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TechSpot: Free tax filing tool Direct File is getting the open source treatment. “The Direct File repository has already been forked by Code for America, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing modern, user-focused technology to government services. With its code now open source and embraced by the civic tech community, the future of Direct File appears increasingly independent from federal […]

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#XLibre es una bifurcación de #Xorg que busca alejar de las corporaciones el desarrollo de servidores gráficos basados en #X11. ¿Dónde está alojado? Pues en #GitHub. Coherencia en estado puro.

Con el paso de los años me he ido tomando cada vez menos en serio a las comunidades de #Linux y el #SoftwareLibre, porque es alucinante ver cómo pregonan cosas a los cuatro vientos y luego, sin un ápice de vergüenza, terminan haciendo lo contrario a cara descubierta.

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To anyone who thinks that an org like Microsoft is harmless to open source projects like Wyng, I beg to differ. Given Microsoft's priorities and other business models, I'd have to assume they are at least logging and analyzing keyboard, mouse, TOD, frequency, IP addresses, browser fingerprints, social graphs and more.

Furthermore, the arrangement allows MS to push personalized PR at anyone who is slightly interested in my (and your) projects while they reside on github. They can twist public and developer interest in some groups, technologies and licenses and re-frame them for their own ends. This is a vital concern especially with a corp that routinely used their monopoly position to undermine startups in the press just so they could acquire the targeted firms' tech at cut rate prices later on. FWIW, I think maybe the need for open source projects to avoid github is not so acute, but vendors who use #github for private projects should have their heads examined.

I just posted this in a github issue for wyng_backup...

👉 I don't care about the pretense, pretexts or excuses they use for their window dressing; A spyware vendor is a spyware vendor, and a despot is a despot. Microsoft betrays users' trust at an immense scale.

Therefore I would like to leave this MS-owned site for someplace more ethical. The first alternative that comes to mind is CodeBerg; it serves projects more demanding than mine so I think it will be fine. Suggestions for other sites are welcome!
#microsoft #spyware #malware #wyng #github #codeberg

github.com/tasket/wyng-backup/

Microsoft still has a lot of poor behavior towards open source (esp. desktop) products, and their security posture is riddled with alarming lapses and conflicts of interest. I think that behavior i...
GitHubMove project to Codeberg.org · Issue #250 · tasket/wyng-backupBy tasket

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Groundhog by @ghuntley explains AI coding agents like Cursor from first principles. Built in Rust, it teaches the inner workings of coding assistants—perfect for learning or building your own. #AI #RustLang

🔗 Project link on #GitHub 👉 github.com/ghuntley/groundhog

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And the answer seems to be at #Mastodon #Github #Releases

"Quoting other people is not implemented yet, and it is currently not possible to mark your own posts as allowing quotes. However, a new “Who can quote” setting has been added to the “Posting defaults” section of the user settings. This setting allows you to set a default that will be used for new posts made on Mastodon 4.5 and newer, when quote posts will be fully implemented."

Here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

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