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No billionaires at FOSDEM (drewdevault.com)

submitted 5 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, ousted board member of BlueSky, and grifter extraordinaire to the tune of a $5.6B net worth, is giving a keynote at FOSDEM.

Dorsey and his colleagues want to get us up to speed on what Block is working on these days. Allow me to give you a preview: in addition to posting $5B in revenue and a 21% increase in YoY profit in 2024, Jack Dorsey laid off 1,000 employees, ordering them not to publicly discuss board member Jay-Z’s contemporary sexual assault allegations on their way out, and announced a new bitcoin mining ASIC in collaboration with Core Scientific, who presumably installed them into their new 100MW Muskogee, OK bitcoin mining installation, proudly served by the Muskogee Generating Station fossil fuel power plant and its 11 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and an estimated 62 excess deaths in the local area due to pollution associated with the power plant. Nice.

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Author raises a good point, how does an organization swing from hosting Kris Nova to Jack Dorsey? Absurd and ridiculous.

[–] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Appearantly it's been going in this direction for a while. There's a reason Offdem exists...

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That website is terrible on mobile. Goddamn. They also immediately go into the history of why they exist. Nobody new will care. I just want to see what's happening, where, and how (online, offline). The why should be I'm the "about us" section or something, not the front-page.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] badmin@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://sizeof.cat/project/the-devault-report/

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 5 months ago

whoa

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I knew he was crazy for banning bitcoin source code on his platform (as much as I hate bitcoins, banning source code is dumb IMHO), but this is on yet another level.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers, especially from victims fleeing the hate speech and harassment left in the wake of the sale.

That is a very weird way of putting it. Like Mastadon et al didn't want more users? That's not at all the response I remember.