JoeBidet
@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml
Random Joe, or should I say... GNU/Joe
- Comment on >:)> 1 week ago:
It went extinct 5000y ago… so it has to be a reconstitution based on fossils…?
- Comment on Hose 6 months ago:
When people make a joke about a name in a different language than theirs, based on not being able to pronounce it correctly, is it just stupidity, or stupidity AND racism?
(i guess answer depends on whether or not the different language is spoken by a minority in the space stupid people make that joke?)
- Comment on Can you explain consensus, as it relates to anarchism, in 2 sentences or less? 3 years ago:
Anyone can initiate the process of taking of a decision, and it is adopted if nobody opposes it. (rough consensus)
- Comment on Which FOSS licence would you suggest me? 3 years ago:
this website seems very biased to me as it is written by a Microsoft company.
- it uses overly complex legal mumbo jumbo to describe the copyleft licenses, while describing the non-copyleft ones in friendly terms "A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring..." making them more appealing somehow.
- it mentions a permission to PATENT things, with all licenses. when software patents must be banned, and in practices only exist in some weird loophole in the EU. While FSF site reads as "GPLv3 also provides users with explicit patent protection from the program's contributors and redistributors. " (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html )
- it propagates the meme that allowing ppl to make proprietary crap out of your software is "permissive". like if having the right to own slaves would give you... more freedom...?
- Comment on Lemmy Release v0.15.1: Private instances, New User Registrations, Email Verification, and Temporary Bans. 🎉 3 years ago:
to which "somehow similar" can be elaborated to match one's politics and strategic objectives:
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is federated; you subscribe..."
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is not bound to commercial interests; you subscribe..."
"It is better than reddit, lobste.rs or Hacker News, because it is 100% free/libre software; you subscribe..."
etc.
- Comment on Lemmy Release v0.15.1: Private instances, New User Registrations, Email Verification, and Temporary Bans. 🎉 3 years ago:
Congratulations!! Great news!
As a sidenote, I wish we stop defining our free/libre projects by starting to compare them to existing proprietary/centralized ones... it somehow diminishes our work and its importance, by always bringing comparison/alternative first. If you consider gimp as "a bitmap editor" it is quite decent... if you compare it to photoshop, it hmm... "pales" in comparison.
I would just invert sentences there:
"Lemmy is a network of interconnected communities ran by different people and organizations, all combining to create a single, personalized front page of your favorite news, articles, and memes. [It is somehow] similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to communities you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them.~~Lemmy isn’t just a reddit alternative~~;"
- Comment on [deleted] 3 years ago:
Not sure free/libre software should always be running after the next best thing, and try to be "an alternative to..."
If you consider Gimp "an alternative to Photoshop", it completely sucks, lags 20y behind, etc. If you consider it a graphic editor for mid-range level of activities, it is decent and does the job.
It may be Zuckerberg and the billions he stole from everybody's lives, still there are chances that Meta be a FLOP. (Maybe he actually knows that himself, but just uses it as empty promises to distract everyone from day to day events that may otherwise make Facebook stock crash?)
Maybe there will never be a Meta that will take over the world (What resolutions in those headsets is even possible that we would have MORE estate in those than on a bunch of screens? How could that be better to present more data than current setups?)
So I wish ppl who care about free/libre software focus on: things we need, things we may need, thinking outside of the box in terms of software that doesnt exist yet (federation and itneroperability is typically along those lines, as there is no interest for such thing in the commercial realm.) rather than running after projects led with billions of (dirty) dollars, with which competition is bound to be defavourable...