Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me
Free software enthusiast, mostly working with #golang, #rustlang and #swiftlang these days . Avid propagandist of #archlinux since 2011.
I've been wanting to make the frontpage on link aggregator sites for a while now, but now that I've done it, I don't feel anything
Rule 1: You never get rich with your own money. Use other people's.
Rule 2: You don't stay rich by paying for stuff you can get away with stealing.
A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!
A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap
@MatejLach Maybe someone should steal a Tesla from the dealership and drive it around, and it be totally okay because they've "promoted" the brand :V
So Elon Musk is refusing to pay an artist for art he used in Tesla marketing materials, claiming he 'promoted' his work by using it.
I am the furthermost thing from an advocate of copyright, but what I find amazing in these cases is that professed capitalists like Elon, who claim that is the best, most fair model to run a society, (because it rewards people who work hard and create value), then refuse to compensate people for their hard work and the value that they clearly provided.
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#Bandcamp is still here and #DRM -free
@MatejLach On the one hand, fuck Kodi. On the other hand, yay, now one of my major reasons for not running Kodi is gone!
First the W3C, now Kodi - it seems even "open" players are not immune to the charms of Netflix.
https://torrentfreak.com/kodi-embraces-drm-to-invite-content-publishers-180627
How very unfortunate.
there is no other solution. any business can be bought out, including a cooperative.
This is cool, oldest registered domains: https://www.cambus.net/oldest-domains-in-the-com-net-and-org-tlds
So many stories of fallen giants in there.
there is an assumption that “Open source will continue to fall from the sky like manna from heaven and that the people behind it can be abstracted away.” Show more
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
The amount of people that believe there's no such thing as a left-libertarian is truly astounding, especially in the U.S.
.@Framasoft's crowdfunding for #PeerTube has just passed 100%, so it will definitely get funding 🎉 👏 🍾
There's still 12 days to go, so the appeal is going for a stretch goal to add even more features 😎
Well done everyone! 👍
I ported over all Medium posts to the new blog! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/if-you-could-edit-tweets/
I know I still need to add sharing buttons below the content but I'm tired. It should look fine on mobile now, too
Wikipedia was the poster child of an open approach, but somewhere along the line it became something else.
If we started Wikipedia again from scratch what features should it have to mitigate the problems which the legacy Wikipedia encountered?
Nice to see #PeerTube reached its funding goal. I tried shilling for it on Hacker News really hard! 🤣
Phoronix Is Now On The Open-Source-Friendly Liberapay - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Phoronix-Liberapay
"Trans Europa Express is a brand new extension for the #firefox web browser that pretends that Internet users are from the European Union to give them some of the privacy protections that websites give users from the EU."
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/29/pretend-you-are-from-the-eu-to-benefit-from-gdpr/
