Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 61
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 13:01:09 EST 
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
draw a pair of disjoint graphs ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:59:50 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
*nod*, but just as you wish your voice, opinions and beliefs to be published and heeded, so do the upstream developers. they're entitled to choose their defaults and messages, and so are you to remove them or change them in your own deployments and, assuming neither are breaking laws in doing so, IMHO that's how it should be. well-meaning influence and recommendations are IMHO ok, imposing values and exercising power over others, not so much -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:54:33 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
danger, will robinson!
there are various efforts underway in different parts of the world to try to regulate software *development* so as to strengthen cartels and corporate dominion over users. those are fundamentally at odds with software freedom: you can't control your computing, a certified professional must control it for you. that would suck.
requiring certified professionals for *deployments* of services for over certain user counts might be a more workable approach. few fields (nuclear generators and avionics come to mind) are highly regulated and carry strict requirements that extend to software used in them, those might be good models to extend less strict requirements to activities that could use some improvement but that don't place lives at similar risks -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:35:08 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
it's not about air yet. these waves work the same even without air. let's hope this doesn't give them ideas ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:26:33 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
information is power. if you don't control the tools you use, someone else controls them for (or rather against) you. program or be programmed.
dictators love uneducated people, they're easier to control. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:18:15 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
if you want to at least pretend to be doing science rather than fake news, always cite the sources of the data you share. without that, it has zero scientific value
context also matters. the numbers in the graph don't mean what you take them to mean without contextual data that shows the total population counts. in fact, taking data out of context is one of the favorite and most effective manipulation tactics, and a lot of people fall for that. lies, blatant lies and statistics, as they say.
for example, if 90% of the people were vaxxed and 10% weren't, the graph you showed would confirm the vaccine offers protection, because a smaller percentage of the vaccinated population made the graph than that of the unvaccinated population
now, the source would likely contain that relevant piece of information you've left out, or one would wonder why it was left out.
also, various places allow only vaccinated to gather, which distorts theses numbers. context matters! -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 12:07:29 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
> authorities have assiduously tried to prevent the public from getting
sorry, not everyone has the luck of living under authorities that take science seriously. I live under the shadows of bolsonaro's propaganda machine. he's a flat-earther who has pushed chloroquin and ivermectin pretty hard, based on fake evidence, long before anything resembling scientific evidence as much as suggested they might have any positive effects. bolsonaro and others who pushed these ineffective drugs are now, after a long congress inquiry and police investigation, being sued for spreading misinformation, running drug "trials" without consent, and getting patients killed with them to cut private health insurance costs. that's who you're siding with from my perspective.
now there is a body of evidence suggesting the drugs might help, but the information brought to the inquiry still suggests preponderantly that ivermectin is ineffective against COVID-19 despite a few outlier studies -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 11:28:48 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
gabriella's article at https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/12/funding-isnt-problem-with-open-source.html is quite insightful
one could sum it up as "the problem with open source is open source and its amoral, unprincipled stance; let's go back to free software ethics" -
Michael Downey ๐ฉ (downey@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 06:38:29 EST 
Michael Downey ๐ฉ
"More generally, I believe that #opensource development should return to its roots as a #freesoftware movement guided by moral principles. Doing so would help the open source community set better boundaries, which would in turn improve software quality, funding, and working conditions. Without a moral center to give developers a spine, theyโll continue to race to the bottom to please corporate interests."
https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/12/funding-isnt-problem-with-open-source.html
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Dec-2021 10:10:08 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
it was so often misleading and misunderstood in its applicability that it got renamed from Library to Lesser General Public License
from a free software strategic POV, it hardly ever makes sense to use weak copyleft for programs; when code fits the cases in which other strategic reasons prevail over our general preference for copyleft, it's most often a reusable software component (AKA library), so that motivated the license to be introduced. but others who don't share the same strategies or goals of the FS movement's leadership are free to use it for other purposes, and for them, the conclusion, based on our values and goals, that it seldom if ever makes sense to use the LGPL on non-libraries may not apply. that may very well be your case -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 23:19:06 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
have you read https://stallman.org/something-to-fear.html ? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 22:54:49 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
such puzzles reminded me of GCompris, and I didn't get what the point was of sliding the ( ||| ) button to get a chance to try to complete the puzzle, or some such, thus the "I don't get it" with a reference to GCompris -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 22:24:55 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
yeah, it's too bad fiction has to make sense, only reality doesn't -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 22:10:25 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
not you, but @Fiddle seems to have done so, from the responses I can see -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 20:06:58 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
sure, if you can't even tell the lucent public license from free software/open source licenses, whatever you say must be right. care to enlighten me by elaborating on your "proof", and on what you think you're right about? maybe I just didn't think your personal and legitimate (if prejudiced) opinion was worth arguing (reason can't beat unreasonable prejudice), and I just chose to go for a cheap shot instead? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 19:59:26 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
spontaneous abortions are a lot more common than most people seem to believe. hundreds of occurrences are an unfortunate but very low number given over 1 billion doses, and I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever of a causal link. 1 in 10M is a pretty high standard, IIUC medicines in common use may have very serious reactions even for 1 in 1M. that's an unfortunate reality, but the risk of taking the shot is far lower than the risk of catching the virus and dying, developing a serious case that requires facing weeks or even months in an ICU, and even if you don't develop a serious case, there are very debilitating long-term symptoms you may develop if you catch it
alas, even these hundreds of spontaneous abortions are unlikely to have provided enough information to tell whether a vaccine caused it, and in which conditions one had better avoid that or those vaccines, and perhaps resort to other brands or technologies. IIRC one brand in .br is not recommended for pregnant people -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 19:46:21 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
"most likely" mirrors the "concerns" in the news report, it's not a certainty. since now we know omicron doesn't dodge the vaccines, the odds are now higher, rather than equal, that the mutations took place in the living body of someone more likely to allow the virus to reproduce freely, because it survived and spread, whereas in a living body that had better defenses, it would be less likely to reproduce, survive and spread. the selecting pressure is exactly the opposite of what he presumed back when it was thought that omicron might escape the virus, where it already failed to make sense: a mutation would still be less likely to take place in a better-defended living body that gave the original virus fewer attempts to reproduce, but even if a mutation took place that fully dodged the vaccine, it would face exactly the same challenges to spread out of a vaxxed body as from an unvaxxed body. nonmutant competitors would indeed fare worse in a vaxxed body, thanks for confirming -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 19:26:43 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
> using my platform's voice
the beauty of free software is that developers have no such power. they might put that in, but you're free to change it to your liking on your instance. users are free to install and run their own instances and do so
software freedom doesn't mean the software does your computing as you wish. it means (among other things) that you can change it so that it does it as you wish. whether you wish to spread factual or fake news, or to stay silent on the matter, it's not for the developers to decide, it's up to you, your conscience, your ethics, and the applicable laws to figure out -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 19:05:53 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
we can choose whether to trust individuals we interact with, online and/or offline
we can't trust corporations that attempt to control "our" devices, whether through software or other means, through them, control us, whether directly through them, or by using them to gather data about us to better predict and influence our behavior
these "laws" don't prevent our human interactions
AFAICT they only seek to prevent abuse by corporations that attempt to mediate (meddle in?) them -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 18:44:43 EST
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
sorry, I know this was broken french, but I couldn't figure out how to make the reference work otherwise
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