Quim Gil @quimgil@writing.exchange

The false dilemma of
#privacy vs. #security. 🕵🏼 🔐

Announcing the first episode of a new podcast about the fediverse - FediverseCast! The show will feature conversations with cool fediverse makers and community members, hosted by @kevinflo

HUGE thanks to my first guest @eliotberriot creator of @funkwhale (Funkwhale)

https://fediversecast.com/2018/09/18/fediversecast-episode-1/

#introductions

The B in Benoit B Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot.

Behind the @gnome 3.30 Release Video
https://blogs.gnome.org/bastian/2018/09/15/gnome-3-30-release-video/

The year is 2073. All proprietary social networks are dead. Microsoft and Intel are long gone, everyone uses locally-fabbed RISC-V chips. The world has been cured of cancer, politics and electron.

There are no remaining hardcopy records of the half a century leading up to this, because nobody could get their printer drivers working in that entire time.

Linux (!) just joined Apple, Microsoft, and Google in adopting the code of conduct I created, Contributor Covenant.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f

Cartoonist Tom Gauld teaches us new terminology for the digital age.

RT @communia_eu@twitter.com
Here are our initial reactions on today’s #copyright vote in the European parliament. This has been a very bad day for user rights and the #publicdomain: https://www.communia-association.org/2018/09/12/eu-parliament-vote-unprecedented-copyright-giveaway/
#FixCopryight #SaveYourInternet

#article13 has just pass. This means the internet as we know it just changed forever. And if you think this is not enough check that they are planning next:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-5561_en.htm

Summary of today's copyright vote at the EU parliament: The report by German conservative Axel Voss was largely adopted. This is a black day for the Internet in Europe and elsewhere. The horrible article 13 (upload filters) and the damaging article 11 (link tax) were adopted. Bonus: article 3 (restrictions on text data mining, "lex Elsevier") and no freedom of panorama. This catastrophic result will now enter the very intransparent trilogue phase of the EU legislative process.

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back

Please boost.
Fediverse, I have a request.
If you know a woman that is:
-from Ethiopia, Sudan or South Sudan
-Tech savvy
-Has an interest in Digital Safety and Security

Can you have them reach out to me? (DM if you need an email addy instead) We’ve a Safe Sister Digital Safety Fellowship specifically for them, and applications are open until September 28 and I’d like to send them information.

Il parlamento europeo in plenaria ha votato contro la #LibertàDiPanorama.

#FixCopyright

how to get people to join a website

#webcomic #comic #illustration #mastodon #cat #cats #mastocats

Just want to say how great it's been being able to work on patches via GNOME's Gitlab instance!

I'm a longtime open source developer; I remember SVN and CVS days. :) And even I found contributing to a big project like GNOME intimidating when you had to manually make diffs and upload them to bugzilla and then guess how to find a reviewer.

Gitlab is fricking great, and GNOME still gets to run their own infrastructure.

Now if I could just get BuildStream to make me a working custom gdm login or sth... :D

I'm #hiring again!

Do you care about developer productivity? Do you want to help people make better software more easily and (hopefully) more quickly? That's what we're doing in the Release Engineering team at WMF.

I'm looking for candidates with wide varieties of backgrounds. The most important quality you possess is the ability to learn and a deep desire to make things better.

Join my team as a Software Engineer!

https://grnh.se/133175de1

#jobs #wikimedia #nonprofit #remote