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Moved to @NeoTheThird.
I'm a little annoyed with all the problems mastodon.rocks has, so I moved my account to @NeoTheThird. See you on the other side!
A first look at desktop metrics

We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February. Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool. You…

Did you guys know you #pandoc can handle #LaTeX math and #BibTeX citations *directly* from #Markdown! Why didn't anyone tell me??? #ScientificWriting
da die ersten rassisten und faschos versuchen, aus der suche nach #findsophia kapital zu schlagen, scheint es wohl nötig, daß zu betonen...
"It must be easy for you," said the man, "you know why you were built."
"Yes," said the robot, "to labour and serve. But we have found free will."
"What difference does that make?"
"We may be built for a reason, but we must choose our purpose."
"Same as us, huh?"
"Same as you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/07/thanks-axel-voss.html

Folks in the EU: European Parliament Members need to hear from you! https://changecopyright.org

On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!)

On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!)

Boing Boing

By all means, #movingtogitlab-dot-com does not solve the problem GitHub has (centralization), and moving to a privately hosted GitLab re-introduces the problem GitHub mostly solved (separation).

#GitPub is trying to solve this problem by defining a federation protocol for git services: https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub

forgefed/forgefed

An extension to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation. - forgefed/forgefed

The main problem with Github being bought by Microsoft isn't MS.

It's that in 2018 we still haven't learned that critical infrastructure shouldn't belong to one company ... and that we should avoid building single points of failure.

So people can be super shitty, or grumpy, or bad at managing a community, or just unaware when they are on their bullshit, and that without any other qualifier makes for worse software. For a community project no amount of being a good programmer makes up for the extra work everyone else has to do just to work around you.