Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 73

There's a Richard Stallman message for every occasion.

@vfrmedia @mayel @jjg

That was the mentality I saw in the kids around me while in the CS program. "This is how I will get rich", followed by "Fuck you I got mine".

"I was just trying to get rich" might just be the new "I was just following orders".

These are the #Gitea issues regarding federation:

- users, repos, organizations: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612
- federated pull requests https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184

Go, go-devs!
/cc @cwebber

If you want to see federation support in #gitea #gogs and #gitlab please upvote and comment on https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612 https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/4437 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517 to bring them to the attention of core developers #github #gitlab #git #gitea #gogs #microsoft

@vfrmedia @jjg @mayel

The fact that FLOSS ethics is not a part of the wider political progressive movement is so tragic to me.

Social and economic progress rely on changing the underlying systems in place, systems which are already rapidly changing... thanks to technology. But if that technology isn't free, libre, and open, how could we possibly have true social+economic progress come out of it?

@vfrmedia

That's a great point. This isn't a technical problem, it's a social one, and we don't do as much as we should to give engineers a social education.

I only came about mine through trying to solve my own feelings of alienation :)

@gabe @mayel

@mayel @gabe @jjg that is likely the case.

I have been working in tech for near 30 years, and literally the only people I encounter who *genuinely* believe in FOSS as a wider social force for good (not simply yet another aspect of profit making business) seem to be found on Mastodon (and a great number of them on social.coop instance, although thats to be expected)

@jjg @mayel Instead we just talked about how it's wrong to steal others' intellectual property 🙄

The degree to which capitalist industry's claws are dug into the public education system is a whole other demon.

@mayel @jjg Oh, absolutely. One of the worst parts of going through the CS program at my University (and there were a lot of bad parts) was seeing how woefully uninformed the developer (or at least the upcoming developer) community was about the ethics of FLOSS and the inherent flaws of developing software for capitalist industries.

We even had a mandatory ethics course where I thought maybe some of that stuff would be addressed... No dice, though.

It'd be great if some activitypub-friendly #go developers would offer to help #gitea add #activitypub based federation

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612#issuecomment-382876960

cc @MatejLach

@mayel Yeah, I'm really hoping this turns into some more decentralization-focused work on Git, as well as increased funding/support for the GitLab team to improve what they've got.

That said, the number of Microsoft apologists is astounding and incredibly disheartening.

Welp, it's official!

Time to #DitchGithub and #DitchAtom

#Gitea #Gitlab #Vim #Neovim #Emacs

https://twitter.com/github/status/1003623284829638659

Join us this Wednesday at 16:00 UTC for this month's #MoodleNet community call!

https://blog.moodle.net/2018/moodlenet-design-sprint/

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