michiel @michiel@social.tchncs.de
Programmer and phoney amateur photographer. He/him/idiot. My toots are deleted automatically after twelve weeks.
Midsummer, #eindhoven #panf50 #filmphotography #35sp
Just developed my first roll of film using an Agfa Rondinax. What a pleasant system to use. #filmphotography
Crazy thought.
I wonder if the term "DIY Software" would better describe the Free Software movement?
It's lacking in the lofty idealism - but maybe that's not a bad thing?
"DIY" captures the freedom-to-use and freedom-to-tinker elements well... It also sets expectations about the relative lack of polish compared with consumer products.
Maybe we're too serious for our own good.
Why Moondog is currently my soundtrack for programming: https://fidelitymastersmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hardshoe-7-4-ray-malone
I just found out that by default, #LinkedIn sells user data to anyone without anonymizing it, regardless of visibility settings. #Linkedin is owned by #Microsoft.
You can opt out in the privacy settings, but this is something that should be allowed only after opt-in. #GDPR
You asked for it: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon-LaTeXclient Here's a mastodon LaTeX client! Screenshots of example output attached!
The author also has a surprisingly positive view of child labour, and hopes that technology will soon enable babies to be productive too.
That's 19th century progressives for you, I suppose.
The Tragedy of the Commons has always been described to me as an argument against collective control of resources.
Reading William Forster Lloyd's actual lecture, it's actually about the limits and problems of unregulated economic growth and a plea for collective moderation.
Another nugget from ‘producing open source software’ (2006). @kfogel talks extensively about how companies sponsoring OSS should do so only with the consent of the community.
Fast-forward to 2018, where corporate-governed Open Source is a very common phenomenon indeed.
