ERR: 0CK5 @everlastingrocks@librem.one

https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/1619c000-7c44-4330-9177-29a0854bd759

Forks & pull requests versus emails

> We Don't Really Own the Digital Possessions That We Buy Online

Thank you Captain Obvious.

When I'm talking to my wife it's "Do we have access to ___" not "Do we own ___". And "copyright violation" not "pirated".

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/07/01/0434249

Me

Internet of shit: vendor goes out of business and you can STILL buy their cloud security camera in several stores as of right now, but you can't use it.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/06/26/163218

General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/26/Vendor-purpose-OS.html

#blog

Student drops out of school because he's not allowed to perform all coursework without proprietary software.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2020-06/msg00000.html

Imagine using race to determine whether or not someone's racist

If only those who want to tear down monuments to slavery had their eyes open to goonerment goonsquad tyranny...

#dankmemes
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To disambiguate between the very different uses of the word "racism" in common use today, I now apply the appelations "objective" and "subjective".

Objective racism is discrimination based on race with no context. This definition is what most people learned in school prior to 2005.

Subjective racism takes into account cultural power structures and historical time periods chosen to push the speaker's narrative. This definition is what students in higher education learn today.

@bigl0af
We don't censor stuff. Where would you get that idea? Don't you know that it's fake news that we censor stuff?

IRONIC: Twitter Censors President Trump’s Tweet Of Michelle Malkin’s Speech on Tech Censorship

Twitter censored a speech about Big Tech censorship being out of control. This is 2020.

https://loomered.com/2020/05/16/ironic-twitter-censors-president-donald-trump-retweet-of-michelle-malkins-america-first-speech-on-tech-censorship/
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A new study funded by the government has revealed, shockingly, that the solution to all problems is to give more power to the government.

@everlastingrocks They do not trust me to run my own software. My "new" laptop has been in purgatory for 4 months because I refuse to sign the local sysadmin privileges user agreement from Infosec.

Mixed in this document is a requirement that all employees with local assigned-laptop admin access MUST get permission for every installed piece of software from the head of Infosec.

This is not how FOSS works not how software developers work. The rest of my department signed and disregarded it.

Obvious use-case: "Did you get that memo? Here's the URI."

"On your exceedingly great mercy rests all my hope. Give what you command, and then command whatever you will." - Augustine