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@lxo mobile software is hostile to user moddability, and its hardware follows laptops in locking down the bootloader except tighter. Alternatives have no chance, unfortunately, even more so now that many websites refuse to remain websites on a mobile browser and push the app instead.

Neither GNU nor 0G can be expected to surmount these. Thankful even if just websites remain, with open laptops to access them on.

@lxo it was more about Sather, less about GNU, an example I wanted to call hubris-driven social initiative (no real need out there). I think the sort of social change that has democratic impediments probably is hubris rather than an actual alternative.

I agree GNU wasn't hubris-driven, and also that it succeeded. I never understood why people expected it to solve later challenges too! At best, GNU could have explicitly supported others tackling those challenges, like the #4opens criteria.

@lxo a long-winded way of suggesting that constructive initiatives should start at where people were before destructive initiatives took hold. GNU seems to have done exactly that in the Lisp Machine times. What else has done that since?

@lxo quite right.

But, I do question if atleast some initiatives aren't just hubris without understanding what people want (my pet peeve is me-too projects - GNU Sather?). Sure, there are many initiatives with ulterior motives, like proprietary software, and highlighting their inadvisable aspects is welcome. But implementations supporting the alternative always miss the train. Contrast that to the endurance of something like Emacs, which wasn't me-too material once it got ported to Unices.

@hamishcampbell @strypey delta chat seems to do exactly this, FWIW

@icedquinn I had to search, are you talking about slow productivity?

@vnikolov @octade you don't need a one-time exam for software authors, when you can have an exam for every software release: its even called "testing"! Of course, that means there has to be a spec; that is best written by the client side.

@octade how do you plan to avoid corporates and AI, when the project is on Github and discussions are on Discord, Reddit and Bluesky!

@dinosaure I guess the open-source user crowd likes the AI mob - no discovery, no learning slowing things down.

Even free/libre software didn't prevent this (or TiVo-ization).

The only thing that stands a chance is closed source. Maybe that + open protocols is what was required.

Apologies for (trying to) describing the water to somebody drowning.

@semmetafisica great article! about the only thing on which I differ is that billionaires drew people away from communication - I think most people look for entertainment and choose billionaire platforms.

@strypey BTW, what Trinity does is something Citroen has done too, they call it CARA. Also, isn't the way Trinity is designed called a Software Defined Vehicle? Toyota set up a subsidiary, Woven, to do that (but grander, including a 7-hectare demo city to evolve cities with it).