Roundups of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software News (and Moving to Mastodon)
-
Libre Arts - Weekly recap — 18 December 2022
This has been a really busy week for everybody. Highlights: new releases of Krita, LibreCAD, Kdenlive, MuseScore, Ardour, Rosegarden, and more.
-
FOSS Weekly #28 - $8 RISC-V Linux computer, DIY Pi Laptop, Kernel 6.1 - more | FOSS Weekly
Hope you had a great week! Here are all the updates from the open source world. We have a ton of hardware news like the DIY Pi Laptop and exciting releases from software projects including Firefox, PeerTube, and the Linux kernel.
-
Perl fediverse network
This is also posted on reddit, https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/zp8d5g/perlfediverseactivitypubsocial_network/ so please check there also
A while back I bought the https://perl.social/ domain without much immediate use for it. I originally had it redirecting to the perl twitter community. However with the recent twitter drama going around I started setting up an activitypub based network to take the place of the twitter community in the advent that there was an exodus of Perl programmers from twitter. That seems to have been happening so I finally kicked into gear to get it ready for use.
https://perl.social/ should show you the public face of the community, (if it doesn't let me know). In the upper right you'll find the login button, and can register a new user. Once registered, like all fediverse things you'll be able to be followed by people as such @username@perl.social and can follow other users on other servers by putting them in the search box at the top and then following them.
-
We’ll keep tweeting (for now) but have also started tooting.
“Déjà vu all over again.” Another run of ethical calculus. Not so very long ago and on the heels of one or another specially offensive transgression, Skeptical Science had to search our hearts: Is there a compelling reason to help Facebook with its business plan, by maintaining a presence on the platform? Now we're asking the same question about Twitter. If you'd like to cut directly to "there's a better way" we have a section for you right here about Mastodon, what might be termed a "post-legacy," improved social networking service.
Recent events at Twitter are causing us to again ask familiar questions, but with a twist. For reasons we've previously explored we continue to maintain a presence on Facebook. Facebook goes through the motions of window dressing ruthless commercial practices for the purpose of making money. Expedient cosmetics set (admittedly loose) brackets on what’s acceptable to say on Facebook. On the other hand, Elon Musk’s recent acquisition was launched with the explicit intent of normalizing hate speech, promoting the worst of human nature. Fertilizing and cultivating ugly human nature at its worst is how Musk’s sophomoric philosophy on “free speech” unpacks, as a practical matter.