Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 41

Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 03:24:30 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

Idiocracia chegou mais cedo

(eu morria de rir da tela enorme, cheia de anúncios, com um retângulo pequenininho perdido no meio dos anúncios passando o que a pessoa queria assistir)

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 03:20:38 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

it reminded me of the end of Terminator II

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 03:12:44 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

.oO on this day, 38 years ago, Richard Stallman filed for incorporation of the Free Software Foundation, to support the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement, started a little over two years before. happy FSF anniversary to all users and developers!

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 02:39:56 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

"impossible" is far too strong. that goal can be achieved with local bootstrapped builds alone. reproducible builds on top of that enable builds towards this goal to be shared and reused in a verifiable way, borrowing others' computing power without losing sacrificing much trust. (you sacrifice some trust unless you spend the computing power to reproduce the builds)

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 01:59:41 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

the point of software freedom is not enabling verification, but control of one's own computing. I'm not saying verification and thus RB is undesirable or not valuable, just that we can get software freedom without them. as long as you can modify and build the program against your own bootstrapped build of the library, it is not relevant for your software freedom whether a third-party binary depended on another undesirable version of the library, or whether that third-party build is reproducible. one may argue that, at least in some such cases, the resulting third-party binary is not freedom-respecting, because of the blobs it carries, but if you have software freedom, you can rebuild it and avoid relying on the blobs. in extreme cases, getting a freedom-respecting binary to run in freedom may require implementing a free compatible library.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 00:17:10 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

seria bacana se o pessoal que reclamou do metrô paralisado contra sua espoliação tivesse aderido em solidariedade e em preservação do interesse próprio e público, né?

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 00:13:17 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

hello, xará :-)

I'm not sure what referents you bound 'former' and 'latter' to in your reading, but I'm pretty sure those were not what I meant. since there was uncertainty as to the referents, I disambiguated.

thanks for the report, I'm glad you liked it

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 23:55:15 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

like GNU's gnot Ugnix? :-)

congrats, and thanks for your many contributions to GNU and to the FSF

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 23:31:39 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- Biason::Julio::new();
specify both --build and --host triplets so that it won't assume they're the same

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 23:04:27 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

eu consigo *lembrar* com nível de detalhe 1 (percebi que, fechando os olhos, consigo visualizar a imagem e focar em cada uma das imagens dos níveis de detalhe, nos números, enfim...), mas não tenho muita certeza se consigo *criar* um exemplar imaginário com tanto detalhe. talvez consiga, mas pra mim parecem duas habilidades diferentes, e tenho a sensação de que passar do nível 2 pro nível 1 no processo de criação requer um esforço considerável, enquanto o esforço para chegar até o nível 2 não não me parece perceptível. faz sentido isso?
curiosidade: depois de uns minutos escrevendo esta resposta, sem olhar para a imagem, tentei repetir a visualização. quando foquei nos números, visualizei-os com serifas. aí fui conferir o original e não havia serifas. presumo que outros detalhes da memória imediata tenham se perdido também, mas não me chamaram atenção a ponto de eu conseguir perceber divergência entre a memória e a imagem

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 20:23:52 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
of course they do exist. even if they left everyone at one side and nobody at the other, the lines would still be there. but it's certainly not the case that they do.

but since you'll likely insist that they don't, and I'm not interested in debating that tangent, here's another you'd likely not deny out of your political beliefs: a single line separating those making a net profit out of exploitation, from those making a net loss to exploitation. it would still resemble closely a line dividing the rich and the poor, because wealth flows from the poor to the rich through exploitation, but it would be a lot harder to argue honestly that they contribute equally to exploitation, no? or to deny the existence of the line, for that matter.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 20:10:00 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

definitely not stupid. I can relate, FWIW

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 19:55:04 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

oh no, not again! -- Douglas Adams

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 19:53:38 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
how about trying some lines that are not arbitrary. consider 3 classes: exclusive exploiter, exploited exploiter, and exclusive exploited. it resembles very closely the 3 classes billionaire, millionaire, and the rest of us, but it would be a lot harder to argue honestly that they contribute equally to exploitation, wouldn't it?

as for charity... well, orders of magnitude, need to put money it to circulate and get money out, and others make it self interest, but the real kicker is to compare it with "help". what amounts to help is not something for the presumed helpers to choose to make themselves look good, help is what those in need of help consider help.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 18:11:56 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

Reproducible Builds are valuable if you're taking someone else's binaries, but not essential for one to achieve software freedom. having freely-bootstrapped tools and using them to build free source code gets you free binaries, even without any reproducible builds

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 18:09:49 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

IMHO the GNU FSDG and typical copyleft licenses require build scripts because building certain programs involves elaborate procedures, and depriving users of Makefiles, configuration programs and whatnot would be a relatively trivial (and thus prone to abuse) way to keep users from being able to enjoy the freedoms to adapt and to improve the program. licenses and guidelines that strive to defend users' freedoms thus must stand in the way of such trivial attacks, just as they they do of more elaborate attacks.

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 18:00:51 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

no, that's wrong, it was not the hat that was backwards. *he* *is* backwards himself!

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 17:45:48 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- Christine Lemmer-Webber
hey, hey, it's not just because you're *not* paranoid that they are *not* after you :-)

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:31:38 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
- 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
that's one of the cases in which aggregation of data distorts the data
yeah, billionaires as a collective might do less harm than millionaires as a collective, but for any one poor person, it is the case (from what you wrote earlier) that a billionaire exploits per a thousand times as much as a millionaire, so the sense of injustice and injury directed at each exploiting billionaire is a thousand times as much as that directed to each exploiting millionaire. the grouping is artificial, arbitrary and distorting. if you have 1000000 seconds to live, and 50k millionaires take 10 each, while 5 billionaires take 10000 each, yeah, this arbitrary class of millionaires will have taken 10 times as much as the arbitrary class of billionaires, but that does not falsify my claim that each billionaire took a thousand times more from you than each millionaire did.
and it is still the case that some exploit everyone else, some exploit most everyone else, and most exploit no one else. the conclusion that some arbitrarily made up class exploits more because of its headcount, in spite of most of its members' exploiting no one is unjust and offensive, and doesn't appear to serve any purpose other than making the non-exploiting ultimate victims appear about as culpable as the hardest, cruelest exploiters of all.

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Robert “the Bobby Yaga” McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 16:06:53 EDT Robert “the Bobby Yaga” McNees

Nature desk-rejected their paper!
This is right up there with the way the Nobel Committee used to tweet happy birthday to Russell Hulse, then mention that it also happened to be the anniversary of Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovering pulsars.

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