Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

When so-called Free Speech Absolutists begin to work hard to protect the free speech of their opponents (rather than seek political and legal means to shut them down) I'll be more inclined to believe their support for free speech in principle & not merely the attempt of the powerful to have their say while denying others their's.... until then lets be clear these supporters of free speech are not what they claim to be (which is no news to most of you, I realise).

#FreeSpeech

"Coding is no longer the bottleneck".

So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

One, two, three, four — Free the Filton 24!

"How do we distinguish ourselves from the companies in Silicon Valley?"

Ethics spring to mind.

@aral I'm Jewish, I have family in Israel and I lived with my partner in Tel Aviv for 3 months, a decade ago. But I'm outraged at the atrocities Israel has been committing and I'm infuriated both by people who conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism, as well as those who use hatred of Israel as a justification for actual antisemitic acts. Being Jewish and a supporter of Israel are not the same thing. And I see it as the duty of Jewish people everywhere to stand against genocide.

So I accidentally blew up my Hubzilla instance. It was a perfect storm of trying to move things, trying to clean things up, cleaning *all* the wrong things and *none* of the right things, and hardware failures.

I don't think anyone was really using it apart from me and @Protestation (sorry!) and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to rebuild it, but I did — mainly because I realized that fedi really is the only way in which I socialize at all these days.

So, as sad as that is — if you're reading this, you're part of my people, and you should know that I lost quite a few of my people, so even if you don't know who I am, I would really appreciate if you boosted this post to help me find again the people who do. Thank you!

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

A while ago I posted about the legendary #Duralex glasses from France, and how the workers, facing possible bankruptcy, decided to turn it into a cooperative rather than accept being sold to investors that wanted to fire a third of the people. Well. They grew their revenue by 22% and plan to break even in 2027. They crowdfunded emergency funding, planned to be €5M which they had to stop when €20M was pledged within 48 hours. YES!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex

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