okay I looked around a bit and if you want
- decentralized chat
- with "multi-room" spaces like discord
- and plural-friendly features like changing your nickname and avatar per-room

then the best option seems to be Cinny client for Matrix: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/

you can change your display with /myroomnick and /myroomavatar .

there's really no perfect alternatives sadly, Discord just does too many things and nobody else does ALL of them

but Matrix seems to have the best ratio of good stuff to bad stuff right now

#discord #matrix #chat #software

🆕 blog! “Some esoteric versioning schemes (monotonic moronity)”

Since time immemorial, software has had version numbers. A developer releases V1 of their product. Some time later, they add new features or fix bugs, and release the next version.

What should that next version be called? Modern software broadly bifurcates into two competing…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/some-esoteric-versioning-schemes-monotonic-moronity/
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#ComputerScience #shitpost #software

France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 https://www.sinologic.net/en/2026-01/france-chooses-open-source-to-secure-european-sovereignty.html

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

'backseat software: the slow shift from software as a tool you operate to software as a channel that operates on you. Once a product learns it can talk back, it’s remarkably hard to keep it quiet'

#enshittification #technology #software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/

@mttaggart
Be afraid, very afraid

We will need more smart folks while the #bigCorps are creating systems that will dumb us down.

The robot wars are here and the robots are winning because most folks don't even know the battle is going on.

Right now our only value to the system is that we can answer captcha questions like; check all images with a fire hydrant. Watch out for the time when the robots know what a fire hydrant looks like.

#ai #software #democracy is more than voting

okay I looked around a bit and if you want
- decentralized chat
- with "multi-room" spaces like discord
- and plural-friendly features like changing your nickname and avatar per-room

then the best option seems to be Cinny client for Matrix: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/

you can change your display with /myroomnick and /myroomavatar .

there's really no perfect alternatives sadly, Discord just does too many things and nobody else does ALL of them

but Matrix seems to have the best ratio of good stuff to bad stuff right now

#discord #matrix #chat #software

RE: https://socialontario.ca/@smattymatty/116042189042136595

The problem isn't "too much software."

It's who owns the software, and what they optimized it for.

Healthcare isn't worse because of software. It's worse because healthcare software was built to maximize billing extraction, not patient outcomes.

Social media isn't worse because of software. But it was built to maximize engagement, not connection.

More proprietary closed #software built for profit extraction? Yeah, that'll keep making things worse.

#openSource #foss

RE: https://socialontario.ca/@smattymatty/116042189042136595

The problem isn't "too much software."

It's who owns the software, and what they optimized it for.

Healthcare isn't worse because of software. It's worse because healthcare software was built to maximize billing extraction, not patient outcomes.

Social media isn't worse because of software. But it was built to maximize engagement, not connection.

More proprietary closed #software built for profit extraction? Yeah, that'll keep making things worse.

#openSource #foss

I'm planning on starting a new podcast called WorksOnMyMachine.live or womm.live . Are there any software developers out there would like to join me?

The premise is we hop on a video or audio call on a Sunday morning, 0900 UTC-5, and we talk about your software application. However, I also attempt to follow your docs and use your application live. If I get stuck, or we experience issues we learn live, troubleshoot live, etc.

This allows all of us to learn your app, it helps go over your docs, etc.

Are there any software developers out there interested in doing this?

If so, what's a good place to contact you, what's the link to your website, what's your app do, etc.

#software #podcast #qa #troubleshooting #docs #livestream #tech #techTrends

Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!

https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/

Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)

You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.

#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign

Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!

https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/

Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)

You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.

#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign

I'm planning on starting a new podcast called WorksOnMyMachine.live or womm.live . Are there any software developers out there would like to join me?

The premise is we hop on a video or audio call on a Sunday morning, 0900 UTC-5, and we talk about your software application. However, I also attempt to follow your docs and use your application live. If I get stuck, or we experience issues we learn live, troubleshoot live, etc.

This allows all of us to learn your app, it helps go over your docs, etc.

Are there any software developers out there interested in doing this?

If so, what's a good place to contact you, what's the link to your website, what's your app do, etc.

#software #podcast #qa #troubleshooting #docs #livestream #tech #techTrends

Y’all. I just launched v1.5 of my macOS color contrast checker, Ratio. A couple of bugs squashed and it’s ready for your accessibility ventures in design and development.

https://ratioapp.markwyner.com

#Ratio #W3C #Accessibility #A11y #ColorContrast #macOS #App #Software #Design #FrontEnd #Development

Y’all. I just launched v1.5 of my macOS color contrast checker, Ratio. A couple of bugs squashed and it’s ready for your accessibility ventures in design and development.

https://ratioapp.markwyner.com

#Ratio #W3C #Accessibility #A11y #ColorContrast #macOS #App #Software #Design #FrontEnd #Development

Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )

An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.

Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )

An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.

Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )

An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.