Notices by Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm That's wild. Sort of breaks my brain a little bit.

In the distant past* @LWN used to do a yearly Linux and free software timeline. As a sometime contributor and reader, I enjoyed those timelines as a way to look back on the past year -- and as a reference to when this or that happened.

This year, I thought, why not bring it back and see if people enjoy it and find it useful?

* (or not-so-distant, depending on your perspective and how many decades you have under your belt...)

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1004204/e7d32b13ac2bc3b4/

@bconoboy I didn't realize the FPL reported to you. Nice. Hope all's well & good luck with the search.

@fuzzychef @chrisjrn @mcc Narrator: He did not.

I guess the question is "against what?" but in my not-lawyerly opinion, no. The "2001-2006 views" is a good summary, I think. I'd be curious what @richardfontana would say, though.

@sjvn easily fixed by swapping a few words.

It wouldn’t be #caturday if I didn’t share any cat pictures. Here’s Sam looking particularly chuffed with himself, loafing on the couch in a nice sunbeam. #CatsOfMastodon

@jwildeboer The problem with DNF was always that it was a "please don't do this" and not a technical barrier to doing whatever tracking the user was trying to opt out of.

It was obvious from day one that it wouldn't be honored. Asking the same industry that has conducted a decades-long campaign to thwart every actual barrier to preventing pop-ups and trackers "pretty please don't track" is silly.

I wrote about it at the time they proposed it, but I can no longer find the article.

@jwildeboer DNT was a bad idea from the start. Surprised it took this long to throw in the towel.

I think it was @webmink who recommended Thea Gilmore to me. Listening to her "Strange Communion" album right now, again. Such a gorgeous album, and so perfect for the season.

Anybody have recommendations for equally good / similar artists and albums? #Music

@zacchiro Apparently it was intentional: "The old issues of DWN are still available in their original location on the Debian mailing lists.
www.debian.org/News contains two links to the mailing list archive.
But on the web page, we want to show only the relevant news to our users, which are the recent ones from the last years, but not the very old ones."

https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e92471ba4917f0ec62d22e04229928e5531698f4#note_556263

Can't say I agree with that thinking. This is how you get link rot.

@glynmoody results in the sense that something happens. Not results in the sense that it’s useful in the long run.

@glynmoody My current theory is that people left of center trend to do this because they see results. The GOP / right-wing know they're unpopular, don't care, they have a goal in mind and aren't going to be deterred by such things as disapproval or shame.

But, going after other Dems / progressives causes action and gets results. Never mind that the cumulative effect is to repeatedly shoot the overall "team" in the foot, by golly they feel like they've been heard.

I might be a touch cynical.

@zacchiro @jkossen Ah, thanks. I have left a comment there. I wonder what the rationale for that was -- it's disappointing to see so much Debian history just swept away. It's still on archive.org (bless 'em) but it makes it that much harder for people to search for and find info about what happened in Debian years ago.

Anybody know what happened to the #Debian News archives on the web site? It looks like years of Debian Weekly News issues have disappeared and now return 404s. That's a bummer.

I was a contributor to DWN for a short time from 2001 to I forget when. I'd have expected Debian to keep those up pretty much forever.

Pondering a move to a different instance or perhaps even self-hosting* — for folks who’ve migrated, how’s that gone for you, which host(s) would you recommend, and any tips?

*via Masto.host or similar.

#migration #lazyweb

I follow a lot of Linux-type hashtags to try to find story ideas -- about 99.97% of the results are not useful story ideas, but as a side-effect I get to see lots of commentary about distro-hopping and people's early Linux experiences.

It's always, and I do mean always, nice to see new folks trying Linux for the first time and being excited about it. It can be a really fun, rewarding journey. As the SUSE folks say, "have a lot of fun!"

@glynmoody Lots to unpack there. FWIW I find Firefox a perfectly fine - if perhaps not exciting - browser. What we really need IMO is a community driven fork that picks up the ball that Mozilla has dropped.

Whatever OpenAI ends up building, if it does, won't be the Holy Grail of open source browsers, that's for sure.

@zacchiro Very sorry for your loss. Lunar has left behind quite a legacy. @lunar

@baconandcoconut The Trevor Project is amazing. It's no exaggeration when I say they probably saved the life of a teen close to our family. That's a great suggestion. Keep being amazing, as always.

@jerry I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.