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jwf

@jwf@floss.social

He/him. @fedora Community Architect at #RedHat. #OpenAtRIT Advisory Board. Former #UNICEF Innovation. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy Visionary. And more! #OpenSource https://fosstodon.org/@chaoss

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jwf, to random
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"In recent years, the rise of remote work and historically high job openings have helped more people with disabilities find employment. In 2023, nearly 23% of Americans with a disability were employed โ€” the largest share on record since data collection began in 2008 [โ€ฆ]"

This makes me wonder about the demographic of the workforce today. The way the article presents it, there are more disabled people in the workforce than there has been in a long time. Ever?

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-men-working-less-recessions-employment-productivity-2024-4

kushal, to random
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How do one function in this state of the world?

jwf,
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@kushal By focusing on the things one can control. There is no shortage of things we cannot control.

Lots of small ripples make for big waves.

vwbusguy, to random
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One benefit of living in So Cal is getting to pick oranges straight from a tree. That's one thing I didn't have growing up in Indiana (though we had plenty of other kinds of fruit trees).

jwf,
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@vwbusguy You grew up in Indiana? This feels like a growing league of Fedora folks who grew up in or are from Indiana ๐Ÿ˜…

fedora, to fedora
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Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.

โžก๏ธ https://fedoramagazine.org/automation-through-accessibility/

jwf,
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@aral @fedora @chernosktrainstation @gnome Could you share more about this? I saw a talk at @fosdem which led me to believe otherwise but I realize mileage may vary depending on what desktop environment one uses.

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2949-enhancing-linux-accessibility-a-unified-approach/

jwf,
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@aral @fedora @chernosktrainstation @gnome Which edition/desktop of Fedora? Fedora Workstation?

jwf,
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@aral @fedora @chernosktrainstation @gnome I'm chatting with the Fedora A11y working group about it. It comes as a bit of a surprise because there is a lot of enablement work happening around accessibility. The FOSDEM demo I linked previously showed Orca either working out of the box or not working on different desktop environments of Fedora. Fedora Workstation was a working environment in the demo.

Going to keep digging into this. The toots have been shared with the right folks.

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    jwf,
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    @GeekSusie If this is real and not AI-generated, I can't help but feel like some sort of angry spirit has channeled itself into USA ahead of the election ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿซฃ

    jwf, to opensource
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    Sometimes an @outreachy applicant will make a contribution in a Merge Request that I cannot take, but I want to use it somewhere else in a different context.

    One of the things I love about is that it makes it easy for me to make sure credit is appropriately assigned. I am creating patch files, rebasing and squashing commits, but I can always preserve the original author's name and git platform account in the commit log.

    It is subtle, but I think it is important.

    jwf, to linux
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    Most of my feed on the mess is solution-eering on ideas for paying maintainers. It implies the way to fix this is to simply pay people for their time.

    I am not seeing something else though. Has anyone actually asked the maintainer what they want? What if that answer was not money? What if it was "I don't want to do this anymore?"

    Regardless of the answer this time around, we should be prepared to boldly face these types of answers too.

    jwf, to opensource
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    How long before we start calling this #xz vulnerability the #xzorcist? ๐Ÿค”

    https://fedoramagazine.org/cve-2024-3094-security-alert-f40-rawhide/

    #OpenSource #infosec #infosecurity #Linux #CVE

    jwf, (edited )
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    Also, I am interested by the strong reaction to this exploitation of the supply chain. Yes, it shows a weakness in trust and the maintainer model. There are big questions to answer. What if this was not stopped as early, or if it breached ?

    Yet at the same time, the most practical way this could have been discovered is the way. Someone was literally performance testing a PostgreSQL database, saw something weird, and shared their discovery with others.

    jwf,
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    @travis Exactly.

    jwf, to opensource
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    internships are fantastic opportunities to get paid to work on projects. If you are mentoring an Outreachy project, it can be intimidating to organize a project. This post has my best advice to plan non-engineering internships.

    https://blog.jwf.io/2024/03/win-win-for-all-outreachy/

    jwf, to opensource
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    Hands-down one of my favorite things about #OpenSource is the incredible, odd, wacky, and unusual backgrounds that people have before they entered the #FOSS world. (Or, unusual in the sense that the backgrounds are very much non-tech.)

    Baristas, toy store managers, flight attendants, and so much more that I have seen.

    This makes the fabric of our movement more intersectional, and I don't know if we celebrate that aspect of FOSS enough.

    jwf, to opensource
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    Admittedly it does get on my nerves sometimes, but generally I feel fortunate to work in a context where the people I work with assume to use an application or tool by default if the alternative is proprietary.

    I have always been lucky to have a career where I could vibe with in my user space and in my time to contribute and volunteer. Sometimes I think I take it for granted.

    xahteiwi, to random
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    If you insist that "open source" be spelled without a hyphen, and you would write a sentence like "she is a well known mostly self taught guitar teacher" ... then you, my friend, may not be an expert on hyphenation.

    jwf,
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    @xahteiwi It is all semantics at the end of the day, but I am deliberate to write it most often as "Open Source" because I am implicitly referring to Open Source as defined by the Open Source Definition by @osi.

    jwf, to firefox
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    I am having daily crashes on #Firefox on #Linux when I move tabs between windows. I can't replicate it consistently, but it still happens to me multiple times a day. I lost a lot of progress in a blog post draft just now because of it. ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

    Is anyone else experiencing this too? @FirefoxNightly @FirefoxPerf

    jwf, to opensource
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    Searching for summer internships/co-ops? Do you love projects and communities? Want to work in a community that spans nearly all the continents and time zones of the world? Come join us at Red Hat with this role with @fedora.

    We are looking for candidates who are currently pursuing an undergraduate degree and are available to work from May to November 2024. Happy to answer questions if you got them!

    https://social.icims.com/viewjob/pl1708361317349e06a5

    jwf, to linux
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    This is one of the most unique and fascinating talks that I've seen. Happening now at @fosdem in the DevRoom, Vojtech Polasek and Lukรกลก Tyrychtr are presenting the state of in the Linux desktop, with an overview of the basics, what the landscape is like, live demos of working accessibility and absence of accessibility, and developing on Linux tools.

    I am learning so much!

    A slideshow presentation screen. The slide is titled, "What is Accessibility?"
    A fish-eye angle view of a university lecture hall set up as a conference room, taken from the front of the room. Two European males, one wearing black-tinted glasses, are standing at the front of the room behind a wide table, and several people are seated in the lecture hall listening.
    The front of a university lecture hall. Three European men, one wearing black-tinted glasses, are standing behind a wide table. A projecter screen is behind them, with the slide titled "What we'll discuss today."

    jwf, to Brussels
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    @ffmancera presented in the @fosdem DevRoom today about how not to break Linux distros when building a project that several distributions rely on.

    A European male stands at the front of a university lecture hall, with a projector screen behind him. The projector screen shows a slide titled, "Changes in behavior without breaking distros."
    A European male stands behind a wide table at the front of a university lecture hall. A projecter screen is visible behind him, with a slide titled, "Projects across distributions - challenges."

    jwf, to Brussels
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    So excited!! Catching the @outreachy @fosdem to celebrate 1,000 interns! A huge milestone, both for this and also the three continents represented on the main stage! I'm not sure if the four organizers have all shared the same stage before. ๐Ÿคฉ @karen @anna @sphakos

    The Outreachy story is also closely tied to the @fedora story, with the origins in @gnome Outreach Program for Women.

    Here with @niktrip too!

    A large university auditorium with a main stage. Four people stand on the stage together: one American woman, one Brazilian woman, one Nigerian woman, and an American non-binary person.
    A large university auditorium with a main stage. Four people stand on the stage together: one American woman, one Brazilian woman, one Nigerian woman, and an American non-binary person. The title slide of the presentation is shown on a large projector screen, reading: "Celebrating 1,000 Outreachy interns."
    A selfie photo in a university lecture hall. A brown woman holds a thumbs-up sign and a white man holds one hand in the peace sign.

    jwf,
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    @outreachy @fosdem @karen @anna @sphakos @niktrip One of the key innovations of Outreachy, in my view, is how they determine eligibility for internships. Instead of using specific categories of people, they leave it open-ended and let applicants fill in the blanks of how they are under-represented or face discrimination in their own local context.

    A slide from the presentation, titled "Applicant Essays." Several essay prompt questions are listed on the slide that prompt the applicant to describe how they face and experience systemic bias or discrimination.

    josh, to community
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    TIL about another community on Slack who is now being asked to pay thousands to preserve basic functionality ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

    Proprietary tools that offer a lot for free, without fail, will squeeze you. And unfortunately, because of their nature, a lot gets left behind when you inevitably migrate.

    When we select tools for our communities, we need to think over longer time horizons.

    FOSS options like Matrix for chat and Discourse for forums are the better bet.

    #Community #DevRel #OpenSource #FOSS #Matrix

    jwf,
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    @josh I am not a Slack fan but TBH the Matrix/Element pricing model is not great, especially with the level of support provided for the cost. The Element pricing model feels like it was designed for a corporate context (i.e. pay per seat) versus a community context (i.e. pay for actual resources utilized).

    The Matrix/Element pricing model basically feels hostile to success. If I grow the amount of people using my tool, even if resource utilization does not increase, I am financially penalized.

    jwf, to random
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    I always look forward to the @conservancy postcards every year. But what is even more special to me is knowing that a past @outreachy intern commissioned them. ๐Ÿ˜ (Looking at you, @niktrip ๐Ÿ˜‰)

    jwf, to javascript
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    @juhp is on stage now at , introducing declarative programming, , and Elm, a pure functional language that compiles to . developers would feel more at home here.

    @gnome @fedora

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