Notices by Mayel - sunny side punk (mayel@sunbeam.city), page 9

I had the opportunity to meet a very smart Mastodon developer recently and was struck by three things:

1. They're young and expect software look professional and work right out of the box.

2. They're thoughtful and are as much product managers as engineers.

3. They think in terms of what user will experience first, and implementation later, but equally competent discussing either.

If this is the next generation of the Free Software community, I couldn't be happier/prouder.

*DRAFT* MoodleNet User Agreement and Covenant for Instance Administrators

https://blog.moodle.net/2019/user-agreement-covenant/

"Smart" and networked proprietary devices should be very much called what they are: dystopian junk.

If you want a less polemic term, use "automated surveillance devices," but really all of these TVs, home assistants, toasters, fridges, smoke detectors, etc. are dystopian junk.

We need "low tech" appliances, and we need personal computing devices that are, by design, fully controllable by the people using them.

As we now have 100+ level 7+ apps in #yunohost , we need to know on what application you want/need/care about, to let packager package them with love.

Please vote only for apps you really would like to install.

https://forum.yunohost.org/t/2019-june-yunohost-community-apps-poll/8236

That idea sounds exactly like mail blacklists (RBLs), which have already existed for some time, so I wonder if that infrastructure could be minimally modified for this purpose.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5782

@therealraccoon @mayel

Last week, @staltz published an article looking at the funding of open source projects.

It's a long-form article full of nuance:

https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

Tl/dr: More needs to be done to fund open development, including more pressure on companies to donate to projects they benefit from, unionising, alternative licences and more donations in general.

This made me wonder, should there be a day on the Fediverse where we promote donations to a particular project? For example a #SupportSunday?

@mayel I think this is a very good idea, not only on the application level, but also for instances and end users. It would be a much better way than word-of-mouth and public-service-announcement block recommendations.

Fun fact about the license under which the Mastodon source code is published (AGPL) is that it requires any modifications to it to be published.

No secret sauce, no proprietary features possible. Which is why commercial companies hate this license.

Want to paywall "pro" features? You can, but anyone can take your code and run it on a different server for free.

Anyway, that's quite an interesting financial choice for Gab, a for-profit entity that sells "pro" features