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The Open Collective Foundation is shutting down https://lwn.net/Articles/963958/ #LWN
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Some important context as this news breaks:
#WordPress is an open-source project, available at WordPress.org.
One of its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg, is CEO of #Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and owns #Tumblr.
They can’t sell what they don’t have, so “WordPress” here refers to WordPress.com, *not* self-hosted WordPress instances.
BUT many self-hosted instances use the Jetpack plugin, which does send data to WordPress.com, so that might be sold 🤬
coming soon, something that almost no one asked for..
AUv2 plugins with DPF.
Doing it because of some work related things need me to support ProTools/AU, but I really do not want to use JUCE hacks again...
Fairly complete already, soon to start some real-life testing.
Kinda proud to have this working in just a few days.
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Ardour 8.4 is out with experimental AAF importing, new Adwaita theme, midnam files for Lexicon MPX100 and Yamaha SY85, MIDI maps for Donner DMK25 and Arturia MiniLab 3, but mostly with a bunch of bugfixes
so much spam on mastodon today, wtf is going on
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You steal from one person and you’re a thief. You steal from everyone and you’re an AI company.
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Silicon Valley: Introducing Fuck You and The Planet as a Service™ 2024 Edition!
Mozilla: Introducing Fuck You and The Planet as a Service™ 2024 Trustworthy Edition!
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Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”
Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/
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@kawaiipunk yeah I saw cardinal mention at the end too <3
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Boosts appreciated.
Looking for support, tips, and commiseration regarding book bannings now underway in my home school district. There's a really great book on the chopping block due to, ostensibly, profanity (it's not really about the profanity). I'm livid and feeling a bit helpless about it. What's the best way to make a fuss? What kind of pressure works?
@worik I think you got the wrong idea.
this is not about picking toolkits, but about picking a job, which would require relocating to a new city.
due to everything still being in progress and negotiations pending, I need to keep it vague.
but the relocation is real, it is not a remote position if going for Qt.
@worik oh really, how come?
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If your only options for interacting with a technical, sysadmin-/developer-focused project's community are these, which would you go with?
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1: an XMPP MUC that requires you to have an account on some XMPP server
2: an IRC channel that requires enough knowledge of IRC to join the channel
3: a mailing list that requires an email account and rejects HTML email
4: a ticket tracker that you can interact with from either your email address (rejects HTML email) or from the web UI but the web UI maybe requires creating a new account
5: none of the above (just don't interact with the community)
Boosts appreciated 🔄
1: an XMPP MUC that requires you to have an account on some XMPP server
2: an IRC channel that requires enough knowledge of IRC to join the channel
3: a mailing list that requires an email account and rejects HTML email
4: a ticket tracker that you can interact with from either your email address (rejects HTML email) or from the web UI but the web UI maybe requires creating a new account
5: none of the above (just don't interact with the community)
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My video on the Fediverse is now live on YouTube as well!
A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it)
YouTube: https://youtu.be/R3ptZ1W-FRA
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-a-new-internet-is-forming-meta-wants-to-control-it
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tech companies: "you don't need to worry about doing things the old way. there are no more gate keepers as in the old days"
musician adam neely: "there are gatekeepers in today's music industry, perhaps even worse ones than in the old days, they are just not human anymore"
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"anyway, I don't want to be "a YouTuber" until i'm 90."
@priscillaharing so the intention is to never have links here? sad to see this being spread on the fediverse.
PS: sorry I guess this is annoying, won't reply again like this. but strongly encourage to either seek out the proper links or stop posting these.
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Please include source links for pictures and news. Links are a necessary but far from sufficient piece of how we keep fake news, fake images, and fake everything from taking over.
Way too many interesting images here are posted without links to sources.
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We have just issued the first #release of #sshd-openpgp-auth and #ssh-openpgp-auth.
Using this server and client-side tooling it is possible to manage the #authentication of #SSH host keys with the help of an #OpenPGP certificate as trust anchor.
https://crates.io/crates/sshd-openpgp-auth
https://crates.io/crates/ssh-openpgp-auth
Many thanks to @wiktor for the great collaboration and #NLnet / #NGIAssure for funding this work!
#DNS #KeyOxide #KnownHosts #OpenSSH #Rustlang #Software #WebKeyDirectory #WebOfTrust #WKD #WoT
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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
