@aral @nlnet @openwebsearcheu

Yeah, not the aspect I'd choose to highlight in a press release, but the marketing folks do love their buzzwords.

OWI does look pretty interesting otherwise with a lot of uses beyond feeding AI slop machines.

Unfortunately the EU has jumped on the AI/LLM bandwagon just like they did crypto before it. I know NLnet are pushing back as hard as they can on that, just as they did with crypto. Unfortunately the EU sets the targets for the funds, not NLnet.

They say to never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

Unfortunately this year's @osi board elections go way beyond that point.

The current Executive Director is leading #OSI in a direction the community don't want to follow with #OSAID. By changing the rules as you go along in this year's election to exclude candidates who want to reform the OSI you have destroyed any remaining trust.

You shat the bed. It's time to change the sheets.

When OSI ran their campaign asking projects to add an "OSI approved" logo to their software, @librecast complied enthusiastically.

When the new administration made a mess of the website and broke links to a lot of content (many of which are still broken, and referenced in Wikipedia), including the "OSI approved" logo, we updated all our repos (again) to fix this.

Last week we removed the logos after watching the first part of this election.

Today, having seen the #OSI election "results", in which several valid and accepted candidates were removed from the listings, and the full voting results suppressed, we have replaced references to the Open Source Definition with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) on which they are based.

It saddens me to do this. I have been a long time supporter of OSI, and gone in to bat many times when companies have tried to pass themselves off as Open Source without an OSI approved license.

The #OSI 's one job is to protect and promote #OpenSource and the Open Source Definition (OSD). Undermining that definition with the weakened #OSAID has alienated much of the Open Source community, myself included.

I had hoped that might be turned around, but this year's reform candidates were likely the last chance to see that happen.

Watching the OSI promoting corporate sponsors was concerning, but this year's blatant election manipulation is the final straw.

We have precise ways of writing times and dates.

"Saturday evening around 1-2am" is not one of the standards I'm familiar with, but it must be a standard because this was in a notification from a technology organisation, and they would know about such things.

Is that the "Sunday morning" part of Saturday evening?

If the Penny Black opens at 5am, and the sun isn't up yet and I left home on Saturday evening, what time is it, where am I, and more importantly, where are my trousers?

Perhaps it's over for you, but
#CovidIsNotOver for me
Today was a good day
Pain level only a three

After five years now
Yes, I know, it's a bore
But please #WearAMask
#LongCovid hurts more

In any process where you are talking about "stakeholders", if any of your stakeholders are not individual human beings, you need to think deeper.

A corporation is never a stakeholder.

The only reason to care about a corporation or other org is because of the real people that it might affect. The employees, perhaps. The customers, sometimes. *Those* are your stakeholders.

If one of your "stakeholders" is a trillion dollar corporation, you really are on the wrong path.

#OSAID #OpenSource

I've been putting off going into town for as long as I can, but we're out of fuel for the chainsaw, and without it we freeze. It's nearly three months since I last had to go to town. The next chainsaw I buy will likely be electric.

Fortunately my new Flo Mask arrived yesterday, so I'll get to try that out.

Test fit of the Flo Mask. It's perfect. The first truly comfortable mask I've tried. The seal is excellent, even with my beard.

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

A lot of the disposable N95/FFP3 masks split at the bottom due to my enormous chin. This clamps just below the bottom lip.

Wore the mask for nearly an hour in the tracteur to drive into town and no real problems. I only really needed to wear it once there, but I wanted to see how it would be for a longer stint, and while driving.

Probably needs a slight adjustment but not much, as my nose started to touch the filter towards the end, but seal remained good.

I thought I'd be self-conscious wearing it, but that was overridden by feeling so much more secure in a decent mask.

No problems conversing in it.

@Her_Doing See the excellent PDF by @elana for travel tips and mask suggestions:

https://avoid-plague.info/goodies/covid-travel-guide/

@anna @janet China is taking steps to achieve digital sovereignty, including building their own chips (Loongson 64) to reduce dependence on Intel and AMD.

They also released their own Linux distro, OpenKylin, in 2023:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/

@slothrop The trains may run on time, but the verb is always late 😉

@slothrop He is a very sleepy dog. Does your sandwich snore?

@slothrop The sandwich in my case was a small dog. 🐶

@goetz When the technical requirements are written such that they require features only provided by $vendor, then any detailed assessment will conclude that $vendor is the best option and that other services cannot compete.

Governments everywhere have long used this technique for tendering. It's how corruption can exist in the face of a "fair" tendering process.

For SIDN to conclude that there is no hosting in the EU that can meet their requirements says that their requirements are wrong.

My wife says my Pandemic beard is too long. I say the Pandemic is too long.

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #LongCovid #WearAMask

@lightweight Without sacrifice our principles and values are just words.