> If you are concerned about it from Chinese "Communists" you should equally be concerned when done by American #capitalists Demanding #Free #Software and right to repair hardware would limit today concerns.
We should be very concerned about it from US-based corporations, concerned enough to stop their practices around lock-in, data-collection, and proprietary software. But even so, when the data collected is going to a hostile government, it justifiably sparks added concern.
β² @FOSS_events@mastodon.social: Hello world! This is the social account of foss.events
It will be used to spread news and updates around #foss events in Europe and try to remind you on upcoming events or deadlines of calls for participation.
Of course we will also use it to inform you about any updates regarding // foss.events itself : )
So I'm trying to consider what framework to use for documentation at CleverThis (first document ill need to convert is the Spec for the concurrency I'm designing). These are the options I'm playing with and considering. Which do you like most, leave comments with suggestions and opinions.
So far on #QOTO we have brought the following services up, I want to know what you want to see next. All of these services are free and open to the public for open-source and collaborative non-commercial ventures.
Let me know which of the above you'd like to see next. Also if you have a suggestion of a service we didnt list let me know and we might just host it for you if it would be useful for others.
Big things happening at #QOTO I wanted to update everyone on.
So as most of you know I had a year long back injury that put a lot of QOTO plans on hold. But I've been healed and working on bringing much of that vision to reality.
As of a few weeks ago a few close friends and fellow engineers wanted to join the team. I am currently sitting with 3 other new engineers and we are working on bringing up several instances including peertube, nextcloud, gitlab, discourse, and of course a newer version of QOTO. A full collaboration suite for others in STEM and the open-source community. All for free to its users.
This launch will coincide with several of my other projects many of you follow including protowaffle, ROES, Graphactor, Aparapi, Ferma and many others. We will host all the source on QOTO as well as make it the source for future software announcements related to those products.
For instance, in the #java programming language, a tennet exists that claims that a method having more than 5 arguments is difficult to test. It's advised to replace those arguments with a single object.
But that seems to conflict with the clean code tennet that states that a procedure's input must be explicit in its signature. An arguments object is not explicit about its members.
In #java#software#programs it is the #PMD#SuppressWarnings statement that will indicate what version of PMD was run (it's a static code analyzer for quality control), and how annoying the developer found it.
GPL is a hostage negotiation, or at best barter. I'll give you my code if you give me yours. There is nothing "free" about it in my mind.
MIT/BSD/Apache is true freedom "You can have my code, no strings attached, do what you want with it, just promise you will tell people it is open-source and who wrote it!"