Glenn a.k.a. Don Blanco @donblanco@octodon.social
Retired I.T. - expat life in Mexico - aspirational writer, hacker, activist, musician, genealogist
You kids get the #ForkOff my lawn!
The drama around #ForkOff only reinforces my theory that the only healthy way to handle FOSS projects is via multi-stakeholder cooperatives where both devs and users have their say. The amount of bitterness I'm seeing right now is the most eminent byproduct of the "benevolent dictatorship" model which has been the scourge of the open source world since the beginning of times.
Turn Mastodon into a cooperative NOW!
@kensanata I've made plans with friends & family to - in case of my untimely demise - continue running my domains, and serve a static snapshot of contents. All the tools to do this are prepared, all passwords in a KeePassXC database, etc. I've written up instructions about what needs to be shut down and how, have a small amount of money set aside for a few years of hosting costs, so my content should be good for a decade or two after I'm gone. We should all be doing something similar.
@byronalley @Gargron This is isn’t birdsite. The needs here a different. Constantly using them as an example is only going to encourage a repeat of their mistakes.
@djoerd You know we saw that you said we've been dismissed right? @gingerrroot
‘Stone Butch’ seems like it should already be a band name, or an actor.
EasyDNS has an interesting position on GDPR compliance for businesses not based in the EU:
"All prior history of internet governance would have us taking the position that being a Canadian company we are going to operate by Canadian law, and not by European law."
Also:
"Sure, Google and Facebook and Apple do have to worry about this, because they’ve domiciled their foreign HQ’s in Ireland so that they can shelter all that foreign revenue from US taxation."
https://easydns.com/blog/2018/05/28/gdrp-why-should-any-non-euro-companies-care/
I'm really happy to announce that the company I work for has just publicly opened a #Mastodon instance for all its 5000 employees.
This is the result of an initiative @moritzheiber and I have started a year ago and have pushed through with the help of many other colleagues.
So if you want to hear my voice as a #thoughtworker, you can follow me here: @judeswae
Or find others to follow at https://toot.thoughtworks.com
Was alarmed to see a medium-sized ant scurrying around on the windowsill. Then I took a closer look... 🤔 #dailyspiderpic
Trapped at a table full of people who believe in all things metaphysical. Rational brain explosion in 3, 2, .......
Hey, Wiretap! https://mstdn.io/media/ulfwb1lnevup3RCAsYE
China going vegan? Massive decline in meat consumption, vegetarian restaurants double in 5 years in Shanghai
In 2014, a Xinhua news agency report claimed that more than 50 million people shun meat in their meal in https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/china-going-vegan-massive-decline-in-meat-consumption-vegetarian-restaurants-double-in-5-years-in-shanghai/1079511/ ... https://framasphere.org/p/4989873
