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(bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 18
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@strypey @wxcafe What Linus is really taking a break for is probably to consider how he's going to try to avoid this.
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@strypey @wxcafe
I think what happened here is that Google said "either you adopt a proper CoC, or maybe we stop paying your salary".
The wording of the new CoC makes it relatively simple for a manufactured drama to trigger a governance crisis in the Linux project.
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@thegibson Linus isn't going anywhere
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@maiyannah @verius I must admit the Linus confessional was distinctly out of character.
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@maiyannah @verius Maybe it's the Fuchsia plan. Generate a crisis in Android and then say "we have a solution".
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That Free Software includes some non-copyleft licenses isn't that much of a problem in practice.
The war between "open source" and Free Software is mostly wasted energy.
It's easy to get riled up about licenses and "open source". It's a common pattern for developers to focus on that and believe that the licenses are all-powerful. But the biggest problems we have now aren't that there are not enough copyleft projects.
Some big hurdles I see in the near future are:
- Hardware lockdown. I expect more advanced versions of Intel ME are coming, building DRM into the hardware. We need more free/open hardware designs.
- Patents are still a problem. afaik software patents havn't been entirely invalidated.
- The web is heading for a cliff edge. The remaining silos may start locking the web down with EME and there may be not much we can do to stop that other than to work around it.
- We need to ensure that governments don't legislate the remaining independent web away. Things like article 13.
- We need to make sure that "strong" and e2e encryption remains legal. If we lose that then we are truly fucked.
- We need more education and agitation in the places that matter. Any public organization should be using Free Software by default and we also need to overcome the Microsoft monopoly in education establishments.
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@sampo @hj
I don't expect the web to die any time soon, but there's definitely room for newcomers to do something new with a simplified browser optimized for low end hardware and with an integrated and well executed development toolset.
To beat the existing world of trashfire browsers with sketchy business models I don't think we need to directly implement the things they do and play on their field.
Also I think W3C needs to go. TBL needs to retire, and if there's a standards body it needs to be a lot more democratic than a corporate consortium with paid-for protocols. If there's any kind of lesson from the web over the last two decades it's that corporate governance ultimately destroys everything of value.
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On the decentralized web https://blog.freedombone.net/on-the-decentralized-web
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@msk Yes. Beware of puritanism. Everyone is at a different stage of growth and knowledge. Also narrow forms of ruthlessly policed identitarianism is not revolutionary and won't lead to constructive change.
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Mozilla's creepy data collection https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2017/09/06/data-just-living
But don't be concerned, it's a 4-tier approach reviewed by someone or other.
The arbitrary requests for new types of user data are especially concerning. It's not hard to imagine what kinds of situations may arise from that.
Maybe I am just a far out anarcho-whatever, but surely it's not a completely radical idea to just use a browser and have a reasonable expectation that your activity isn't being collected and sent back to a central collection point to be analysed by "scientists" by default.
Also another important point. This type of data collection is neither necessary nor required for product improvement or bug fixing.
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@markosaric
Go to about:config
Search for telemetry
Turn off anything set to true. The priority here is to clear the fields which contain the telemetry domains. Once those are gone it doesn't know where to send the data.
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Prioritize solidarity above divisiveness.
Punch up not down. Avoid punching sideways.
Puritanism doesn't get the goods.
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@wuhei Yes. The site will be updated soon because there's a new installation process which is simpler than before.
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@h Free Software is a type of political movement which emerged as a reaction against the treatment of software as being private property. You could say it's an anti-enclosure movement, campaigning via direct action to make software a public resource accessible to all.
FOSS was always political.
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@njoseph @dbuntinx @aral As always, it depends on the threat model or your judging criteria. Firefox is open source, but if you read the source you'll find that it's sending a lot of detailed telemetry data back to a central collection point. You can of course disable that, but 99% of Firefox users will be unaware and are being farmed for data in a way that's arguably worse than what Goodle or Facebook does.
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The idea of "social mobility" is bogus, because it assumes that the class/caste system is legitimate and that the goal is to go from being lower/under class to ruling class.
There was never any legitimacy in the class system. The point is not to revel in class identity but to overcome it.
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@gaja That's just...horrible. If you're in Europe it's probably not legal if you're over 18, but for anyone younger they should be getting parental consent for something like that.
Mind you, even with parental consent this is a really horrid thing for educators to be doing.
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@andybalaam
These types of graphs are very misleading, and they're the type of thing which Pinker uses in his books/talks to dupe gullible liberals.
The one on increasing democracy is especially dubious. It depends on what counts as "democracy". There are many oligarchic and/or authoritarian systems in which public voting takes place, but this does not mean that people are practicing self-governance.
When I see the poverty graph going down, and then I think of the last decade of austerity this seems like such a bad joke that it's almost insulting. I know people who have really suffered and died prematurely because of the austerity conditions and services being withdrawn or not being able to afford basic necessities.
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