bhaugen @bhaugen@social.coop

This is a high bar for how to run an open service. I like it!

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I believe that if we enable contributions to services rather than just the software, we reap the advantages of true open source. That means enabling users to make a change to a running service and experience that change themselves.

You still with me?

Yes, that means opening a pull request against a running service and experiencing that change before it's merged.
[ . . . ] Rapid deployment of changes to services is a powerful capability that's highly sought after. For example, GitHub deploys changes before they're merged. [ . . . ]

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opensource.com/article/21/4/op…

Combining SaaS and not just #UserOps but #UserDevOps? Can it be done? It's a very cool idea with important effects.

#OtD 21 Apr 2007 150 garment workers, mostly women, occupied the Mansoura-España textile factory in Egypt against job losses and unpaid wages. The workers won concessions after holding out for 2 months against bosses and their union https://libcom.org/library/al-jazeera-program-mansoura-espana-garments-company-struggle

Greetings, everyone! 🌱
OpenSourceSeeds is committed to re-establishing seed as a common good for all. We do this by providing new varieties with an open-source licence. This is an easy way to legally protect seed from patents and other forms of privatization.

We'd love to get in contact with anyone interested in open source, commons, seeds, organic agriculture and agrobiodiversity. See you soon! 🥦

#opensourceseeds #introduction #opensource

**Union Leader Presses Biden to Immediately Fire Trump Social Security Holdovers**

"Jake Johnson, staff writer: "It is unacceptable that nearly 100 days into President Biden's first term, Social Security employees and the public we serve continue to remain under the thumb of Trump political appoin…"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/20/union-leader-presses-biden-immediately-fire-trump-social-security-holdovers?cd-origin=rss

#news #bot

@resist1984 @clacke @dachary

Of all code forges #gitea is most likely to be the first that implements native #forgefed support. The team members are excited about it.

See on Gitea where @cj elaborated the work that is needed: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14186

And this mention on #codeberg where @6543 is a Gitea team member: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/397

Hi I'm looking for work again

Notable experience: I wrote the Mastodon documentation and I help manage Pixelfed

Resume: https://resume.abdullahtarawneh.com/

Looking for documentation, technical writing, could also do Github issue triage or junior programming, project/product management

Can be either a permanent role or a temporary contract thing

#Capitalism

> You are an IBM employee 100% of the time.

Gross


https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=4acd47644ef1e1c8f8f5bc40b7cf1c5b9bcbbc4e

@polychrome @feld For all its apparent faults and broken leadership, that's exactly the mind set that the GNU project and the FSF set out to fight all these years ago. And here we are, back in the same old mess. In the company that owns Red Hat, no less.

@feld the employment contract also stipulates that they own anything and everything you design or think up away from the office in your personal time.

This is the first of a little experiment to grow ramps from seeds placed in a wine cap mushroom mycellium bomb. The point of this is to say that taking wild ramps is wildly unethical. They take 7 years to go from being a seed to making seeds. I think the future of foraging is rewilding and stewardship. Cultivating wild/native species in your garden, on your lawn, etc. Not ripping them from their habitat and selling at the farmers market.

Maybe targeted advertising should just be banned. #ShowerThoughts

Fords solution

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/18/facebook-special-forces

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

https://news.txcivilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cavazos-family-press-release.pdf

Real talk though

Yes there will have to be an anti-terrorism armed unit, yes there will be people to manage traffic, yes there will be a organisation to investigate murders and organised crime.

But the question is, under whose control are they? Whose interests do they server? How are they structured?

The current structures of the Police however cannot be reformed to a satisfactory position. They are already under the direct control of the people they serve and it ain't us.

They have always been the private army of the ruling class. They are not under the control of the people. They are not accountable to the people in any meaningful way. They are structurally racist and violent.

Any public safety bodies in the future much look radically different.

trying to solve problems with money is often the least intelligent solution