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Obejrzałem w końcu #SoylentGreen i, cóż, ciężki film. Było do przewidzenia, ale to chyba nie są dobre czasy na oglądanie takich filmów.
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Obejrzałem w końcu #SoylentGreen i, cóż, ciężki film. Było do przewidzenia, ale to chyba nie są dobre czasy na oglądanie takich filmów.
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Obejrzałem w końcu #SoylentGreen i, cóż, ciężki film. Było do przewidzenia, ale to chyba nie są dobre czasy na oglądanie takich filmów.
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Obejrzałem w końcu #SoylentGreen i, cóż, ciężki film. Było do przewidzenia, ale to chyba nie są dobre czasy na oglądanie takich filmów.
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I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.
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I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.
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I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.
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I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.
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I've finally watched #SoylentGreen, and oh my. I mean, I've seen it coming, it was kinda predictable, but still, shit, that is one heavy movie. Probably not a good time to be watching movies like that.
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Remember 7.0.5/6.18.28 kernels? These that had one #DirtyFrag fix but #Gentoo had to backport the other?
Today's 7.0.6/6.18.29 kernels have the other fix. But #Gentoo kernels also backport a fix for that fix 🤦. https://lore.kernel.org/all/agDTmXM2wXnJflYc@v4bel/
As usual, thanks to @thesamesam for finding the patches needed.
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I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
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#DzieńDobry. Pozdrawiam z Długiego Starego.
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#DzieńDobry. Pozdrawiam z Długiego Starego.
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#DzieńDobry. Pozdrawiam z Długiego Starego.
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#DzieńDobry. Pozdrawiam z Długiego Starego.
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#DzieńDobry. Pozdrawiam z Długiego Starego.
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Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?
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Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:
1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.
Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.
#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security
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Always appreciate how people release RCs to give others opportunity to test their changes early, then release final versions before the fixes for "breaks #Portage" kind of regressions introduced in the RCs are merged.
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When someone wants to add an #LLM scraping tool into #Gentoo.
Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…