Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license.world.hey.com
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I mean in the sense of running on a network of nodes rather than a single server.
I don't see how you can enforce the political system so it doesn't devolve into a dictatorship with the system admin in charge if/when he/she goes rogue otherwise.
@light I can't see the original message but yes, self-hosting is totally possible!
Also if interested in fully technically decentralized, there is a recent paper just out that removes the need for a governance server and does everything on clients using the MLS protocol: james.grimmelmann.net/files/ar…
Never Criticize The Linux Foundation Expenses
I feel like my stance on the Linux Foundation has been pretty consistent, thinking that it would be nice if they cared at least a little bit about the Linux ...YouTube
I wrote a post to encourage people to consider supporting projects they use.
libresolutions.network/operati…
phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.
Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.
I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.
Irish colours are fascinating.
Edit: Source added: toingaeilge.com/post/190219441…
#Gaeilge #Gaeilinn #Ireland #IrishLanguage #Colours #Dathanna
Hey #believeinfilm friends,
There's a film photographers' competition deadline coming up with a $1,000 cash prize for the first place (and other prizes, inc. exhibition).
It's called Analog Sparks. Entry fees range from $10 to $25, which is quite reasonable in my opinion.
Details: analog.cafe/comments/lgvg
#editorial for May 19, 2024
“Analog Sparks, a film photography competition with a $1K first-place cash price award (and multiple others) is acceptin…”.www.analog.cafe
Turns out when you build a co-op news org, you get awesome coverage of co-ops.
New from the @coloradosun: A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm coloradosun.com/2024/05/19/und…
A workers’ co-op rises from the remains of a Colorado mushroom farm
Former Colorado Mushroom Farm workers use local backing to form a employee-owned co-op to keep farming fungi in AlamosaEric Lubbers (The Colorado Sun)
Do you see a series of sunken rectangles or 16 circles?
This is The Coffer Illusion.
Our brains are geared toward identifying objects & here, “pixels” are grouped to form edges & contours, shapes, & objects. The image is inherently ambiguous so there is no “right” grouping.
Rectangles dominate first for most people - including me, but keep staring & the image may flip to circles.
Malaysia Gifts Orangutans to Countries That Import Palm Oil - One Green Planet
To address growing concerns over the environmental impact of palm oil production, Malaysia is considering a novel approach.Trinity Sparke (One Green Planet)
Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!
Communities in northern Ecuador are fighting back against land grabbing and deforestation by the palm oil industry.www.rainforest-rescue.org
African Palm Civet Nandinia binotata — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro
African Palm Civets are vital seed dispersers in African forests they are persecuted for #bushmeat. They are also threatened by mining and #palmoil #deforestation in #Gabon #Liberia. Large tracts of rainforest where African palm civets live are threatened by commercial logging and large-scale oil palm plantations owned by foreign multinational companies. Say no to palm oil every time…
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African Palm Civet Nandinia binotata — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro
African Palm Civets are vital seed dispersers in African forests they are persecuted for #bushmeat. They are also threatened by mining and #palmoil #deforestation in #Gabon #Liberia. Large tracts o…Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News
Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
Kaapori Capuchin Cebus kaapori — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro
The Kaapori capuchin is on a knife-edge of survival – they are critically endangered. In 2017 their population had been decimated by 80% due to deforestation for agriculture including soy, cattle grazing and palm oil. They are forgotten animals with no formal protections in place. Fight for them every time you shop and be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife Kaapori Capuchin Cebus kaapori…
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Kaapori Capuchin Cebus kaapori — Palm Oil Detectives | Barbara Crane Navarro
The Kaapori capuchin is on a knife-edge of survival – they are critically endangered. In 2017 their population had been decimated by 80% due to deforestation for agriculture including soy, cattle g…Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News
Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
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Today's discussion and links:
We started off talking about weather, cocoa shortages, and good quality carob.
We moved on to discussing local festivals. Here are the links:
rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024…
Anke Engelke was mentioned because the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival has closed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anke_Eng…
This led to discussion about amusement parks.
We finally had a chat about odd recipes, or rather what seem like odd recipes.
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presse.frutarom.eu/Content/326…
loveandlemons.com/spanish-rice…
We then spoke about eyesight and how roads are named!
Spanish Rice - Love and Lemons
This easy Spanish rice recipe is a restaurant-worthy side dish! It's delicious with Mexican entrees like tacos and enchiladas.Jeanine Donofrio (Love and Lemons)
This is so much fun to watch!
The Original Star Trek Theme Performed on a Theremin
KATICA ILLÉNYI - STAR TREK (theremin)
Katica Illényi - thereminSTAR TREK original theme performed on thereminComposer: Alexander CourageAnima Musicae Chamber OrchestraPéter Sárik - pianoTibor Pin...YouTube
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People from University of Western Australia caught some of the coolest footage of a rare deep sea squid! It's only 44 seconds long, so give it a look, then go "ooooh, aaaaah!"
Rare Deep Sea Footage of a Dana Octopus Squid With Bioluminescent ‘Headlights’ on Its Two Arms
Rare Deep Sea Footage of a Dana Octopus Squid With Bioluminescent 'Headlights' on Its Two Arms
The Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre captured rare footage of a Dana octopus squid with giant bioluminescent "headlights" on its arms.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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This is pretty good.
Can The Lord of the Rings Ever be Remastered?
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Can The Lord of the Rings Ever be Remastered?
After several home releases, The Lord of the Rings doesn't look as good as I remember, but my memory isn't the problem.My recommendations:-The Fellowship of ...YouTube
The Mindset Of A Linux From Scratch User
Usually when someone starts using Linux one day they might give Arch Linux a try but most people aren't daily driving Linux From Scratch within there first y...YouTube
Libreboot Developer Trolls The FSF... Once Again
A couple of months back I did some videos on the Libreboot developer going to war with some FSF people and Leah Rowe is back at it again, this time wanting m...YouTube
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.Janakee Chavda (Pew Research Center)
Surprise observation this afternoon: Homotropus sp. An ichneumonid wasp, about 5-6 mm long.
There are only 8 observations world wide.
inaturalist.org/observations/2…
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #entomology #insects #wasplove
Genus Homotropus observed by Albert Cardona
Homotropus in May 2024 by Albert Cardona. Sitting on top of an aphid.iNaturalist
So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.
"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."
Starlink is killing Hubble
Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now?
Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless.
nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science…
Does anyone actually know any researcher who uses ResearchGate as their "professional network"?
Genuine question, not being snarky
theplosblog.plos.org/2024/05/r…
ResearchGate and PLOS announce new Journal Home partnership - The Official PLOS Blog
Note: ResearchGate published the following press release on May 16th, 2024. Berlin (Germany) and San Francisco (USA) May 16, 2024 – ResearchGate…PLOS (The Official PLOS Blog)
Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures
“As a side hustle he manipulates and photographs the microbial world; his images are collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria. Taking bacteria from substances such as wastewater, dental plaque or kimchi, Danino lets them multiply in a petri dish, adding dyes. The results are artworks differing from the digital enhancements often made in scientific photography to make images more informative.”
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#News #Photography #Photo #Photos #Image #Images #Microbiology #Biology #Science #STEM #Bacteria #Microbes #Microbes @science @biology @microbiology
Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures
Scientist Tal Danino’s incredible images of the microbial worldThe Guardian
Marsh Deer live most of their lives in #wetlands of #Argentina #Peru #Bolivia #Brazil #Paraguay eating wetland plants. They are #vulnerable from #palmoil #agriculture and #mining. Fight for them and #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/…
Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus
The Marsh deer are South America’s largest deer species, uniquely adapted to wetland life with their web-like hooves and preference for aquatic plants. They are prey animals for jaguars and p…Palm Oil Detectives
Are you an introvert?
Terrific explainer by introverteed.com/blogs/news/an… #comic #art
An introduction to the introvert social battery
People think that introverts are incapable of basic human interaction and emotion, like we are social recluses because we seemingly don't like to talk and hate everyone.Vincent Radford (introverteed)
The Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant 2024
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Some of the comments are priceless!
"What happened to you, mate? Someone try to put you on a barbie?"
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Some songs just don’t sound great through mobile phone speakers.
This is one of those songs.
Only the Music (Keeps me Alive)
~ #Dgar
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#DgarMusic #DgarRadio #Indie #Music #Bass #NewSong #MusiciansOfMastodon #SingerSongwriter
Only the Music by Dgar
Listen to "Only the Music" by Dgar on any music platform - Free smart music links by SongwhipDgar (Songwhip)
"Our eyes are up here!"
(Look at those boobies!)
courtesy HellsJuggernaut
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in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Apan
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Teo
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Does anyone aside from him feel that community implies democracy or equal footing participants? Thats deffinitly not my definition or association. Maybe a commune fits that bill, but to me a community is just people who form a network of social relations.
Just seems like a bit of word twisting so he can call vocal dissidents of a project entitled parasites. Which is fine because obviously thats something they can become. But a community is not a collection of people that you like or even people who mesh well together, that would be a clique. Communities are inherrently ecosystems with complete with cliques and internal conflict and sometimes competition even.
And I don't think anyone thinks there is a consensus or a governing body that designates that the open source community as a whole is a democracy. Imo if a project is struggling to establish their desired relation with the users, that is likely a flaw in their own communication rather than the language common to the community.
Brodie Robertson
in reply to Teo • • •Teo
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •yeah, no doubt about that. There's a kind of person who will buy an ice cream cone, drop it, and then demand they get a new one for free due to the inconvenience. I don't think it has anything to do with whatever that guy was ranting about, probably the opposite actually.
The cry baby free ice cream routine is not something that people who value community or democracy for that matter do.
Panderito
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •interesting, as a lot of projects also use "contribute" on different requests from users. Sort of a speech enabling them to get resources/free help on some way.
I think there can be a middle ground, where we acknowledge a leadership but we always have/have had the option to contribute IN ANY CAPACITY we are capable of, unlike closed software where all they want to receive is money. The only limitation is our actual ability (we have to be good enough).
svin of the land of fumo 🐝
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unicornCoder ☑️
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •most of the work on projects is fixing bugs/ patching CVEs and ensuring back compatibility. it is a small group who have bug fixing skills that contribute the most and/or add to the main architecture of a project, which does give them more weight in any say.
FOSS is indeed a gift and i love when repos have the 'buy me a coffee' option as a way to give an option for compensation.
Tokenizer
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