Christopher Baines @cbaines@octodon.social

Happy birthday to GNU. This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, posted by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html

Guile now has a JIT compiler that is about 80% faster than 2.2's VM. I hope to take it for a spin soon and run a 2D sprite rendering benchmark.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-09/msg00018.html

We've released! #GNOME 3.30 "Almería" is officially available. Have a look at what's new: https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/09/gnome-3-30-released/

Here's the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on AI and security https://boingboing.net/2018/08/20/must-see-tv.html #artificialintelligence #demon-haunteduniverse #machinelearning #happymutants #jamesmickens #scholarship #security #infosec #standup #comedy #usenix #Video #Funny #humor #AI #ml

Don't let your Open Source get ##commonsclaused! Read about how the #CommonsClause restricts your software freedom. Despite the opposition's rhetoric, #FOSS *is* sustainable without turning it into proprietary software; it's what we do here at #Conservancy. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause/

I agree with Karl Fogel here:

'I've never understood the "GPL is not free" argument. The only restriction the GPL imposes is that it prevents people from imposing further restrictions. To say that this results in less freedom has always seemed perverse to me. If the retention of monopoly is somehow a freedom to be protected, then the word "freedom" is no longer
meaningful.'

I think Stallman also said basically the same thing.

"Give us a short pitch (2-4 sentences)!"

"Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform where users are in control. It is Free Software that any individual or organization can run on their own infrastructure while connecting to a global network, allowing communities effective self-government. It comes with better publishing capabilities and robust anti-abuse tools."

OK?

GNU Guix 0.15 is out! #FreeSoftware

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.15.0-released/

There is a God after all - and his name is Tanu Kaskinen!
(From #PulseAudio 12.0 release notes) #hurd