drewdevault

drewdevault, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

If you have evidence of Hacker News:

1. Censoring progressive voices or discussions, or
2. Tolerating hate

Send me the receipts. Please boost.

I can be reached here on fedi or via email, sir@cmpwn.com

drewdevault, 6 months ago to random

Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

drewdevault, 2 months ago to random

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis®

https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

drewdevault, 5 months ago to random

The story of Wayland:

1. No one wanted to maintain X11 because it sucked
2. We made Wayland and it's much better
3. A vocal minority of change-averse people complained with little to no factual basis
4. They were asked to muster some labor to maintain X11
5. None of them did
6. All of the people who actually do get work done eventually stopped listening to them and moved on with Wayland

drewdevault, 8 months ago to random

Hyprland is a toxic community

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

drewdevault, 4 months ago to random

Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage

https://outage.sr.ht

drewdevault, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Quick FOSS legal literacy quiz

Imagine the following situation: your project is MIT licensed. Someone takes the whole project and white-labels it (changes the name), then sells it commercially without providing the source code or sharing any of the sales revenue with you. They include "Copyright <your name>" and a copy of the MIT license in the "about" page of the software.

Is this allowed?

drewdevault, 7 months ago to random

The forbidden topics

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html

drewdevault, 8 months ago to random

I have established a small, invite-only community on IRC focused on men supporting men. If you are a man and you need a safe space to work on positive masculinity, to better understand LGBTQ identities, feminist ideas, sexual harassment, and so on, this may be a safe space for you to grow with the help of other men, free of judgement. Please reach out to me in private if you wish to discuss being a part of this community.

drewdevault, 1 year ago to opensource

https://writefreesoftware.org

Introducing Write Free Software: A comprehensive educational resource for the free software community

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/introducing-writefreesoftware.org/

#freesoftware #foss

drewdevault, 4 months ago to random

SourceHut network outage post-mortem

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2024-01-19-outage-post-mortem/

drewdevault, 2 months ago to random

A new community space for discussing free software

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/community-discourse/

Please boost <3

drewdevault, 3 months ago to random

I wanted to know how the setpgid syscall was implemented on Linux, and it turns out that the author of this syscall implementation also wanted to know how setpgid worked, in 1991

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

A question that is of interest today is "should a code of conduct apply outside of its borders?" In other words, can a project hold someone accountable for their behavior outside of that project's spaces?

The short answer is "yes". The long answer is "we live in a society".

🧵

drewdevault, 2 months ago to random

Want to help with #redict? Join #redict on Libera Chat and say hello.

https://codeberg.org/redict/redict

Particularly hoping someone reaches out to help build a website and new docs 😃

drewdevault, 8 months ago to random

"AI will revolutionize medicine and education"

Human doctors and teachers do better. The estimated market cap for the AI industry is 136.55B USD and, if that were invested directly into these fields, we could use the same money to train ~600,000 doctors or >1M teachers

drewdevault, 6 months ago to random

City didn't listen to my complaint so let's escalate things a bit

drewdevault, 10 months ago to random

Reminder that your GDPR consent dialog has to have a one-click opt-out or it's illegal

And that "legitimate interest" is horseshit

drewdevault, 6 months ago to random

Bring politics back to free software! Free software has always been political and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

drewdevault, 10 months ago to random

Seriously, don't sign a CLA

https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

drewdevault, 1 year ago to random

Who should lead us?

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/24/2023-04-24-Who-leads-us.html

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

On FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

drewdevault, 3 months ago to random

Latest move from Crunchyroll/Funimation is a good reminder that piracy is morally justified (closed the Funimation catalogue, merged into Crunchyroll, abandoned licenses and revoked user access to "owned" content, and doubled the pricing)