Notices by David Wilson (daviwil@fosstodon.org), page 2

@cwebber Scheme? In my browser? For free??

@civodul would it be too complex for the main Guix repo to break out into specialized official channels for certain categories of packages that are not needed for producing a working system?

All the people disappointed with NixOS right now should consider putting their energy into Guix instead.

I would describe The Guix project as "allergic to corporate entanglement."

Athens air quality: post-apocalyptic

It turns out that you can extend OBS with Lua scripts.

Let's see what kind of magic can be made when you throw Fennel in the mix...

A computer you're not empowered to fix is destined for the trash dump.

Guix for Christmas!

Hat by @luis_felipe

https://um4no.creator-spring.com/

Excited to be giving a keynote at next year's LibrePlanet conference!

I'll be offering some ideas on building welcoming communities around Free Software projects to attract new users and contributors.

Hope to see some of you in Boston next March!

https://www.fsf.org/news/libreplanet-2024-cultivating-community-will-feature-a-keynote-by-david-wilson

Anyone know of any Europe-centric remote-first software companies or non-profits that are worth working for?

Feel free to send me a direct message if you don't want to respond in public!

@grunfink that sounds good! I will experiment with a test deployment

@grunfink by the way, is it possible to migrate a Mastodon account to a snac instance? I'm mainly concerned with migrating followers and those I follow. Migrating posts also would be nice, but not quite as important

As thankful as I am to the Fosstodon admins for hosting this instance, any time there's an outage I start to wonder if it's better for more users to self-host their own instances with simpler software like snac2 by @grunfink.

I know that there's high potential for runaway disk space usage (among other problems) but it sometimes feels risky to depend on larger servers run by people in their free time.

Administrating a Mastodon server with a decent amount of users must be a major headache.

@mnl "Rate limit exceeded"

@aral Free Software is definitely political, but "open source" removed the politics so that it can be abused in the way that Free Software is designed to prevent.

Of course my program supports UTF-8! You only plan to use ASCII characters, right?

@mattl I'd wager that most of the userbase doesn't even know what federation is