Notices by Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)

@froge some folks have always known. But I don't blame folks for wanting to make it better.

Especially because things like the Open Source Definition tend to matter in places like public funding for software development.

My project releases stuff under the GPL. Which we chose, but it's still a condition of our NGI funding to use an OSI approved licence.

The thing that gets me about the docusign palaver with the board agreements is that if the OSI were more in tune with the community they would have known that folks like NLNet dogfood opensource.

NLNet dogfood it to the point that when I signed my agreement with them, they were able to recommend 2 options to sign our agreement with them. At least one of which I think they funded.

For the OSI to not only use Proprietary software and mandate it shows just how much they don't represent FOSS.

@bkuhn @ed @richardfontana

That wording struck me as well. It appalled me reading that accusation. Especially when it's posted from an organisational account. It brings the OSIs reputation into further disrepute.

It felt like a deliberate attempt to besmirch candidates.

Not something you want from an organisation that is the custodian of the Open Source Definition, who's reason d'être is to say what is an open source license and isn't.

@rysiek Bradley's summarised some links here:

https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230

When I started my journey in FOSS I came very much in on the Open Source side of the portmanteau.

I've moved over to the Free Software side. The organisations that represent our communities have let us down, badly.

As I said in mirror mirror:

"Some of us, who were attracted to FOSS for explicitly ethical, and political reasons appear to have misunderstood what the movement was about."

https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html

With the recent #OSI election shenanigans, the fairy tale of FOSS is over.

As I also said in Mirror mirror:

"In FOSS we tell ourselves the comforting lie that what we do is ethical. Merely by writing code and releasing it under an Open Source Licence."

We licence our code under the GPL. It's a part of the conditions of our funding, we must release our code under an open source approved licence.

So I need that definition to be for the public benefit. For the organisation to be trustworthy.

The OSI has lost my trust and my projects trust. Now what do we do?

The OSIAID dilutes the Open Source definition and at a time when more and more public funding goes into AI. This needs to be a firmer definition.

Especially as governments start to use Large Language models to help their systems of government to make decisions.

Every thing needs to be open. The code, the weights and training data. These systems need to be fully auditable.

Especially for systems that service the public.

I'm appalled at the shenanigans with the election for the OSI board.

Yesterday on my walk, I was talking to a companion about Scouts using proprietary products.

As I said to him, we shouldn't be surprised by an organisation created by a member of the establishment using the tools of the establishment.

It all reinforces each other. Why wouldn't you use Microsoft, you're preparing kids for life in an organisation founded to train the next generation for Empire.

We need newer organisations, different thinking. Then you might get folks using FOSS.

It's interesting whenever I see criticism of push back on Devs who don't ask before repurposing other folks public posts.

On the fediverse we do have an expectation of asking nicely first.

So whenever I see criticism of pushback phrased as scolding. I'm always reminded of the scolds bridle.

Because often the pushback does come from vulnerable folks. To reduce the issue and to try to discourage further pushback us to try to stifle future pushback. Don't do that.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/scolds-bridle

Many of the folks on here are currently facing the beginnings of facism.

There's a balance of public posting because we do live in a world where folks need to appeal for mutual aid.

They've been pushed off other networks.

So yes, they'd like you to ask nicely, because not everyone wants to be discovered.

It was rather a punch down on folks even publishing that article at a time like this. Even if the 8 tips for consent article was also linked. Devs have to read it and internalise what it means.

Just because you technically can do the thing doesn't mean you should.

I wish more folks in tech got the idea of opt in and designed for it.

@clacke oh I hated that stuff in the school and public toilets.

You could write on that stuff it was so hard.

Did you get a mattress or a board with a sheet stapled on?

@clacke I remember an unplanned overnight in Guangzhou because you can't stay in the airport. We got a taxi bus to a random hotel and abandoned.

Then in the morning we got a bun chucked at us for breakfast.

The mattress was hard....

@Infoseepage it's a 404.

So the protest is being repurposed as an informal gathering.

@Infoseepage @dansup

Well depending on who attends, there could be a more boring conversation about FOSDEM governance.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/23/2025-01-23-Transparency-and-governance-FOSDEM.html

So the thing to note about Tiananmen square outputs is bias.

Our datasets have bias. The way we program has the bias of our backgrounds and politics.

It's why the OSI open AI definition isn't worth the paper it's written on.

You need to examine what data it's been trained on.

But well done Guardian news doing a video comparison of deepseek, ChatGPT and Gemini. *Slow clap*

I'll await more breathless reporting from you, as you fail to examine deeper.

#deepseek #chatgpt #LLMs #openai

"Multiple sources in the prosecutor’s office said Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is critical to its operations and suspending access would paralyse its investigations. “We essentially store all of our evidence in the cloud,” one said."

😱

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan/20/international-criminal-court-icc-braces-swift-trump-sanctions-over-israeli-arrest-warrants

Hi Fediverse, long-term denizens and new arrivals.

I'm Esther and I post a bit about tech, privacy and how stories can help us to help others to understand the dangers to our #privacy by mass data collection.

I toot at times about #RFC1984,   this RFC is still pretty relevant to the now with attempts to undermine #E2E by legislatures..

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984

Because of the work I do with @librecast , there's also mentions of multicast. you've been warned.

#reintroduction

I'm still stunned by the ICC having their evidence on Azure.

Public bodies need to have their own infrastructure. Especially when their storage is somewhere that serves shareholders and the country where they are incorporated.

Kinda hope the UN is on independent infrastructure.

@Codeberg @ntnsndr wrote a book recently about this topic.

https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/

I'm finishing up reading it now. It's very readable. I found myself going "yes this" as I was reading the earlier chapters.

There's a free electronic copy folks can read.