@jalcine "I'm learning how to make all this shit work so you don't have to"

"Difficulty" as a person with ADD:
- Learning about obscure programming concepts by reading old papers: "This is fun!"
- Unearthing old peer-to-peer architecture stuff and documenting it: "It's tough but I like it!"
- Working on decentralized system and programming language design: "I could do it for days!"
- Submitting an invoice so I can get paid: "Oh my god this is the hardest task ever how could anyone ever do something so difficult"

Guix 1.0 is out at last! YEAH!
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released/
It even includes a "graphical" (read, curses-like) installer now! (The oldschool DIY route is still available if you like that though!) Lots of other stuff too!

Congrats Guix team!

Just a straw poll of interest here.

If we did a W3C workshop on federation and ActivityPub, would you want to attend? Is it something you'd be willing to travel for?

heck yeah I love lisping

@mlemweb is currently using http://www.sweethome3d.com/ to make a model of our house and is kicking butt at it

This is some heckin' awesome free software

A lot of people find out that the W3C's governance is fucked up and overly dependent on corporate sponsorship (and it is) and then assume that the WHATWG must be a better institution (it isn't).

WHATWG is, for the most part, a "what-the-major-browser-vendors-say/do-rules" org. And keep in mind, that's now just two organizations (Google and Mozilla). That's good reason for pause.

"Gosh, how can free software projects get funded?" A complicated question, but in this @librelounge episode we take a crack at answering it! https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-8-funding-free-software-development-pt1.html

Part one of two!

it would be tough to not split a lisp con into multiple conventions so you could have lisp "cons" instead

@aral I do agree that much FOSS *software* is working too hard to bend over backwards for proprietary software integration where decentralized tech integration should be preferred and prioritized however.

DOJ demands Facebook information from 'anti-administration activists' https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/facebook-anti-administration-activists/index.html

(post from a week and a half ago, but I just saw it)

Google suppresses distribution of internal memo about its plan for censorship in China https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/

I'm very happy to hear that the Godot game engine eventually decided to move from master/slave terminology to master/puppet terminology https://twitter.com/reduzio/status/1040672074707218432

The devs were initially resistant to it, but have come around to agreeing that not only is it the right thing to do, the terms better reflect what is happening technically now.