Ta-Nehesi Coates conversation with Peter Beinart:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…
If you are like me and can never do podcasts, you can read the transcript on the link above.
Podcast Episode · Occupied Thoughts · 10/17/2024 · 40mApple Podcasts
The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman. So much time and effort is wasted on the eccentricities of one man, even though anyone with a gram of sense can see that this man is unfit to lead the social movement for our digital liberation.
And we are so utterly beholden to him. So much of our language and framing is Stallmanesque, sometimes undeservedly. My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals. The system of collaboration and the sharing of our digital infrastructure makes this thing liberating for all of us, not my ability to patch better Esperanto support into glibc.
And it's not like this movement needs a single leader, or that there aren't already extremely talented and dedicated leader figures in our community.
And it's not like there aren't problems with our community that aren't related to Stallman. There are so many people (men…) who make this community less lovely than it is.
But instead of lifting up other voices, or addressing other toxicity, we're stuck endlessly dealing with this one eccentric man.
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project.The Stallman report
I was reading and thinking about a post discussing the Stallman Report¹ and a section leapt out and resonated for me:
"My biggest pet hate is the narrative that 'you, the user, will be free if you use Free Software'. No you won't, especially not if you are not technically inclined. We are freed together as a community, not as individuals."
And it crystallized a thought that has been knocking around my mind for months: …
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¹: todon.eu/@carmenbianca/1133247… / @carmenbianca , ht: @mos_8502
https://stallman-report.org/ The thing that frustrates me about this is that the #FreeSoftware community wastes so much fucking time on #Stallman.Todon.eu
Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video platforms with ease.friction.graphics
oh this looks cool! 👀
Too bad there is no macOS build. 😅 But all the more reason to fire up a Linux machine again. 👌
Boy-band style singing and dancing programmers! Viewer comments: "eurotrash", "beyond embarrassing", "best viewed while under the influence of a mind alterin...YouTube
Three billionaires donated $220 million to Donald Trump between July and September. Read that back. Three people. $200 million. In just three months. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.Mastodon
On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party "collaborators" to train their AISarah Perez (TechCrunch)
The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.The Global Voice
Bitcoin lost a bit of its upside momentum, but a court case victory could lead to a swift trend reversal.Marcel Pechman (Cointelegraph)
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I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.
The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.
We implemented this in Mastodon (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…) and it has been highly effective.
This is not meant to replace #29280, but supplement it to avoid unmonitored servers keeping open registrations indefinitely. Automatically switch away from open registrations if no user with the pe...GitHub
Does anyone remember the old toys for the 80s and beyond?
Does anyone like old toys that they would like to hear again but also would like to have the chance to hear them in an entire new way?
Introducing the electronic toy lib!
The electronic toy library or TETL; is a passion project by a group of people that love the old toys and the fantastic sounds they make.
From direct recordings of toys that had a headphone and connectors on the boards, to recording via coils and even things like making direct boxes to directly record the toys and making recreations of what the toys would have sound like if different situations were to be in effect!
Also called the electronic toy archive, get ready to go down a wonderful adventure back to the past with: chips; tunes; and little speakers as you take a trip to the toy world!
youtube.com/@TheElectronicToyA…
#Nostalgia #Toys #Fun #Electronics #Electronic_Toys
We are a small community that enjoys electronic toys, most of which are not meant for our age group, (most of us are in our late teens to 20s), but we still like them for some weird reason.YouTube
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My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.
Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.
The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.
Read X's Terms of Service to understand the rules governing your access of all Twitter services.twitter-com
Sometimes working with a larger team means that you’ll get more varied opinions about how something should be done. Now, this is good when the final result is one that covers more gaps and includes more use cases.Melanie Sumner (Just Melanie from the Internet)
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it.
We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.
Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/macos-sometim…
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.Mullvad VPN
you've heard of Cython now get ready for CYthon 🏴
welsh python was not one of my greatest ideas i now realise
Looks like my next read. THe attached audiobook sample contains ... a lot of swearing.
"What would happen if you crossed the high fantasy of Wheel of Time with the irreverent comedy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"
Meet Your Maker is a comedic, epic fantasy series that asks the questions: What is fiction? What is reality? And does it make a difference, when everyone and everything is trying to kill you?
Bruce created this world. Now he has to survive it.
Meet your Maker by Seth McDuffee.
seanrandall.me/recommends/1039…
#Bookstodon
Buy Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG: 1 by McClain, Johnathan, McDuffee, Seth (ISBN: 9781039455405) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.seanrandall.me
The G7 countries had a meeting on disability and inclusion for the first time ever.
These groups should really take the next step and add ableism to the meeting topics as it is where lack of inclusion stems from.
g7disabilityinclusion.it/en/g7… @disability #Ableism #Economy #Disability
I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!
The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.
All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!
WordPress retaliation impacts community
Link: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 2 added apps:
* MockTraffic: a random DNS, HTTPS internet traffic noise generator 🛡️
* Fossify Launcher: a customizable homescreen app to complete your green Fossify collection 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Thank you, McSweeney's, for perfectly capturing the CoinDesk endorsement of Donald Trump I wrote about last night
McSweeney's: mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-…
Newsletter: citationneeded.news/issue-68/
![Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/600221 "Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”")
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.Molly White (Citation Needed)
Two weeks ago, I posted a video showing off the insanely capable Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI service. Today, the online giant added two interesting new features to Audio Overview that make it even more compelling.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Got two blocklist updates today, and a non-update with private visibility. First, a FediNuke/tier0.csv transparency update:
I override-added an instance to FediNuke using my documented override process: caekis.love.
Was already near consensus, and the admin was already in receipts for the gleasonator.com FediNuke entry.
See the many receipts for caekis.love in my receipt archive. The severity was enough to warrant inclusion.
Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.Seirdy’s Home
I also retired my tier-1 blocklist. It’s the least-used blocklist I have, and I’m managing several; it’s not worth the effort. Every new severity level demands more instances to carefully consider.
Without willingness to spend that effort, its existence encourages me to treat it like a dumping ground for other entries that don’t qualify for other lists instead of evaluating entries’ severity properly.
I will maintain it in private to shine a light on the latter phenomenon, but I won’t share it.
Before you protest, know that I’m maintaining six other blocklists:
They will be unaffected. If anything, they’ll improve.
In this episode of MacChat, Chris and Marty dive into exciting Mac-related adventures, sharing insights on using Parallels to run Windows 11 on a Mac Mini, optimizing storage with CleanMyMac X, and exploring the benefits of ChatGPT for translating do…pgnpt (Unmute)
Wrote a new thing! sarahmhigley.com/writing/activ…
About what to do if two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.Sarah Higley
Ben Zanin
in reply to Ben Zanin • • •Software being Free (or open source, or zero cost, or even "open core" (gag)) does legitimately help developers - those very few.
But there is another role: the folks who specifically assist others to navigate up knowledge and skill gradients, and who work to diminish those gradients: the distro maintainers, the package testers & integrators, the sysadmins, the community moderators.
It is fine to want freedom yourself but we *must* work for each other's freedom too.
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