In Little Rock AR, hitting the road to go an hour north for a longer #TotalEclipse ... Sunny skies, looks like we nailed it for the best weather in this part of the eclipse path!
@mortendk @pcambra We never left those days! Not to flex here, but we've been doing this for a couple decades now -- self-hosting all our systems using open source software, building custom where there are gaps.
Even email -- everyone says you shouldn't self-host email, but we've been doing it for 21 years.
Mastodon's about the only thing we're not self-hosting -- happy to contribute for somebody else to manage that!
@symfonystation @ultimike I've found one great use for Gutenberg in Drupal: Writing proposals.
It's really good at reusable blocks, as well as cut and paste from one page to another.
Things I used to do in word processors I can now drop into our Drupal-based CRM.
Otherwise, Gutenberg in Drupal is mostly a big "Meh."
@jurgenhaas @greggles Another long-time PocketCast user here. It was purchased by Automattic a couple years ago, and turned open source
12 years ago I first encountered https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1349080, an issue that made some #Drupal 7 content not appear for certain users. I spent several days diagnosing and coming up with a fix, several weeks advocating for the correct solution.
And this week, that fix finally got committed to core, to be released in 10.3.0!
@preya @viktor @scottjenson @simulo @PavelASamsonov @jancborchardt I literally cannot open any Google Office doc without going through a hoopla where it forces me to log in, tells me I can't access it because I refused to pay for our "forever free" office account, and then it finally lets me switch to a different Gmail account where I can access it.
Never mind that we do pay Google for cloud services, YouTube premium, phones, lots of stuff, just not their office service that NextCloud replaces
@preya Sure there are rough edges getting everything going in NextCloud. But I love that I can save a file and then immediately send a link to somebody without them needing to create an account to download it.
And with OnlyOffice (admittedly not open source), document collaboration beats the pants off Google Office, which for me has become crippleware.
The Memories app in Nextcloud has a really great UX!
@scottjenson @simulo @PavelASamsonov For many open source projects, #UX is not at all a "giant step backward".
I'd say that #OpenSource generally prioritizes getting things working, functional, and tested before working on #UX, but many OSS projects have matured to the point where UX is a major focus -- and often better than commercial alternatives.
See current #Drupal, #NextCloud, #HomeAssistant, #ForgeJo, #BitWarden, #Mastodon, and dozens of other examples...
@rob200@sakurajima.moe @bigzaphod @chucker Collecting more private data as a CYA move seems like the wrong approach to solving this... problem...? What exactly is the problem they are trying to solve?
Is it preventing platforms from marketing to kids? Is it to keep online predators from targeting children?
Both of these can be better addressed through parenting, keeping an open dialog with your kid.
Besides, it's fun to get random birthday wishes through the year!
@are0h I'm picturing the conversation with normies when lots of the fediverse blocks Facebook.
"Sorry, I can't get your posts because of all the hatefulness on Facebook. Can you pick a kinder instance?"
That's what's going to happen next, but it might take a few more decades...
@rob200@sakurajima.moe @bigzaphod @chucker I get the intent of Coppa, and that's all fine.
But requiring the collection of a birthdate -- shouldn't that itself be "protected info"?
And what 11 year old doesn't know how to create a fake account? My daughter has several.
Spreading false personal data to throw a monkey-wrench in today's surveillance capitalism is what this is all about. The more of us that do it, the less reliable this data collection becomes.
@bigzaphod @chucker This is all entirely ridiculous, especially for adults -- for what legitimate reason does Apple, Microsoft, Google need my actual birthdate?
They all have different fake dates for me. I do track which date I used for which service in my password manager.
Health care orgs, legitimate financial institutions, and employers need the actual info. I don't see why anyone else does.