Michel Salim @michel_slm@floss.social

Figures that FSF board members pushed a breaking change to the board and then marked the bug reports WONTFIX.

@hope legit this is part of what got me into programming

my dad went to UNC and one of his colleagues invented something called a "valve" which is basically a mutex that switches the flow of control in threads that subsequently attempt to lock the mutex using some very specific implementation but I could only ever get secondhand information about it

but today my dad got back in touch with him and he emailed me basically saying "what the heck is this all about" so we'll see how much i get out of this

My university seems to be continuing is slide into MS control. Can't really have a local server to host things anymore. Can't really even have my own web pages hosted by the university.

Pretty much all of the tech knowledge is being outsourced to big tech companies.

Really makes me appreciate the stuff I see at places like OERu. Which I think is largely maintained by @lightweight

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Following the good news about plan9's license change I spent the late evening reading some 9front code (including their intel wifi driver and wifi stack... yes it is small enough to read over in one sitting).

The website gives the impression that they're a bunch of anarchists having fun ​ and this is consistently carried through into their C code ​

"You unix nerds expect me to use macros to label my constants!?! Harrharr! Here, use your brains and crunch some numbers!"

Before ​

$ time got up

Already up-to-date

1m42.63s real 0m45.63s user 0m53.07s system

$

After ​

$ time got up

Already up-to-date

0m04.06s real 0m01.33s user 0m01.67s system

$

@tunda Absolutely. Ideas are bigger than people. But this step is big dent in the reputation of the Free Software Foundation, so IMHO they are no longer the go-to stewards of Software Freedom. We need to defend it wothout them for the foreseeable future. @polymerwitch

Fellow #GNU hackers Andy Wingo (of Guile) and Mark J. Wielaard (of Classpath, GCC, and more) share their thoughts after the decision of @fsf to reinstate RMS:

https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2021/03/24/fsf-associate-membership/
https://wingolog.org/archives/2021/03/25/here-we-go-again

hey this is something at least https://www.fsf.org/news/preliminary-board-statement-on-fsf-governance

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Last year we had volunteers from 4 continents for our first virtual event. 2021 should be hybrid, so especially need volunteers from the #PacificNorthwest

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@conservancy The FSF just also welcomed back RMS to their board. Care to comment on that?

#FSF : time to stop my membership as well.

Two questions:

- Has anyone used the FSF email alias extensively, and then stopped their membership? Does it still work for a while, so you can switch your email address everywhere?
- Where should my donation go? I'm thinking #ElectronicFrontiersAustralia, as the chair and vice-chair are both women.

Any recommendation for #feminist #FOSS organisations is welcome. Boosts OK!

This is why writers like to be in anthologies.

"I bought this anthology to read Michael W Lucas's story, filling in a bit of the background for a character that pops up in other tales. But as anthologies are supposed to do, it has raised my interest in several other writers. Well done.

And it's nice to see that Stabbity Joe has a heart and that it can be (has been!) captured."

https://amzn.to/3c8q88i

The worst part about RMS being back on the board of the FSF (from my perspective, YMMV) is that this submarine bullshit of "hey, guess who's back" undermines the very foundation of trust and openness that the FSF is supposed to foster.

"Don't trust corporations with your private data or they'll do bad things with it" rings fucking hollow when "trust us to be above board with our openness" is met with an end-run announcement that someone who has lost trust is back on the board.

In 2019, I cancelled my associate membership with the Free Software Foundation (which I joined in 2004) when it came to light that the organization refused to sanction or remove its toxic founder and leader after a litany of documented abuses and unprofessional behavior, even toward me myself in the past.

While #RichardStallman (#RMS) was eventually removed from his post, this weekend it became known that the organization has allowed him back on to its Board of Directors.

(1/2) #FSF #Stallman

(3/2) If you'd like more back story on the 2019 events, I refer you to the best description that I'm aware of from former #FSF Executive Director Bradley Kuhn:

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

I agree with everything written there. Do note that it was written before #RMS was fully "out" from FSF.

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