Cool, cool—another "how do we do open source funding" thing that... never even presents "we're paying developers for their value" as an option, just endless variations of questions about charity, donations, and "contributions".

@glyph (angry goose meme) giving back how?

@shaver @glyph you are outside the industry Overton window my friend

@shaver @glyph but also on re-reading: I don't think "paying for value" is actually what's going on? Mostly it is receiving value but paying for vibes, which makes the payor feel good but (for a variety of reasons) doesn't line up to an overall sustainable ecosystem.

@jessamyn I do wonder if there’s a spot for something like the Wikidata games for matching these CC0 images with Wikidata records (and eventually articles)? cc @magnusmanske

https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/

@jessamyn getting licensing “correct” at that level is… a nightmare. And quickly faces diminishing returns.

Lovely find by @deco from that collection! https://defcon.social/@deco/112063913667721059

@jessamyn 👀 please let me know if there is anything CC can do to help with that discussion.

Some days I wonder if, quietly, CC0 is actually a bigger success story than the other @creativecommons licenses put together. Not to slight the other licenses! But CC0 is increasingly catalytic in the library, museum, and data spaces.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-getty-makes-nearly-88000-art-images-free-to-use-however-you-like.html

@jacqueline https://itsnotdns.itwasdns.net/

@jhpot @SomaFMrusty Sci-fi Author: in my book I created the Understanding Nexus as an inspirational goal

Tech company: at long last we have created a tormenting version of the Understanding Nexus from the classic novel Stop Tormenting People and Understand Them Instead

@clacke When visiting a decade ago we had excellent ATM luck at 7-11 after all else failed

@AlexMorin @BlackAzizAnansi one of the most powerful marketing entities in the world, Facebook, calls it Fediverse in all their Threads documentation. So whether or not that’s right or wrong, until they change their minds or give up on integration, suspect that’s what we get.

(My truly grumpy old man take is that we missed the boat of making the web interactive, and then it would have just been “the conversational part of the web”. Oh well.)

A regular theme of my recent reading has been the indigenous Americas before and during European colonization.

This 3D reconstruction of #Tenochtitlan from @thomas_kole is a pretty amazing addition to the genre. I can’t speak to its accuracy (though a lot of work does seem to have gone into it) but there is important power in nudging the imagination to question history as you’ve received it.

http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

@juliaferraioli @vmbrasseur FWIW I’ve never seen a concrete methodology. If you’re going by pure package count, the number is almost certainly more like 95-99%; LOC… hard to say, especially since much depends then on whether you’re including “just” libraries or everything from the firmware up.

@mtsw God, this has been driving me nuts. So many people who swore up and down they were really, really into fighting bad things, and when asked to sacrifice *posting to an audience that he immediately demonstrated was small and shrinking*… whoa, whoa, I can’t sacrifice *that*.