Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
@rysiek@mastodon.technology @evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev I don't think a single case study is sufficient evidence to conclude that it "works", particularly because it's a famous and exceptional one where people *did* actually have the resources to sue.
What matters here is the long tail of projects that don't have those resources, which is what the vast majority of (unrecognized) work in the public commons goes into. The lawsuit approach simply doesn't scale to that.
As for Google: Google will stay away from anything that looks funny at them, they're kind of notorious for it. I'm pretty confident that just putting "we hate Google employees, go away" would have the exact same result.
If you look through their broader licensing/source bans, you'll notice that the theme among them isn't "is copyleft", but "threatens to actually cause us to have to do work or risk assessment of any kind". You don't need licenses or copyright to create that situation. Simply banning them from your community should be more than enough for that.
@arcade I mean, there's genuine issues with PGP (especially how easy it is to misuse, and lacking forward secrecy), but I estimate the chance of cryptobros building something better at approximately -44%
I have resorted to sticking the document onto my 3D Printer SD card and just printing from USB on the printer itself, and it works fine now
I am once again asking Linux developers to make sure that basic functionality like "printing multiple copies of a document" actually works
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev I'm not convinced that it actually does any of that, honestly. Licensing of community projects is widely disregarded by corporations, developers don't actually have the money to sue anyway, and I've seen no better success rate on legal threats than on simple (non-legally-backed) requests not to do something.
Copyright is fundamentally stacked in favour of corporate interests, and corporations know that. I don't think there's anything worth preserving here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Christian fascism is on the rise and liberals (and the academics that should've known better) are doing nothing to stop it. In fact, they largely refuse to even see what is happening. They are more interested in appeasement and keeping the system running smoothly, because what would be necessary to stop the rise of fascism is a destruction of the order that created it.
@agafnd I wonder if there is a .pigeon TLD yet
cohost-adjacent, FOSS
The whole situation with cohost is IMO also an indictment of the broader FOSS community, which has clearly failed at effectively communicating to the general public *why* open systems matter (eg. possibility to correct governance issues), instead just presenting "well, it's open" as if that in and of itself is something people are expected to care about, without any understanding of how that materially improves their circumstances
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev What's the story with that instance anyway?
@maya I unfortunately can't seem to find it anymore, but it was pretty widely retweeted back during the big Musk Migration
nl pol, police violence
@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Dat mogen ze zelf goegelen ;)
pol
@sofia@chaos.social @schratze To clarify: when I mention capitalism, it is because that is the current dominant ideology according to which society is structured almost everywhere. It's not so much a dichotomy as a comparison between "how things are now" and "how things could be", arguing that the latter is strictly better at dealing with this point.
I'm certainly open to other options than those two; in fact, I am *not* actually a communist myself.
As for 'structured discussion' - voice chat certainly wouldn't be that for me :) I find text to be far, far easier to maintain a structure in.
@schratze @owl @Flisk@cybre.space This section seems more useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login
Not sure what the other section is for
@carcinopithecus @maya My experience (from an outsider perspective) is also that begposts get *more* reach here, not less, same as all other posts.
I think the original claim is based on the assumption that reach scales linearly with how 'universally connected' the social graph is, which just isn't true in practice.
why cohost is problematic (long) 
@max Right. This is actually one reason why I'm skeptical of activist projects that are incorporated in the US in general - "non-profit" generally means a lot more in other countries, including some sort of legal obligation to act in line with the defined mission statement and/or public interest. That's really the bare minimum protection-from-corruption you'd need when incorporating into a hierarchical form.
(When I say "non-profit", that is also what I am referring to, not to the typical US incorporation forms or tax status)
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
