Notices by thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club), page 69

@ink_slinger I've been meaning to give GNU Ring a shot, but haven't bit the bullet yet.

One of the reasons is that the UX still doesn't favour non-technical people, so I'd have a pretty limited circle in which to give it a shot.

@ink_slinger I've not used it personally, I was hearing something about how the dev won't release on f-droid, and builds can't be verified against the source code. and that the open source server can't actually talk to the production one sketched me out a bit.

IMO encrypted message bodies are becoming less important if you're exposing all the convo meta to a centralized provider. i.e. who are your contacts, when you do contact them, with what frequency, how do msg timings link to IRL events.

@ink_slinger sounds like we need to seize the means of caffeination!

@Taco yumm! I'm looking forward to the kiddo getting older so it gives me an excuse to buy captain crunch again

@ink_slinger don't let the brazillian coffee oligarchs entice you!

@Supernova eeh good luck

Refurbished my old MX-Brown #keyboard to put it back in use.

+ Full teardown with keycap bath.
+ Re-soldered some keys whose legs became detached.
+ Swapped some keys that I don't use (numlock, scrolllock) with busted ones (j, backspace).
+ Added some fat squishy O-rings to space, ctrl, shift, enter, bsp.

What a delight typing is again today. I noticed over the last month or so I've been avoiding typing on my old kb, because of fatigue with stiffer actuation.

did you know that residents of samoa lost December 30th, 2011?

they decided to move to the west side of the international date line.

and employers still had to pay all workers for day the timelord brought them forward and they skipped.

@monsieuricon woops, it appears that i've flown off the handle again.

I'll reiterate that I have no proof, just lots of first hand experience with this sort of founder v. investor relationship. All the good intentions in the world won't save you from taking money from, and giving power to the wrong people.

@monsieuricon while I'm fully aware some of the founders probably don't feel this way right now, this is almost guaranteed what the investors and sales folks are pitching to large corps housing internal OSS teams, and money speaks pretty loudly.

@monsieuricon speaks volumes IMO the messaging from the top as opposed to the what the website is claiming.

First they exploited the taxi drivers in uber, then homeowners in airbnb, now software devs in tidelift.

My feeling is that it's a play to allow businesses to let go of their dedicated OSS maintainers (thus shed employees, improve bottom line), and allow them to be hip with the "gig economy" while virtue signalling support for OSS projects.

@monsieuricon get bad vibes looking into the VC & their announcement.

https://www.foundrygroup.com/blog/2018/05/our-investment-in-tidelift/

"Tidelift’s approach—an innovative B2B take on the marketplace business model that has fueled the rapid growth of some of the most successful consumer startups of the past ten years—is what makes this company really stand apart. Tidelift nicely straddles our marketplace and distribution themes, while also serving software developers"

@bram must be a good kitty to get all those scritches!

@bram waiting on the chats

@michela picture from the comments on the first link.

speaking purely from my own butt here, but I'm guessing the stereotype of social isolation for basement nerds breeds sexism and racism. Those isolated people share their extreme anti-social views with eachother, and sadly we have a good chunk of /r/linux.

Then the silent majority sit and think about how toxic the community is, and maybe its not worth participating with these people anymore.

https://mastodon.club/media/7KFaeBe2Ne37su0hnE4

Aw man, tidelift isn't good either?

@algernon this is part of my morning affirmations before I pop online.

pretty sure i'll drown in them eventually.

@deejoe @snoot hate the name "Linux Foundation", it's always just been primarily board of self-important corporations lobbying for their own interests. Not the interests of contributors, license owners, or users.

@ChrisWere i appreciate this review, all I hear are "best OS ever", nothing can be perfect, and it's strange to have seen so little criticism of it around mastodon.