Christopher Baines @cbaines@octodon.social
Living in London
Interested in Free Software, Badminton, Bouldering and cats.
Website: https://www.cbaines.net/
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Back trying to package Ruby on #Rails for GNU #Guix... Show more
Using Docker is a form of gambling, you might get small payoffs, the usual way people build images are so prone to change that it will at some point really cost you.
Not to mention the major issues of provenance and analysis...
@joeyh I find that very odd given the very commercial slant of the term 'open source'...
By that definition, git-annex is not Free Software (or 'open source' using their terminology)!
No problem 🙂
Maybe the community will continue growing.
If it does, hopefully that will bring with it some more diversity and balance to the project.
Umm, I not sure I even feel the same way about negativity. I think it can be good, and is pretty essential.
Imbalance is where problems can really grow from, and at the moment the core Guile community seems so small to me that imbalance is easy to come by.
I too feel quite negatively about Guile sometimes, but it's important to balance that out with the good that has come of it, Guix for one thing.
I'm not quite sure where you're going with this commentary anyway, one minute you say "The only meaningful Guile based project is Guix", and then next you say "Nothing meaningful is made with Guile"?
It's interesting to contrast the "failure" you discuss above with the message from Andy on his post "a brief history of Guile" https://wingolog.org/archives/2009/01/07/a-brief-history-of-guile
I think big bold goals are good for people and projects, but I don't think such negativity around success, or lack thereof is good for people or projects.
Used Jupyter Notebooks for the first time today. It's basically org-mode for people that don't use Emacs. And AWS's SageMaker service that uses Jupyter gives you Conda as a package manager and anyone that knows me can guess how I feel about that. So, who's going to make the Emacs+Guix version of this?
I mean, GitHub sucks in other ways too. "We're the heart of the FOSS world! Oh no thx we won't give back our code btw"
Lovely evening in London for a walk...
Germany's minister of justice with an interesting take: messengers like WhatsApp should be forced by law to implement #interoperability features, so one can change to other apps (because of e.g. better privacy) without lock-in effect.
I don't want to think about how much wrong-doing can happen here. But on the good site it could lead to a new boom of standards like #matrix when companies are forced to adapt.
@cwebber What stuff are you getting up to with RDF?
I'm very excited to see https://github.com/roelj/guile-sparql is now a thing!
Mixing Guix and Semantic Web stuff has long been on my mind :D
Clearing out the large amount of historical Debian related email I have... subscribing to lots of mailing lists results in lots of email it turns out!
This is a bit depressing.
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This underlying problem needs to become a priority. Either pressuring #github to go free software or getting free software to go elsewhere.
Github becoming synonymous with open source just muddies free software waters more.
Free Software needs free tools.
@catonano have you read "It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again"? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html
I realise that the term "open source" is popular, but this does little to change my view that Free Software is very important as a term and a thing.
