I have done my best to stay informed about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE. I read what I can about it, and hope I'm informed enough that my opinions about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE are similarly informed. I've got good friends on both sides of $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE who are -- for very good reasons! -- not objective about it. I don't think you need to be objective to have a valid opinion, either. But, if I am not talking about $CONTENTIOUS_ISSUE very much... that's possibly part of why.

Christ, what a mess the Free Software community (and the #FSF) is.

The Stallman report

The Stallman report

October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Fre...

is exhaustive and damning and while I knew nearly all of it already, to see it in one coherent whole with citations and supporting evidence is amazing work. Much respect also to the people who fought to mitigate his damage. Stallman needs to have gone, to go, and to be gone from this community. (careful, too; the same URL but with .com appended is being used to link to a manifesto supporting #RMS)

What's a modern solution to “I have an #RSS feed that has content that is malformed, and I want to transform the content of the feed and subscribe to the fixed feed instead of the original”? My inclination had been "yahoo pipes” (RIP) and I saw pipes.digital, but I couldn't get that to work. I'm happy to be #selfhosting this; in fact, I'd probably prefer it, but online solutions are acceptable too.

Chrome really has poisoned the well for me; every time it updates now, I wonder "what feature do I need to find and turn off in the hopes that Google won't be abusing my privacy in new, exciting, and misleadingly-named ways?” No, Safari isn't an option, nor is Firefox; neither meets my usability bar. Don't recommend them to me. No, Vivaldi and Edge and Arc aren’t, either, for the same reasons. I've tried them.

(I am aware that my being part of a language-based tech community makes this seem hypocritical) I am so, so tired of people introducing themselves in social situations with a catalog of technologies they love or hate. YOU ARE NOT YOUR TOOLS

Sometimes the /r/git subreddit has questions on it that make me wonder how people even operate their computers in the first place.

I'm looking for a group to watch the first hour or so of the #debate with in #seattle, up in Greenwood (I'm heading to a 7:30 trivia game but wanted to see how the winds were blowing for the first hour); I'd rather not watch alone, since wincing and heckling in a group is more fun. Anyone know a place that's showing it?