Is today the day I quit the Zuckerberg doomscrolling machine? Maybe, since apparently it no longer likes my login. Is any social media worth it these days? Who knows? :theshadow:

Watching #Fallout S2E6, thinking how the Scientist could sooo much be like The Cheese Man from #Buffy!

Hey #TechLaw, #SoftwareLicensing skies: what do y'all think of #Multiboard's new 'Community Promise'? Actually enforceable or no? Closer or further from "open" in terms of licensing? www.multiboard.io/community-pr...

"Humanity isn't ready for the internet we've built." 😿

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I"VE GOT A PAW IN MY EAR. #SiameseCat #cats

Reclaim the internet for it's original purpose: #cats And #kindness.

How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation? For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals? The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI. Fund the PSF. Tip your server! www.python.org/psf/sponsors...

#DrSeuss was such an interesting wit. I never actually considered until today that the Cat never actually gets In The Hat - which is the more obvious meaning of the words. Brilliant.

It's only Title Cased Open Source if it's listed on the OSI website; otherwise it's just Ponies Openly Sharing Source -Yippee! (POSSY) 🐴

i'm just a guy trying to write some ruby to give away as #opensource spending my whole day cursing 🤬 vscode shopify ruby lsp rubocop unknown switches --name-only wrong shell macos launcher bundle not found 😿 HOW DOES SOFTWARE EVER WORK 😭 is it just me? what did I do wrong 😭😭😭

We all use #OpenSource software every day. There's #FairSource and #EthicalSource licenses - open source with sensible restrictions for specific use cases. 🪦 But what about Estate Source? #License your code openly forever, even after you're gone! ⚰️ law.stackexchange.com/questions/95...

My grandfather volunteered to fight the original N*zis at Bastogne, and lost a wrist and a small part of his soul in combat, fighting to protect truth and freedom. Please, let's not have to do that again. 😢

What's Your Wayback? We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations. We'll start: 1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN 2️⃣ Wikipedia 3️⃣ GeoCities 4️⃣ WebArchive 96 5️⃣ Wayback Machine 🔗 ⬇️ #Wayback1T #WhatsYourWayback

If I’m not how you hoped And I’m not how you hoped Forgive my Northern attitude Oh, I was raised out in the cold If the sun don’t rise Till the summertime Forgive my Northern attitude Oh, I was raised on little light Thanks for telling our story, Noah.

Forgot to post my daily COVID test for #Monktoberfest! Yay for events everyone can feel safe at, plus shiny stickers. 😮

Good Morning #Monktoberfest here in lovely and peaceful #PortlandME! 🦞 Today’s Hawaiian shirt in front of the local iconic statue.

"What are historians if not gossips of the dead?" Spilling the tea on Boston and New England revolutionary history. Although www.nps.gov/mima probably won't have staff for visitors this week... 8-( newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-story-of...

Today’s Hawaiian shirt at #Monktoberfest dinner, along with the amazeballs @northerneclectic.bsky.social

💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞

Good Evening #Monktoberfest and #PortlandME! Had a wicked sweet hahboh cruise with today's Hawaiian shirt.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

🏷️ Reason #3.7.2 why it's critical to clearly and publicly define your #OpenSource project #Governance, for code, distributions, trademarks, and domain names. And, of course, not breaking norms and cosplaying a public charity while bowing to a sole sponsor over the community. 😢

Get a look at our new logo's debut at the 2025 #CommunityOverCode youtu.be/Tm2rsiA3Zbs?...

🚨 Breaking News from Community Over Code 🚨 Introducing The ASF’s New Logo buff.ly/DzgT82w #CommunityOverCode #opensource

Our Call for Participation for FOSS Backstage is now officially open! Find all the important information you need at a glance in our new blog post. Read the blog post: 26.foss-backstage.de... Submit your proposal: 26.foss-backstage.de...

There are two kinds of people in the world: - Those who would do exactly what Joel did - Those who don't understand it - Those without children #TLOU #SoftwareJoke

Reminder folks 📣 keep your passwords secure, keep your systems updated, and use 2FA/MFA wherever you can. And when security geeks say "Oh, sh*t, we need to fix this", listen to them! #CVE arstechnica.com/security/202...

I know it doesn't really help much, but it's something... Post more cats; fulfill the original purpose of the internet.

Wow, the comments on Ian's simple ask below is geek comedy gold. 😂 Love the idea of using this an FOIA of your data as a backup system.

A most excellent new way to #fund #Sustainable #OpenSource from @oscollective.org: passthru funding for entire focused ecosystems of key FOSS projects. Aggregating funding opportunities at multiple scales! 😍 funds.ecosyste.ms

Code is easy. People are hard. Optimize for people. #MakeKindnessNormal

This is a great program both for finding/indexing/promoting #OpenSource projects that address #environmental issues, and has actual funding to distribute to projects. Kudos.

Big #OpenSource #Funding news! 🤩 @OpenCollect is setting up Ecosystem Funds, where you can support specific focus areas of FOSS that your organization relies on, while using the funding transfers that maintainers want to use.

Researching academic research? You're probably familiar with #Crossref but are you thinking about how to improve meta-research APIs? Great ideas and energy starting to really combine serious research with practical software tools.

😀 Raise your hand if today is Yak Shaving Day! 🪒🐃 🤨 . 🤔 . 😮 ✋ Raise your hand if today is Advocate For Adding The Yak Emoji To Unicode Day! ⌨️

Code is easy. People are hard. Optimize for people. #OpenSource #Communities

"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.

A big question at #OpenForumAcademy: how can researchers around #OpenSource better work with projects - and how can communities potentially benefit from research papers? The first step is building a university OSPO, or a foundation research page. We have one at the ASF!

Open Foundations are an old idea - how do we remind the modern world that the ASF, Software Freedom Conservancy, Eclipse, SPI, NumFocus and more are still the independent homes to so much of the #OpenSource ecosystem? chooseafoundation.com

At #OpenForumAcademy, our keynote by Katharina Meyer of DIIF includes so many key quotes on how to do #OpenSource #funding right, with my favorite: "How can open source be supported financially without disrupting the peer production culture and incentives of communities building it?"

#OpenForumAcademy research around software supply chains make me think of this #Monktoberfest talk, where @agdubs.bsky.social deeply challenges several metaphors around "software supplier" and "#OpenSource Business Model" - key reading for academics too! x.com/IAmJerdog/st...

Key meta-question at the #OpenForumAcademy discussing research around #OpenSource/ open science/data/government: How does your FOSS products research project take into account non-GitHub projects? How much of the open source world isn't on GitHub at all?

Some amazing perspectives from @sovereign.tech people on how Germany is facing the #OpenSource #Sustainability questions here at the Open Forum Academy! symposium.openforumeurope.org

Konstantin Vinogradov at #OpenForumAcademy asking one really simple (if hard!) question: How can we use the university endowment model to sustainably fund OSS maintenance? Just one of many aspects to the #OpenSource #Sustainability question: https://buff.ly/3Z4DHy4

#OpenForumAcademy hitting (one of) the nails around #funding in #OpenSource #Sustainability. The Open@RIT program did amazing work taking academic grants to use them to holistically help FOSS projects. But when they asked for more funding, grantors simply say "we don't do grants that way".

#OpenForumAcademy starts off with both a great overview of the history of #OpenSource, both socially/policy wise, but includes some deep technical cuts. When was the last time you used cvs for source control?

Today's Hawaiian shirt, attending @OpenForumAcad here in my hometown Boston! Excited to see all the research topics covering #OpenSource issues in the next two days. Looking for collaborators on the FOSS Foundation Metadata directory! https://buff.ly/3UPKusC

Wrote up a small #blog post this weekend on "bus factors" in #opensource. 🤔 mclare.blog/posts/the-bu... - #openscience is *great*. The original paper is free, AND the data is available online! - Most projects examined have not improved in 8 years. #oss #python #opensourcesoftware

Did you know? Every single human reading this posting is using dozens of different #OpenSource software packages, even if they don't know it. 🤩 Every modern general purpose computing on the planet has FOSS products inside it. 🤔 As do several satellites and a rover or two...