✅ inhabit higher-dimensions
✅ unslakable appetites
✅ uncaring of humanity
✅ dark influences spreading
✅ served by human cultists
✅ invoked by incantations
"The Mans/Plain media type is the lowest common denominator of Internet discourse..."
"Mans/Plain is usually delivered as a wall of text , often in a strident tone. That is, the characters start at the left margin of the display window, and advance to the right forever until the poster is blocked..."
There's an article in the Register this week about Bruce Perens' "Post-Open Zero Cost Licence". In brief, Perens is aiming to try to fix one problem that some people have with open source. Specifically finding a way for maintainers to get paid to continue to develop software. I'm being careful not to write "fix open source" as they are a range of different issues around open source and not all of them are about money.
@ldodds agree wholeheartedly that the org is the right place to start this discussion, not the documents.
To your “tidelift must have thought this through”… sort of? We have punted on a lot of the harder parts of this by focusing on small projects, and/or by being transparently for-profit (so that the expectations of governance are clear: we’re governed by our board). Neither of those is ideal but they let us attack a large portion of the problem without blocking on hard governance discussions.
Wondered if anyone familiar with #opendata and #openlicensing had any opinions on the paper (I've not read it yet), or if there was more information about the project elsewhere?
@ldodds hadn’t seen TIAL, very intriguing. Hard for me to speak directly to open data, but open source definitely isn’t great at that and open data (from a distance) seems to be very set on reinventing all our wheels without learning from any of our mistakes 😬
There's a lot to enjoy in @debcha "How Infrastructure Works". But I particularly enjoyed the details about the Dinorwig Power Station. The UK's largest battery. Had never heard of it before!
Here's an article she wrote about it for the Guardian:
@ldodds@debcha yes, it's such a beautifully simple concept, especially in how she describes it. I think the book closes with a powerful call for more decentralized energy systems that work in similar ways, at different scales, that are tuned to their particular local setting.
@ldodds@edsu Thank you both! And yes. It’s easy to be very focused on needing batteries to store electricity (and then be discouraged by eg the geopolitics of lithium), rather than considering the nearly infinite number of ways in which we can store energy (each of which works well in different places and for different purposes).
@ldodds@Floppy@pikesley So true. I’ve been searching for Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics mentioning Bela Lugosi. Closest I got was “With Goth On Our Side”