John Mifsud @imabuddha@qoto.org

This probably an unpopular opinion, but I would love see ActivityPub implementations not tied to a AGPL/GPL license. After poking at WriteFreely, the only thing stopping me from PRing a half-dozen improvements is the weird license choice.

AGPL/GPL is terrible if you want to write stuff that you can reuse for other projects (commercial or personal). Viral licenses tie the hands of the original authors as much as those of contributors. Folks tend figure this out only when it is really difficult to fix (ie. getting (C) reassignment or CLAs in place for all past contributors).

You can work around it by putting code into freely licensed subpackages instead, but it forces weird design decisions. I get that some folks are concerned about being SaaSed, but the AGPL choice still has a cost.

Anywho, MIT/BSD licenses are your friend now, and a friend to your future self who needs to reuse that code for something else in a decade.

Is this the real wifi?
Or is this just 802.11b
Caught in a LANslide
No escape from this latency

The Milky Way arch over Namibia’s Quiver Tree forest - when it’s really dark, you see more than darkness. #milkyway #photography #astrophoto #astrophotography #fotografie #travelblog #namibia

This news doesn't lack a hint of irony:
Former Twitter workers create their own instance on Mastodon https://macaw.social/about

#Mastodon

And while I personally don’t make music for the money, there are other small music outfits that depend on such.

If there is a small creator you enjoy, buy their merch, throw coin at them on BandCamp, go to a show and buy merch, spread the word of their works etc.

There’s no guarantees your favorite musicians will have enough to make music another day, support them now if you can.

Huge if true

Just a normal country, where music festivals have to employ hidden snipers in case some random dude with a gun decides to try and kill a bunch of people https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/las-vegas-shooting-route-91-country-festival-1234593953/amp/

Beautiful fall day in DC, as modeled by Finnegan. #doggos #dogsofmastdon #goodboy

Wife and I try to be good, but our oldest son outdoes us all the time. An ethical vegan for over a decade, he also donates to "save the children" funds and has registered as a marrow donor. At work, he's a favorite of older customers for his kind consideration. How did this happen? He's a living example of being and doing good without belief in God.

I hope we can get past the mastodon meta narrative and to folks posting other things soon.

(Yes, I get the irony that this is a meta post. )

*Columbo voice* Well, that all sounds good. A finite number of primes. That'll look good on the report. Uh, just one more thing, sir, before I go. What if you multiplied all of them together and added one? What would that be divisible by, sir?

Don't boost that you psychos! LOL

shoutout to MC Skat Kat, an animated 80s cat who rapped and also implicitly had sex with real life women somehow

Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

Lorde: “Touring Has Become a Demented Struggle to Break Even or Face Debt”
https://consequence.net/2022/11/lorde-touring-demented-struggle/

This is a big problem because with the demise of CD sales and the starve-the-artist business model of music streaming, live shows have been one last remaining way for working musicians to get paid.

She doesn’t mention one big part of the problem: The cruel monopolists at TIcketmaster sucking blood out of the system.

#music

Jonny is a fun guy