+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

I was listening to an episode of @TechOverTeaShow with @BrodieOnLinux and the topic of how some #Linux users don't care about (or even against) Linux going mainstream.

I strongly disagree with the suggested psychological motivations, while those might be true for some.

I think the issue is, that if you want something to go mainstream, you need to compromise, and meet the lowest common denominator.

I use #ArchLinux because I don't want compromises. I want the best possible system for me.

Soave in the Veneto region of Verona, northern Italy, known above all for its Scaligeri Castle and for the typical wine that bears its name.

Under the main town’s door, Porta Verona, you can see many hanging grapes. This derives from an ancient custom. That of hanging the best grapes, called rece, to let them dry until Christmas.

#archaeohistories

Your digital signage application doesn't need MongoDB to keep track of a few dozen Chromecasts. It just doesn't. Use fucking sqlite3.

RMS is a cautionary tale of putting all your beliefs on a website.






















(I didn't learn from it)

@givenup Today's veggiestuffs
(daikon, rutabaga, oregano, peppers, green tomatoes, raspberries)

#Tax

the more you look at "ecological/green" parties the more belligerent, fascist and anti ecological they are.

Richard Stallman is autistic, weird, and has ethical and political beliefs that range from the bizarre to the flat-out objectionable, about which he cannot stay silent even when it would be prudent for his baby the FSF's sake, making him useless for any public-facing organization aiming for broad mass appeal, assuming the general public will ever give a single shit about software freedom (they won't)

He is also the *only person* in free software or open source leadership that I trust absolutely to look after free software as a philosophy because I am 100% certain that he *cannot be bought*, and I know that's the real reason he's hated, and why every year there's a new attempt to destroy him

When he has to go, whether he's forced out by hypocritical charlatans, or cancer or old age takes him, free software will have lost its only truly dedicated and unimpeachably honest voice

I know rms is strange, and sometimes it's painful to support him because of the dumb shit that he says, especially speaking as someone firmly right-of-center politically

But when it comes to free software, which is so important to me, even more than it was when I was a younger man, when it comes right down to it, I *don't trust anybody else*, and when rms is gone, free software will have lost something that it will never ever get back

@kaia he would have so much success with guys

I need good books on the HRE and Yugoslavia post 1945, give me your reccs pls.