Notices by Michael Altfield 🛡️ (michaelaltfield@mastodon.social)

@kolev specifically I've been banned from some online FOSS communities for posting (on-topic) project updates from open-hardware projects

In these spaces, it's okay for a FOSS project to post an update and ask for donations.

But if you ask for donations *and* link folks to a store where they can buy your open-hardware devices, it's spam.

...because open-hardware projects are expected to give away atoms for free?

H.E.R.F (Hardware Exclusionary Radical FOSSie)

(n.) A FOSS advocate that discriminates against open-hardware projects (because they sell physical things)

#hardware #opensource #foss #OpenHardware

PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to #lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude to lemmy. That would be bad 😱

https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2024/03/04/lemmy-fediverse-gdpr/

Oh, and if you delete your account? It doesn't delete your uploaded photos. And good luck getting your instance admin to delete it; it requires a manual db query, api call, and — oh, none of this is documented? Welcome to my #fediverse #GDPR nightmare 💣🤯