Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

i just saw credits for an old dos game where they put their "catering" in the credits, including their local pizza place

we should bring that back. that should be a thing

Yes, I know that no win is permanent and victory is rarely complete. The work is never done. But if we don't stop to celebrate when we do win, then we will turn into burnt-out husks who cannot carry on the fight.

👀 ​https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/1222

Git merge is an awesome feature because it lets you take two working branches and turn them into a single non-working branch.

MAPPA VIAE LACTEAE: A map of the Milky Way galaxy in the style of a 16th century cartographer.

"The art of cartography has seemingly been forgotten in this modern age of cosmic exploration. ... So here, I have attempted to channel the geographers of the first Age of Exploration, and make a map of our galaxy in their style."

📷: Starkey Comics (https://starkeycomics.com/)

Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.

@ehashman I've thought a lot about what you've said re: self-hosting being just a form of libertarian rugged individualism, and to me that points to the importance of mutual aid as one of the fundamental principles of interaction

"We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand."

as compelling as the declaration of digital autonomy is, it feels like without this critical cornerstone it's somewhat watered down

So let's drop the "open source vs. free software" debate please. What has it accomplished? Whether it's open source or free software, the software licensing movement alone is not enough to achieve any of these movements' stated goals.

FOSS is necessary but not sufficient to ensure digital autonomy. https://techautonomy.org/

If I cannot recommend your movement to anyone other than able-bodied cishet white dudes in western countries, and on top of that I have to caveat it with "it's prickly, hostile, and everyone does what Dear Leader says", then who the fuck is it for? That demographic is the *least* harmed by proprietary software.

The manifestos of free software got me in the mindset of serving users and protecting fundamental rights. But the practice of free software is just like open source, with more hostility.

The FSF and free software movement have failed because they prioritized the hero worship of a single individual over the actual furthering of their ideology. They have had nothing new or useful to contribute to the public conversation in over a decade.

So I can't believe people are still parroting "open source is about efficiency, free software is about ethics" or similar. Free software is about the ethics of one man, it's not a movement. They have spent all their energy alienating new blood.

To the vast majority of people these terms do not mean different things. Semantically, free software and open source mean the same thing and agree on the same software licenses.

The philosophical differences people attribute to "open source" vs. "free software" are usually a combination of development practices (dependent on the individual author) and arguing about copyleft licenses (even though the FSF agrees "permissive licenses" still make "free software").

Anyone comparing the philosophy of "open source" to "free software" without acknowledging the harmful stagnation and single-mindedness in the latter community is not making a thoughtful critique in the year 2022.

pro tip if ur a fossbro hacking type guy: don't randomly message a transfem you heard about on a podcast who does interesting things to ask them to meet up with you and then start sending sad guilt tripping messages if they don't reply to you within less than a day, this will only make you seem more creepy and will make it even less likely i reply to you

PSA: Lilies are dangerously toxic to cats. Even one small sniff or nibble can cause kidney failure and death. Rapid vet intervention cannot reliably save their lives.

*Never* keep true lilies (lilium) in the house if you have cats.

Make sure your family and friends know too! There's no warning at the store about the danger of lilies, so they get around in the holidays.

#Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon