Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I continue to really like #rust as a programming language. Even though I'm writing more #raku these days, I still love Rust (and am writing something in it right now).

That said, it's increasingly clear to me that Rust is _primarily_ targeted at the Big Tech usecase (aka "at scale") and only secondarily interested in the Free Software usecase.

Today's news that the Rust Foundation is reserving *half* of its board seats for Big Tech provides additional confirmation.
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/

Regarding nomadic indigenous caretaker agriculture and stewardship: https://makiruz.tumblr.com/post/642967185339400192/i-have-a-lot-of-feelings-on-how-indigenous-groups

While sex positivity can be good in some ways, it often erases ace people, those who don't want or enjoy normative sex, and people with sexual trauma.

It can come with a lot of pressure, either implicit or explicit, that people should be having sex or enjoying it, and that those who don't enjoy these activities and don't want to hear about them are not "open-minded" enough (or even worse, broken in some way).

all my theory is from Pete Seeger songs sorry academics

Now this is amusing. https://newsthump.com/2018/07/04/homosexuals-call-for-conversion-therapy-to-cure-christianity/

Thomas: "...[P]laying copyrighted music as a deterrent to the First Amendment-guaranteed right to openly film police is, if not BHPD official protocol, at least a technique that has been deployed by more than one officer."

Back in 2019, anti-racist activists experimented with playing copyrighted music at Nazi rallies to make them unpostable on social media. At the time, I warned that this would end badly.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/23/clever-hack-that-will-end-badly-playing-copyrighted-music-during-nazis-rallies-so-they-cant-be-posted-to-youtube/

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Has anyone had experience implementing Shleepay? https://github.com/shleeable/shleepay It's a Docker-supporting fork of Drew Devault's Fosspay open source patronage/micropayment app (uses Stripe to accept one off and repeating payments)... thinking I might fire up an instance as a live demo for tonight's NZ-based FOSS meetup. What could possibly go wrong?

Out of interest, are there any representatives of the Software Freedom Law Center on the Fediverse? Given that this flagrant violation (i.e. relicensing) of the GPL in the WordPress marketplace is more the rule than the exception, I'm wondering if anyone else has taken issue with it previously - what's the precedent?

Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi's Linux OS - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os/

Just dashed off a quick email to one of the thousands of WordPress plugin/theme mills that's trying to force users to buy "premium" licenses for their plugins. I suggested that their entire business model is a flagrant violation of the GPL under which WordPress and its dependencies (all plugins and themes) is licensed. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html section 4-6 for starters. We need to help these folks understand the licenses they've implicitly accepted and professional violate every day.

Everywhere on social media I see US "conservatives" throwing shade on "leftist" viewpoints... I think to myself: if you replace the term leftist with it really means, "compassionate, informed, & rational", then I can see why they're feeling aggrieved, with their flaws being pointed out like that.

How it started: How it's going: https://t.co/jGfpywBHXA