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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 66
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what you describe still fits "governance" to me, but it appears you assign to the root term "govern" some implication of evil, of involving someone else's illegitimate power over yourself. I don't think that shade of meaning is there, or needs to be there, but I have no clue about your language backgrounds, so maybe that's where it comes from. or maybe I'm the one with the language background that incorrectly removes this perception. anyway... it doesn't look like we disagree on the substance, only on the terms used to describe it, no?
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representative democracy implies that, but to me governance just implies the existence of rules agreed upon and adhered to by the collective. government to me is the execution of governance, so it doesn't necessarily imply delegation of power over the collective
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heh, thanks, but favorites are the ones that are easy to find. what I don't have a solution for is stuff that I opened in a separate tab, read long after the post got out of my view, didn't think much of it at the time, but then later on something reminds of me it and I can't find it any more. I've considered keeping an annotated page-view log, but decided it was too much work for too little use, yet sometimes it still bothers me when I fail to find something I know I came across before, but without any clue as to how long before, and without managing to find it again. memes are particularly painful because I can still visualize them, but there's no way to copy my memory and paste it on some image search to get it back :-/
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this "collectively" thing you allude to... wouldn't it be called "government", or at least "governance"?
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I find Esperanto disturbingly regular, it feels like driving in a planned city like Brasília, in which one block looks a lot like the next. but I do have a favorite inconsistency: in Esperanto, most languages are named as la <country>a [lingvo], while Esperanto itself doesn't follow that pattern ;-)
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gaining adopting by empowering those who wish to exploit you and deprive users of software freedom is hardly ever a step forward for software freedom, quite the opposite
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/pub/against-software-tyranny
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the primary stipulation of copyleft in general is that downstream recipients are entitled to the same freedoms that you got from your upstream. GPL implements that within copyright by granting you permission to make the program, or derivative works thereof, available to others only in specific ways, namely, under the same terms and conditions, without any additional restrictions, and either as source code, as object code accompanied by complete corresponding source code, or as object code accompanied by a binding commitment to offer complete corresponding source code upon request. that's the jist of it, but there are various (and length) details dealing with various incident issues regarding patents, DRM, distribution with aggregate works and embedding in hardware, applicability to works other than software, termination for non-compliance, extent of corresponding sources, and various provisions for compatibility with multiple jurisdictions
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permissive lax licenses like MIT/X11 are free software licenses. open source folks have propaganda suggesting they are OSS but not FS, but free software people are expected to know better than falling for OSS propaganda
taking a stand against copyleft, our best if imperfect defense so far, thus our strategic preference, might be perceived as hostility, so if you were to do that, I'd recommend treading carefully
the FSF has remained loyal to the FS values and movement even when it was not under RMS's leadership, and has been under fire for that loyalty, from people and orgs that wanted to change the FS movement into something it was not meant to be, rather than advancing it along with existing leadership. one may reasonably disagree with values and goals, but decapitation and hostile take over aren't behaviors of supporters or friends, or even neutral collaborators. as for supporters of those values and goals, that loyalty is golden
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I'd love something that helped me find again interesting articles I read once upon a time. or memes I come across on social media. or videos I (fail to) watch (to the end)
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I don't speak in those terms, but software does not fail to qualify as freedom-respecting for lack of documentation. deprivation of existing documentation might lead to a different outcome, though.
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is france preparing to privatize la poste?
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if all you do is read occasional bug reports there, yeah, no significant loss of freedom. but surrendering control over one's project's bug database to a third party, that's quite something else... downtime can hit everyone, but there's downtime you can do something to fix so as to get back in action, and downtime you can't do anything about but cry
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that's too bad. if you owned them, we could put an end to DRM in a heartbeat ;-P :-(
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then it must be the warranty that expired
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FWIW, I can't take credit for the word choice, I'm just passing on what I heard. I haven't even checked myself the claims that the cutlery was compostable. as for the biodegradable plastic bags from supermarkets, I usually prefer carton boxes for my groceries, but I have noticed that the plastic of those bags all but disappear over 5+ years. I occasionally take and use them, mostly in trash cans, but also as "files" for piles of mail that I'm supposed to save for 5+ years, and I notice that the more recent ones, labeled sugar-cane biodegradable, haven't held up for 5+ years any more
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I vaguely recall coming across a program named dvdrip that IIRC would serve this purpose
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lembrei daquele episódio de friends em que ross vai dar uma palestra sobre o trabalho dele, e joey e rachel vão assistir e ficam rindo de 'Homo' e 'erectus'
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I hear Pfizer is planned for most booster doses in Brazil, but these policies change depending on availability, and it's a whole month ahead, so I'll only know for sure when the time comes and I show up for the shot
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oh, none of it was wooden. cups and plates felt like paper, cutlery felt more like plastic. I was told that's what googlers used every day there. maybe it is more expensive, after all, but you'd think at-scale it could be made competitive against single-use plastic, more so as societies' grow environmental awareness
AFAIK plastic straws have been banned all over Brazil; plastic bags are still often offered at supermarkets, but they're biodegradable now. much of the pandemics-induced delivery has switched back to paper bags like ones I recall seeing at supermarkets when I was a child. but I'm still amazed at the amount of waste from delivery meals. I wish much of that could at least be recycled, but we're told food containers are not suited for recycling :-(
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I recall attending a GCC event hosted by Google, in Mountain View, meals included. all of the plates, cups and cutlery were compostable. I was impressed, and thought that it would soon take over the fast-food world, but... it doesn't seem to have happened. I wonder why
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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