Don’t be that guy.

This “1000 words to conversational” sourdough sounds really good to me. Thanks for sharing!

Oh I didn’t know this was available in Codeberg! Thanks for sharing.

I know it’s supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but… it’s not really funny.

Working with less-experienced developers, I’m amazed at how slow everything is for them:  No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.

Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.

Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff.  It’s worth it.

Is there a particular reason we need another flag? What’s wrong with this one that’s been around a long time?

It’s true. They’re for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party’s ability to enshittify.

That’s a worthy goal, but the problem isn’t so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the “it’s not perfect yet” excuse is getting pretty thin.

Switch to Codeberg today and there’s a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it’s ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don’t even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.

But it’s long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn’t available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.

What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:

1. Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
2. Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab’s case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
3. Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
4. Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
5. (Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.

Oh don’t misunderstand me. I’m an atheist and think the idea of your god is ridiculous. I just think it’s even more ridiculous that a theocracy like the US could get tripped up and torn between its two favourite things: religiosity and property rights.

It points out the absurdity of both.

I love this so much.

The aversion to using a GPL library is a red flag for me. It basically says: “we don’t want to grant our users the same rights we have”.

Clever, but as far as I know, Jesus isn’t credited with actually writing any of the bible. The actual authors, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are all long dead.

The following don’t seem to fit any of these (and they’re all excellent):

• Radiolab
• Savage Love
• Throughline
• Climate Denier’s Playbook
• The Urbanist Agenda
• CBC Embedded

I used to get very upset by this, but I’ve taken great solace in seeing how their power and influence are waning.

I want Kit stickers for my laptop. I will pay for them. Mozilla please take my money and give me adorable stickers.

Fun! But if you’re going to post to OpenSource, you should be sharing the code too.

I’d never heard of this list, so thanks for sharing. I have to say while some of the projects seem to have been included due to minor offences, I’m really disappointed in some of my favourite FOSS projects.

I didn’t understand what you meant by Joplin not being “fully FOSS”, so I went looking for the license. Is really quite strange. Basically they’ve used a “personal license” for some parts and the AGPL for the rest. That’s… annoying.

Every now and then I need to make a presentation, and LibreOffice Impress to Microsoft PowerPoint isn’t that good. I resort to Google Slides for now.

It may not be your thing, but personally I’ve had a lot of success with RevealJS. You just write HTML (or even Markdown) and it automatically builds your slides for you such that they run on any browser. You can make it as complicated or as simple as you like (I’ve done some wild stuff with CSS) and everything can be versioned in git and published to anywhere that supports static files.

Here’s a reasonably professional-looking presentation I occasionally give about Kubernetes if you’re interested.

Are you using GNOME? If so, I remember there being an extension for that.