Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@dynamic Of course archiving and using are two different things. If you archive someone else's content, you should have to obtain permission to use it. Public posting with removal rights might theoretically have different rights to usage than public posting without removal rights.

@dynamic OTOH, the problem with centralized services is that when you leave them, your content often disappears. I've seen this with LinkedIn and Twitter. Especially disheartening was LinkedIn groups content, where a person gets removed from whole conversations. Usenet is a caution on decentralized services. It hasn't survived unscathed. There are valuable technical conversations lost due to lack of support. I guess the lesson is to archive anything you find of value yourself.

@freakazoid The USA needs laws that limit the size and reach of companies period. Our antitrust remedies have proven inadequate and getting weaker. Microsoft got barely a slap on the wrist. This won't happen until we see a government for the people trend. i.e., drastic reduction of the wealth gap, voting rights protections, stiffer health, safety, and environmental regulation, and adequate social supports. Tech freedom requires people freedom. Until then, we are just #dumballover.

Ridiculous political, scaremongering, email about Trump winning Nobel Prize; like I really give a shit about any kind of societal awards. #dumballover

A little over a week before her first scheduled vaccine shot, my wife gets COVID-19. The rest of the household has tested negative, so she's quarantined to the our bedroom. At least she has her own TV and bathroom. (Funny how I still consider TV in this age of internet.) More fortunately the symptoms are about the same as a head cold for her. I get my first vaccine shot tomorrow.

There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/02/coronavirus-pandemic-climate-crisis-air-pollution

Matrix status page, https://status.matrix.org/, Has a banner at the top proclaiming, "Some systems are experiencing issues", but all the listed statuses are green (Operational). ???

Finally saw a reason why I ended up with five different covers in my OFF! First Four EPs set. It seems that one of the original covers not released to the general public, let's call it Pedophile Cop, was deemed too controversial. My set (general public release) had two copies of the 7" that had the aforementioned cover and the general release cover, but was missing one of the other 7". (I got four, but only 3 different vinyls.) Writing to the band got me the missing 7" with it's cover. #score

@Alonealastalovedalongthe Can you really name anything (software) Microsoft has created or made work well? (Not a defense of Google, but Microsoft sucks worse, IMO.)

Name and location has changed but important site I found here:
https://social.city-of-glass.net/@cidney/105974774235934383

New location is: https://cooperativetechnology.codeberg.page/