Notices by dorotaC (dcz@fosstodon.org)

My talk at @piwo is over.
TL;DR: Free Software won only in limited areas. Even in those, proprietary software is holding it by the throat.

But I forgot about 3 important words:

it's our fault.

It's the software industry that built all this closed software. We're complicit in taking away the control of the world from the regular person.

#freesoftware #piwo2025 #opensource

Następny przystanek: Poznań!

Możemy się spotkać na PIWie: https://piwo.sh , gdzie będę bajdurzyć o porażce Wolnego Oprogramowania.

To chyba moja najbardziej tęga prezentacja do tej pory. Bo temat jest ogromny!

#piwo2025 @piwo #opensource #freesoftware

Are you using #github for #FOSS ?
Small request: could you use FOSS instead?
Don't make #Microsoft your gatekeeper, use like #forgejo #codeberg or something.

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

Thanks to @conservancy 's @karen , Denver Gingerich and Bradley Kuhn for the #FOSDEM talk.

#fosdem2025

#ISBN is a centralized system, you even have to pay not insignificant amount of money to get a number.

I can't even figure out how to self-assign a #DOI .

Is there anything else that helps identify #publications that doesn't have gatekeepers?

Like some equivalent of a #torrent infohash?

Would a #blockchain solution solve problems like collisions easier than any alternatives?

#decentralization #books #publishing #digitalsovereignty #hash

Me: #coding .
Gets distracted.
Back to code: BLANK STARE.

Me: "Dear compiler, what was I doing?"

$ cargo check

Compiler: You were creating errors right here!

#compiling #programming

Does #Mastodon do shadow banning? There's an account that I want to follow but #Fosstodon doesn't show any recent updates from it.

#askfedi

"Repository name should contain only alphanumeric, dash ("-"), underscore ("_") and dot (".") characters."

Hot take: we're too attached to the #Latin script. It's a historical accident that I can't call my #Git repo "привет" on a code #forge , and it's pushing a cool part the native cultures of billions of humans to the margin. Git itself can do it no problem!

And why should Дима switch to Latin for naming project if John doesn't switch to #кириллица anyway?

#Forgejo #github #gitlab

@frameworkcomputer Good, you'll save yourself the royalty costs and hardware for conversion from USB-C alt mode.

Are you really browsing the #Web, or is the Web browsing you?

On my #blog, you're the one in control. Death of the author! User before the designer, #Userstyles before the default #style !

I invite you to the opening of the new, dark section of my web page.

https://dorotac.eu/posts/styles/

#css

@Anachron Take a look at #Librem5: it's NOT surveiling you at all (challenging but doable), it's somewhat repairable (a bit hard), but it doesn't last that long (hard if you want the other two).

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Disclaimer: I've been working on the Librem 5 for @purism for the past 4 years and counting.

@Anachron @purism
Oh btw, it's the the battery doesn't last long.

The support will last forever as long as people use it. It's just Linux.

@Suiseiseki @colinsmatt11 Source available is not "FOSS" by any measure!