"I firmly believe you should not be allowed to start a startup until you've been to therapy"
(I have been in so much therapy and I still needed more before I started a company...)
"I firmly believe you should not be allowed to start a startup until you've been to therapy"
(I have been in so much therapy and I still needed more before I started a company...)
So: what’s the best writing on the value of taking a position of humility in the face of systemic complexity in devops?
Like, every good systems person knows to be humble in the face of the system, because it is complex as fuck and will always surprise you. What’s the canonical essay on that?
@[email protected] someone (same person?) did these for both Trump and Clinton in 2016. I kept a Clinton one that was posted outside my house for quite a while, but tossed it in the last move because it was... just a little too painful.
@laurenshof wat? I do think boards can benefit from people who aren't super-active in a given community, so I hesitate to have tests like "why would you be on the Wikimedia board if you don't edit Wikipedia", etc. etc.
But at this stage... why would you bother to invest time/energy as a board member if you're not even active on the network?
Some prime territory here for @fsfe ‘s advocacy around things created with taxpayer money being available to the public.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@NocturneGames/113197995618661732
Open data is key to open *journalism*; in other words, to a society’s ability to self-study, self-govern, and self-regulate. (And yes, sadly, this is a subtoot of OSI.)
https://en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/113197402690817107
@evan that I have to think about it! a lot!
[The cheap answer is that every human language is a protocol for inter-human communication, and there are thousands of those…]
@evan greattttt question.
@slightlyoff @kissane can you elaborate on what you mean here, and how it is different from FFoxOS?
@kissane oh, yeah, we're vigorously agreed; that first part about diversification was sort of a subtoot of someone else's (very wrong) toot that's been bugging me all day. Sorry if it came out as negging you!
Re VC-aligned/ethics-mis-aligned: that's a reasonable distinction from past (mis)adventures. No longer as plugged in as I used to be, so hard for me to read where it falls on the spectrum of "we're playing in a new sandbox" to "we're desperate" to "we've drunk the e/acc koolaid".
@kissane even without the portent of doom, Moz has looooooong wanted to diversify, so often jumps onto various tech bandwagons. Seeing AI as somehow different (especially if you assume some sort of sinister intent, as I've seen implied today) is deeply ahistorical.
Sadly, while the thoughtfulness of those efforts and quality of the efforts has varied, the outcomes are pretty much always the same. The last time they (we?) did a pivot or expansion and it worked was... Firefox 1.0
@glyph that’s a great point and honestly not one I’ve given much thought to; I’m probably as guilty as anyone of the “have itch, will scratch” fallacy for the sorts of stuff we work with.
I don't love the implications of this chart either, to be honest. I wish we lived in a society where maintainers could do this sort of thing without being paid. But maintainers are humans just like the rest of us, with the same constraints: family, friends, life.
So when you give them money, it gives them time and flexibility—which they use to improve their projects in many different ways.
Like, this chart is just grim.
As with everything else, xz has passed and gone in a flash—everyone in the industry read an email saying "I'm burnt out and unpaid, here are the keys to the kingdom". And yet our survey data suggests that, if anyone is trying to solve the problem, maintainers aren't seeing the solutions yet—the results on burnout and payment have fluctuated a bit from past years, but basically within the margins of error.
To be honest, there's a lot that is troubling here. Maintainers continue to be burnt out and underappreciated. We've now had multiple years of White House summits, and an entire EU legislative process, on FOSS security. And yet the same number of maintainers are building software without being paid to do it: about 60% of them. In no other part of the global economy do we expect volunteers to solve our problems—but apparently that's what we're doing here, now.
It's that time of year again: the Tidelift State of Open Maintainers report is out, based on a detailed survey of several hundred open source maintainers. There's a *lot* of information here—63 pages of results and analysis, including comparisons against our past reports.
@brooke @evan I'm mostly agreed philosophically, but from a product-management perspective, but you can't simultaneously build a twitter-style tool and be defacto DM-first. They're just completely different UIs, user expectations, ways of finding your friends, etc. So if Masto wants to build Signal or Discord on top of activitypub, that's fine! But that's an entirely different product than what they're currently building. And sadly there is no sign they understand any of that.
@evan an account that by default has no content visible to search engines or casual browsers is not discoverable in any meaningful sense. That’s 100% the opposite direction from bsky, which is innovating on how to surface content to newbies w/ starter packs, lists, & filters.
Maybe private is a good direction! Maybe should make a clean break from being a twitter clone. But that’s the implication: “private by default”, when you’re not already market-dominant, is not a *social* network anymore.