Notices by gabe 👍 (gabe@social.coop)

I want a revolution where everyone begins stealing proprietary source code and releasing it online.

#ForThePeople #FreeThePeople

https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/08/07/hacker-swipes-snapchats-source-code-publishes-it-on-github/

@alxcndr @vfrmedia @jjg @mayel

Very valid points! I definitely don't think the blame lies on either side (or really anywhere).

I'm hopeful that the two will begin to overlap more and more, I'm just sad that it hasn't happened already.

@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".

@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?

@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.

@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

Anyone got an online speedtest they'd recommend? Preferably FOSS (preferably-er GPL3) and HTML5/JS.

Working on a torrent settings calculator thing for fun and would like to refer users to an A+ speedtest rather than Netflix's fast.com or speedtest.net.

#speedtest #foss #gpl

Anybody know of a #diaspora pod with aims/goals/ethics similar to #socialcoop? Looking to ditch #CentralizedSocialMedia entirely and wanna find a good pod to call home.