Mathieu [bochecha] @mathieu@mstdn.fr

A series of popular extensions and utilities for the Chef configuration management system were pulled offline by the developer when the dev came to learn that Chef was selling professional services to ICE.

Chef in response used prior installs of the tools to produce a fork with the original dev's name removed from the credits.

While Chef has the right to fork the code under the Apache license, they did not have the right to strip prior credits from it in the way they did-- they've since undone that change, but the fork remains up, and is now credited to the original dev despite his desire that his code not be associated with stuff used by ICE.

This is why "Just do whatever" licenses carry a degree of risk. This guy pulled his git repo down with a clear statement that he didn't want to support ICE and Chef just.... put a mirror up, and there's nothing he can do.

Also fuck Chef; it's the worst of the CMS systems out there anyway.

Hear me out: tech conferences, but instead of masturbating about http you unionize everyone present

Mastodon folks might be particularly interested in my response in this MetaFilter thread -- someone basically asked whether they should give up on Linux entirely, and I replied.

https://www.metafilter.com/183159/Odious-ideas-are-not-entitled-to-hide-from-criticism#7786619

& how the need to copy twitter behavior means there's these giant public graphs of everyone who's ever faved or boosted any post & who faved or boosted their posts & so on

which means the software has already technically done one of the the hardest parts of the work for data mining companies & state actors

which is uhhhhh pre bad

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The working class is bigger than you think, and yes, computer programmers are often in it.

It’s frustrating when people equate working class solely with blue collar.

imagine working a job that genuinely and directly affected the quality of life for the community you depend on. imagine if every job was like that.

To all GNU project members past and present. I want to hear from you. Please email me.

I'm entirely in favor of building an altruistic Commons where people aren't counting pennies of value at each other to make sure everyone got their exact right share and instead focusing on everyone's needs.

But fuck if a CTO is gonna tell me that's what Rails is doing.

It's not about simply burnout or sustainability. It's about fairly compensating people's work -- and not just the work of folks who send patches in.

Modern open source is corporate exploitation with a thin veneer of warm fuzzies sprinkled on top in hopes no one will notice.

I'm gonna keep beating the damn drum that so long as we have a system that requires people work to live, permissive open source is just plain exploitation of free labor. This can only change if our current economic system becomes something else. Period.

@mvtcolibris Qwant ne fait pas plus de l'Internet libre que Google. C'est curieux comme choix d'intervenant.

D'ailleurs, pourquoi écrire « Association Framasoft » et pas « SAS Qwant » ?

Being #ActuallyAutistic doesn't mean you can't take criticism or listen to feedback and act on it. Stallman's continued, privileged insistence that He Was Right got him in trouble here, NOT his #Autism

I think RMS's personal and multi-dimensional shittiness has frozen the idea of Free Software in place for many, many years. What can it become if what he values and wants aren’t the defining principles?

@how

Réactions du porte parole de Solidaires aux annonces du 1er Ministre sur ka réforme des retraites
https://youtu.be/rsM9Zimwl-4

Top tier crossover (FR pol)

Addendum to #CancelStallman, by the super brave Selam Gano - https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has just expanded the definition of the singular “they”, noting that it is “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary

For every gross dude you tolerate, there's almost certainly several people who are pushed out of that space you created for him

The more influential the gross dude, the more people will emulate him and help to push out even more people

And it's mostly women who get pushed out

So for the likes of RMS and Torvalds, the damage they have done to the field of Computer Science may be incalculable

Good riddance