Notices by tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)

@prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer For a moment I thought you'd be talking about me, but I use Prometheus and Grafana instead of Zabbix 😌

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @dangoodin@infosec.exchange I agree, but sadly the unwashed masses will gladly give up their freedom, privacy, and respect to make use of proprietary services, and there's just many more of them than there are of us.

For anyone who doesn't want to make the same mistake over and over, but also wants (or otherwise feels compelled) to engage with the NPCs, it's a difficult choice to make.

@dangoodin@infosec.exchange How do I resist Slack and not lose touch with groups that still use it?You can't, so you'll have to choose what is more important to you. Either stop being part of these groups, and express publicly why you are no longer willing to participate so that they can learn to stop being stupid, or accept the invitation of harmful software into your life, and become yet another slave to proprietary platforms.

Sadly, there currently is no middle ground.

Enshittification continues at a steady pace. #Github issue comments no longer load without inhaling obscene amounts of #Javascript. A Dutch site for checking public transport routes (9292.nl) also just straight up refuses to even try to help me without accepting their Javascript garbage since their redesign.

The modern web was a mistake.

@guizzy@shitposter.world Are you wearing programmer socks?

@denschub@mastodon.schub.social using GitHub is fineIt is not, it's a proprietary platform that harvests your data to train Yet Another Shitty LLM. It's always been a mediocre-at-best proprietary platform, let's not pretend it is anything more than that.there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.I'd argue there's a lot more value in standardizing on using mailing lists and decentralized development. You wouldn't be having this entire issue/toot if you did, as there wouldn't be a big issue for any of your projects if their sources and development practices were properly decentralized.

You've correctly identified an issue, so I can only wonder why you're trying to tell yourself it's not an issue "just yet". Are you just going to wait, knowing it's going to become a bigger issue as you wait? Or will you actually learn from your mistake and fix it before it blows up?

Use a decentralized approach to your projects. If you cannot, use a free (as in freedom) platform.

@p@fsebugoutzone.org I find that hard to believe.

@p@fsebugoutzone.org It makes me sad to think that she will not, so I will keep my hopes up. Maybe I could buy them for her, its almost her birthday anyway~

@p@fsebugoutzone.org Showed it to my gf, she said "fuck you pistolero"

@fraggle@1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa embraced Windows Subsystem for LinuxThe first step of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".even acquired GitHub, the largest open-source hosting platformIt is important to note that #GitHub itself is not open source. Its use by free and open source projects is a great win for their marketing department, sure, but a very dangerous situation for the projects relying on it.Open-source winsOpen source gets taken over by proprietary companies and their platforms to eventually continue their harmful usage of software over their users. Open source does not guarantee the essential four freedoms of software to their end-users. You're looking for free software.

@ErikUden@mastodon.de never ever use OracleI thought we all knew this for a long while already

@wlaatje@social.edu.nl not everyone knows what open source isOpen source is the bastardization of free software. Free software is software which respects the user by providing the four essential freedoms.you will have to explain thatI don't, I'm not a teacher. You come onto a free platform where values and community are already set. Spend a few minutes learning about where you're joining, it's considered polite here!keep preaching to the choir.You're not the choir, you ask for a recommendation of non-free software, while you supposedly "spreading joy of digital sovereignty". Those two ideas do not go together. Sad to see SURF's "public values" are no improvement for the educational system, and is content on just continuing what has failed students for over a decade.if you have a toot scheduler you know ofI don't, and you shouldn't either. This is not Twitter, stop trying to treat it as Twitter.

@wlaatje@social.edu.nlYou’re playing the “from us” card!I'm not "playing" anything, I'm informing you. You come to the Fediverse, a platform built upon the values of free software and autonomy, and ask around for suggestions that go against these values. If you didn't learn from the mistakes of proprietary software, I genuinely must ask, why are you here?do these kinds of interventions work well for youEducation sadly only works well on those willing and capable of learning from past mistakes.

@wlaatje@social.edu.nl If its not open source, it should be kept far away from both education and the #Fediverse. Keep proprietary garbage away from us and the future generation.

@wlaatje@social.edu.nl There is no freedom, nor any choice, if the educators force kids to use proprietary software. I'd argue those are bad educators, for they teach not a way of thinking, but to use a very specific program's way. To pretend there is freedom in proprietary software is nothing but lying to yourself and those you pretend to teach.

Your method of "force proprietary software on kids" has been tried for a long time, and there's no sign of it getting better any time soon. Kids now get force-fed Google and Microsoft services through their schools, their data shared with American corporations, with no way for them to object or otherwise opt out of these harmful practices. Choosing anything but free (as in freedom) software perpetuates this ridiculous situation.

If you care for education, and you care for your students, you will avoid any proprietary software. Learn from the mistakes of the past decade.

@debian@framapiaf.org Better late than never! (Though I will say it is very late, making most of the "reasonings" sound very shallow.)

@joostvb@mastodon.green I get that, but as a free operating system, Twitter has never aligned with Debian values from my perspective. It's not like Twitter only recently became a proprietary platform with a severely negative impact on society, it has been this way since its inception.

@lolcat@digipres.club Its always Gentoo

@csantosb@sigmoid.social Two Styles of OSSSeeing as how Github is not open source, it's incorrect to imply it is a "style" of open source. Github's marketing has been very effective at making you (and sadly, many others) believe using it is good for open source and free software.

Its also a pretty old article, too bad "Let this lesson be broader than Github though" did not resonate with the unwashed masses. Proprietary platform usage for free software projects is only getting worse.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @icedquinn@blob.cat The copyright system is only piggybacked on because governments refuse to implement a better system. I don't find this a compelling reason to keep a terrible system.