Measuring the success of free software seems very difficult. However, beneath all the superficial technical complexity, governance problems, sustainability issues and legal arguments, software freedom is about one thing: user agency. Therefore, measuring the success of the movement is simple. If the movement is successful, the average child will be able to point to a UI element on a screen they’re using, say “I want that to be purple”, and then make it so.

Given that, how are we doing?

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One sad consequence of global migration is the distance - literal & metaphorical - it puts between kids and their grandparents.

Growing up in East London, I never learned to speak Igbo, and since my grandparents couldn't speak English, we never had a real conversation before they died.

It's different with my kids; their grandparents speak English. But grandmas show love through food - and so they cook amala, ewedu, asaro - when all my kids want are chicken nuggets.

In 2010, "hella" was proposed as an SI metric prefix for 10²⁷. Google Search and Wolfram Alpha both adopted it by the following year.

Curiously, no symmetric prefix for 10⁻²⁷ was suggested at the time, but the obvious one would be "hello", in keeping with the convention used for other existing prefixes. Thus, 10²⁷ hellokitties would be equivalent to 1 cat.

Fellow: I wasn't happy with the MacIntosh apples I bought last week.

Me: It's because they weren't MacIntoshes.

Fellow: They said they were Macintosh.

Me: MacIntosh don't have red flesh. You were lied to.

They weren't bad apples. At least they weren't a sweet variety. We prefer tart. They weren't exactly that, either. They weren't bad, but now I'm curious as to what they were.

When Frances Perkins was a little girl, she asked her parents why nice people could be poor. Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank.

Eventually, she went to Mount Holyoke College, and majored in physics. In her final semester, she took a class in American economic history and toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified.

Eventually, instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters degree in social work from Columbia University. In 1910, Perkins became Executive Secretary of the New York City Consumers League.

She campaigned for sanitary regulations for bakeries, fire protection for factories, and legislation to limit the working hours for women and children in factories to 54 hours per week. She worked mainly in New York State’s capital, Albany. Here, she made friends with politicians, and learned how to lobby.

On March 25th, 1911, Frances was having tea with friends when they heard fire engines. They ran to see what was happening, and witnessed one of the worst workplace disasters in US history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was devastating, killing 146 people, mostly young women and girls.

Frances watched as fire escapes collapsed and fireman ladders couldn’t reach the women trapped by the flames. She watched 47 workers leap to their deaths from the 8th and 9th floors.

Poignantly, just a year before these same women and girls had fought for and won the 54 hour work week and other benefits that Frances had championed.

These women weren’t just tragic victims, they were heroes of the labor force. Frances at that moment resolved to make sure their deaths meant something.

A committee to study reforms in safety in factories was formed, and Perkins became the secretary. The group took on not only fire safety, but all other health issues they could think of. Perkins, by that time a respected expert witness, helped draft the most comprehensive set of laws regarding workplace health and safety in the country. Other states started copying New York’s new laws to protect workers.

Perkins continued to work in New York for decades, until she was asked by President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him only if he agreed with her goals: 40-hour work week, minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, federal aid to the states for unemployment, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. He agreed. Similar to what she had worked for in New York, her successes became the New Deal, and changed the country and its workers forever.

So while you may not know her name, you certainly know her legacy.

- Via: People You May Not Know, But Probably Should #labour #labor

Доступна платформа совместной разработки Forgejo 9.0, перешедшая на лицензию GPLv3

Опубликован выпуск платформы совместной разработки Forgejo 9.0, позволяющей развернуть на своих серверах систему для совместной работы с репозиториями Git, напоминающую по решаемым задачам GitHub, Bitbucket и Gitlab. Forgejo является форком проекта Gitea, который в свою очередь ответвился от платформы Gogs. Отделение Forgejo произошло в 2022 году после попыток коммерциализации Gitea и перехода управления в руки коммерческой компании. Проект Forgejo придерживается принципов независимого управления и подконтрольности сообществу. На использование Forgejo перешёл Git-хостинг Codeberg.org. Код проекта написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

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I do not like ProtonMail. I get that it's supposed to be more secure, but honestly? I don't particularly see email as a secure medium.

This is just a personal preference I'm expressing, but:

• Their web UIs seem to try to be glitzy and flashy but lack some of the basic rock solid functionality I look for.
• I resent the idea that it's freemium, unless I want to use standard mail protocols, in which case it's premium. (I have NO problem paying. Just charge me!)

I am vastly happier with my @fastmail experience in just about every way. I'm not trying to beat on anyone, just expressing what I see and the conclusions I have come to as a happy/unhappy customer of each service.

#email #youarenottheproduct

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KALENDÁŘ 2025
Moji milí sledující. Už podruhé se pouštím do akce, která mi přináší dost starostí, ale také hodně radosti. Kalendář mohl vzniknout jen díky vám a vašemu zájmu.
V anketě jste rozhodli, že po červených utažských skalách z minulého roku, to letos bude mix severoamerických přírodních krás.
Cena kalendáře je 350,- Kč. Zahrnuje výrobu kalendáře, pevnou přepravní obálku, zabalení a cenu poštovného v ČR.
Nejedná se o výdělečný podnik, cena kryje náklady.

Vlákno🧵👇

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De los "turistas" españoles detenidos en Venezuela ni media palabra en los medios desde hace un mes.

Dieron la noticia el primer día y después la bola del desierto.

Ni familiares montando escándalo, ni tertulias hablando de ellos, ni fotos de sus redes sociales,...

Si de verdad fueran gente normal de turismo los teníamos hasta en la sopa. Un poquillo sospechoso el tema.

Symbolische steun voor ontruimde Wondelmeersen vanuit het Lappersfortbos
#Ecologie #Gent #Brugge #Bos #Activisme

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Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that proclaims the world is full of enemies to be destroyed, rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.

Beware of any so-called "Christian" movement that requires crowds in vast numbers to glorify its leaders instead of humbling themselves before others.

Tapping the sign again:

Being autistic does not make anyone sexist, racist, eugenicist, an advocate for gendered violence, an apologist for child abuse, or any of the things that white dudes in open source technology are starting to be held accountable for.

Being an *asshole* makes someone an advocate for abuse.

Stop infantilizing grown-ass adults.

Criticism of a sexual harasser is not ableist. You know what's ableist? Your colleagues who refuse to prioritize accessibility in FLOSS.

Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy (Diana Olick/CNBC)

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Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors

Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers.

^{Diana Olick (CNBC)}

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers (Daniel Thorp-Lancaster/Wired)

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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6'' screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers

By Daniel Thorp-Lancaster / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme