lasombra @lasombra@fosstodon.org

DRM is evil. If someone won't sell you DRM free media on your terms, pirate it. RESIST.

Live in Ireland? Don’t want to make Jeff Bezos any richer and instead support your local businesses and communities?

Check out this excellent site:

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#ShopLocal #BuyLocal #Ireland

HT @laura

Remember kids:

"[Microsoft] GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service

Also, can we make a point of always calling it Microsoft #GitHub from now on please? Thanks.

#youtubedl

A lightweight XMPP server written in Lua:

https://prosody.im

Here are some claims as to how much memory it uses:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/ahgl38/prosody_xmpp_server_system_requirements/

#FuckTheRIAA

Last call for open source project submissions!

https://hub.fosstodon.org/time-to-support-some-foss-projects

#foss #fosstodon #opensource

#youtubedl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

If you post your code on GitHub. You don't own it. Github does. They just let you access it. Own your data. #selfhost #deletegithub #fuckriaa #fuckgoogle #fuckgithub

Github and its consequences have not been a diasaster for a human race
it's been worse than that

I've just noticed this detail in a Doom Ethernal trailer. I wonder if anyone can read this...
#Gaming #DoomEthernal

Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source

https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.html

Several people have asked me what I recommend instead of Rust.

I mainly use C for systems programming, Go for network programming, awk for record processing, and POSIX sh for scripting. Sometimes assembly is called for. Sometimes Python is convenient, but I usually regret it.

"We moved to GitHub because everyone's already there"

"We shut down the mailing lists because most of our users prefer to use GitLab in their web browser"

"We're rewriting in Rust because we don't really have any non-x86_64 users"

"We're leaving IRC because Discord is more user-friendly"

What all of these arguments have in common is that they exclude people, centralize infrastructure, and eschew free software for proprietary solutions, all in the name of some ill-defined measure of "progress".

Made a git-hook to prevent accidental force pushes to master... You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/penguwin/7659ca3620fb73da63fdf2449de560da

#introductions
Hi, 👋
I'm a student & web developer from Maryland (US). I enjoy contributing to #opensource (see my github), #reading (#scifi or #fantasy), and playing with my family's new #dog Wilson. I'm also looking for interesting people to follow!

Don't forget to let us know which FOSS projects that you'd like us to support! Submissions will be open until 10/25.

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