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@strypey There is no clear answer to this. People using "ethical" source licenses just have different goals.

I expect that any highly successful ethical source projects will eventually be bought and coverted to fully proprietary.

Where ethical source sits is at the level of class. FOSS is about everyone, ethical source is about a particular class of workers, proprietary is purely individualistic.

@strypey FOSS is about stealing the corpo's trick. They invert their rules to destroy the system entirely.

This crap is just people wanting to be the ruler instead (albeit promising well intentions.)

That #Python #virtualenv / #venv and various other similar hacks have got to be some of the most outrageously incompetent developments I've seen in the software scene in the last couple of centuries.

The fact that there are like half a dozen different tools trying to coerce the wretched thing to get around python's atrocious design is in itself telling of how rubbish Python is.

It is indeed the ultimate example of the "million flies can't be wrong" argument.

I see a lot of people complaining about how "RSS readers went away." It's a bit baffling, because they didn't. You just stopped using them 🤷

@blacklight
Is 'Smart Cities' something we actually need/want or a solution in search of a problem.

Autonomous garbage collection? What's wrong with a fixed schedule where the garbage is picked up? That means the garbage is only put outside on collection days.

Public transport? Fixed schedules are really useful. And you don't need sensors everywhere to notice if/when there is a capacity problem.

We should stop with the data collection fetish, which is what Smart Cities is all about (imo).

Bjarne Stroustrup: I do not believe that for most people and organizations a radical break with the past is the best or fastest way to progress.

Henry Baker: There’s a big difference between a ‘radical break with the past’, and a ‘regression into the past’. I have a very difficult time understanding how you can put ‘progress’ and ‘C++’ in the same sentence.

More sanity from my home country: Māori tribal leaders & their advisers call for data sovereignty, to take back control of what is theirs. Cited is "an intergenerational approach to data, as a taonga (treasure)"

Self-hosting is included as a strategy, servers at home & on the marae (meeting house).

This initiative can be seen as a form of infrastructural de-colonisation, reclaiming what has been lost to the digital imperialism of AWS, Microsoft & other 'cloud' giants

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471967/head-in-the-clouds-call-for-nz-to-take-control-of-data-storage

@humanetech

PS: Now it makes much more sense that I had to go through many #ActivityPub implementations (e.g.: honk, gotosocial, ktistec, epicyon) before I found something with reasonable interoperability. Until I did, I thought ActivityPub was ActivityPub.

We need a better way to distinguish decentralized “host your own” or local-first software, from crypto-grifterware.

When considering purchasing ebooks, don't directly go to the Kindle store.

Today, I bought 3 DRM-free ebooks from the publisher at a lower price than the DRM-ridden versions from the Kindle store.

#ebooks #Kindle #DRM

Start a blog. Don't amplify stuff you disagree with. Mute stuff that bugs you. Focus; veer occasionally. Add context to links. Consider waiting a day after writing something before posting it. Write for yourself first. Expect to not know what you have to say until you've written.

"it might be a bit heavy on slower devices" ah yes, the permacomputing VM, where this would have easily been avoidable, but understanding anything about language implementations would go against the aesthetic

"Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality ... Life is not suffering; it’s just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind’s attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens."

#DanMillman, 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior'

#FortuneCookie

@requiem Focusing on autonomy above all else eventually would lead to a situation where the power structure is completely divergent with my values, and if the point of having said values (politics, ethics, norms) is to reduce human suffering and make the world a better place, autonomy-above-all feels ultimately like a retreat from my own humanity into isolation and self-marginalisation.

@psyops @Suiseiseki @alyx i thought about trying plasma again but the thing with gnome and plasma is they trigger me with how much ram they use for what little need them to do

> For the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 release, the Yaru developers are removing the aubergine (eggplant) color from the default Ubuntu theme, replacing it with orange, since libadwaita will only allow Ubuntu to use one accent color.

this is racism

the great trick was instead of getting you to fight the corpos you're fighting each other over pronouns and silicon tits.