zeh @[email protected]

This is officially the best graphic that explains how #OpenPGP works.

Linus Torvalds: Git is a distributed version control system, which means even if you lose a remote, you still have your local copy, so your code is safe, unlike centralized VCSes.

Developer Community: wut?

Microsoft: Hmm. How about you use our Visual Studio Online and push it to GitHub, both hosted on our computers, so that you don't have a local copy?

Developer Community: Yaay! Such innovation! Very cloud! Much wow! 🎉

Trump: Thou shall not use US services.

Developers: Where's my code? 😭

What if the constant rise and fall of chat applications, web sites, forums, wikis, content management systems, social media sites from Google+ to Facebook to MySpace, Twitter and Mastodon – what if this constant churn was something the people in power actually liked? It disrupts our social ties, makes us start again from scratch, distracts us from organizing out there under the blue sky. Account migration, nomadic identities, federation: these are very important pieces to break the cycle.

@alexcleac I don't have a lot of experience with k8s. It's never been suited to the way I do devops and it's super complex.

I wrote an article about best practices (including travel tips) for PureBoot, @purism 's #FOSS tamper-evident boot firmware that allows the user to control all of the keys and secrets used for the signing process. Check it out here: https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-best-practices/

"At first I thought DoH was (US) Department of Homeland Security, then I thought it could be an exclamation of Homer Simpson (doh); finally read the article and it seems to be a mixture of the two"

Don't sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words

https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/17/The-wrong-words-but-the-right-ideas.html

My Free Software heroes are getting cancelled, one by one, due to their own idiotic behaviour...

I'm saddened, but resigned.

Few of those guys were actually good role models, except in the super-narrow fields where they built their reputations.

They're smart guys. They could use those big brainy brains to adapt and change and learn to be better people. They choose not to. They choose irrelevance.

So goodbye, heroes. Thanks for all your hard work, but you've become problematic old men now.

Step aside or get pushed. 😔

Please pay attention to the propaganda! Do not applaud people surviving in this dystopia! Instead burn down the dystopia!
@OCRbot

PSA:

privacy is not only about you. Privacy is both personal and collective. When you expose your privacy, you put us all at risk. [...]

Democracy is not a given. It is something we have to fight for every day. And if we stop building the conditions in which it thrives, democracy will be no more. Privacy is important because it gives power to the people. Protect it.

https://aeon.co/essays/privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-us-all

We need open mesh networking now more than ever. More and more governments are using Internet shutdowns to gain control of the the people.

This will only get worse.

"Unfortunately, #Slack calls aren't available in this browser. We recommend downloading the Slack desktop app, or you can switch to Chrome."

Take a hike, Slack, #Firefox isn't some obscure web browser you couldn't possibly support.

help I love her
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RT @[email protected]
Pia Klemp, the German ship captain who rescued migrants in the Mediterranean, as she refuses a medal from the mayor of Paris.
https://twitter.com/jodotcom/status/1164379638946287618

A good piece of software exists and is enjoyed by many users. It's basically done and development has slowed down, but it nevertheless continues to be useful to its users.

Later, a new piece of software enters the same market to solve the same $task. It has to rewrite everything from zero, which may take years. As they make improvements over the years, each announcement keeps them on top of the news cycle, with each inch they move towards the finish line.

Result:

$newproduct erodes the mindshare from $oldproduct. It has been present at the forefront of the public's minds and quickly gains marketshare, and users who were familiar with $oldproject prior to the introduction of $newproject start to age out of the market.

This happens even if $oldsoftware is free/open-source and $newsoftware is proprietary, if $newsoftware is missing important features of $oldsoftware, if $newsoftware is a gear in the capitalist machine and will eventually spit its chewed up users out when they get sold to the highest bidder, etc.

I had never imagined I could end up using #boycott and #Debian in the same sentence. #BoycottDebian #BoycottDebianIsrael
https://boycottdebian.org/
https://www.change.org/p/debian-community-support-palestinian-human-rights-and-cancel-debconf-israel-boycottdebian