Anna Wilcox

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop

LFG, kids. Coops ftw

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

Found out this morning it was a prank call to UCPD. All good.

Yeah, as a programmer in Library IT, I am a bit concerned by this as well (which is why I hopped on social media at why-am-I-awake-o'clock) - let me know if you find out.

What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.

I want to heart this because he's finally not going to be superintendent.

But that's not a great purpose in life either, really.

If there really was a looming threat, this was the worst way to handle it. The community is likely to follow projects/forks led by the people who were unceremoniously removed - so any threat they know of, but are not sharing, can't be properly acted upon. And that's a no-win scenario for Ruby.

At this point, what @rubycentral.org has done is a form of supply chain attack: taking ownership of a widely used repository, and then denying access to its existing maintainers.

This reminds me of the GitHub mass-assignment bug. That is not something you want to remind me of if you want goodwill.

Yeah, software supply chain attacks are scary. They keep me, and many others in the Linux packaging world - and the greater DevOps world - up at night.

The solution is not ripping access from maintainers that we have long-standing relationships with. This gives the opposite of trust.

Project leadership is hard, and you want people the community trusts there. *Especially* during transition periods, if that is what they are really wanting, it is vital to maintain a sense of continuity.

These moves are contrary to OSS ethos, not to mention basic human dignity.

This statement from @rubycentral.org does not give me the warm and fuzzies; transparency, equity, and collaboration in an open-source style do not happen in the dark, nor can they happen without honesty and dialogue with existing contributors.

Thank you for all your work in this space - and so many others. This was definitely not a move that was deserved nor warranted. It's been a while - would love to catch up sometime!

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas. It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".

Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.

Did you ever figure out a better workaround? I'm seeing this with Capybara / RSpec system tests using Selenium Hub with Chromium nodes. It's totally random, and totally annoying - it makes about 1 out of every 3-4 CI runs we have fail.

I am so excited! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Tulsa act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

They all feel the same 🎵 [drums]

The complexities of enabling OpenCL support Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements…

Wrote a new blog on the surprising portability issues I hit while working on OpenCL for the distro:

catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...

#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded

Screenshot of a headline in The Atlantic reading “Crows are taking over American cities”

is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

Also: if you’re a privacy activist, watch NCMEC. US legislators will track to their position on this pretty quickly if things come under discussion. You can’t imagine how many doors opened for me because I was on their Board.

Even the supposed good guys can be bad sometimes. It's very important that the govt doesn't mess with our encryption.

😂😂😂😂

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

Experiences with building a Gentoo virtualisation host As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the pro...

For FOSS Friday, I wrote up how I have recently deployed a Gentoo #Linux virtualisation server: catfox.life/2024/02/23/e...

📢👇

Finally figured out the correct way to make a global theme for KDE Plasma 5, so now the design stuff we've done at Adélie Linux can be provided to users in a nice way.

Hurts my soul.

I want people to see me, all of me, when they talk to me or about me.

I know that will never happen, but I could get a lot closer if I wasn't so afraid of telling everyone in the first place.