Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 79

@wolfcoder you can. The journal publishers know their position is untenable, they'd be stupid to make themselves public enemy #1 by suing scholars for putting copies of their own papers on their own homepages, or on the websites of their institutions, as many scholars do.

@jonne my point with the rhetorical question was that when buying sex is condemned as "exploitation" (of the seller by the buyer), or "corruption" (of the buyer by the seller), or casual sex is condemned as "exploitation" (usually of the female by the male, or the younger partner by the older), the same arbitrary moral judgements are being made. Sex work is only exploitative to the same degree that all alienated labour is exploitative under capitalism.

@jonne I'll never forget the day I saw a woman wearing a t-shirt saying "prostitution is the rental of the body, marriage is the sale". Power relations of various kinds come into any sexual situation, for sure, whether it's understood as a commercial service (facilitated by money), a casual exchange (often facilitated by gifts like drinks or dinner), or an economic partnership (facilitated by marriages of convenience). Romantic relationships are a separate issue.

@manicphase I don't understand enough about how these various protocols work in practice to comment further. I definitely support the idea of making it easy for end users to share spare storage and bandwidth with their favourite #PeerTube channels. You might be interested to know other folks are thinking along similar lines:
https://github.com/Openmedianetwork/visionOntv/issues/1

@revkellyn my understanding is that #AdamSmith used the term "free enterprise", and that Marx coined "capitalism" almost a hundred years later. But still there are plenty of people who seem to use "capitalism" to mean a system like what Smith proposed. One in which business people should never be allowed anyone near the levers of public government. Quite a different thing to what Marx meant by "capitalism", where businesses and states form one system dominated by capitalists.
@paulfree14 @josef

@revkellyn I don't disagree, but my point is that depends entirely on what meaning one gives to the word "capitalism". @paulfree14 @josef

@kensanata that's the one, thanks :)

Here's one implmentation of self-destruction fediverse posts, as a hosted service. #Forget
https://forget.codl.fr/about/
@Gargron @mayel @mike @bob @lain @lightone @bhaugen

@balrogboogie you could try a #DistBin host like distbin.com?
https://github.com/gobengo/distbin
@DashEquals

#NathanSchneider absolutely nails it here. Even the most radically anarchist organizing requires leadership and accountability. In protest situations we tell the cops we're all the leaders to prevent anyone who offers leadership for that event or group from being targeted. But we must be careful never to start believing that bit of strategic misdirection. We don't necessarily need entrenched leaders-for-life, but we definitely need some leadership in all human activities:
http://commonsfilm.com/2019/03/04/co-ops-need-leaders-too/

@cstanhope good question :) I just assumed there'd be info about that on the site, but now you ask, I can't find any either.

@fluff see:
https://mastodon.technology/@SuperFloppies/101704761172822720

@njoseph my laptop only has 2GB of RAM and the browser runs fine (#ABrowser on #Trisquel 8)

@njoseph I used to have a lot of trouble with my browser until I installed #NoScript. The problem is not the browser itself, but the screeds of badly engineered #Javascript that almost every website tries to make it run. The problem gets worse the more tabs you have open at once.

@SuperFloppies bang on! This is why I agree with @sir that software development is being driven far too much by fashion trends and short-term, get-it-shipped mentalities, and not enough by computer science and engineering for the long term.

@aran It would be nice to think that, but I've been running GNU/Linux on this laptop since about a year after I got it. Sadly, free code OS also bloat up over time, require more hardware power, and often stop supporting devices long before they stop being usable. Dropping 32-bit support being a classic example. Many #RasberryPi devices are 32-bit!

@MatejLach yeah that bothers me too. It's not about new devices, it's about maintaining backwards compatibility with older devices for as long as we can keep the hardware working. See:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101704725689509563

@trini no idea. Do Electron apps even work on mobile platforms? Are there desktop/ laptop style devices with #ARM processors?

While I'm on a rant, it annoys me that I might have to retire my laptop in a year or two, even though the hardware is still working fine and dandy, just because even #FreeCode software seems to require more and more hardware power over time to do basically the same tasks. When I bought this laptop in 2010, it could run perfectly good voice and video calls over Skype on Windows XP! We must stop treating complex electronics as disposables.