Steve Foerster 🇩🇲 @stevefoerster@mastodon.oeru.org

It makes me sad to see that conferences of folks I once considered "my community", like linux.con.au, are only using proprietary centralised social media (from what I can see) and eschew distributed open media. I wonder what video conferencing system they'll use, and what back channels. I'm hopeful they'll use #FOSS technologies for that, but seems like a long shot. Most "open" communities seem too harried to actually us open tools. Which strikes lots of sour notes.

@stevefoerster It's unfortunate that so many "OER" initiatives do not adopt an open first philosophy using open tools aligned with the values they are purporting to achieve. One of the reasons I am not participating in the #OERcampglobal is because they have opted to prefer closed tools for the project 😞

Does anyone have hints for finding ready-configured front-ends for SQLite databases?

I want to accumulate a personal database of English<>Italian vocabulary, grammatical forms and synonyms/antonyms. I'm unwilling to use a spreadsheet for this (hate 'em) so seem to be forced down the path of SQLite. Ouch.

I'm working in the MacOS ecosystem. And am not a programmer.

While I prefer the network on Mastodon, I find myself using it less due to the tooling and clients around it. This is especially true on my laptop where I do most work.

Can any of y’all recommend a solid desktop app for MacOS? I really don’t care to use the website and the ones I tried are all lacking majorly.

Hey, some real talk: I’ve realized lately that I’ve been very burned out. It wasn’t from my coworkers or company, who are all awesome, but with the sheer amount of unpredictable work landing in my inbox every single day. Make a plan for the week? Hah, no! Here’s some stuff you have to deal with *right now*! Make a plan for the day? Oh look, all your coworkers are blocked doing stuff until you fix a thing! Make a plan for 5 minutes from now? “Hey, got time for a quick Zoom?”