Post @post@qoto.org

I have a feeling that big tech is going to hire an equivalent or more number of employees in countries with lower wages for all the employees they laid off in the US. Or they might replace permanent employees with contractors.

They will somehow find a way reducing wages or making the employment situation precarious.

@coffe F-Droid automatically picks up new releases and then builds the apps from their source. This is nice because you can be sure to get the same code as published by the developers. But this process takes a while. And once it is done it is not available instantly because the F-Droid index needs to be updated as well which only happens periodically. So it can take up to a few days until a release is available via F-Droid and there is nothing we as devs can do about it.

#linuxdesktop
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 starts to take shape – Adventures in Linux and KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-starts-to-take-shape/

#kde #KDEGear #kdeapplications #KDEapps #plasma #linuxdesktop

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I find that #logseq really fits my note-taking needs well.

My notes are not a complete mess, but they do exhibit the characteristic of being... *eventually consist*.

I like to take notes of any shape, in any state. A note is my way of parking a piece of information so I can get on with my day; they don't tend to look like a private encyclopedia... at first!

It is also imperative that the note-taking software is #localfirst and #opensource. Oh and it doesn't hurt that it's written in #Clojure.

Ny bog af Bruce Schneier "A Hacker's Mind"

Her et write-up fra @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/06/trickster-makes-the-world/#power-play

But Schneier's biggest claim in fame is as a science communicator, specifically in the domain of security. In the wake of the 9/11 bombings and the creation of a suite of hasty, ill-considered "security" measures, Schneier coined the term "security theater" to describe a certain kind of wasteful, harmful, pointless exercise, like forcing travelers to take off their shoes to board an airplane

Does someone know a lawyer that understand the difference between #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource ( #Copyleft vs permissive licenses)? I need to help an AGPL project that is being fooled by Google employees to switch to a permissive license when it’s not really needed.

Reshare welcome. It’s OK to DM me and I will make a contact with the devs. Thanks @aral and whoever helps.

Your culture is shaped more by the toxic behavior you tolerate than by the healthy behavior you espouse.

#leadership

I've been reading "C++ has become a legacy language" a lot recently; I'm curious what you think.

Has or will C++ become a legacy language in the near future? For this poll, "legacy language" means a language that is mostly driven by inertia and enthusiasts and does not or should not be used for new projects.

Please boost for reach.

#cpp #cplusplus #rust #safety

#KDE's Screenshot Tool Can Now Capture Screen Recordings
https://www.omglinux.com/kde-spectacle-adds-screen-recording/

@ednico

Thank you for the summary, without it it would be impossible to keep up with all the stuff.

But have you heard #Logseq wants to move away from AGPL licence? But what worries the most is that they are doing it without understanding it and perhaps manipulated by Google employees:

https://discuss.logseq.com/t/on-the-agpl-license-and-the-idea-to-move-away-from-it/14716

Hi Everyone, #Logseq Times for this week has been released.

https://www.logseqtimes.com/logseqtimes-2023-02-05/

This week we will look at the new website, Logseq Updates update, workflows and what it is like contributing to Logseq.

Thanks for reading

@admitsWrongIfProven the issue you are talking about though isnt "bad people being seen causes bad people"... what you are describing is engineering the information in its totality or near totality. Controlling the narrative, preventing the ability to get accurate information. Thats a different problem but we agree is problematic.

@admitsWrongIfProven You havent actually made the case that being exposed to ideas can do harm. Your example is a bad idea, sure, but you havent made the case that it was exposure to the idea that is the cause rather than the predisposition of the people to draw such conclusions on their own. It is very likely such ideas would largely have developed independently of exposure.

The idea that bad people having a voice on social media causes other people to become bad people (often the argument as to why we must defederate from bad servers) is equivalent to:

Thinking violent video games cause people to become violent.

Thinking explicit song lyrics cause people to become criminals

Allowing people to be openly homosexual will cause others to become homosexual

Banning books

Why did nobody tell me this about category theory?

#mathematics #physics #categorytheory

Gitter is going fully native Matrix in Feb 2023: https://blog.gitter.im/2023/01/16/gitter-is-going-fully-native-matrix-in-feb-2023/

Can we please stop using Discord and Telegram now for open-source communities?

#foss #matrix #gitter #opensource

I discover the term "fauxpen source" for software claiming to be open source but lying.

#capitalism #marketing