Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@fsf Congratulations #GNU on a successful first 40 years. 🎆 Keep going! 🙂 #GNU40 #FreeSoftware

@xianc78

It is very possible that you are right and they are handling that badly, but my guess is that there is not any malicious intent behind that, it is just a matter of not knowing how to do it in a good way. Don't assume evil when the explanation can be simply clumsiness or incompetence.

Remember that we are not talking about a trillion-dollar company like google here, this is a small company with not so great resources.

@astheroth

@klimatriksdagen Hej och välkomna 🙂

@astheroth @xianc78

Purism is not a scam, I bought several things from them, things that I use everyday, working fine.

Many people are angry at Purism because Purism promised more than they could deliver. People waited a long time and did not get refund, things like that. But saying Purism is a scam is wrong, it is a real company making real things and importantly making real contributions to free software, which I appreciate a lot.

@Mayobrot yes, good idea, thank you!

I want to show kids some good things about the internet. This is hard because there is so much bad, difficult and outright dangerous stuff out there. Looking for healthy things, the kind that do not involve any Big Tech company's sphere of influence.

So far I came up with these two things:

- Wikipedia
- OpenStreetMap

Are those good choices?

What else do you recommend?

#AskFedi

@amy The "Zero to Monero" book has a part about that: https://web.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-2-0-0.pdf

Section 2.3 "Elliptic curve cryptography"

@zegmaarhayke you don't need to make anything as advanced as ice cream, just cut them up into cubes or slices and freeze those. That's as good as ice cream, and I suspect more healthy 🙂

@paoloredaelli it is kind of available, depending on what you mean 🙂

See these forum discussions:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/building-and-running-signal-desktop-on-the-librem-5/14999

https://forums.puri.sm/t/signal-app-now-usable-in-portrait-mode-on-l5/21278

Since the protocol is open there can also be other clients, one such option is "axolotl" which was mentioned by @kyle in a forum comment here: https://forums.puri.sm/t/building-and-running-signal-desktop-on-the-librem-5/14999/11

Anyway, it should be available in principle because there are free software clients. If no such client works well enough at the moment, that problem is a problem that can be solved.

@paoloredaelli I think Signal is the better option.

@rdearman what if I'm still deep deep down in a rabbithole due to ongoing exploration of my previous idea? I feel like new ideas will have to wait while I'm digging here 🙂

@victor@tooters.org by "centralized governance", do you mean blocklists, or something else?

@Mayobrot ok I think I understand what you mean. Thanks!

@Mayobrot so what is the larger picture?

@lowqualityfacts glorified plagiarism is what that system is all about.

If an individual plagiarizes something, that's considered bad and they may get punished.

If a huge organization does it systematically and for profit, somehow it's not considered bad anymore but it is apparently very impressive "innovation" or something.

@Mayobrot are you teaching ethics?

@jake2 but it can still make sense to tell people to boycott.

Example: let's say a mafia organization has a monopoly on selling drugs in my city. If I go around telling people in that city to boycott (i.e. to stop taking drugs), does that not make sense?

@meraord Son of a Preacher Man

@popey Heh, "automatic snap registration" -- what could go wrong? 🙂

@cosmin For those projects, it is still google that makes the important decisions about future versions and so on. Google leads and they follow. They cannot really say that they are independent from google.

I think the FOSS world should build what we want according to our needs, where freedom and power for the user is the core principle. We should not need to care about what google thinks, and whatever google's business decisions are, that should be irrelevant for us.

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