Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

I'd like to propose here that we stop to say "America" when we mean the US.
#America is a great #continent, rich and manifold with excellent people of diverse cultures and a history that proceeds the #US for millennia. We should not confuse this with a terrifying #empire which is spreading #fascism and plunging the whole #planet into a nightmare horror scenario.
#StopSayingAmericaForUS #USempire

@jenniferplusplus @zeank There will not be a tourism benefit for far future generations wanting to see data centers.

That's part of what makes a capital strike non-obvious, if you don't already know what it looks like. It's not just sitting on the money and refusing to spend it. Because that's the one thing you literally can't do with capital. If you leave those resources idle, especially labor, it just goes and does its own thing. You lose control over it. If you just fire everyone, they eventually start working for themselves.

So, to conduct a capital strike, you have to direct the capital toward useless things. Or actually destructive things, if you can manage it.

And thus, AI had "basically zero" effect on the GDP. Because it's economically worthless activity for the purpose of keeping all the resources occupied so they can't be put to any other use.

@jeridansky @sophiekaz Also worth mentioning https://delta.chat which is decentralized.

@adbenitez It's just the systemd crowd reinventing the wheel, as usual.

@adbenitez Debian is stable. But KDE isn't. And no, that didn't change much after Plasma 6...

Haiku has been accepted in the GSoC projects, read all about it at the following links!

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026/contributors

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026/ideas

Grab your gears students and head up there, for questions there is our IRC channel at #oftc #haiku, or the forum at:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/

#HaikuOS #GSoC #development #opensource #FOSS #ilovefs

@lxo
>but I didn't expect the religious connotations of "repent"
I personally don't consider it as such, I just know that some people consider FSF guideline/rms as the most extreme thing possible as if it was a sect, while it's just what computing is normally.
Thus why I would use another word.

#ilovefs

free software is a wonderful conceptual framework that enables users to have control over their digital lives, instead of being subjugated by others through the software they use

there's this one person who figured out the ethical, social and political problem with nonfree software, and showed us the path to freedom

it didn't make everyone happy, of course. those who wanted to keep their power and privilege first ignored him, then laughed at him, and then fought him in very very dirty ways.

a number of people fell for the lies used to attack him, and foolishly made the attacks against their own freedoms stronger.

others knew they were lies, but joined the lynching for personal advantage.

on this day of celebration of free software, I thank everyone who didn't join the lynching, and stood firm in defense of free software, even from these ad hominem attacks against our movement.

I also thank those who came to realize their error, publicly repented, and worked hard to undo the harm their error enabled.

quantum computers are around the corner! 😓 beware of your non-post-quantum-encrypted messages!