Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com), page 3

https://drewdevault.com/make-a-blog

Start a blog and write your first article, get $20. Write another 3 articles within six months and get another $20.

The main problem with choosing a free software license is that they're a giant pile of legalese rather than a succient explanation of their goals.

MIT, BSD: Do whatever you want with this software, but it's not our responsibility (baseline)

Apache: Same but with extra protections for your trademarks/brand

GPL: Requires derivative software and software to also use the GPL license

LGPL: Requires derivatives to also use the LGPL license, but doesn't consider linking to a library to be a derivative

AGPL: Requires derivatives to also use the AGPL license, but considers communication over the network to be derivative

At the moment this only works if your email address is associated with an account on sr.ht, but in the future I'd like to make it so you can file tickets and participate in the discussion without an account

Choosing a VPN service is a serious decision

https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/19/Your-VPN-is-a-serious-choice.html

Non-comprehensive list of projects which use email-driven development:

- Linux & git (you knew this already)
- *BSD
- gcc, clang
- coreutils, busybox
- glibc, musl libc, newlib
- ffmpeg
- qemu, VirtualBox
- PostgreSQL, MariaDB
- Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and most other large Linux distros

@JordiGH a VPN provider is a serious choice to make. You're going to be sending them ALL of your traffic and have to take their word for it that they won't log it or alter it. What if PIA runs on hard times and has to choose between selling your data and feeding their kids? What if they get served a secret sopeana? These are questions you HAVE to ask yourself when choosing a VPN provider. Having that decision make for you by Purism is highly questionable.

Plus, it shows favoritism to a specific commercial service provider, which I don't like. If they had shipped with built-in OpenVPN or Wireguard support with an option to select a VPN provider from a bunch of them, that'd be much much better.

Since an OBS plugin for wlroots has appeared on the scene, I'm going to broadcast myself bootstrapping a self-hosted (and FOSS) livestreaming platform 😁

If you want to watch, point your media player (e.g. mpv) at this URL:

https://live.drewdevault.com/dash/broadcast.mpd

Sway: Putting together an internationalization team

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3986

Call for volunteers

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/patreon-ups-its-revenue-cut-but-grandfathers-in-old-creators/

Shoutout to Patreon for talking to TechCrunch before talking to creators

And a reminder that I have a standing offer to host fosspay for anyone who would like it:

https://github.com/ddevault/fosspay

It's the software that runs my donation portal:

https://drewdevault.com/donate

Look at this cool thing I made

https://qlock.drewdevault.com/

Announcing the release of sway 1.0

https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/11/Sway-1.0-released.html

@dankwraith software which uses this license is not open source software

I recommend throwing this garbage in the trash instead

Wayland misconceptions debunked

https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayland-misconceptions-debunked.html

Holy shit, Facebook is paying teenagers to install a root certificate on their phones so they can snoop on all of their internet traffic

Not a joke, this is actually a thing which is happening right now

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

The answer to "is sr.ht and/or mailing-list-driven development harder for drive-by contributors than GitHub?"

https://sr.ht/7uuK.txt

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2019/01/16/600-days-of-postmarketOS/

Listen.

DON'T

USE

SLACK

FOR

FOSS

PROJECTS

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3321930/version-control-systems/github-alternative-strives-to-be-all-open-source-only-open-source.html

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3321930/version-control-systems/github-alternative-strives-to-be-all-open-source-only-open-source.html

sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html