But I'm sure he's got lots more where that came from.

• Post #818629

  @neuSoM Gerade auf Bluesky gesehen:

• Post #818628

  IMO the most likely cause of any kind of #AI bubble pop are Chinese models breaking through. And at least in the open inference markets, that appears to be happening already: "Since February, Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption, according to OpenRouter data" A true SOTA model from China could send markets for a tailspin just like the original DeepSeek release did. https://www.ft.com/content/2567877b-9acc...

• Post #818627

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116297596350875297 Really appreciate the contextual explanation of how handles work in the fediverse; when you have a complex design constraint that's fixed, you have to make an effort to help people understand it.

• Post #392605

  If you enjoy #VisualNovels and #InteractiveFiction, check out the latest issue of #ChoiceBeat, a free zine dedicated to the genre: https://choicebeat.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/choicebeat-10/ It's chock-full of reviews; I contributed two: - Night Cascades, a mystery romance set in a New Age infused version of the 1980s, by @hanakogames - Seers Isle, an interactive graphic novel by @novabox in a fantasy medieval northern Europe setting. Themes include individual survival, and the clash...

• Post #284409

  @be @moritz Sigh ...

• Post #284407

  @syhr Might be worth considering as a #SocialCoop service ...

• Post #284406

  A good read with lessons for social systems anywhere. The post explains how "means-testing" (is someone "worthy" of receiving a social benefit?) funnels taxpayer money designated for social purposes into for-profit companies, sometimes dwarfing spending on the benefit itself. There are many reasons societal services like health care and public transit should be universally free and accessible; this is one of them. https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-means-test...

• Post #284405

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@brookie/115974819968313447 Exemplary work by Johan to engage in direct outreach _and_ document the resulting interactions. Most people won't do quite that much, but if you're an EU citizen or resident and a bit lazier (like me 😇) you can still look up a few accounts and send a few emails. See the lists on https://leavex.eu/ as a starting point, especially for EU MEPs.

• Post #284402

  TIL that `npm` ships with `npm completion` to enable bash autocomplete. Nice. (Yeah, I still use `npm` over `pnpm` -- old habits, mostly.)

• Post #284400

  I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.