The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - github.com/kubernetes/communit… - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)

Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?

The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.

community/communication/slack-migration-faq.md at master · kubernetes/community

Kubernetes community content. Contribute to kubernetes/community development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

the problem with LLMs

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David Chisnall made a really great points about copyleft licenses and how Google's recent actions with Android are the inevitable result:

> It’s deeply unfortunate that so many developers still believe in the magical powers of copyleft licenses in spite of decades of evidence of their failure. They have somehow missed the fact that a company that pays the majority of developers who understand a non-trivial codebase can exercise control and that forking is rarely feasible unless those developers choose to join the fork (AGPLv3 is increasingly the go-to license for companies that want to exert control over their ecosystem). They have missed the fact that complex legal documents favour people with expensive lawyers and so big companies can routinely get away with things that small companies wouldn’t do because they can’t afford the legal fees, so copyleft favours monopolies. They have missed the fact that contracts don’t ever enforce behaviour, they codify agreed behaviour. If you try to enforce behaviour via contracts then humans immediately start looking for loopholes and you cannot write a loophole-free contract.

and later:

> A true free software system is one that empowers users. This means that it will expose every aspect of the system to end-user modification (this is my main motivator for CHERI: to provide the lowest-level building block for doing this safely and securely). In such a world, users will extend things naturally and will want to share some of their extensions for interoperability. In a proprietary software world, you have three categories of thing:

> Programs, which are siloed worlds.
Plugins, which have access to some low-level details of the program and may extend it, but only in ways blessed by the owners of the program.
Documents, which are created by users. They may embed scripts to extend the program, but in a very narrow way.
In a Free Software system, there is no such distinction. An end user can create a document that extends the system in arbitrary ways. But in a GPL’d world, that is hard because a document is, due to the fact everything in the program is exposed, a derived work of the program. Any document that extends a program is covered by the terms of the GPL. You can’t share it under an NDA and end users have a bunch of other legal restrictions that they must abide by. Rather than creating incentives that encourage people to extend the system and share their improvements, you’ve created legal liability for them if they do.

> We had problems with QEMU being GPL’d because we couldn’t share QEMU implementations of unreleased Arm specs where the spec was under NDA without violating the GPL. If those limitations applied to everything created by a normal user, it would be a disaster. And you can’t say ‘documents are different, they are outputs of the program and so not covered by the GPL’ without also saying ‘documents do not have the ability to arbitrarily extend the underlying system’, which means you are throwing away the thing that should be the key selling point of Free Software: it works for you, it is easy to modify it to make it do what you want, not what some corporation thinks they can use to best extract rent from you.

> Things like the LGPL create a two worlds problem. If you write code in a program under the GPL, it’s extended and refactored by other people, and then after a while it’s generic enough that it belongs in a library, you need everyone to agree to change the license. And this mindset comes from internalising software development models that came from proprietary software.

> Conway’s Law talks about systems reflecting the structure of the org chart, but it goes deeper. Program structures reflect the socioeconomic system that is developing them. Free Software will always struggle as an idea as long as it is building systems that reflect the COTS proprietary software models of how software works because those models are explicitly designed to empower the owners at the expense of the users. Telling users ‘we grant you freedom to give up control to this priesthood of programmers instead of to this corporation’ is not a selling point for most users (it can be for governments and big companies, who can afford to employ the priests).

> If you really want Free Software to be the dominant model for how computers work (I do) then you need to build the kinds of things that cannot be done in the proprietary world because they give away too much control and are hard to monetise via rent extraction. This means modular systems where each module is understandable by a single person, end-user programming systems that allow real changes to the underlying systems, an easy flow of code between things users write and the underlying system (in both directions), and so on.

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lobste.rs/c/j7v0nl

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project

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^lobste.rs

> was the biggest mistake that Matrix as a project has ever made

except the mistake of all the core developers working for Israeli intelligence (Amdocs)
RT: circumstances.run/users/davidg…

SHIFT-Sommerfest 2025☀️🎉

Wir laden euch herzlich zu unserem Sommerfest am 23. August 2025 um 15:00 Uhr auf unserem SHIFT-Campus in Falkenberg ein!

Mehr: shift.eco/sommerfest2025/

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #sommerfest

Sommerfest 2025 - Save the date - SHIFT -

SHIFT-Sommerfest 2025 Wir haben in diesem Jahr bereits vieles erreicht, manche Herausforderung gemeistert – und zugleich liegt noch einiges vor uns.

^{Nathanael Ohrndorf (SHIFT GmbH)}

WhatsApp to start showing ads to users in some parts of the messaging app
https://apnews.com/article/whatsapp-meta-advertising-messaging-92a7e3f34e019f7bcc37e2b81a1bc21e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

Hartgen Consultancy is very glad to support the below initiative.
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Been screwing around with Nixos today and holy crap, this is the fastest I have ever setup a Mastodon instance.

Added everything in as described on the wiki and BOOM! The instance came up and I could create an account.

I still know NOTHING about Nixos other than some YouTube knowledge but I kinda feel like this can replace Ubuntu for my servers that I run.

Also... I DIDN'T KNOW CHANING THE FAVICON WAS BUILT INTO MASTODON NOW. I have just updated the esper.lol one.

#nixos #mastoadmin

My @igalia colleague Luís Henriques has just published a very interesting post about the work he has been doing lately in the Linux #kernel about #FUSE over #io_uring.

luis.camandro.org/2025-06-14-f…

Beyerdynamic wird an chinesische Investoren verkauft 😢

Wer noch keinen dt770 pro hat: Jetzt noch zuschlagen - besser wird's nicht mehr.

Und es schadet vielleicht auch nicht, sich ein paar Ersatzteile auf Lager zu bestellen. Irgendwie kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass die Versorgung mit Ersatzteilen so weitergehen wird...

porta-fi.com/cosonic-intellige…

#music #headphones #kopfhörer #beyerdynamic

Cosonic Intelligent to Acquire Beyerdynamic in €122 Million Deal, Targeting Global Growth | Porta-Fi™

Cosonic Intelligent to acquire Beyerdynamic for €122M, aiming to expand global reach and strengthen high-end audio innovation.

^{Goh Beng Yeow (Porta-Fi)}

koniec najlepší

edit: tbh táto pieseň mi dodáva kontext k jej ďalším

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Nina Simone: To Be Young, Gifted and Black

#younggiftedblack #ninasimone"To Be Young, Gifted & Black" performed by @NinaSimoneMusic (includes interview)Recording session: Live at @MorehouseCollege in...

^YouTube

Educators: We must teach the next generation to speak truth to power.

Also educators: Not like that.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/vale…

We're proud to announce a new stable release of Mixxx: version 2.5.2! This version contains updates and fixes for some issues reported by users. We'd like to thank all users for giving feedback as we would like to emphasize once again the importance of testing.
Please join our testing-force.
This update also contains updates to controller-mappings and improvements in the building procedures.
Have a nice #Mixxx.

mixxx.org/news/2025-06-13-mixx…

Mixxx - Mixxx 2.5.2 Released

Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.

^{Mixxx DJ Software}

to sú hipisáci hrajúci blues? to som ešte nevidel asi

youtube.com/watch?v=X1zFnyEe3n…

Janis Joplin - Ball & Chain - Monterey Pop

Out now on Blu-ray and DVD: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival

^YouTube

🎉 Best News Of 2025! 🎉

Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-search-do…

Time to update our private browser recommendations: tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

What's your pick for 2025 - which browser should we add?

Be My Eyes is featured as App of the Day on the App Store! 🎉

What started as one idea from our founder has become a global movement, with 850k blind & low vision users and millions of volunteers.

Thank you to everyone who’s helped us get here. 💙

apps.apple.com/us/story/id1561…

App of the Day: Be My Eyes

Learn about Share a Vision on Mac App Store. Download Be My Eyes and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

^{Apple Inc (App Store)}

Purism Featured in Fortune- Secure Phone Made in the USA. While Big Tech claims U.S. smartphone manufacturing is “impossible” or “too expensive,”

Purism CEO Todd Weaver is proving otherwise.

puri.sm/posts/fortune-com-feat…