Notices by Stefano Zacchiroli (zacchiro@mastodon.xyz), page 3

@viktor @nextcloud looks like a different issue. I'm talking about the folders being read-only, the permissions are still there

Reading and watching Rocco Schiavone stories in Champoluc.

@zhenech 👏

@zhenech see? Free software is deforesting the planet!!! #SCNR

@_elena @juandesant in case it helps anyone: to avoid this conundrum I've first deleted my Twitter/X account, then waited for the "expiry" period, and finally then re-registered it as a fresh/empty account. (But of course it's risky for popular accounts that others might want to take over.)

Hey @nextcloud , I understand it's not your fault, but the fact that on #android Nextcloud can no longer remove pictures from local folders (e.g., DCIM) after upload is a major UX regression. Is there any workaround possible/planned?

"Il paradosso della scienza italiana, un’eccellenza in perenne agonia

Abbiamo i migliori ricercatori del mondo, ma più della metà se ne va e non torna. L’università è sottofinanziata, ora che finiranno i fondi del Pnrr rischiamo il tracollo"

Giorgio Parisi su La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2024/12/22/news/ricerca_universita_fondi_italia_eccellenza_in_agonia-14901103/

New #paper out: « The impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code » (Empir. Softw. Eng. 30(1): 25 (2025)) where we establish, using #econometrics techniques, that the pandemic disproportionately impacted women's ability to contribute to the development of public code, relatively to men. #Openaccess preprint at: https://hal.science/hal-04716803/

With A. Casanueva, D.Rossi, and @Zimm_i48
#SoftwareEngineering #opensource

@marcoalici la base è un mega magnete?

@zimoun thanks!

#Google #Scholar turned paper writing into search engine optimization (#SEO).

#academiclife #peerreviewisdoinggreat

@civodul @ArneBab @zimoun @flomaraninchi Thanks. Do you have a full reference? (I've found one related one, but does not seem to be yours.)

@flomaraninchi @ArneBab @zimoun specifically in FOSS, I think it comes from a culture of co-design with your user base, "having" to answer to user requests, bug reports, etc. It takes really experienced maintainers to say upfront "no" when a requested feature is not in line with the original vision (assuming there was one).

There's also Lehman's 1st law of software evolution, of course, but it is not clear cut on new features vs context adaptation (e.g., platform changes).

@ArneBab same answer to @zimoun earlier. You're absolutely correct, but that is the same across the free/proprietary software divide.

@zimoun @ArneBab completely agreed that that is a real problem. My point is that it is a problem that has nothing to do with software freedom. (In fact, software freedoms make it *better*, due to the right to fork, but that was not my point here.)

@zimoun @ArneBab To further that point, the decision of an upstream author of a FOSS software to change it in a way that is backward compatible (or incompatible) has no impact whatsoever on the freedom of modifying it by downstream recipients. (Unless the license is changed, of course 🙂.) And it does not impact either that freedom for the author themselves.

@zimoun @ArneBab it seems to me you are conflating the freedom of modification, which is in generally considered as something valuable for *downstream* in FOSS, with the fact that *upstream* author of a software can decide to change it in backward compatible or incompatible ways. The latter is true for any software, no matter its license, and I don't think that being FOSS has any impact on it.

@liw Lars.

TIL about #Nvidia #NVENC and its support in Handbrake: https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/video-nvenc.html . Possibly the first time I'm actually happy about having an Nvidia graphics card on my Linux laptop.

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