Matt Butcher is no stranger to the ways of ethical philosophy. With a Ph.D. in Religion and Computer Science, he enjoys philosophical conversations of ethical dilemmas. Butcher passionately debates wild theories and paradoxical situations against those not afraid to question reality in pursuit of...
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This new image from the James Webb #Space Telescope shows the spectacular Orion Nebula, packed with thousands of budding stars at ~1,300 light-years away.
> "Fixed leaving a specific type of item on a certain craft causing the item to disappear under certain circumstances"
Gotta love the spoiler-free #OuterWilds changelog.
My decision to start a capital-B Blog (as opposed to microblogging, which I've been doing since I was a wee one on The Tumbler) was largely spur-of-the-momen...
Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware, is a champion of community strategy and development. A doctor of Philosophy, Foster is well-versed in the understanding of collaboration and leverages her mountain of knowledge to fight for the health of maintainers in open-source...
Interview went well. They seemed to like me. Course, them liking me is rarely the problem. *Hiring* me is where everybody seems to get confused. So, fingers remain crossed.
i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch
this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does".
there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true.
consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?
if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already
RE: it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is
but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work
Spotify is relentlessly adding new features at an impressive rate, none of which I have any desire to ever use. But an ‘I’d like to listen to this album/song at a later time of my choosing’ feature still doesn’t exist.
How to avoid PersistentVolumeClaims getting stuck in a Pending state with vCluster and EKS when you've not set up the cluster with a Container Storage Interface driver for Elastic Block Store.
Bart Farrell is a content creator and community leader in the public speaking world. Based in Spain, he has developed a massively popular platform through podcasting and consulting as a nontechnical person in a technical space.In this episode, Farrell breaks down the ins and outs of public...
As with all recipes on this blog, they’re designed to be easily made, tasty, and not elaborate. I’ll also not put lengthy backstories for them.
I was in Exeter yesterday and stumbled into Brewdog where I discovered their delicious loaded fries. So today, I had a go at making something similar. The amount I used here could be shared between four people as a chunky sharing starter. Scale it down for a main meal or snack.
It's delightful to see that some communities that build Free and Open Source software still evolve their license terms the way we used to: getting consent from past contributors and doing the careful hard work.
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS
https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4555
The security team at work sent round a load of capture the flag exercises for cybersecurity awareness week and I have never been so thoroughly nerdsniped
Kim McMahon is the leader of Open Source Marketing & Community at Outshift by Cisco, which is Cisco’s emerging technologies and innovation unit. We recorded this episode at Open Source Summit EU, and talked about Kim’s strategies and tactics related to helping guide users to the correct edition...
This week I’m chatting with Steven Renwick, CEO of Tilores. As you’ll hear in the episode, we connected when I mistook Tilores for an open-source company. Steven graciously agreed to come on the show to discuss why they decided against making the product open source — which is actually a...
I know "I hope this message finds you well" is a normal way to start an email, but what about if I am in fact not well? Am I supposed to say thanks but this message didn't find me well??
On September 29th, Netflix shipped its final DVDs, marking the end of an era in physical media. So, we invited our friend Christina Warren (aka film_girl) from GitHub to pour out a drink with us and lament the end of this golden age of access to the films we all love.
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