Richard Fontana
@richardfontana.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Lawyer at Red Hat with interests in free software/open source, open-ish AI/machine learning, and other nontrad IP. Reputed national treasure. Originally from […]
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Actually I will engage in some idle speculation here. I think FOSS culturally has struggled with tendencies on the one hand towards embrace of irreverence/juvenilia (reflecting broader historical tendencies in hacker culture) and on the other an at-times exaggerated desire to seem grown-up and […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Actually I will engage in some idle speculation here. I think FOSS culturally has struggled with tendencies on the one hand towards embrace of irreverence/juvenilia (reflecting broader historical tendencies in hacker culture) and on the other an at-times exaggerated desire to seem grown-up and […]
It turns out you can append `/print` to the topic URL which works around some of the problems I'm experiencing, though it doesn't help if you want to participate in the discussion
October 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It turns out you can append `/print` to the topic URL which works around some of the problems I'm experiencing, though it doesn't help if you want to participate in the discussion
Reposted by Richard Fontana
@richardfontana Now also on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602676
Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
@richardfontana Now also on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602676
@joschi Unfortunately this rug pull has affected a CNCF project maintained by a Red Hat -> IBM team (and still maintained as a product by Red Hat). Found out about this last week.
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@joschi Unfortunately this rug pull has affected a CNCF project maintained by a Red Hat -> IBM team (and still maintained as a product by Red Hat). Found out about this last week.
Reposted by Richard Fontana
[History of Ableism in the US]
Many ordinances, laws, "initiatives" or um "military occupations" since we have those too in the mix that target "homeless people" in big cities are, just by the nature of who is homeless, targeting disabled people.
And this whole "right to not see" undercurrent […]
Many ordinances, laws, "initiatives" or um "military occupations" since we have those too in the mix that target "homeless people" in big cities are, just by the nature of who is homeless, targeting disabled people.
And this whole "right to not see" undercurrent […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
[History of Ableism in the US]
Many ordinances, laws, "initiatives" or um "military occupations" since we have those too in the mix that target "homeless people" in big cities are, just by the nature of who is homeless, targeting disabled people.
And this whole "right to not see" undercurrent […]
Many ordinances, laws, "initiatives" or um "military occupations" since we have those too in the mix that target "homeless people" in big cities are, just by the nature of who is homeless, targeting disabled people.
And this whole "right to not see" undercurrent […]