Notices by Dušan Mitrović (dusnm@fosstodon.org)

@darkwiiplayer @onepict You absolutely don't have to. I enjoy the craft and if my creations happen to be useful to someone that's a bonus in my book.

I limit "useful" software to my professional work only. What I do in my free time, I do for myself, out of love for my craft.

There is beauty in building something and watching it come alive from essentially nothing but your abstract thought.

@onepict @darkwiiplayer I would say, if I'm allowed to go on a bit of a tangent, that the real curse of programming as a hobby is that it can turn into a day job, because our world runs on software.

My hobby is joyful, relaxing, cathartic and beautiful.

My job is boring, stressful, unrewarding and a pale reflection of my hobby, but it pays the bills.

@_L1vY_ This meme format is so wholesome.

Thank you for sharing and thank you for being open to a positive discourse of men's issues.

I really needed this today. :masto_love:

@tek PRICELESS

@hipsterelectron @lanodan @musl The fact of the matter, to me at least, is that I won't switch what definitely works for what might eventually work. Not a dig at musl at all, I'm just unwilling to make the effort. Plain and simple. I'm not a systems programmer and I don't pretend to be one. For the most part, I just expect the default configuration to work. My fiddling days are gone.

@musl I'll use musl when most software I use doesn't depend on glibc extensions.

@aral I'm sure you know I meant, don't help people bully Eugen, the person, not mastodon.social.

@aral I've seen a lot of people try to bully Eugen into not federating with Threads. That's not a good look. Don't help them.

@SpaceAce I don't want to live in a world where discussion of your own (albeit unpopular) opinion in a respectful manner (without malicious intent) regarding what a FOSS client should do is somehow considered grounds for defederation, just because others don't agree with that opinion.

The situation with Tusky isn't new. It's been explained many times, that rickrolling people defeats the purpose of freedom 0.

@McCovican @SpaceAce I would have no qualms with Tusky rickrolling people if it didn't sell itself as free software. Free software explicitly grants complete freedom to everyone, regardless of how they choose to use it.

Unlike others I will recognize that my position on the matter is indeed inherently political, as most things are. I don't have issues with software in general doing what Tusky does, but I do take issue when software using the GPL does.

@McCovican @SpaceAce It may not break the terms of the license in a legal manner (unproven in court as of yet), but it does break the spirit of the wider free software movement.

It would be one thing to have moderation tools (like Mastodon does) that make it easy to mitigate threat actors, completely the other to impose such choices on the source code level.

@McCovican @SpaceAce That is a comparison you draw yourself. There is nothing in the free software movement that explicitly endorses Nazis. You read too much into what was not said. As a software developer you're forced to deal with the fact that bad actors will use your code, you gave them explicit permission to do so in the license.

What you can do is build software that offers reasonable safeguards, like robust moderation tools.

@killyourfm I'm at my best when I'm inspired. It doesn't come naturally to just sit down and write a story or a poem.

Creativity has to be based on and invoked by something. I usually find inspiration in the people, events and places around me.

@killyourfm Not much better here in Belgrade.

@freemo Unwanted? By whom? You, qoto.org, someone else? There's certainly no consensus to whether the formation of factions is unwanted.

@freemo The software (at least Mastodon) is specifically designed to make defederation one of the most useful options in content moderation. How else would we deal with malicious actors? This will inevitably lead to formation of factions as it indeed does. I'd argue it's part of our nature as people, a natural extension of our right to self-determination. To be clear, I have no qualms with people who decide not to use this, it's as much a right to not use it as it is to do.

@freemo I'm not specifically disagreeing with you. I'm thinking about the problem as well and deciding whether I think it's a problem.

You said the fracturing of the fediverse is unwanted. Suppose it is. The main way fracturing happens is through the use of defederation. My question is not how would we address this, it's whether we need to address it.

@pettanko @helene Much better in Serbo-Croatian. Doesn't really translate well. ?