tux93 @tux93@tech.lgbt

Looking forward to a future where trans FOSS devs outnumber chuds and can dechudify projects

I think RSS is in the sweet spot of keeping up to date on content creators: It gets all your subscriptions in one place without keeping you there if you decide to move elsewhere, it’s not pushy like an email list or a notification, it allows you to download articles (depending on your reader), and it works with lots of websites

"I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff"

https://p.haavard.me/407

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New corporatese term: “Performative meeting invite”

Definition: A meeting invite someone sent you to prove that they are having a meeting with the person you told them to have a meeting with without the expectation of you attending. Often marks you as “Optional”, though not always. In the later situations, it is traditional to make a snarky and public Reply-All asking why you were invited and what they hope you being there will accomplish.

Once again, my own obsessive idiot-proofing-and-checking in my utility scripts has paid off continuing to prove the idiot I'm always proofing against...is ME.

I can feel aeons pass, mountains rise and fall, civilisations be born, flourish and eventually tear themselves apart every minute I'm listening to these people talk about their children in this work meeting

How to pronounce common file formats.

GIF: yiff
JPG: huh-peeg
DOC: dook
PDF: parfait
TXT: texit
XLS: excellent
HTML: hot meal

Post the most janky part of your current PC setup, I'll start:

This is what happens when the bearing of your GPU stock fan starts to get annoyingly noisy, the price for a replacement fan would be obscene and you have a box full of old case fans

Confirmed: the FSF's sole purpose is to serve as RMS's amplifier.

https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman

Taken as is, this is a complete slap to anyone who directed the FSF in RMS's absence. If the organization is so rudderless as to be cast adrift without one man then the bus-factor of that organization is too great for long-term survival.

The FSF needs to consider what their mission is, because right now their mission is in jeopardy and the folks willing to carry water for the FSF are vanishing.

#fsf

the 'c' and 'd' in 'programming' stand for comments and documentation

oh right it's world backup day

put your important shit on a usb stick. burn a blu-ray. stick some photos in cloud storage you aren't using. do it today

i think every programming type person on here should watch this, especially with what's going on with stallman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

it's a 5 year old talk from bob martin. he spends about 40 minutes talking about the history of programming and computing before the relevant part of the video, which is about women in computer science

do you really think it's a coincidence that when the "hacker culture" got big, when people like rms were "gods", when foss began, that all the women left cs?

(women are certainly not the only marginalized group that suffered in cs around that time til now, but i would be surprised if we had graphs of BIPOC and queer people in cs at the time)

it's not a coincidence that around the time rms was huge, when people like rms were able to get away with doing horrible things to marginalized people, that the marginalized people left

i don't care about the fsf. i don't care about gnu. i've spent almost every day of the past year working on open source code, working with the gpl both in code, and writing, but i haven't thought about the organizations. they're meaningless, and they affect literally *nobody* outside those organizations

a lot of the people signing that letter are part of gnu or fsf. the vast majority are not. the reason they're campaigning to remove stallman is not because he will genuinely harm the foss movement, but because of optics (the good kind of optics). because people like him - in fact, because of *him* - marginalized people have been run out of stem

removing him is the very minimum necessary to make cs not actual fucking garbage for marginalized people. it won't make it good, it won't even make it bearable. but it's a start

people need to understand that they can't say and do horrible shit that runs people out of cs without issue. but first, in order for them to understand that, we need to make it so that they *actually can't* do and say horrible shit. because as it stands now, people like appelbaum, and stallman, and t'so have scared away hundreds of thousands of people

three men, no matter how """genius""" they may be, are not more important than the health, safety, and wellbeing of literally hundreds of thousands of marginalized people; and that doesn't even mention the contributions we've missed out on without those people
screenshot from the linked vide…

Encouraging anyone involved in free and open source communities to sign https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

#uninstallman

FSFE: "Statement on Richard Stallman rejoining the FSF board"

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html

Stallman is back on the board of the Free Software Foundation. A man who created a toxic environment for women at MIT for decades, whose bad take on Marvin Minsky's connection to Jeffrey Epstein was tantamount to rape-apologetics, is being allowed to return to the board, which just goes to show how toxic the FSF is.

They blamed it on a politically-motivated campaign of lies and misinformation. Without explaining or responding to how direct quotes from RMS are lies, and testimony from numerous women coming forward, they didn't address the "lies." Because they aren't lies. Stallman is the worst kind of academic leftist and I hope the FSF collapses under his leadership.

It's only Arch if it comes from the Archeaux region of France otherwise it's just sparkling Manjaro

concept: your parents following you on the fediverse