Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 45

@billstclair
> My apps show nothing but a “turn on JavaScript” warning without JS.

Why? This is graceless degradation for one thing. I don't see why anyone thinks they're entitled to run programs on other people's computers without opt-in consent. How about you design it to serve an HTML/CSS web page when people visit it in their web browser with JS turned off or blocked, explaining what JS allows the app to do, and asking them to please turn it on? #Pleroma needs to do that to, #Pixelfed has.

@clacke never heard of "being in the snow". What's that?

@lnxw48a1 I imagine so. The guy who was left holding the baby at Oasis has been pretty responsible about giving users adequate time to move their grains to self-hosted Sandstorm, so I assume he'd do the same thing if the entire project were to be shuttered.

@icedquinn fair points. I think the remains of the Sandstorm team can see that the pioneering ideas they set out to implement were in the zeitgeist, and that events in the virtualized server world have passed them by. Other container projects like #Docker and #Proxmox have allowed server operators to give folks running applications on their hardware much deeper admin access, because it's all sandboxed inside the containers. Which in turn makes it safer for less experienced folks to run servers.

@erlequin
> In this sense Ubuntu Touch is not full mobile Linux

Given what I explained in the last post, there's absolutely no question than UT - and thus UBports - is Linux. But what I think you're saying here is that it's not GNU/Linux, but rather Android/Linux. AFAIK the UI for UBPorts is a fork of the Unity DE that UT used. There was no reason to port that to the Android userland, if you can get devices running on a mainline kernel and use the mature GNU one where Unity was known to work.

@erlequin let's untangle this mess. Linux is a kernel, not an OS, and is the kernel used by both GNU/Linux and Android/Linux. What distinguished a GNU-based mobile OS from an Android-based one is not the kernel used (although Androids uses a modified version with less security support), but the userland and UI. Is it GNU with a modified desktop DE like Unity, GNOME or KDE, or one Goggle's Java one? Sailfish is basically a (partly proprietary) mobile DE on top of a GNU userland.

@ademalsasa TBH honest I haven't tried it yet. Just logging here as a reminder and in case anyone else is interested. I tend to take the path of least resistance, so if there is a deb repo I would add that to my sources list so I can get automated updates, otherwise I would use an AppImage. If I have to compile it from source, chances are it's not ready for mere mortals to use ;)

@Amuro_Rei case in point. My post was agreeing with @Amuro_Rei . Not only did you not ask for clarification before leaping in to condemn me, but ironically, you are doing *exactly* what his post was asking people *not* to do. Please, please, read the linked article. Also this one:
https://www.autostraddle.com/kin-aesthetics-excommunicate-me-from-the-church-of-social-justice-386640/

@fitheach pursing my lips at the thought ...

@icedquinn individual repos have a readme. At projects and community level, the UI only has lists of repos/ projects. That's true for GH (but fuck GH), but I'm pretty sure it's true for GL too. Less familiar with other code forge platforms.

@jeffcliff this is such a weird and deeply wrong way to interview people for a job. Even wronger than having some non-digital HR muppet interviewing people they'll never work with, unless they have a workplace complaint. The way to go is what companies like #Semco and #Morningstar do, get the team who is going to be working with the new hire day-to-day to interview candidates. Still need to correct for implicit bias, but ...

A year ago, #Sandstorm had to shut down free accounts on their #Oasis service because there weren't enough paid accounts to cross-subsidize them:
https://sandstorm.io/news/2018-08-27-discontinuing-free-plan

Now they've announced they're shutting it down for good:
https://sandstorm.io/news/2019-09-15-shutting-down-oasis

Sadly, this kind of thing rather undermines the 'users are willing to pay if the host is free code and ethical' proposition.

It would be handy if code forges like GitLab had a place to put a prominent link to their official user forum (if they have one), to discourage people from filing issues to start general discussions about the project. Or alternatively, they could have an issues board for whole projects (or for whole communities of projects), separate from the issues boards for particular software components.

Public arts grants funded by a TV license everybody pays. The original #crowdfunding!

(rubs hands gleefully and waits for the social democrat vs anarchist vs. libertarian royal rumble to start ;)

It would be a good health check if #fediverse UI displayed the version number of both the client and the server it's connected to.

<satire>

#PurseOS is a new GNU/Linux distribution that will be run on #IoT devices like self-driving handbags, IP-enabled clutches, and smart compacts. Crowdfunding coming soon ...

</satire>

'Plight Of The Artist', a computer animated short featuring Sabrina Skunk, made by #EricWSchwartz in the 1990s, on an Amiga:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=Sj9Lxu-pO6g

These sorts of things are a good reminder of how much of the available computing power we have now is wasted because of lazy programming and the resulting bloatware. Especially in proprietary software, a multitude of engineering sins can be hidden in binaries.

@Amuro_Rei yup, like men policing women's behaviour "coz feminism" (eg islamophobic burkini bans), this is yet another classic example of #RigidRadicalism at work:
https://joyfulmilitancy.com/2018/06/03/the-stifling-air-of-rigid-radicalism/

Thanks for pointing it out :)