I’m doing my part on Mastodon to spread the word. If you’re on there, boost my post or start up your own.

https://veganism.social/@mattwebbdev/117311062704363151

Oopsies, I dropped something…

https://wiki.servarr.com/

As an Oregonian, I’d like to fight the US along side you.

Wouldn’t that be some crazy shit? I mean… this timeline is not following any logic, so this could probably be a reality…

Check out https://upcloud.com/. EU based, but have servers in the EU, US, and Asia-Pacific: https://upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/locations/

If you got questions, hit them up on mastodon: https://glitchy.upcloud.world/@upcloud

Thanks, I just got signed up and I’ll get some ideas over to you folks :)

My profile: https://gitlab.gnome.org/mattwebb.dev

I regularly use both. Inkscape and Gimp could benefit from ux improvements that ease newbies in, with intuitiveness being front and center.

Shopify’s CEO is also part of this whole Omarchy funding shit too. So, now tailwind, the CSS library I have used for years… is loosely in that orbit.

I’m pretty sure I should just go back to rolling my own flexbox library per project at this point.

back at ya

If they could make it as dummy proof as Macromedia Fireworks from the 2000s, they would make transitioning creative work in Linux a bit easier. And this is coming from a Linux user since 2008.

I just left this comment, might be an alternative for you: https://programming.dev/comment/25901788

There’s been some talk of possible money laundering I saw on some threads in other Lemmy communities recently. I suppose that’s possible. We may never know.

I haven’t once said anyone was wrong. What they said is immaterial to what I was originally talking about. I was pointing critique/concerns/feelings towards the present day tech industry as a whole.

I kinda expect the guys who are investing in something they hope to see a positive return on to try to calm everyone down. That’s why I don’t give a shit what either of them said; its predictable and they don’t like the internal disruption. It costs company time/money money to put out that fire. Their priorities dont align with the staff.

My comment was aimed at the tech industry as a whole.

Let’s call it what it is in tech right now; it’s a supply chain attack against the whole industry. We’re being told to grab a bowl of this shit stew of venture capital, solidified grifts, and xenophobia with a side of Elon styled political activism.

These fascists have bought, bullied, or got backing from fellow fascists to coopt the F/OSS community with sums of money not commonly used in this space. Elon bought a whole social media platform to craft it into a fascist/Nazi hellscape, strictly to sway public opinion.

These guys are taking it even further; the very tools and means of production are being setup as a deeper rot in tech.

The same fuckheads in DHH’s orbit are only a few contacts away from Elon himself. We developers of all stripes need to move our projects off of corpo services. Self host your repo, partner up with like minded devs, make software for the people who need it.

Great minds think alike! I ended up installing it last night. I need to fiddle with the font size of the keys to better accommodate my fingers, but it’s a good replacement so far.

Damnit. I’m using the FUTO swipe keyboard straight from their fdroid repo.

You know what?

Fuck that. As an open source dev, my solidarity is needed, and it isn’t lesser than the convenience their keyboard gives. It may be a small gesture, but it’s better than ignoring my principles.

Seriously, you beat me to it. All I know is that I’m not tangling with the Voodoo Boys.

start rant/

Ah yes, dansup, aka the Fediverse superstar who cranks out such hits as “VAGUE FEATURE is Coming Soon”, and “The rarely updated official app for Pixelfed/Loops is going to get updated soon!”. Both of those are from the album" I insist on gatekeeping outside developers from contributing".

I’ve interacted with him as a fellow developer of the same stack he uses, and I have always appreciated where his heart is at regarding the fedi. But, the track record of quality work suffers from chasing shiny objects, and absolute spaghetti code.

Also, I’m going to be blunt in saying this; he apes existing ideas (insta, TikTok), gives them a quasi corpo social platform facade with the goal to be welcoming to the refugees who jump the fences.

This SSO thing is the antithesis of decentralization and the spirit of digital sovereignty. Literally handing Google more user data for the sake of fedi adoption via SSO is mind boggling. How many people here left big tech because of the blatant surveillance state that’s been built?

I keep trying to support his work, but I’m killing my Pixelfed and Loops accounts.

/rant

Or user privacy.

Or valuing their own workers.

Or how to respectfully be a part of the F/OSS ecosystem.

Or humanity’s desire to not live in a pollution stream from their AI processing centers (they’re not really “data centers”).

Or that we all wish LinkedIn would self-destruct under the weight of its own bullshit, and magically blink itself out of existence.