Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@FediFollows

Sure it's a small company, but for comparison it seems like Purism has been sending Librem 5 phones to lots of places around the world including Australia. Purism is also a small company, they have lots of difficulties with delays, but still it seems they can deliver to most countries. There can be extra costs for customs and/or taxes depending on the country, but it's not impossible. So I'm wondering why the same is not possible for FairPhone.
@Horizon_Innovations @Fairphone

@Horizon_Innovations @FediFollows @Fairphone
But why would it not be possible to buy a FairPhone in Australia? Seems ridiculous, it must be possible to get around that?

@clacke Could it be something related to different shells being used, like in one case you have bash and in the other case some other shell, maybe they handle things like parentheses and quotation marks differently?

@koherecoWatchdog @strypey

Great idea!

I think there is a strong case to be made that it is fundamentally wrong to force people to use Google/Apple and at the same time EU politicians have shown some understanding of the problems with big tech companies having too much power.

I've been trying to argue locally here in Sweden, but it could be that doing something at the EU level has a better chance.

The #FSFE should help, but I'm worried they won't since they get so much money from Google.

This is a good video by Luke Smith: "Social Media as Social Control."

https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/videos/watch/5e0eeac4-2b38-450c-aad6-eb601087686e

"Whether planned or not, Social Media's prime current function is behavioral engineering at a massive scale. Most sites function as massive Skinner's Boxes, conditioning users to behaviors desired by those who run the sites. Part of this is inevitable, but it has certainly accelerated in recent years and will continue so long as people continue to rely on such sites."

The video is 15 minutes long.

@metnix

NaCl ?

@asic

I don't know their true motives other than of course they want to maximize their profits in the end. One possible explanation is that Google and Amazon can hope that the work FSFE is doing can hurt e.g. Apple more than it hurts Google and Amazon, and as such it can help them gain market share from Apple. Just speculating.

Anyway it makes me worried that FSFE may not do things that would really hurt Google and Amazon. True user freedom may not be a priority for FSFE, then.

@redstarfish

@eastcoastweb But the CLI way of doing things is super-good for repetitious things, just put it in a script! ;-)

@joacim @selea

@redstarfish For comparison, the #FSFE gets between 10% and 20% of its yearly budget from a single donor, named Google: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html

@clacke Those three also have "-- Outgoing" after their names on the "Staff and Board" page: https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/

Meanwhile, I keep wondering if and how the GNOME Foundation can get away with organizing the "open letter" -- the GNOME Foundation as an organization launching a harsh personal attack citing misleading sources.

I was hoping for some kind of comment or explanation in response to this https://eliasrudberg.se/rms/ but there is just compact silence from #GNOME folks about this.

@eastcoastweb OK let me try again 🙂

The default file manager in GNOME, called nautilus, can be used to access FTP servers. In the panel to the left in nautilus you choose "Other Locations", then you have "Connect to Server" at the bottom, enter e.g. "ftp://ftp.vim.org/" there. Maybe not as smooth as FileZilla but it seems to work.

@eastcoastweb There is always the good old command-line tool that is simply called "ftp" (netkit-ftp). Otherwise check the Category/Network-hookup/ftp category in the Free Software Directory: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Network-hookup/ftp

@jameshjacksonjr Ah, I just saw that news from Finland and then I thought we were maybe neighbors because I'm in Sweden. 🙂

@jameshjacksonjr Are you in Finland?

Just noticed a spelling mistake there: I wrote amazing but of course it should be amaizeing in this case 😄

Amazing how fast #corn grows. I put three grains in the soil one week ago, now they're already 7-8 cm tall. #gardening #maize

@lionirdeadman@fosstodon.org

If arguments are presented clearly and honestly like that (like Bradley did), then I will listen. But if someone makes unfair attacks like the open letter does, then the most important thing for me becomse to defend the person who has been unfairly accused. It also becomes important for me to not give in to demands of such an unfair attack, because that would signal that the methods used are acceptable.

Sorry for writing so lengthy, now I am finally done.

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@lionirdeadman@fosstodon.org

> and seem to refuse to condemn actions.

I can say that I appreciate the statement that Bradley M. Kuhn wrote here: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

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