maswan @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

Three conclusions to draw from #Google denying #Huawei access to software: (1) The #FSFE urges users to use Free Software operating systems and applications on their computing devices. (2) Governments and especially the European Union should invest more resources in #FreeSoftware to gain independence from large enterprises and other states. (3) The FSFE urges companies to use as much Free Software as possible in their supply chains. https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190520-01.en.html #pmpc

This echoes @mako’s thoughts:

‘These decisions to embrace nonfree and private development tools undermine our credibility in advocating for software freedom and compromise our freedom, and that of our users, in ways that we should reject.’

— Free Software Needs Free Tools 👉🏻 https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

I'm alive.

What she says: I'm fine
What she really means: I would do anything for a copy of The Hobbit illustrated by Tove Jansson

The Galaxy, the Jet, and the Black Hole

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190427.html #APoD

Speaking of crows, friendly reminder that survival of the fittest doesn’t mean strongest, crows keep on by keepin together

Thank god the entire industry hasn't decided to revolve around Blink/Chromium for 95% of the web's browser traffic, or else Google would have an unlimited ability to push forward whatever bullshit standard they wanted.

Wait hold on, my producer is telling me something [places finger on my ear piece]

Oh no.

Wrote blog post about wanting to migrate away from #Python, and comparing #Rust and #Go.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/03/24/on_learning_rust_and_go_migrating_away_from_python/

« Why CLAs aren't good for #opensource » https://red.ht/2UbVJdJ via @opensourceway by @richardfontana #FOSS

Six days before my Swedish exam

spam me with Swedish sentences

Happy 21st, curl! https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/03/20/happy-21st-curl/

curl is 160,000 lines of code documented with 36,900 lines of man pages. Turns 21 years old this Wednesday. #curl21

It's really frustrating how much we could self-host the internet but can't because consumer ISP service is intentionally broken