Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp), page 2

Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:50:41 EST Alexandre Oliva

Part of the problem is that Ukraine is not being supplied and permitted all weapons they need to repel Russian invasion

what does that tell you? to me, it sounds like those supplying weapons don't wish the war to be over. not now, not ever.

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:24:39 EST Alexandre Oliva

gaslighting em cima de incompreensão, intolerância e ofensas :-(

solidariedade autista

não compartilho de todos os pontos de vista políticos do pôste vinculado a seguir, mas seu lamento me lembrou do foco da crítica nele: https://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/
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  Editor’s note: this article was updated on August 6th 2017, to better reflect current terminology relating to neurodiversity. Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse. Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, …
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:12:01 EST Alexandre Oliva

sempre lembro do jô soares interpretando uma personagem no orelhão cujo bordão mais famoso era "bota ponta, telê!"

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:08:02 EST Alexandre Oliva

.oO uma das coisas que mais me deixa enfezado hoje em dia é a enshittificação Oo.

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:04:54 EST Alexandre Oliva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 23:35:05 EST Alexandre Oliva

esses escolhidos são os ganhadores do sorteio, que são divulgados à exaustão pros otários acreditarem que pode acontecer com eles próprios e continuarem dando o sangue pros vampiros. é cruel

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 23:26:32 EST Alexandre Oliva

de repente, não mais que de repente, seu nome no fediverso me pareceu inadequado ;-)

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:44:28 EST Alexandre Oliva

@lulupaunamesa eita, acho que eu tinha perdido você na migração da minha conta. tava ficando preocupado com o silêncio.

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:33:58 EST Alexandre Oliva

e aquelas coisas que você não come, é porque não são comida, certo? :-D gostei, tá coerente

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:23:22 EST Alexandre Oliva
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@r_evangelista @fbobraga @xenotar @diegomota agora é computação [com preço] nas nuvens

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:19:39 EST Alexandre Oliva

pior que se tivesse ido antes, até dava pra ter trocado privacidade e autonomia por alguma economia burra, mas hoje, que o mundo quase todo já está fisgado, os preços já começaram a disparar, já não é mais nem mais econômico terceirizar pra nuvem :-(

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 20:13:34 EST Alexandre Oliva

interoperabilidade era feature

hoje, no pensamento orientado à estrumificação, é bug

e o pessoal reclama na fila do abatedouro que tá andando muito devagar

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:55:10 EST Alexandre Oliva

me gusta la interfaz estándar posix

su implementación en GNU libc y en el núcleo Linux está genial

:-)

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:37:05 EST Alexandre Oliva

Lainucs é um dos jeitos errados de pronunciar GNU :-)

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:35:40 EST Alexandre Oliva

o g é mudo nas palavras inglesas gnu, gnome, gnat, gnash e outras tantas com gn. mas o G do projeto GNU, do qual derivam GNOME, GNAT, Gnash, etc, é pronunciado sim, mesmo em inglês. até porque com o G mudo, GNU operating system ia soar como new operating system, ia ser muito confuso

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 17:16:23 EST Alexandre Oliva

your post suggests that the ordering of imports doesn't matter. which comes across funny in Portuguese, because the verb for import, "importar", may also mean "to matter". "the ordering of imports doesn't matter" comes out as "a ordem dos imports não importa"

that reminds me of a famous wordplay: "exporting is what matters" comes out as "exportar é o que importa"

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 16:33:01 EST Alexandre Oliva

copyleft really doesn't restrict, copyright does. copyleft only delimits the permissions so that everyone can do whatever they wish with the software (freedom), but without granting them power to deny that freedom of others (power). without that grant, they can't abuse others because copyright won't allow them: that power remains reserved to authors, as even democratic societies adopted.

now, "use" is a loaded term. a lot of laypeople people misunderstand that as running, but under copyright law, it means adapting, modifying, using parts or the whole of the work to make others. enjoying the work (reading, listening, watching, running) are not reserved. this means copyright law does NOT empower author-itarians to dictate terms of use (execution), only terms of use (adapt, modify). that's why those who wish to dictate such terms resort to contracts (AKA licensing agreements) that, along with permissions to do activities that copyright law reserves exclusively to authors, establish obligations that are alien to copyrights, and require explicit assent, such as click on "I agree", breaking a seal or such.

now, not taking their patches, or not even looking at them, may be foolish. they may have valuable contributions to make, even if operating under oppressive regimes, or even while holding repproachable ideas in their minds. someone once said something about hating the sin, not the sinner; someone more laic said something about not imposing collective punishments. human rights that people often forget when they're driven by (under influence of) propaganda and moral panics

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 15:57:52 EST Alexandre Oliva

if it is as good a guiding principle as you and I seem to believe it is, it had better be adopted voluntarily by societies at large in democratic ways, not by decree of tyrant author-ities

this is exactly where the attempted analogy with copyleft falls apart: copyright law, widely adopted in democratic societies (to my dismay, but that's another long story), grants authors powers to stop anyone else from adapting, distributing and publishing works of their authorship. copyleft gives up these powers, enabling downstream recipients to have freedom, so that they can control their own computing and do whatever they wish with the software. but copyleft does not grant intermediaries power to deny freedoms of downstream recipients. it doesn't prohibit that either: copyright does. remove copyright, and copyleft becomes ineffective: nobody would need a license to adapt or distribute any more, so the delimitations to the permissions put forth in the license text are irrelevant. that's a feature, not a bug.

but unethical-source licenses exploit another bug, in people's understanding of how copyright works. people have been misled to believe that a license is required to run software, and laypeople, misguided by that belief, have tried to apply copyleft-like constraints to something that is not exclusively reserved to authors. when it comes to running software, copyright law only requires that the copy be obtained legally, so the provisions in unethical-source licenses that attempt to constrain the right to execute are about as inoperant as copyleft would be under no copyright.

so, you see, it's a misguided analogy because it purports to impose in an author-itarian way something that societies should adopt democratically and collectively; it's a false analogy because it fails to understand the primary purpose of enabling and respecting freedom and autonomy, disabling and countering an unjust law no further than needed to that end, while leaving the effects of the unjust law in place to not empower abusers; and it's broken because, failing to understand how copyright and copyleft work, unethical-source licenses are ineffective, misleading, and fail entirely to serve their stated purpose.

they're a well-meant disaster

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:40:16 EST Alexandre Oliva

are you familiar with the phrase "my way or the high way"? that's what your argument amounts to, and it's not a cool position at all. it's not even ethical.

imposing values and behavior though the software is exactly the control and colonization I'm getting at

it's not a given that people can choose not to use the software, as many programs are imposed taxing software

but even if they can opt out, it is still the case that you stand for imposing values, controlling and colonizing users through the software they use.

those who opt out don't use the software, so they're not (your) users, and that's exactly what they need to do to defend freedom

whereas all those who choose to use the software licensed under such abusive terms are indeed controlled and colonized, because of the terms it imposes in a misguided, false and broken analogy with copyleft. I can elaborate on why the analogy is misguided, false and broken if you wish.

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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:46:58 EST Alexandre Oliva

ah, puxa, desculpe, eu era bem carnívoro na época que ia lá, não sei se eles conseguem atender bem a vegetarianos. eu ainda como carne às vezes, mais do que eu gostaria (enquanto open vegan, considero-me uma fraude), mas essa transição, mesmo parcial, é relativamente recente. já não vou lá há vários anos, certamente a última vez foi um bom tempo antes da pandemia. mas a lembrança de que comi coisas deliciosas lá ficou.

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