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Martin Owens :inkscape:

"we are possessed by our societies ... I find it too unpleasant to deviate from what my culture tells me is normal ... vegans will tell you the harder part of their diet isn't the diet is dealing with other people's responses to it."
- Hank Green

This is insightful to us in the #openSource community. The struggle is usually not the software, it's dealing with other people's responses to our decision to deviate from their cultural norms.

youtu.be/P29gknBaUqc

#OSS #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

"we are possessed by our societies ... I find it too unpleasant to deviate from what my culture tells me is normal ... vegans will tell you the harder part of their diet isn't the diet is dealing with other people's responses to it."
- Hank Green

This is insightful to us in the #openSource community. The struggle is usually not the software, it's dealing with other people's responses to our decision to deviate from their cultural norms.

15 June at 16:03 | Open on floss.social
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@doctormo Yes. There's a reason we kinda come off a little bit cult-y to people who are not familiar with FOSS, and that can be annoying to them. Much like I often get annoyed in conversation with a preachy vegan. It's nobody's fault, really, we're just possessed by different memes.

15 June at 22:02 | Open on mastodon.ml
Martin Owens :inkscape:

Well that's #annoying

#opensource chat server Rocket Chat decided to make their latest upgrade plain abusive. If you run your own, you are now *required* to enrole in a trial of their premium proprietary nonsense and it's likely the server is spying on it's admins and users.

*great*

Looks like #inkscape is going to have to move chat systems. There's just no way to regain trust in an upstream that is abusive. Not without forking away from the abusers.

19 January at 21:11 | Open on floss.social
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the tower fairy

@doctormo one of my group uses Rocket OSS, do you have a source i can share with the admins?

19 January at 22:51 | Open on chaos.social
Kingstrum

@doctormo
Sad to hear, but thanks for the info. I was going to start reviewing my options for self-hosting chat servers & they were on the list.

Emphasis on "were"...

#Linux
#FOSS
#SelfHosted

19 January at 23:28 | Open on noauthority.social
mray

@doctormo I never liked Rocket Chat exactly because it felt like something like this would happen. I'm glad my feelings got confirmed, sorry for the inconvenience on your side, though. 😩

Fortunately there is matrix.

20 January at 0:19 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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