Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social), page 3

@ainmosni @GossiTheDog The free on-site amenities and events are huge. It's not just about keeping you on campus, it's about tying your whole life to the company. A few of the people I have argued with the loudest were "Googler with Googler spouse" which is just... absolute corporate success. The entire family is company-owned.

@ainmosni @GossiTheDog Yep, one of my favorite "shills Google on HN in his free time" guys got laid off by them last year, and I had a good laugh about it.

@GossiTheDog The other fun fact is that a bunch of these companies have like 100,000 employees, and they get *really upset* if you point out on HN or the like that they are stanning their employer.

I have been accused of "doxxing" for merely pointing out a guy loudly justifying why Google was the best at everything was a manager on their Ads team.

@mcc I can't wait until StackOverflow learns about GDPR.

@BoscoZebra @dansup @evan @cwebber @thisismissem @Claire @lanodan @trwnh @grishka @smallcircles @deadsuperhero The developers building the fediverse are *saving the world* in the way they know how.

@BoscoZebra @dansup @evan @cwebber @thisismissem @Claire @lanodan @trwnh @grishka @smallcircles @deadsuperhero That's an incredibly poor way of looking at it. Bad social media is responsible for Trump's election, the rise of the alt-right, etc. Social media has insane amounts of impact on the world, and these folks are doing it to make the world better instead of make profit at any cost.

@mcc My prevailing theory when writing PHP is that if I think a pattern should work, it probably does, somehow.

@deadsuperhero For what it's worth, I don't think it's really ideal to say "shut up unless you can code". Forgejo started as a fork of principles first, and code second.

But what feels really silly is that the driver here is not bad behavior but baseless speculation of bad behavior.

@Legit_Spaghetti @paul @WarnerCrocker Apparently not: "A similar situation came up before the 2020 presidential election. ... Ohio lawmakers approved changing the cutoff to 60 days — but only for that election."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biden-miss-deadline-november-ballot-ohio-states-election-108996446

It seems like the DNC definitely should've known going into this year.

@Edelruth @Legit_Spaghetti @paul @WarnerCrocker Yeah I mean moving the date of a big event is a big ordeal and a lot of wasted money, but this is major US political party level money involved, it's not like that's a hard problem.

@WarnerCrocker My immediate thoughts:

- This is a kinda big fail on the DNC's part if this statute has existed since 1975.

- It also probably doesn't matter if Biden is on the Alabama ballot? Alabama hasn't voted blue since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

@clacke It's especially DNS when you jokingly invoke the DNS line because of how confident you are it isn't DNS.

@ariadne @scott @msw If the OSI wanted to support open source, it would've worked with companies like Elastic, Mongo, and Redis to approve licenses which enabled open source companies to thrive. Instead it's primary role in the past few years is protecting a proprietary SaaS platform from having to pay for stuff.

The OSI is really not very supportive of open source software at the end of the day.

@ariadne @scott @msw The OSI is sort of a joke and should be discounted entirely. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft are their top sponsors in that order, which is why they're militantly opposed to strong copyleft licenses like the SSPL.

https://opensource.org/sponsors

@ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw Saying it's not open source because the Amazon-backed corporate shill outlet says it's not is a tautology. We can fix that by throwing out the OSI.

And a company which releases all of their code under GPL or MIT can use SSPL code for free. It's literally a license that promotes open source.

@theuni @schmittlauch @ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu The SSPL authors likely would've clarified it in a 1.1 version if the OSI was willing to meaningfully engage, but the desire to protect their sponsors was too strong. While clarification in the terms would be nice, I don't think there's actually an intention to say open source licensed components would have to be relicensed to meet the license's needs. They were trying to keep the license text as close to AGPL as possible.

@theuni @schmittlauch @ariadne @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu I think we should replace the OSI with people who aren't equally invested in leaving this license in limbo.

I think it's safe to say Mongo doesn't want to pay their lawyers to provide fuel for Internet arguments if it isn't going to get them anywhere.

@ariadne @theuni @ocdtrekkie @schmittlauch @wwahammy @scott @msw @Atemu I mean in comparison to Amazon? I really feel like if people are rooting for Amazon over companies that made their entire business around open source code, maybe they have missed the forest for the trees.

@jenniferplusplus @chris At this stage, yeah. I think the "x stars from y servers" thing is neat, but software like Mastodon deliberately doesn't want to hype engagement numbers so I think it's reasonable or unsurprising that Mastodon wouldn't do this and Threads absolutely would.

Do not cheer for the Big Tech backed "open"-branded fork that will be announced in the next week. As people any sort of ethics, we need to realize Amazon and Google aren't the good guys, and the open source community's defense of the FSF and OSI is reaching "weird nerd" status.

FAANGs and a dude who supports pedophiles every chance he can should not be who we entrust to steward what FOSS is. We should do better.