Notices by 🌈 A. Wilcox delicately (awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me), page 9

@azure *pets*

@trash @luciferMysticus RTF was used by early Exchange (pre Outlook), and IIRC NeXTStep.

@vurpo Nope!

X12 hypothetical was written by a completely different group, 3 years after Wayland started. The X12 spec deliberately calls out network transparency and framebuffer support as critical, while Wayland does away with network transparency ("no one cares" per the Wayland dev I spoke to) and virtually no compositors support fbdev.

I'd support what X12 wanted to be; Wayland falls short of that. Maybe with extensions. But then we're right back where we were with X11.

@Wolf480pl I already wrote a patch and sent it. It was denied.

Someone else I know sent basically the same patch two weeks before. Denied.

@ben

While this may end up being a good thing for our distro, since you know, we use a respectable ML software (GNU Mailman), I still hate this for Alpine. I don't think they were aware of the political shitstorm that their ML migration was going to have. And I don't think they have the manpower available to do another migration. As it is, this migration was done by the author of the other ML software. (Make of that what you will.)

@ben This is an issue not only because of the growing trend that people use their phones, but also for accessibility purposes. There are no real alternative MUAs for iPhone, and the Android alternatives we've been discussing the past few weeks don't support the screen reader APIs properly.

When the maintainer of the ML software was confronted with this fact by an actual blind contributor to Alpine, said contributor was basically told to shove it.

@ben the mailing lists for Alpine Linux have been migrated to software that prevents you from sending a multipart message that contains HTML.

This breaks a lot of users. Almost all ML software just relays the text/plain part. And since the list used to accept HTML mail some mobile MUAs are "stuck" remembering that "this email prefers HTML". The stock iOS and Android clients don't have an ability to turn this off (cont.)

And this is why I cannot even begin to fathom how anyone can possibly suggest refusing to allow people to contribute to libre software projects using phones or tablets or other email clients that send multipart/alternative messages.

It is unconscionable.

Put another way: I really hate x86 and Wayland.

The x86 platform is a disaster and a constant source of headaches. I would prefer not to ever touch any x86 machines. Yet I am consistently fixing issues in them for @AdelieLinux so users have choice.

Similarly, I think Wayland is a fool's project and that the effort going in to NIHing a display technology should be invested into solidifying X11 instead. But we still offer Wayland as a second option in Adélie for those who prefer it.

Libre software is about empowering users.

It's about the users having rights, instead of developers having rights.

This is fundamental and non-negotiable.

When you purposefully and deliberately shut out a significant portion of your community over your personal feelings, you are taking away the rights of your users.

Libre software developers should be dedicated to making adoption of libre software easier. Better user interfaces and experiences. Wider compatibility. That's how we all win.

@Wolf480pl I was trolling. In the US it's "Independence Day" and everyone was posting about "being free".

Happy RMS Day.

Hackers, you'll be free!

@Shamar @sroracle @sir I'm not sure if I necessarily agree with that last bit.

I'm passionate about libre software and agree the GPL is useful. I also think a lot of GNU projects are unnecessarily bloated.

GCC is not one of them. GCC is probably the best compiler we'll ever have just because it's so portable to everything, and so compatible.

But we @AdelieLinux do have https://da.gd/De-GNU as an eventual goal; even so, GCC isn't on the list.

I feel really badly for stuff that happened today, but I'm absolutely terrified of trying to mend it because I'm positive I would only make it worse.

The hardest part of knowing other people is giving space. All of my automatic core instincts yell loudly at me to go up to them and apologise sincerely, deeply, and repeatedly until they either accept it or until I firmly believe they will never. I know from experience this is wrong. But it's hell not doing it.

Today has done nothing but suck

But at least we won the footie

@Elizafox I...don't. I don't find it weird that I have more in common with people in their early 20s than late 20s.

They seem more progressive and more inline with my ideals and ethics.

People my age suck.

Do one act of kindness today.

Big or small. Doesn’t matter. Just find one thing to do that is kind to someone else.

Plant a tree. Help an older neighbour with chores. Call a friend just to tell them you care about them. Come up with something yourself!

The world needs kindness. Today and every day.