Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the police CANNOT access the data on your phone without a warrant. Woot!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17424740/supreme-court-carpenter-decision-privacy
I'll always have a special place in my heart for Crunchbang
https://www.nomanssky.com/2018/05/no-mans-sky-next-multiplayer-and-release-date/
Apparently they are still updating this thing
I /really/ need to add http://n-gate.com to my rss reader because it’s *so good*. This is the best description I’ve ever seen of the Microsoft acquisition of Github.
Hip intro appealing to youth with concise statement of a point you already agree with.
We _need_ to do this thing which appeals to your moral sensibilities. It doesn't matter that everyone reading this already agrees. We _have_ to make you feel good about reading this even though I'm preaching to the choir. You should boost this so that it reaches more people who already agree with the message to fulfill your activism quota.
Poignant conclusion with a witty one-liner to drive the point home.
Initial commit for lists.sr.ht written
@sir
https://userstyles.org/styles/161013/srht-dark-styling
Friend made a dark style for sr.ht
beware all thee gaze upon this macro: https://gist.github.com/4e554c4c/b75d627e3b97881dc58c93f541eba85b
I'm going to be an optimist about Microsoft buying Github:
What a great opportunity to leave a shitty platform.
How I maintain FOSS projects
https://drewdevault.com/2018/06/01/How-I-maintain-FOSS-projects.html
Oh for the love of...
Definitely the worst part about working at Microsoft is having to use Windows.
KDE sprint last day, gonna try and implement xdg-shell stable in qt
Put together a list of projects that use wlroots https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki
Oh for fuck's sake, OpenSSL. Just when I was starting to think they'd finally gotten their shit together
