mina le’s videos are always so good!

I really liked this read! I blog, and I like my blog, but sometimes get stressed out because I feel like nobody’s reading it (I’ve removed all analytics on purpose because I used to get obsessed with them). Blogging for the simple act of blogging, and not for engagement, is the best!

(AbeBooks is owned by Amazon - bookshop.org might be a better alternative.)

Nooot as legal as the other alternatives here, https://libgen.is has a gigantic catalogue (if you know what you’re looking for) to download ebooks from.

you’ve been an absolutely wonderful admin. please take all the time you need and come back when you’re ready, if you’re ready; don’t come back too soon and burn out again. take care!

It’s easier to start with the small things, like moving to another email provider (I used mailo for a while, which is free and independent, that I really like), changing your search engine (DuckDuckGo is free and a great “gateway” in my opinion), and/or using alternative front-ends for Youtube videos (like Invidious). Once you get used to those, it’s easier to see the value of de-googlifying other stuff! I still use Google Calendar and have an Android phone, but I don’t use many other Google products anymore :)

I am incredibly lucky to live in a country that strongly protects workers, to have no children and to be able to afford an apartment 10mins away from my partner’s place rather than living together and depending on each other’s calendar. I remember how lucky I am every day.

I really hope the baby is doing well and that things will settle down in a year or two - obviously it’s still not going to be “unspoken for time”, but hopefully things will settle down a bit at least!

Congrats on the new job and on enjoying spin class!!

That sounds like an absolute nightmare, I’m really sorry. I hope everything will end up fine.

Oooo enjoy the weekend, whatever you end up doing!

Congrats on making it through the exams and good luck for finding the summer job!

I took next week off from work just because I can and I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’d like to make the most of it but I can’t decide between doing something really cool and doing nothing at all; both are tempting!

Otherwise, things are going pretty great. I might be able to go full remote at work (which would mean I don’t need to quit anymore), and I’ve prepared a wonderful peach, feta & cucumber salad for lunch.

Fun fact: this applies for pretty much every language, except for 50% of French punctuation.

I’m committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.

I really don’t think this pact has any legal value to begin with.

I was thinking “lifetime opt-in but no retroactive effect”, but a “grace period” could be interesting for viral cases, yeah!

I’d go with the following:

• Everything is CC-BY by default, copyright is opt-in.
• If someone opts in to copyright, it ends whenever they die (I’m going to be nice and say “until the last person dies” for a group project).

I hate copyright, but understand that some people really want to keep their work for themselves. Maybe they can do that - in a world where copyrighting isn’t default, we’d have so much to choose from that we wouldn’t need the content made by the kind of people who decide to prevent sharing their work.

Wonderful, thank you!

I think a good starting point would be to have your Wordpress website with the ActivityPub plugin installed (which makes every product page a Fediverse-friendly post) and WooCommerce or some other type of e-commerce product on it. The payment will still not be free software (Stripe & Paypal, usually), but at least you own your shop and you can easily share it with the Fediverse.

I don’t like beer either, but your post sounds more like “you should not like beer” than “why do people like beer” and that’s not very nice.