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On Thursday evening I'm gonna say a few words about core issues in our conceptualization of Free and Open Source Software that are standing in the way of a better future. We must stop doing "Uncaring Software".
https://events.floxford.org/event/uncaring-software-tante
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Ticket sales have now closed for this weekend's #MathsJam ... If you want to come and do not have a ticket then you will need to email ASAP ... This week is going to be busy for all the people involved.
@Longplay_Games Thanks much for taking part. Was the survey easy to use?
@eloquence It was an excellent survey, thank you!
Air to Ground Message:
YES THATS IT WE WERE ALREADY AT 10000 FEET SO IT WASNT A EMER. BOTH MASKS SEEMED TO NOT BE STUCK ON
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
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@sovtechfund @Digital_Commons_EDIC I submitted cURL, LibreOffice, and NetBSD - all projects that are vital to the operations and infrastructure of any soverign tech initiative.
@Longplay_Games Thanks much for taking part. Was the survey easy to use?
Today is the first day of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26)! To help our community prepare, we’ve identified and analyzed proposals that may affect the future development of the Internet.
Our issues matrix identifies issues, areas of concern, organizations impacted, and more. Explore the resource ⬇️ https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2026/itu-plenipotentiary-2026-matrix/
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/117586505022552494
This feels funny to boost, because I've done very few IBM mainframe projects, so it doesn't have that nostalgia factor for me that things like DEC PDP systems do for me -- but that's of course just the (semi-) accident of personal history.
But it *always* feels weird to post about things that are nostalgic to others but not me. Has anyone studied the psychology? Or is this just a trivial question of when and where you were young?
P.S. BASIC on a mainframe also seems weird, but that's just me. Or is that one objective?
@dougmerritt BASIC was born on a mainframe, a GE-225, so it's not too suprising for it to have been implemented on IBM machines.
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Keep it respectful please.
So “losers” is “disrepectful” and “psychotic hatred of leftists, extreme neoliberap” is “respectful”?
Just making sure.
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can we shout out to the fediverse developers, for making the fediverse possible
shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
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whoever downvoted this, is the CEO of reddit
@ai6yr part of a large forest project i am adjacent with, the biodiversity of the forest is massive - finding new tree species even. And its location means they are naturally drought and fire tolerant and one of the hopes is to over the next 50 years develop a nursery to use the unique genetics to reforest areas like yours with the same species but ones that are tolerant to the new climate. Of course, climate needs to also stop changing; but know this is a thing in forestry rn.
@Myotis_cuniculus Very good!
@dansup The world needed Pixelfed.
Quantum entanglement 
@superball Looking again, also Zojirushi.
@gedvondur Sweet, thank you! Bookmarked.
Apropos of nothing, the failure of so many companies to have a reasonable succession plan will always amaze me.
4/4 What do WE think digital fairness should look like? Explore our position paper ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/breaking-the-extractive-digital-business-model-a-rights-based-digital-fairness-act/
Incredibly complicated attempt to legislate product design. just one of these proposals actually does all the work: “prohibit advertising models based on unlawful tracking or profiling as part of consumer law”
Extend that prohibition to collecting behavioural data for the purpose of selling the data as well as advertising based on the data, and it rips away the business model motivating every other toxic feature.
@edri
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