leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

One of the best activities to wrap up the year with? Reading over 2500 donor comments for @kde's fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who donated to make our work over the next year possible! Here are some of my favorite notes donors left with their donation. 💙 🐉

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115788425247106542

Not that I expect many people following me to do so, but if you think the EU's DSA is about "Censorship" (at least in a bad way) you should read this thread...

Ireland: Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing of Self Determination and the Irish GRA 2015, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off ...

https://feministire.com/2018/01/22/an-open-letter-to-the-organisers-of-the-we-need-to-talk-tour-from-a-group-of-feminists-in-ireland/

#Ireland #IE #Trans #Transrights

I would like to propose SOSS: Sponsored Open Source Software.

If your company uses OSS, you sponsor the project $100/year.

Not per seat, or per team, just $100/year, all in.

- 30 developers using Ghostty? $100
- 300,000 engineers using tmux? $100, total

You audit the OSS you use (OSS tools for this would quickly emerge, $100, thank you). You set up a bunch of annual $100 sponsorships. Everyone wins.

This guarantees the longevity of that tiny piece of code propping up your bank.

#SOSS

It’s publication day for my short story collection, The Analog Cat! ⌚🐈

If you enjoy the kind of whimsical nonsense I post to social media, my fiction is pretty much the same thing but longer and with a plot.

Paperback:

https://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=1327
https://mybook.to/analog-cat

ebook: https://mybook.to/analog-cat-ebook

Petition in Germany to recognize unpaid contribution to free and open source software projects as 'society-beneficial volunteering' (ehrenamt)!

This will give volunteering for e.g. @postmarketOS , @freifunk , @kde , @nextcloud , @Mastodon and other libre projects the same legal status as taking care of an elderly family member, which provides tax benefits and relaxes requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main

Please only sign the petition if you're a legal resident of Germany.

English language version (only sign one version): https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany

#deutchland #foss #floss #volunteer #ehrenamt #freiwilligkeit #openSource #freeSoftware