Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

One of the themes for #FluConf2025 is "open licensing and business models".

A lot of people on the fediverse will probably take that to mean *software licensing*, but we're interested in a much broader range of topics.

We want to hear about open licenses for scientific publications, data, art, games, text, and whatever else we haven't thought of.

Share why you think it's important. Write about how overly permissive commons are being enclosed by corporations. Tell the world how you choose licenses for your own creations, and how others licensing choices influence your perception of their projects.

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#freeCulture #FOSS #law #publishing #science #games #art #data #openScience #openData #openGardening #open #openCulture #openSource #freeSoftware #openAccess

#FOSDEM does do a lot of good too, bringing people together and promoting Free Software. And there are amazing people putting together the event every year — especially the tons of volunteers spending their time and effort to make this all happen.

But promoting the ideals of Free and Open Source Software is all the more reason they should really respect their audience, be inclusive, and try to be better.

(People critical of FOSDEM aren't attacking it; we all want it to be better.)

#FOSDEM:

is inaccessible for those with:

- mobility issues

- scent sensitivities (no policy against perfume, uses smelly soap in bathrooms); this affects around 30% of the population

- who need/want CC for videos

And refused:

- to have a code of conduct for years; have no real means of enforcing the one they have now

- to implement any kind of sickness mitigation (COVID, "FOSDEM Flu", or other), including encouraging masks and ventilation

And promotes:

- cryptocurrency
- billionaires

For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.

If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.

It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor

Enjoy the RedNote cultural exchange while you can.

It would be either US, deathly afraid of Americans learning something from Chinese.
Or China, deathly afraid of Chinese being corrupted by Americans.

But someone's going to pull the plug on the thing, sooner or later, I bet.

I don't like the whole generation divide thing. It feels like just another way to split people up instead of having us in community and working together. You know the whole boomers do this, millennials that, alpha over here. Yes, we have differences. We grew up in times that gave us different challenges, necessities, and possibilities. But our differences should be complimentary not dividing.

We should be able to value the skills in each other and support each other with them. For example, I wish I had paid a lot more attention to my Gran when she gardened because I could really use that knowledge now in the face of our exorbitant grocery prices. There are things I could have helped her with too, things I can navigate more easily than she could. I hope my nephews and nieces and I can help each other out with things as we grow too.

I feel like there's not much more scary to leaders than people of different generations working together. Hard to just pin something on one generation and get everyone else to hate on them when we're all here.

#ramblings #thoughts #generations

Some quality lichens shot on Harman Phoenix film :3

It was my first time trying out this film and I'm really happy with how some of the shots came out! It's definitely not the best tool for every job, but it's got a really cool aesthetic; I'm excited to pick up some more now that I have a better understanding of how it behaves

#lichensubscribe #photography #film #harmanphoenix

One of the better ways I found to solve programming problems is writing the high level code as if I have all the other parts already in place.

It is a bit like TDD or Tracer Bullet dev, but I don't write any runing code until I feel fine with the phantasy-code I have written (but then I can continue with tests and tracer bullet mocks)

wait, so they rearchitected the whole thing to not suck and rewrote it in rust to reduce overhead and instead of letting everyone benefit from this, they're designating it "Synapse Pro" and will continue to maintain *two* codebases now just to have a product they can sell?

all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?

what the fuck

someone has got to create a polyglot filesystem. a filesystem that can be read by two completely different filesystem drivers

One of my favourite hashtags here, highly recommend: #CarryShitOlympics. It's people carrying loads of stuff on their bikes. I hope to participate some day.

How can I get a skirt with a custom printed pattern?

Imagine I have an image, and I want that on a skirt. Is there any company where I can order that?

If these nerds weren't so hell-bent on becoming the God Emperors of My Twitter Alternative and instead actually considered people's social and safety needs and their technically ability while building decentralised social media platforms the whole thing becomes a non-issue very quickly

The ad read 'Five days for £5!'. It didn't say what for. The website, Aeternitas Solutions, had no more info; just a purchase form.

Curiosity itched. Probably a scam but for a fiver, they'd risk it. They filled in the form, hit 'Buy'.

The confirmation was just as vague; 'Thank you for your purchase. Your order will be dispatched.'

They'd forgotten all about it by the next morning until, crossing out a day on the calendar, noticed the new five blank days shoved into the middle.

#MicroFiction

oh cool, Gnome has no automatic dark mode anymore because Mozilla (the advertisement and AI company) thought it was financially not worthwhile to keep their daytime and location API alive https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2959#note_2053491

And since my Vestibular Neuronitis is playing up today, I'd like to remind everyone -- no matter how much a #TTRPG game, night out, trip or whatever means to you, if you're sick, stay in.

Getting on for 10 years ago, someone came out to a game session with a very bad cold. Not flu, but a bad cold.

They decided to come anyway and spent 5 hours coughing on me.

That cold, just a cold, permanently damaged my vestibular system, affected my hearing, and still affects me today.

Stay. The Fuck. Home