Anxious plush @redbookworm@social.coop

FYI we're federating with boseburo.ddns.net

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475€ for a greyish picture of a flag over a police station, what a time to be alive https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/gold-star-flag-hangs-at-half-mast-in-front-of-district-1-news-photo/102983306

@aral So, to get straight to the point these people are harmful to their causes but they also die in the real world.

For me, correlating stuff has always been a matter of survival.

@aral

Short autobiography:

1) Cultural dichotomy-shaping segregated environments make social reproduction easier, so children of the bourgeoisie go to prestigious schools/universities

2) Some people don't have a place in these cultural groups => because of cultural isolation, they try to help where they hope to be needed (in political struggles, including FLOSS)

3) They start imitating those who've actually read the specs, to get (from a public) the same reactions as them

@aral And we should just stop pretending that GNOME is made with non-developers in mind; just look at Google Maps: the way Google Street View tells you if there are pictures somewhere looks more like a game design hint in Animal Crossing or Ni No Kuni than like a software toggle.

Sure, GNOME looks better than Windows 10, but is that an ambition? #UX

@aral The main issue with the FLOSS community is why distributions like Pop!_OS (or communication protocols like XMPP) are recommended in the first place.

Reasons to run Linux distributions: the Linux kernel

Decent Linux distributions for beginners: Ubuntu and Fedora

I don't really like how https://joinmastodon.org claim to be "the federation" either, because it means extra efforts once you're here – so it means grip.

I don't really like how https://joinmastodon.org claim to solve real-life problems by comparing the Fediverse to Star Trek. No, it doesn't solve real-life problems – it can't, but we may organize here.

Of course, tech sects may be inherently political, because of their technology and of their business model.

For example, if Lavabit's FLOSS DIME made email encryption federated and transparent, ProtonMail would become both very expensive and obsolete – so they're doing their best to stay relevant. By shooting down Lavabit. Even if this means supporting the EARN IT bill.

Boredposting is due to the lack of motivation related to real-life items and activities, e.g. the lack of conditioning to the resources in your real-life environment.

It's related to "having to use your computer to read your emails, and getting lost on YouTube"; "tech sects"; and "cultural dichotomy-shaping environments".

We can make all the software we want, it's not a technical issue: it's a political one.

A young person in a foster family has called me at 12 past midnight to wish me a happy new year. I'm not sure this wording conveys how proud I am.