I wouldn't have used the term "sin", but yeah, users of nonfree software are victims of oppression, and that who denies them control over their own computing is an oppressor.
however, there's an element of accepting the condition of oppressed (though often without realizing their victimhood), to the point of reinforcing it by funding, supporting, and defending the oppressors and their methods, that resembles accompliceship.
in order to put an end to the oppression, we don't need wannabe-oppressors to stop trying to make victims, we need users to reject their offers and choose freedom instead, driving the market towards offerings that respect users choices, rather than towards enshittification
congrats on the new release.
is there any improvement to the major problem that it's entirely useless and opaque without javascript?
I'd very much welcome the ability to see title, summary, maybe even a thumbnail, to decide whether or not to download it (with e.g. youtube-dl, that used to be able to download peertube videos, but not any more)
librejs is enabled by default, and it blocks nontrivial js by default if it's not clearly marked as free software. it helps you audit and whitelist scripts you accept running on your computer. but most of the web has become toxic and dependent on installing and running hostile software on useds' browsers
the 20MB monster lio_23xx_vsw contains free and nonfree bits. the source for the linux binary is supposed to be available upon request; it wasn't at first, which was what caught my attention.
I recall my daughter once implemented a Scratch game in which the player controlled a bat; IIRC she tried to duplicate a preexisting games
I recall the xcom series, and openxcom, had suits that enabled soldiers to fly, as in walk around without touching the floor
the text looks pretty good to me
one suggestion about the first paragraph under copyleft: after "when redistributing the program", make it "when distributing the program, with or without changes", since the requirements apply also to modified versions, and maybe add "(if you choose to distribute it)" so that the later paragraph on AGPL makes sense (to dispel the false notion that GPLv3 requires changes to be distributed or published)
thanks!
> When is the chance for society to change its mind without violent revolt?
great question. can you name any jurisdiction that grants any citizen or group of citizens the right to fork the existing power structure and proceed independently from them?
AFAIK even inciting secession is criminalized most everywhere
nice request! it seems quite unusual and welcome for users to be interested in running GNU software on a distro that, for reasons I guess I'll never understand, prides itself for avoiding GNU. more so for being specifically a GNU kernel. how would we name the resulting operating system? non-GNU/kGNU? :-)
servers are really no harder to operate, but propaganda has convinced people that they should leave it to the experts, as a means to capture their data and make them dependent. reversing that belief seems hard. OTOH, keeping data stable (safe against loss) in consumer devices, especially ultraportable ones, is a bit of a challenge. the best answer to that so far has been live backups. I know a better way to approach this: local apps, encompassing all the logic (no client/server separation), using dumb p2p storage for the data. https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/draft/decent-computing
he's privatized much of power generation and transmission, so now any efforts to enable rooftop generation are going to be taken as threats to those profits. regulation and public funding could confront that, but I'm not hopeful, it's going to be an uphill battle. which sucks, because our hydroelectric generators are operating at low capacity and a lot of thermal plants are making up. a significant overlap between their owners has led to speculation that reservoirs of hydroelectric plants have been emptied so that they could run and sell the more expensive power from the thermal plants. which sucks for us, because they're not only more expensive, they also pollute more, and the fresh water has not been easy to replenish
meanwhile, in brazil, bolsonaro's government has granted 109 private banks access to citizens' personal records and biometric data collected by government's online services, electoral authorities and by states' identity document issuers https://gnusocial.net/url/7938242
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 03:42:31 UTC
Alexandre Olivawhen antivaxxers stop believing and spreading lies after over 9e9 shots total, anyone who thinks it's experimental after health regulators everywhere say otherwise is living in an imaginary parallel reality. and whoever claims the vaccine is riskier than the virus must be able to credibly demonstrate at least 9e7 fatal victims
what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99 think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of decades of use. how screwy and irresponsible is that?