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The maintainer of an audacity fork was PHYSICALLY STABBED by a 4channer after they doxxed him and his family over a naming poll for the new fork: github.com/tenacityteam/t… But again of course nothing will happen because everyone is too chickenshit to take down this cesspool

Katharina 🍉 »Free Palestine« 🇵🇸 Fey (@spacekookie)Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:50 +0000

In case it's not clear what's happening here: @github's Copilot "autocompletes" the fast inverse square root implementation from Quake III — which is GPL2+ code. It then autocompletes a BSD2 license comment (with the wrong copyright holder). This is fine.

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I don't want to say anything but that's not the right license Mr Copilot.

Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko)Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:01 +0000

Stefan Karpinski (@StefanKarpinski)Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:38 +0000

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Copilot, is in fact, GNU/Copilot, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU code trained Copilot. Copilot is not an AI system unto itself, but rather a proprietary component that launders GNU code

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https://twitter.com/pfctdayelise/status/1410063455273377793

"Once, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training -- that was the GNU General Public License." docs.github.com/en/github/copi…

eevee (@eevee)Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:49 +0000

Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater)Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:25 +0000

throwback to that time a Google recruiter reached out to me after seeing my GitHub profile this was several months ago, but it’s only just dawned on me that they must’ve seen my profile full of abandoned projects and thought “yep, that’s Google material right there” 😂

Luna 🏳️‍🌈 (@lunasorcery)Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:45 +0000

Another way to get involved with open source is to write blog posts and unofficial guides, make video tutorials, give talks, provide support. These are things the authors often don't have energy left for, and—unlike code contributions—don't require their time or approval.

🧁🍨 Mark Dalgleish (@markdalgleish)Sat, 05 Jun 2021 12:10 +0000

According to @travisci's new rules, we're not legible for the open source free tier if anyone in the project gets paid to work on it... Thanks a lot.

Daniel Stenberg (@bagder)Sun, 30 May 2021 21:19 +0000

Elasticsearch relicensing, Freenode implosion, utter lack of FSF accountability: I hope folks are noticing the same pattern I am. Governance is an important factor in risk assessment. How resources are stewarded matters.

Josh Simmons (@joshsimmons)Wed, 26 May 2021 18:48 +0000

https://twitter.com/MarshallOfSound/status/1392688287702155269

Each package.json owner would get to decide how to distribute the funds across its dependencies. They must distribute half of what they got from their dependent and by default it's gets evenly distributed. So, this is recursive with amounts going down with log(k)

Malte Ubl (@cramforce)Thu, 13 May 2021 03:55 +0000

the state of open source funding

Tierney Cyren (@bitandbang)Wed, 12 May 2021 07:53 +0000

Though you should not expect that giving some dollars will magically solve everything. Sometimes money isn’t what’s lacking, but time, team size, project management –. or simply differences in vision, expectations or similar. Listen to the needs of the project and act on that.

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Open source only ensures "freedom", not free beer. If you are expecting those maintainers to provide free support and guaranteed SLAs, you should find a way to pay them. #OpenSource twitter.com/SimpsonsOps/st…

Anand Babu Periasamy (@abperiasamy)Thu, 22 Apr 2021 05:09 +0000

Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli)Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:30 +0000

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I feel like "only merge things after verifying they are valid" should maybe be the default policy of the most used piece of software in the world.

Filippo Valsorda 💉💉⏳ (@FiloSottile)Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:45 +0000

😬 git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/…

Brad Spengler (@spendergrsec)Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:36 +0000

One last thought before bedtime

Erika Heidi ✨ (@erikaheidi)Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:48 +0000

Open source friends: what are the best pieces of "Git/GitHub etiquette" you've picked up over the years? Things like submitting large changes commit-by-commit to help reviewers out.

Celeste Horgan (@celeste_horgan)Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/maria_fibonacci/status/1351608937259307008

Miguel Medina (@kanolat0)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:42 GMT

If you need some marketing material to drive Github Sponsors @tpope

Begin (@beginbotbot)Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:10 GMT

I touched on this on my stream earlier too - ANYONE can make an impact on any open source project, hanging out in the issues list. Answer questions, help replicate (or not) reported bugs, identify duplicates. Don't feel like it's not "yours" ... it really is, because it's "ours"

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One of the key things that @lornajane brings to @rst2pdf is curating and triaging our issues list. This work is vital on an Open Source project and very appreciated. Thanks Lorna!

Rob Allen (@akrabat)Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:37 GMT

Lorna Mitchell (@lornajane)Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:59 GMT

Open source!!!!!!!!

Penelope is a code sorceress (@penelope_zone)Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:43 GMT

https://twitter.com/penelope_zone/status/1327713715777626113

open source maintainers🤝parents spending your life dealing with people who think you owe them something

Siân Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️ (@sgrif)Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:45 GMT

Based on some life experience

Emily (@EmilyKager)Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:02 GMT

super cool how you can contribute to open source today and tomorrow your code will be in weapons huh

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(ICYMI) The U-2, one of the oldest aircraft in @usairforce inventory, just set a new software milestone. The first @usairforce plane to fly #Kubernetes, our operational edge just got a lot more software friendly. Rapid code updates and AI, here we come!

Will Roper (@WILLROP3R)Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:38 +0000

Joe (@jna_sh)Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:19 +0000

Can't even escape this nonsense because I'm so incredibly aware that the industry has made doing OSS core to career growth, same as using GitHub, and so I can loudly shout "STOP" from the roofs but without offering newcomers an alternative, I'm just telling them to not get a job

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super cool how you can contribute to open source today and tomorrow your code will be in weapons huh twitter.com/WILLROP3R/stat…

Joe (@jna_sh)Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:19 +0000

Joe (@jna_sh)Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:22 +0000

Yeah, why the fuck not? Docs are important. Don't be a dick

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Let’s say you fixed a typo in the README files of a project Would you call yourself an “open-source contributor?”

Raf Rasenberg (@rafrasenberg)Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:22 +0000

Captain ACAB ☸️🐳 (@IanColdwater)Fri, 02 Oct 2020 07:05 +0000

Open source !== just merging anything in.

Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze)Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:30 +0000

https://twitter.com/brian_d_vaughn/status/1299098767011065856

iS THIs prOjeCT MAIntAined?

shawn swyx wang (@swyx)Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:45 +0000

REMINDER. I don't have to fix your problems.

Ben Nuttall ☮️♥️ (@ben_nuttall)Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:51 +0000

OSS in a nutshell

Vlad Mihalcea (@vlad_mihalcea)Thu, 09 Jul 2020 19:05 +0000