Notices by Dr. Matt Lee is at hireme.fyi (mattl@social.coop), page 4

A pay what you like zine:

You can snag a DRM-free download of @AlexandraGallant’s zine 'Iconic' on @itch.io — it has a bunch of old Livejournal icons made 20 years ago, plus short essays and thoughts on design, trends and pop culture from the time.

https://alexandragallant.itch.io/iconic

#zine #livejournal #icon #drmfree

@Maj@pixelfed.social @maj@cosocial.ca looks cozy

@dannybloomfield send me an email if you need any assistance.

How many scrobbles do you have?

@neil Sadly I cannot blame it on the OSA.

@brooke Clean My Mac X is worth getting IMO. It is regularly able to free up lots of space on my Mac.

@ArneBab the issue isn’t me being annoyed with naming but I argue that by making it his focus, Stallman has harmed the FSF, GNU, copyleft and the movement in general.

The FSF staff are good people who want to do what they can, but their efforts are hampered by Stallman.

@highvoltage I moved here almost 20 years ago and still haven’t wrapped my head around it.

Just lost my day job after 6 and a half years out of the blue with no warning.

8 weeks severance.

My wife and I have now both lost our jobs in the last few weeks. I will lose my health insurance in 8 weeks.

Fuck.

@heydon happy birthday. I’m partial to the word “cockcunt” myself. I think I read it in Viz 30 years ago.

@ArneBab there is no reason for GNU to be part of the conversation about Linux or Android beyond those operating systems or distributions of them may choose to include some GNU software or software from BSD or anywhere else.

Announcing you’re making an OS and then not making one doesn’t give you any claim over the name of someone else’s project.

I haven’t had an Android device in years but I’m not surprised it hasn’t changed much.

GFDL should have been killed off much sooner.

@hillsy yep pretty much.

@ArneBab Refusal to use modern computing.

Weird attitude towards Linux in the early days that general purpose PCs were basically garbage.

The GFDL

Absolute refusal to do anything approaching useful with mobile devices

Weirdly paranoid about the web

Why are you asking me about Android?

@ArneBab I’m talking about Stallman’s professional behavior. His personal behavior is well documented.

Stallman’s weird insistence with language and phrases is incredibly off putting to most people. It is also cult-like behavior getting people to conform a lingo.

The whole GNU/Linux thing is incredibly stupid.

Failure to embrace open source.

Failure to embrace Creative Commons.

Give me this version of the internet again. I just want to use AIM and write PHP and watch videos and read blogs and everything has 3 RSS feeds.

Give me that and fuck AI and all this invasive modern web tracking bullshit. I want websites with tildes in the URL and and tag clouds. I want homepages!
https://social.coop/@mattl/114193283249592461

I love when you find a 14 year old review of wargaming minis you can still buy now they’re that good. In the description it mentions ordering DVDs from a Hotmail account.

Then: first comment is someone letting the channel owner know that they shared the video on their blog because the review was so honest.

I’m going to start adding these to the Internet Archive as they’re created in the next few days.

Or in other words, I made 621 million new unique pieces for the web today, all freely licensed and universally available. I like doing things like this.

Now it’s time to watch Elsbeth.

Today I added a new way to share a song you've listened to on Libre.fm: images.

(Apologies to anyone using Lynx)

Check out @artlung listening to Beck here: https://mat.tl/artlung.html

HTML and BBCode examples are provided.

There's also a plain text version.

(Apologies to anyone not using Lynx)

https://libre.fm/user/artlung/scrobble/1741994804/txt

#librefm #indieweb

Do I know anyone using a forum that supports BBcode? The forums I use (like DakkaDakka) are using an older version of it and this doesn't seem to work.

Can you let me know if the BBCode posted here works for you?

https://libre.fm/user/mattl/scrobble/1742434950

And let's be very clear: GPLv3 was a huge international effort from lots and lots of people, it was not Stallman writing a new license in Emacs and putting it on the website.

I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.

I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at a moment's notice and live in the US.

So other than the GPL what has he done since 1998 (generous) that wasn't complaining about the name of Linux? The FSF has done quite a lot when he didn't interfere.