bhaugen @bhaugen@social.coop

Please don't fall for the #deathcult libdems hideing behind there smiling soft social face.

My creative partner and I are setting up our #OpenCollective page. Whether the role in our project is copy or code, we're basing cost estimates and payouts from contributions for our labor at $15USD/hour

The project involves updating 3 games from the end of the golden era of play by email to play over ActivityPub. The first milestone involves creating a gateway for the games to replace the role of the mail server and bespoke web services of the original games and refactoring the games to generate JSON instead of HTML for the gateway. The goal is to eventually federate all aspects of game play, administration, and development on an ActivityPub network that gateways an acceptable amount of traffic to the Fediverse

I vaguely remember someone running a fedi instance in Africa and for Africans, but I cannot find it. Anyone knows which one that could be?

Asking for a friend, who's driving up from South Africa to Uganda with a mobile maker space in a transporter. She's only on birdsite now, and it'd be perfect to spread some fedi goodness around.

The FSF has 34 years of legacy & a community that's highly resistant to meaningful change, so I think their leadership having the courage to make strong decisions others will disagree with will be a real challenge for them.

But the task of changing for the better is not an impossible one imho. Any organization can foster an inclusive and diverse environment if they exercise the right amount of patience, persistence and willigness to learn from past mistakes.

I like coding a lot, other people should too!
It's like learning to build and creates something new.
As you go, you'll meet people who're grumpy and mean
Don't let them get you down, let your brightness be seen!

We are skipping the blog post this week, so here is a summary of #Glimpse progress:

* We now have a new About window & splash screen

* Mac port is blocked, so will be pushed out until after 0.1 is released. https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues/59

* @trechnex is making good progress on the Windows port and is continuing to develop our Travis CI integration https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/pull/130

* @chaomodus has is fixing the metadata in our Linux flatpak. https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/pull/139

* @brainblasted is remodeling our website

I'm working on a new project to add "groups" functionality to the #fediverse. It will work entirely via federation protocols, so you'll keep using your existing #Mastodon or other #ActivityPub app account and join groups by following them.

I want to see a world where we no longer center software developers in our endeavors. Where "source code" is no longer our main concern. GitHub created a world where we take source code for granted. Let's keep doing that!

Now stop taking for granted the labor that requires.

This is the best statue upgrade I've seen yet! Sorry, I don't know where it is.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the way forward for us is to build a dual-purpose Commons: one where our communities can freely partake and share and collaborate and learn and build each other up, while those who seek to profit on their own terms put cold hard cash down.

If I could restart the FLOSS philosophy from first principles, and re-derive everything, I would start by separating the existing concept of "user", which currently means both "one afforded the means of software development" and "one without the means of software development", and rethink the rights that fall out.

For instance, the existing pillar of "freedom to modify" is no longer equitable.

I have no answers now, but identifying the problem is a good step, I think.

Godot: a FREE & Open Source game engine is $200 shy of being able to hire their 3rd full time contributor!

Godot is in the same league as the current commercial ones, with many innovations in workflow, features and usability.

A complete editor, dedicated 2D and 3D engines, animation tools, multi-platform exports, plugins, a Free asset store +more.

Please contribute if able; times of much change are upon us.

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#Godot #GameEngine #OPENSOURCE #gaming #freedom

There is corporate open-source software made in the software equivalent of sweat shops in developing countries. It doesn't respect the freedom of its developers. Is it only the user's freedom that's important? What about the rights of the worker who made it?

Shouldn't real free software respect the freedom of both the developers and the users? Maybe it's time to extend the definition.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

A friend suggested today that it's time for a manifesto and I agree. Another friend in another conversation mentioned that "free software" and "open source" are not relevant terms for what we need. I also agree.

It's time for something new. A new, community-centered ecosystem.

For every gross dude you tolerate, there's almost certainly several people who are pushed out of that space you created for him

The more influential the gross dude, the more people will emulate him and help to push out even more people

And it's mostly women who get pushed out

So for the likes of RMS and Torvalds, the damage they have done to the field of Computer Science may be incalculable

Good riddance

@joeyh I've taken to watching YT exclusively in Incognite mode, by Web.

Actually, I've taken to watching YT exclusively via https://invidio.us

No tracking, option to switch to Reddit comments. No ads.

And the suggestions are ... well, they're what they are.

mpv and mps-youtube are also far better -- audio only which for most of what I'm interested in is a net win.

Ability to easily search and create temporary or permanent playliists also hugely useful.

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