mhoye's new blog post on the future of Mozilla community chat came out last week. He notes about Discord that "their active hostility towards interoperability and alternative clients has disqualified them as a community platform." I am very thankful that the Mozilla brass have realised this, as I pointed out in an earlier installment. Kudos … Continue reading Mozilla finally disavows Discord
Debian: No longer a “Universal” operating system
The Debian project has removed support for the MIPS architecture. This is the latest CPU architecture to be removed from Debian, betraying their tagline of being "The Universal Operating System". I take issue not only with their removal of the MIPS architecture, but of their reasoning for doing it. The removal was [...] because the … Continue reading Debian: No longer a “Universal” operating system
Keeping libre software accessible to all
Recently, a number of high-profile libre software projects have been either considering, or adopting, proprietary chat systems to be their primary method of communication with their communities. This should cause alarm to everyone who is interested in the libre software movement. Projects using Discord as an official method of communication include distributions like Fedora, Gentoo, … Continue reading Keeping libre software accessible to all
Thoughts on Konsole 19.04
I write way too many articles that focus on the negatives of my work and of open source projects. To change things up, I'm going to review Konsole's newest release, 19.04.0. The first thing I noticed when I opened Konsole 19.04 is that the weird bug with line heights is gone. I can use Liberation … Continue reading Thoughts on Konsole 19.04
