The organizers of @pycon have given community organizers a massive gift 🎁
Let's not squander it!
A sold out#PyConUS 2024 proved that even large events can prioritize safety and inclusion for caregivers and immunocompromised people by way of requiring masks, and gathering venue data to calibrate their policy from year-to-year. Smaller events have proven it's possible at that scale, too.
Now is the time for at least one other large event to step up.
@yatil@anniegreens Ahhh I'm so happy to see XOXO's policy here! I've been bummed to see the dearth of robust Health & Safety practices at tech events in Europe.
PyCon IT and FOSS Backstage were good standouts, but have been relaxing their measures more than I would.
It may not be a relevant ecosystem for you (yet?), but I am pleased to report that Matrix Conf (Sept 19-22 in Berlin) will be raising the bar!
Taka myśl:
Kupuję samochód marki A.
Producent zaznacza że do tego samochodu rekomendowane są opony marki B, w ramach "bezpieczeństwa" wyposażone w czujnik grubości bieżnika, jeśli nie kupię tych opon a wybiorę opony marki F, niewyposażonych w ten czujnik lub niekompatybilny z samochodem to nie będę mógł osiągnąć prędkości większej niż 70 km/h. Zaznaczam że opony marki B są takiej samej jakości (albo i gorszej) oraz droższe niż opony marki F.
Co czujesz?
Dlaczego więc ludzie kupują telefony i komputery marki na A i w ramach "bezpieczeństwa" i "możliwości" są zobowiązani do korzystania tylko i wyłącznie z ich sklepu lub mają utrudnione korzystanie z akcesoriów które nie są produktem tej marki lub nie są przez nią "podpisane"?
Dlatego od ponad roku jabłka mam wyłącznie w lodówce a nie na biurku 😀
Time, use and practice are key to switching OSes, platforms and apps: you get comfortable with what you use. A good start to moving away from Microsoft Windows might be to install Libre Office on Windows, and start learning to use that for your daily word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. Take some steps with open source software before you even have to tackle a new operating system. #floss#foss#freesoftware#recall#quitwindows#quitmicrosoft
So evidently Element now has screen sharing and voice chat integrated in an “always on” room. All with encrypted messages. Making a really strong case for me to potentially ditch Revolt. But moving my friends yet again might be impossible #foss#matrix#discord#revolt#element
Almost a year exclusively using GrapheneOS for mobile and (many years before that) GNU/Linux for all my computing.
How quickly one gets spoiled. Found myself obliged over the past few days to help relatives use Windows and iOS. It was deeply shocking.
Windows on newish hardware is so slow that I didn't think it was responding. To say nothing of the privacy and usability nightmare.
And the Apple ratchet has tightened down a few more clicks in a year. A very high quality third party app that I bought years ago now appears in a new version "with in-app purchases," and the splash screen requires me to sign in via Google or Facebook. Perfectly ghastly.
Another #LibreOffice feature you may not know about! You can add a navigation panel for switching slides while viewing a presentation. In the menu: Slide Show ▸ Slide Show Settings ▸ Show navigation bar. (Added in LibreOffice 7.6 😊) #foss#opensource
I'm genuinely curious.. when I make #FOSS applications I always make it work according to my needs instead of thinking about making it usable for everyone else. Is this normal? Am I the only one who does this? #oss
@phryk It's something I do feel guilty about publishing in the first place if I was just gonna tailor this to my use case only anyway. I could have just published it in a private repository or something and call it a day.
@ro Eh, if it's geared towards your personal use-case anyways, I'd say just don't package and release it as a… crate I think is the term in rust?
If you wanna be super clear about this, you can just add a README with a note about what use case it actually works in or it not being for public consumption or whatever.
That way people can find it and use your code to possibly find a solution to their specific problems but it's clear that it's not a supported package.
I'm hereby declaring the Sovereign Tech Fund and NLnet the official guardians of tech positivity. The only good tech news passing through my feed these days are reports of FOSS projects getting some nice grants.
The only thing more annoying than projects with a submit-patch-by-email workflow, are when they also require you to subscribe to their mailing list to prevent patches to be blocked on moderator approval. #foss
I was looking for nice #foss#software for kids to play with #audio. I found the Sugar software package that looks promising: https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Anyone has tried it and can give me an opinion?
Hey #FOSS people, I am looking for a #selfhosted solution that will analyse the photos from my smartphone, guess what's on them and allow searching by thing or place. You know, something that iPhotos does on an iPhone. Any suggestions?
Nein, niemand muss sich dafür entschuldigen (bei wem auch außer sich selbst? ;)). Aber jede*r sollte sich des eigenen Tuns bewusst sein und dann auch dazu stehen.
Victim Blaming ist der falsche Weg. ;)
Beispiel: Du nutzt das problematische Programm xy, obwohl es gute Alternativen gibt? Dann steh dazu, dass dir deine Bequemlichkeit lieber ist als deine digitale Souveräität und die der Menschen, mit denen du digital in Kontakt bist. Und suche nicht nach Ausreden.
It was my first time attending and speaking at a State of the Map #sotm event. The spirit is amazing, and the knowledge I got - priceless. I felt the open source spirit. Something I can not tell for some #foss -branded events. Thank you, #Croatia and #Serbia#osm community.
I didn't used to be a "militant" #FOSS user, but I've been bitten too many times by companies with #proprietarysoftware. For example, #Reason DAW, #Zbrush - both companies that decided to say fuck you to perpetual licenses. Now, I try to avoid any proprietary application. I recently went looking for a good notes app and everyone loves #Obsidian. As soon as I saw it was closed source, I noped out and settled on #Joplin. These companies will eventually fuck over customers so I won't waste my time.
Can anyone in the whole world submit?
...to have a "European dimension"... but you are from elsewhere? Don't despair: there are other ways too... A significant contribution towards the vision of the Next Generation Internet initiative also qualifies. What is good for the whole open internet also benefits Europe, after all. Or put differently: we are open to talent from far and wide to deliver the ambitions of the NGI. ...
@vl1 as much as i dislike current winamp this is super neat, i know there are some winamp fan continuation but all of them are closed i think, so having the source code would be great for people who like it to keep maintaining it and to possibly bring it over natively to other platforms
The highlight is the excerpt from the CEO's quote:
"Our focus will be on new mobile players. Still, we don't want to forget the tens of millions of [Windows] users who will benefit from thousands of developers' experience. Winamp will remain the owner of the software."
This is literally Winamp demanding free labor from the OSS community like a fucking parasite, giving nothing in return.
