Notices by ninavizz (ninavizz@mastodon.social), page 2

@aral The US delegate to the Security Council voted against a ceasefire, last week. Furious. So much of this letter seems so obvious, to millions on the outside—that the enablers seem more keen to ignore, than to honor.

@evan I really wish this had been a joke Toot. And not about the real war happening, that my country is subsidising.

@aral OMG lookit you—WOW, you got IN FRONT OF the dang Parliament! Congrats!! Honestly, tech used to be all about the common good. More of it, than not. My dad was a tech exec in the 1980s, and it was a very different world, then. He was so excited when I left for-profit, and then was almost more bummed-out than I was, when I had to return to it. All of us fighting to make it better, tho, make his generation proud. VERY proud, fwiw. Please know that! <3 @simulo @fosdem

@aral Germany seems to be good with funding public tech; but, I'm also American. So for me its healthcare, housing, and food, and the same for my retired/elderly parents. And my disabled partner. Honestly, I took thousands in funding from the USG to do work on projects that openly oppose their policies. Really, you'd be surprised what funders either don't notice, or don't care about. TY for all you've done, it sounds like A LOT!! @simulo @fosdem

@aral Did I disagree with any of your article's points? How do you pay your bills—where does your income come from? Have you tried support a family on OSS grant funds? Secured funding to enable others to work on OSS? I spent three years doing it. The funding is not there from ethical sources, to sustain OSS. So you can hold to ideals, or you can take the money so better software gets made—which can deliver results to put the Googles & the Metas out of business. @opensourcedesign @simulo @fosdem

@aral @opensourcedesign @simulo @fosdem Ok, SOMEONE has to pay for the whole thing. Why not take Google's money? We should be slurping up all the revenue possible from the greedy capitalists, to empower as much OSS goodness as possible. Everyone needs to eat and pay rent; and events are expensive to produce.

@Gargron You're a developer, why don't you have UX designers doing that?! We don't write code for a reason, and it's not because we can't figure-out how to do it. Design is a skill, and knowledge of usability heuristics takes years to develop as a dedicated craftsperson.