Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

I decided to start sharing parts of #fediQuest as they become mature.

Today, I am releasing a #Golang library for decoding ActivityStreams 2.0 objects into native Go objects and also for encoding Go objects into ActivityStreams 2.0 JSON objects.

Repo: https://github.com/MatejLach/astreams

The usage is your typical Go Marshal/Unmarshal, (see tests for examples).

The license is copyleft (AGPLv3).

Your feedback (and a star) are welcome :-)

Am reminded of the recent Apple piece attacking Project Zero for exposing iOS flaws.

Might've been a better idea not to say anything if THIS is what they're going to come out with.

"It’s not about the $100,000, it’s about decisions we’ve made to engage the government." [because future contracts would be worth far more?]

"that’s the decision that we made as a leadership team" [so shut up about it, worker bees?]

"I certainly don’t want to be viewed as I’m taking a strong stand in support of ICE" [He'd rather just support them without being noticed?]

Regardless of what one things about the actual issue, this is a terrible writing style for a CEO.

So Chef's CEO has published a blog post regarding the current controversy re their U.S. Gov contracts & honestly it's among the worst attempts at a positive spin I've ever seen,

"For some portion of the community, and some portion of our company, this is a super, super-charged lightning rod..." [but not him?]

"I think our challenge as leadership right now is how do we collectively navigate through times like this" [so that we don't face backslash?]

systemd is not an init system, it's a system manager designed to be useful way beyond simply bringing the system up.

2.) Linux home directory handling is currently a mess. Any random app can ignore XDG conventions, making it hard to be sure that a simple rsync of home is sufficient i.e. it would be working as expected if you were forced to nuke your system. From my experience, it doesn't work particularly well for backing up the configs of many programs as they write to places like /etc

The reactions to systemd-homed have predictably been, "soon there's going to be a word processor in #systemd", without these people realizing that:

1.) systemd is NOT a single binary, it's a project, an ecosystem of utilities. That's like saying to GNU; Why is there wget? I want GNU to compile stuff with GCC, why is GNU nano a thing?

Of course the goal of the GNU Project is to produce everything needed to have a libre OS - the goal of systemd is to produce everything needed to manage this OS.

Having seen the accusations against RMS & the dishonest misquotes of him, (which in full context don't defend Epstein at all), I find the push for his resignation disgraceful.

I am the first to admit that #RMS could sometimes be less than eloquent, however this isn't really the case here, it's just a straight up smear, this really sums it up:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5aiuu/richard_m_stallman_resigns_free_software/f0l57yd/

If it's this easy to blacklist someone, how long before Bernie Sanders would be forced out, if he actually won?