BenoitJ @benoitj@linuxrocks.online

My personal journey from MIT to GPL

https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GPL.html

Found a bug in my software. Discovered it's a problem in one of my dependencies. Reported it.

They decided it was a bug in one of their dependencies. They reported it.

Less than a week after the initial report: Bug fixed, then bug fixed, then bug fixed.

I've never seen that before.

reminder that the laws of australia override the laws of math

"The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia"

-- Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister at the time)

I was going to announce it a bit later and more properly, but Mastodon received a $70k grant from Samsung NEXT through OpenCollective. I intend to make it available to those who contribute to the project, and have already notified some of the most regular contributors. The way OpenCollective works is that anyone can submit an expense and all transactions are listed transparently. It also holds the money.

As for myself, I intend to continue using Patreon for my own wage/costs.

Did you ever had (or still have) a personal website?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites

#DeleteFacebook

AWS gives open source the middle finger.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger/

"How Microsoft uses biometric profiles to track & de-anonymize Windows 10 users with various third party services"

https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9y65h6/how_microsoft_uses_biometric_profiles_to_track/

#Privacy #Microsoft

#SolarpunkReporting

In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0

Book of Demons no longer getting a native Linux port, developer plans on 'supporting' Steam Play https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/book-of-demons-no-longer-getting-a-native-linux-port-developer-plans-on-supporting-steam-play.12903 #DungeonCrawler #EarlyAccess #SteamPlay #IndieGame #Action

ah lol google is already stopping support for their first gen pixel - only one year of security updates left, what a joke

The next time you install a custom rom, don't flash Google apps. Flash this https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid/blob/master/README.md .
It's a flashable package containing micro-g, f-droid and other open source apps