pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

Sometimes you gotta shake out those last few electrons.

The perfect plan

Nice shirt, De Niro!

@sj
Not a very cryptographically strong semiprime though

@jpmens
DVD rips and a @jellyfin instance?

Happy new year!
Fireworks exploding

@pixx
Okay, yes. To me, open core is not open source, and a company dropping a free 'community version' but not taking patches for that one nor even providing a basic version of support might as well just do shareware instead.

@pixx
I don't think the expectation of free support is valid. If someone asks for support on a public forum, I help them if and when I have time or let someone else handle it when not. If someone sends me private email, I send information on the public forum as well as a quote for paid private support.

Nobody should feel forced to do anything just because they happen to do open source.

Agreed.

@pixx
Copying software costs nothing. Yes, writing software does. But to charge 100s of $CURRENCY for something you copy millions of times? Yuck.

I mean it's not a coincidence that most of today's billionaires made their money doing software.
@amin @rl_dane @ivanmarkov @clayton @orbitalmartian @kabel42

@rl_dane
Coworking spaces are (IME) an awesome way to deal with that: you work remotely, yet you have people around you that provide the social contact you crave.

Of course that doesn't work if you need the social contact from your colleagues, but it does for me.
@amin

@sean
Vaccines work *because* they don't kill you, and therefore make you stronger...?

@wouter

It was pointed out to me that this post is now quoted on their website, and misinterpreted at that. Roy, since I know you're following this thread: No, I did not say that you deserve to be harassed. Nobody does. When I said "you deserved it", that referred to your continued false accusations in the face of evidence to the contrary.

Also, sorry to spoil your thunder, but quoting Daniel Pocock is not the flex you think it is.

@rnd
You are not wrong. Part of this is because Keith Packard spent a few years at Intel teaching corporate structures how you upstream a driver for Linux into X11 (at the time) and Mesa:

https://keithp.com/keithp/resume/
@ariadne @agowa338

The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake

Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.

@liw
They did? Whoa. I must've missed that bit. Damn.

@liw
(It's called 'AIStor' these days, presumably to be buzzword compatible ๐Ÿ™„ but it's really an S3 thing, SDK at https://www.min.io/download/aistor-sdk

@liw
There's an API from min.io that is reasonably complete in multiple languages (dunno what obnam is written in and whether that's provided, of course). I could recommend that? It's mostly tested on their own server implementation of course, but supports any S3 implementation really.

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