Jon Leibowitz @jon@jonleibowitz.social

"Microsoft-owned GitHub will renew a $200,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite concerns about the Trump administration’s policies, according to a leaked email." https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906213/github-ice-microsoft-software-email-contract-immigration-nonprofit-donation

I will not participate in #Hacktoberfest this year, although contributing to #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware is my day job. First, I already have enough t-shirts. But second, the ecosystem I use on a daily basis is mostly made up of projects that use GitLab, or BitBucket, or sr.ht, or Fossil, or sending patches by mail, or GNU Savannah, or (good grief!) even SourceForge. I think only two of the projects I contributed last year were on GitHub.

The #FOSS world is so much bigger. Don't forget that.

If it's made with Public Money, it should be Public Code.
https://publiccode.eu/​

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, ActivityPub plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning ActivityPub system made useful by the ActivityPub namespaces, vocabulary and non-normative sections comprising a full social network as defined by W3C Recommendation 23 January 2018.

Many computer users use a modified version of the ActivityPub social network every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of ActivityPub which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the ActivityPub social network, developed by the W3C.

There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the social network they use. Mastodon is the frontend: the program in the system that lets you interacts with the posts of all the people you follow. The frontend is an essential part of a social network, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete social network. Mastodon is normally used in combination with the ActivityPub social network: the whole system is basically ActivityPub with Mastodon added, or ActivityPub/Mastodon. All the so-called "Mastodon" distributions are really distributions of ActivityPub/Mastodon.

Public Transit Projects Cheaper Than Uber's $5.2 Billion Q2 Losses, Ranked https://jalopnik.com/public-transit-projects-cheaper-than-ubers-5-2-billion-1837080980

Please fund more transit for people instead of pernicious capitalist nightmares for rich sycophants.

And that's it... we have 40 attendees! ActivityPub Conf 2019 registration is closed! https://dustycloud.org/blog/activitypub-conf-2019/

Looks like a great group; see all you who registered there!

If anyone works in NYC, or knows someone who works in NYC in tech and is hiring please hit me up 👍

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#Mastodon 2.8 is out 🎉

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8/

! Happy birthday Internet! April 7, 1969 was the date of publication for RFC 1, Steve Crocker's proposal for host software for the new Interface Message Processor hardware. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1.txt

Did the European Parliament just outlaw the only Europe-made social network with #Article13?

It was only a matter of time. A piece of my High School internet history just died: music during MySpace’s first 12 years just vanished into thin air https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2381s/myspace_lost_all_music_uploaded_from_2003_to_2015/

@doctorow Put another way, clouds aren't forever.

Los Angeles! EFF's @elliotharmon will be presenting at @crashspaceLA next Wednesday 3/20 on how the pervasiveness of digital locks & DRM tech have affected the hacker & tinkerer communities. https://blog.crashspace.org/2019/02/electronic-frontier-foundation-visits-crash-space-in-march/