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If you consider yourself a rational person, and people are telling you you're hurting them, someone else, or the community, then please. Interrogate your motivations.
It is so amazingly easy to draw a chain of implications that ends with something like "they deserve it" or "they're weird" or "they hurt me first." But you not only need to ask why, but you need to ask why in the many different ways. Don't just ask "why do they deserve it?" that's a loaded question. Ask "why should I punish them if they do?"
the community reaction reflects this, look at this reddit post about the video: https://redd.it/ct5by5
"He's not knowledgeable enough, he's not enough privacy minded & he's not using the right software" are common responses on the thread.
I feel like this video perfectly encapsulates the privacy community's idea of "lowercase p privacy". That users are individually responsable for their privacy & the only way to do something about privacy is to choose the right product or software.
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IBM Open Sourced their Power CPU architecture!!!!!!!!
https://hn.svelte.dev/item/20748711
Awsome video: Liberal Mom Forces Son to be Transgender? - A Response to Eazy Ali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjHn6QEgh4
@kiwix hey, I just found out about kiwix and it sounds super cool.
I'm giving it a try on the f-droid store, but it looks like it's not showing any content.
Help :p
Although #trunk has been a godsend to find cool people:
I'm new to this whole mastodon thing, so far it's super fun - although I must admit it feels somewhat lonely in here.
@alex_esc_blog_posts Works for good, yaaay!
On his newest vid he went on and on with the reactionary "games don't cause violence" meme, when in fact pewdipie is missing the whole point.
A medium in itself doesn't create violence, but a medium gained and tailored by alt right extremists do. It's people like him that perpetuate violence, racism, homophobia etc, not the games; its the people playing the game of normalization.
I haven't watched #pewdiepie since the Christchurch mosque shootings, the shitpost had gone way to far. I refused to give my attention to a creator who wouldn't try to make things right.
Now that I watched his latest video w/ Dr phill I can't see why I ever watched pewds videos.
They aren't funny.
Leaving @write_as behind, not because I think their service is bad, but because I'm in too deep into GitHub Pages.
I'm moving my federated feed to @alex_esc_blog_posts
Meaning freedom is not a noun, but a verb. Freedom is something we do, we do it everyday with #Foss and #libresoftware.
If you want to be a slave, then consume away, but if you want to be free then make, remix, share and build together - only as a team we can create our liberty.
I just had this idea about freedom in an online landscape:
If the four basic freedoms in software according to Richard Stallman are:
1. To contribute
2. To distribute
3. To enjoy others contributions
And the fourth freedom, also called the zero-th freedom is:
0. To run
Then to be free in online spaces we first need the conditions for content creation (to contribute, distribute & add up contributions) but to actually be free we must run the freedoms, to be free we must create.
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My periodic reminder:
If you see software that's actively marketed to you, it's a guarantee that a) that software is not something you need, b) if you nevertheless "want" it, then it's not the best nor the lowest cost option.
Never trust marketing. Ever. Do your own research to avoid buyer's remorse, or worse.
Am I now one of the cool kids if I only keep this (+ phone) in my pockets? Cuz now I do
I finally got around to fixing my blog RSS, still waiting for it to work. #fingerscorssed
So far it lays some ground to a pet peeve of mine: That there's some sort of big relation, or the laying of ideological basis, of the general ideas between the tech community and right wing thought.
At least I brought with me a digital copy of Angela Nagle's Kill all normies.
Kill all normies has been in my reading list for some time now & the recent school shootings in America bumped the book to the top of my list.
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Joined May 2019
