Notices by Michael Downey 🇺🇳 (downey@floss.social)

🚨 Here's the *important* news about #encryption that statists REALLY want to distract you from seeing or talking about this week:

🇮🇳 Government in #India (population 1,418,570,502) just blocked 1️⃣4️⃣ different encrypted decentralized #messenger apps, such as #Threema #Element and #Briar.

🔒 #Privacy is a human right. Protect it with all your might.

:boost_love: Spread the word about #WhatTheBlock. More from @internetfreedom:

https://internetfreedom.in/14-mobile-apps-banned/

@liaizon

Ask me after I find my replacement for Linux, Nextcloud, XMPP, Android, Postgres....

💡 This week would be a perfect week to #GiveUpGitHub.

☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #EUOpenSource #FOSDEM

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to create accounts for a webapp that require an email address, unless you validate that address first.😡

Every week, I get someone signing up for some kind of site with my email address without my consent.

And most of those sites make it difficult if not nearly impossible to stop their transactional #email.

:boost_love: Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

- No such thing as a free lunch
- You reap what you sow
- Free software needs free tools

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

#Docker #DockerHub #GitHub #GiveUpGitHub

@kitsune

💯

I don't mind a disclaimer or reminder.

But this is an anti-pattern I've seen start to creep up on several web sites lately.

@AstaMcCarthy

⚠️ PSA: If you see tech giants trying to wedge themselves in to serve as a global "home" for public goods, while at the same time they're stealing many billions from your fellow citizens ...

... raise hell. 🔥

I'm looking at you, #Microsoft.

🏷️ #OpenSource #publicGoods #digitalPublicGoods #GitHub #GiveUpGitHub

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

:boost_love: Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

Organizations will not save us.
Non-profits will not save us.

#FreeSoftware and #OpenSource works because it's about people empowering other people.

@alcinnz 💯 I think there's a time and place for jargon, but it should be documented, discoverable, and learnable, especially for people new to that field.

@webmink

I'm not sure that for an organization the "bit [they] haven't done yet" should be taking actions fully antithetical to their stated mission of promoting open source software.

Deferring living one's stated values for the sake of convenience may be right for some; not me.

@webmink

The difference between

git remote add origin https://github.com/foo/bar

and

git remote add origin https://codeberg.org/foo/bar

Is literally 2 keystrokes.

To portray it as some Sisyphean task for OSI to take on in order to use #OpenSource software is disingenuous at best.

And it's just not believable.

@lightweight @skyfaller @alcinnz

💯 -- and that ship has sailed for OSI several years ago.

@skyfaller

💯 ... hypocrisy among so-called community "leaders" sadly remains common, often because said people are not so much driven by actually working toward change, but rather simply toward their next paycheck.

If you want to find people who actually care about the cause, you generally won't find them "at the top".

@alcinnz

@alcinnz Yes, driving a gas-powered car is easier than fighting for clean air alternatives, but you won't find Greenpeace forcing everyone to pollute in order to support their work.

Imagine running a public charity and then actively promoting the very opposite of what your public charity was trying to accomplish...

🤯

Interesting.

:opensource: #OpenSource Initiative #OSI using a proprietary issue tracker software for its new website.

Gotta appease those sweet sweet corporate sponsors, I guess. Even when said sponsors are selling proprietary software.

#openwashing #hypocrisy #GiveUpGitHub

https://github.com/OpenSourceOrg/dotOrg

#BigData is dead.

🗨️ "It had a good run, but now we can stop worrying about data size and focus on how we’re going to use it to make better decisions."

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

@ronaldsvilcins

"Open source" that requires a proprietary dependency?

No thanks.

#openwashing #OpenSource #FreeSoftware