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@Shamar @garbados @mathieu
No. Free Software according to the original GNU manifesto is about developing useful code and expressing solidarity with users and other developers by acting on a prosocial manner "without dishonor" in your community. It's not just about personal exploration.
Also very few Free Software projects have managers, apart from the maintainer.
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@algernon One of the problems I have with this approach (I'm not an Electron developer) is that while Electron may be easy for the developer it's not necessarily easy for the user. In terms of running with older hardware and limited system resources. In terms of security (massive attack surface of a browser, vs much smaller for a native app) and maintainability (what version of browser is this Electron app based on, and can that be updated?). In doing the thing which is quick for the developer you may just be shifting problems elsewhere.
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Confused liberal takes in my Twitter timeline. Suffragettes were not exactly "peaceful protesters". Change does not come by being the nice, respectable people who have some concerns. It comes from struggle.
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I don't currently use mongodb within #freedombone, although there are utility functions for it and a preliminary implementation of microblog.pub which isn't active because it needs a later python version.
I expect what will happen is that there will be a fork, and something like mongodb but not called mongodb will continue under AGPL.
Going closed source is a dumb move which will be the opposite of sustainable. Calling it "commons" when its not also tells you something about whoever is maintaining mongodb.
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Proprietary software is the ultimate tragedy of the software commons https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause
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@imani Bitcoin failed on its own terms. That is it never succeeded in disintermediating banks. If anything, the usual suspects made a lot of money out of it.
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@Dirk_Idriss Welcome to the fediverse.
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@jasper @wiretap @jeroenpraat Yes. I fully expect that some of the tankies, or tankie instances, are not what they appear to be at face value.
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@kemonine Currently I run my email from home in a less than ideal condition. My ISP provides an SMTP proxy server which I can use, and with that configured everything works. However, this makes me entirely beholden to another server and if the ISP stops providing that then it's game over.
I first started running my own email server around 2011 and everything worked up until around the time that I started the Freedombone project around 2013. After that things have been becoming increasingly dire, with non-$bigcorp IP addresses often being blocked.
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@syndikalista If that's true that's interesting, because much of the solutions proposed in the past were about private individuals reducing their "carbon footprint".
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@syndikalista I've not read it, but I've read similar things and I plot the temperature and trace gas trends myself. Yet another IPCC report won't be enough to move the needle.
Sadly, I don't think there will be any significant action on climate change until disasters are happening, and by that I mean things like major crop failures or flooded coastal cities. There's no evidence that anything done thus far has slowed the increase in CO2 production even slightly.
So my guess is that by the middle of the century there will be big crises going on, which make 2018 look like a golden age. I think elites already know this and that the recent trends of mass surveillance and militarized police are a sort of preparation for expected near future turmoil.
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@xj9 @rw There will always be scarcity. Of time. Of attention. But there doesn't have to be scarcity of energy. There's a lot of roof space without solar. The seas contain an enormous amount of energy which is mostly unused.
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@xj9 Take it easy comrade
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@drequivalent @aral Insurgency inside of Google has only had limited successes so far. Via internal pressure and selective leaks the management have been forced to capitulate over Maven, and possibly might be over the China search engine.
But ultimately I don't think Google's internal revolts will succeed - at least not in their current format. Right now I bet that Google's management are trying to figure out ways to suppress internal dissent like what happened over Maven, by limiting the ability of Googlers to communicate with each other outside of narrow work-related project scopes.
If Googlers can unionize then this might be more effective, but even that wouldn't necessarily prevent future Mavens. While a small number of managers beholden to share holders are making all the major decisions you're always going to have a non-democratic situation in which such bad outcomes are possible in the name of short term profits.
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Desert Storms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODjagp72U4
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Jordan Peterson stuck in the cold war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hg3hdAUAPs
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@aral @aussierockman money of that kind of magnitude always rapidly changes minds. My favorite example of that is Makerbot.
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@aral @aussierockman A lot of people especially in larger companies are very much encouraged to compartmentalize their thinking exactly like that. Howard Zinn described how firebombing cities in WW2 was very abstract and businesslike when you're at 30,000ft and can't see much of what's happening below.
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@aral @aussierockman There are good and bad people everywhere. Even at Microsoft. It's not really about good intentions or individual morality. The problems with the economy are structural and the prejudices are baked into the system.
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@dick_turpin Freedom is always a negotiation. It doesn't include taking away anyone else's rights or denying them the same freedom that you have. To declare yourself free while surrounded by slaves (as libertarians often do) is not really freedom, but egoism.
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