Posts by lxo@gnusocial.jp
(DIR) Post #ApgXg8KktWFgaoUnlg by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-02T22:10:50Z
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most new year kidding aside, may you all have an odd, very positive, and perfect-squarey 2025!
(DIR) Post #ApgiGFY4Xwecw4aKga by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-02T23:38:54Z
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I see, thanks, I couldn't pick that up from the contextSystemD appears to be part of what I've come to conceive of as a complexity attack on the free software world. programs that are so complex and/or massive that, although the freedoms are technically available to users, they're effectively out of reach. I haven't developed those thoughts enough to write extensively about it, but it seems to be a real issue that we need to watch out forbut systemd is hardly the worst at this attack. what I really dislike about it was the way it was forced down people's throats, the adoption of nontextual files that require systemd tools to read when you most don't need such barriers because the system is down and systemd is not working
(DIR) Post #Apgpk26JoBAhaxkh7Y by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-03T01:30:54Z
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it won't be long before trustworthy cars get as valuable and as hard to find as GNUbootable Thinkpadssucks that we haven't managed to transition cars from fuels to electric before they were turned into smartIoT devices. that will give reason for them to be forcefully phased out.
(DIR) Post #AphzPVSWeaF9GZwyWm by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-03T02:24:11Z
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nod, "trustworthy" packs a lot of meaning ;-)
(DIR) Post #Apnt6eSjWOXyuYQuHo by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-05T18:51:37Z
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that's a false dichotomy, I'm afraidas much as surveillance capitalism wants you to think there are only these two choices, nothing would stop kids (or anyone else, for that matter) from participating in society without a remotely-controlled tracking device packed with attention grabbers, but rather with a communication device that served its users
(DIR) Post #Apnt7wH8mKoCRlcmK8 by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-05T18:43:48Z
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hmm, let's seein libraries, librarians may suggest good books for kids to readon phones, megacorps will distract kids with notifications and adsthey are not the same
(DIR) Post #Apu7ia74DobvWJrjvs by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-08T18:29:10Z
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DRMed books are the way libraries are being forced to provided that portal, alas
(DIR) Post #ApuFQZmBXD6Ete1WtM by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-09T12:46:01Z
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to me, the effects of censorship and moderation may feel about the same to a sender (speaker, writer), namely stopping the sender's expression from reaching (some for moderation, most for censorship) others, but the most valuable and most relevant differences in this context seem to be for receivers (listeners, readers). it's moderation when receivers get to tune into the signals they wish to receive, while what they deem noise is filtered out; it's censorship when someone else imposes on the receiver values and restrictions that the receiver would rather not be subjected to, and can't reasonably bypass.centralized social media with "moderation" ends up being censorship, because it is the platform's values that get imposed over all users, there's no choice. on decentralized platforms, each community (instance) defines its own standards, and it's possibly and relatively easy to move from one instance to another, or even to start one's own, so it's harder for me to regard this sort of moderation as censorship.I'd still like platforms, both centralized and decentralized, to give users control about how they wish their feeds to be filtered, dynamically selecting others' filtering lists to apply to their own feeds, instead of being subjected to inflexible platforms' values. I picture it more like joining multiple moderation providers, that one can add, check, remove and override when desired, than like joining a network (or an instance thereof) and getting subjected and tied to a provider's unaccountable choices (= too much power)
(DIR) Post #Aq2UwWPIeK34I6goj2 by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-12T17:37:37Z
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@slothrop @nobody @civodul @anthk @janneke if someone were to push (suggest, recommend, demand, command, whatever) you to do something, and you, based on your own values and principles, decided not to go along with it, would you label yourself authoritarian, for resisting the attempted infiltration?
(DIR) Post #Aq2V3SQDreHjxUQcrY by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-12T20:58:35Z
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(2) is noise, it makes no difference to (1); it's there to meet a legal requirement, that's all. IIUC, IANAL.if it was just a self-perpetuating board, do you think that would make any difference about your perception of rms's remaining in the board? way to make a tempest in a teapot!
(DIR) Post #Aq2WHBnGaJPAOYJp6u by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-12T18:41:53Z
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I wonder if they even understand capitalismall profit in capitalism is obtained by exploiting human labormachines and automation don't make profit: they end up priced at around the value they provide over their lifetime.machines and automation help make profit when they increase productivity of human laborers, so as to increase the extracted valuereplacing human labor entirely will be the end of profit, and the end of capitalismbut capitalists can't help it, can they?
(DIR) Post #Aq3ptHRk6mgfDb5VeC by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-14T03:39:34Z
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I love the notion of cooperatives, but at least those that abide by the Rochdale guiding principles for cooperatives, don't seem to be a solid foundation, their open membership and governance makes them too maleable, too easy to infiltrate. democracy is great for government, but it sucks for advocacy organizations to promote social change. the more they're welcoming to influence, the more that dilutes what differentiates them, weakening the social change and bringing them closer to the majority norm. and that's without even getting to the corrupting effects of groups' intentionally infiltrating the coop to change it from within. rather than a call to transform society, it becomes a call to transform itself.
(DIR) Post #Aq4LmqzQl2kxxapB3I by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-14T03:46:40Z
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I'm surprised that the main point you seem to get from the article is something it doesn't even state. it looks like you're not trying really hard to understand what it says about resisting infiltration attempts and maintaining integrity in the face of frequent attacks from various kinds of opponents.your frustration seems to suggest that you want the organization to be vulnerable to this sort of attacks, and that we're to blame for not opening our flanks to opponents. how would that even make sense?
(DIR) Post #Aq9jrrRdrY3VVejxVQ by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-16T21:46:07Z
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software freedom is not about copyright and licensing, that's a view that a dissidence set out ot promote but it's not ours. copyrights over software are but one of the powers by which others attempt to trap us and control us through the software we use. copyright licensing can be means to relinquish those powers, but all software users have to be watchful for other ways others may gain power over us through our computing. choosing to be oblivious to traps that can take away your freedom is not as clever as you seem to portray
(DIR) Post #AqJOmIxOVNwZduhVUu by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-21T08:51:05Z
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this is a compile error, not a link error. the compiler is saying the called function is not declared. this used to be accepted in C with no more than a warning, but recent versions have made it an error. you're getting that error because neither the source program nor any of the included headers provide a declaration for that function. the man page says you need to define _GNU_SOURCE to get it declared by pthread.h. odds are that dropping --with-gnu-ld caused other features to be dropped.
(DIR) Post #AqLROV58ShtCTZaA7s by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-19T21:34:57Z
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why do you seem to narrow down the word "refugee" to that very special meaning? AFAICT its meaning encompasses anyone who seeks/obtains refuge/shelter/a safe place.
(DIR) Post #AqLUpmJAp2zfaGqaJs by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-19T01:35:49Z
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wow! is this how it works?spreading hatred gets a platform,while calling out lies and hypocrisy gets censored?
(DIR) Post #AqUk66pBYfQ3aBhluS by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-26T23:20:58Z
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who's teaching users that the visible UX is more important than what gets done to them behind the scenes?would you rather vote for a candidate that says the right words, without any intent to carrying them out, or for a candidate that does the right things?why should select of software be held to lower superficial standards?the solution to both is education, not further dumbing down.
(DIR) Post #AqZUIcemPDDSJ6aAd6 by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-29T02:26:34Z
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I'm enjoying the usability of snac on my own instance. I probably won't be posting from this account any more. if you wish to keep in touch, please follow @lxosorry for moving twice, manually, in such a short time frame; I expect to settle down for much a longer while there.
(DIR) Post #AqZg9I9WT9E5YgHNpo by lxo@gnusocial.jp
2025-01-29T05:34:37Z
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arigatoo gozaimasu :-)... for hosting my primary fediverse account since gnusocial.net announced it was shutting down, until I managed to set up my own fediverse instance.I've just unsubscribed from all active accounts (other than yours) that I used to follow here, which may lighten the load on your server, and I probably won't be posting much from here any more, having encouraged others to follow me at my new home: @lxo (it became apparent that GNU social will link to gnusocial.net, despite tagging and copying the correct account; that looks like a bug)if there's an easy way to back up what's left of my account, so that I can keep a local record of my own posts, that would be much appreciated. otherwise, I can probably arrange something myself.I don't intend to close the account right away, so as to keep the link-forward active for some time, but I will likely do so in due time, if my inactivity doesn't shut it down automatically at some point.thank you very much!