| Github | https://github.com/JulienMalka/ |
| Personal Website | https://julienmalka.me |
I am migrating to @luj, for several reasons:
1) I want to move towards using "luj" as my internet identity. It is a nickname I like and that has less ties to my family name;
2) I want to separate my online identity to "NixOS", as this is not the only FOSS project I am interested in.
3) The Chaos community is one I feel at ease being associated to; I share and support its values.
Thank you @raito for welcoming me on your instance for so long, see you on the fediverse!
Are we dreaming, or is @pixelfed available on Google Play??
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelfed
Please share and tell us if you see this too ✨
New #paper out: « The impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code » (Empir. Softw. Eng. 30(1): 25 (2025)) where we establish, using #econometrics techniques and relying on the @swheritage archive, that the pandemic disproportionately impacted women's ability to contribute to the development of public code, relatively to men. #Openaccess preprint at: https://hal.science/hal-04716803/
With A. Casanueva, D.Rossi, and @Zimm_i48
Despite its promise of openness and inclusiveness, the development of free and open source software (FOSS) remains significantly unbalanced in terms of gender representation among contributors. To assist open source project maintainers and communities in addressing this imbalance, it is crucial to understand the causes of this inequality. In this study, we aim to establish how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the ability of women to contribute to public code. To do so, we use the Software Heritage archive, which holds the largest dataset of commits to public code, and the difference in differences (DID) methodology from econometrics that enables the derivation of causality from historical data. Our findings show that the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted women's ability to contribute to the development of public code, relatively to men. Further, our observations of specific contributor subgroups indicate that COVID-19 particularly affected women hobbyists, identified using contribution patterns and email address domains.
Mark Zuckerberg releases an absolutely chilling 6 minute speech where he announces that recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing free speech" https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/1525382954801931/
"We are going to get rid of restrictions around topics around topics like gender and immigration"
A summary thread on Bluesky but I actually recommend listening to the entire nightmare if you can https://bsky.app/profile/brianstelter.bsky.social/post/3lf5mlbzka22p
It's time to get back to our roots around free expression. We're replacing fact checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on...
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