I agree with this wholeheartedly.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
@sesivany I'm (sadly...) not European so I've kind of kept quiet about the EU's request for input on open source recently, but...
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ISTM that most of the suggestions are along the lines of "pay maintainers" -- which is not terrible, but also not the answer.I hope someday that corporations and governments stop trying to fit FOSS into the vendor/supplier box and start understanding that it works best when they participate.
Don't ask maintainers to jump through vendor hoops and live contract-to-contract* to sustain a handful of identified projects: start staffing up FOSS developer departments and paying them to participate in FOSS development.
Participate in the community instead of considering it a separate thing. This has historically been one of Red Hat's superpowers: rolling up sleeves and getting directly involved in communities it depends on. Sometimes that means hiring existing maintainers, but often it means saying "hey, you three -- go get involved in XYZ project and see how we can solve the problems our customers have."
In short: stop trying to treat this as a problem that can or should be solved by capitalism. Treat it as a social good that is part of the role of government.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
@sesivany, there exist and also capability of digital sovereighn in the EU. It's not the lack of capability but the lack of political will-
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@sesivany I'm (sadly...) not European so I've kind of kept quiet about the EU's request for input on open source recently, but...
<soapbox>
ISTM that most of the suggestions are along the lines of "pay maintainers" -- which is not terrible, but also not the answer.I hope someday that corporations and governments stop trying to fit FOSS into the vendor/supplier box and start understanding that it works best when they participate.
Don't ask maintainers to jump through vendor hoops and live contract-to-contract* to sustain a handful of identified projects: start staffing up FOSS developer departments and paying them to participate in FOSS development.
Participate in the community instead of considering it a separate thing. This has historically been one of Red Hat's superpowers: rolling up sleeves and getting directly involved in communities it depends on. Sometimes that means hiring existing maintainers, but often it means saying "hey, you three -- go get involved in XYZ project and see how we can solve the problems our customers have."
In short: stop trying to treat this as a problem that can or should be solved by capitalism. Treat it as a social good that is part of the role of government.
</soapbox>@jzb @sesivany I agree with what you said. And I believe that most of the calls to “pay maintainers” are likely coming from people who would like to be paid to maintain and not paid to do a company’s work in an upstream. That’s fair.
We need to scream the quiet part out loud. Until our businesses and governments can safely do things that are hard to connect to the bottom line metric, staffing a team to do work in an upstream is difficult.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
@sesivany indeed. The problem with hyperscalers is both the hyper and the scale.
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@jzb @sesivany I agree with what you said. And I believe that most of the calls to “pay maintainers” are likely coming from people who would like to be paid to maintain and not paid to do a company’s work in an upstream. That’s fair.
We need to scream the quiet part out loud. Until our businesses and governments can safely do things that are hard to connect to the bottom line metric, staffing a team to do work in an upstream is difficult.
@bexelbie From those people, but also from folks who just really can't grasp a relationship between an organization and what it uses that doesn't look like procurement.
The FOSS model is too open, chaotic, communal, and consensus-based for a lot of organizational thinking. But it's not FOSS that needs to change, it's the organizational thinking...
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An ocean scientist I know lost her federal government job this week. Canada should be scooping up American scientists left and right, not firing our scientists!! She works on carbon observation in the ocean, which is, you know, really fucking important. Everyone else who works on it on the west coast also got cut
Maybe a good time to reach out to your MPs and ask how the fuck we're supposed to be a world leader or whatever if federal scientists are fired and univerities are all drowning?
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@lqdev@lqdev.me hey, welcome to the Fediverse!
Couple smol things...
When I try to resolve your post by URL, I get a Person back, whoops! Not sure why on NodeBB, I see raw markdown. Was going to inspect source.content, but see #1 :sweat:
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@boris @dmian @scottjenson this is something that was designed into ActivityPub and has largely been ignored. We're doing a lot of work on it at the W3C SocialCG group.
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Looking forward to learning more about this ux research effort! Had a nice intro chat with Christian Jacobs last Monday
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Silica Gel Makes For Better 3D Prints
It’s possible to improve your 3D prints in all kinds of ways. You can tune your printer’s motion, buy better filament, or tinker endlessly with any number of slicer settings. Or, as [Dirt-E-Bikes] explains, you could grab yourself some silica gel.
If you’re unfamiliar with silica gel, it’s that stuff that comes in the “DO NOT EAT” packet when you buy a new pair of shoes. It’s key feature is that it’s hygroscopic—which means it likes to suck up moisture from the atmosphere. When it comes to 3D printing, this is a highly useful property—specifically because it can help keep filament dry. Over time, plastic filament tends to pick up some moisture on its own from the atmosphere, and this tends to interfere with print quality. This can be avoided by storing filament in a sealed or semi-seaeled environment with silica gel. The gel will tend to suck up most of the moisture from the air in the sealed container, helping to keep the filament drier.
[Dirt-E-Bikes] does a great job of explaining how best to integrate silica gel with your filament spools and automatic material changer (if you have one). He also explains the value of color changing silica gel which indicates when the material is saturated with water, as well as how to dry it out for reuse. You can even combine some of the color changing beads with the more common plain white beads recycled from your shoe boxes, since you only need a few colored beads to get an idea of the water content.
We’ve explored other filament drying solutions before, too. Video after the break.
youtube.com/embed/Ue3A35s2yeQ?…
[Thanks to Keith Olson for the tip!]
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