Notices by JindrⒶ, the critically pointed (jindra@todon.nl)

@abolisyonista
>firing gives better severance than quiting.

In the article, they write this:
>Employees are typically given no work-related tasks, but are left with the knowledge that their performance will give managers ammunition to cut severance when they do leave.

So they are probably under time pressure to actually do something and can't do whatever they want.

@abolisyonista I think you just have to choose who you talk to.

For example, there is an advocacy group in Czechia https://nerust.cz/, who write this:
>Non-growth is a vision of a society in which the basic organizing principle will not be profit and growth, but the satisfaction of human needs within planetary limits, care and sufficiency.

I think this is quite uncontroversial and it makes sense. Yet, some people will (and have) attack it, because they claim it's "communism". You will never convince such people - probably because they themselves benefit from the current economy.

But there are people who you might convince. And imo it's not worth to change your message to try to appeal to people who are not on your side anyway.

@abolisyonista
Well, imo it's probably wrong if your goal is to convince people. I think the goal should be to teach people. But not in the "I am the teacher who knows everything and you just absorb my knowledge" way. But in a more collaborative way, where you just show people an analytical tool to look at the world with. And it's up to them what they do with it. Plus you're open to criticism and are willing to learn too.

@abolisyonista

It's better to listen to people anyway, than to talk to them.

Better, as in more pragmatic, it has a better effect.

But it also makes sense. Because when talking to people about degrowth (or related issues), I'm not trying to push my exact worldview. I am trying to understand what the other person feels and strengthen my connection with them.

@whatanerd @rechelon @hakan_geijer

So my opinion is that if the publishers released a pdf version, then
a) it's not going to cost much, since they make it digitally anyway
b) it's going to then at least end up on libgen.is, which is good
c) piracy will not hurt sales anyway - I think the illegal downloads will all be just extra downloads on top (so it's actually marketing)

(therefore I think the argument "we cannot afford this" does not hold water)

But that's just my opinion and I would be curious to hear if there actually is some research/experience about this.

@rechelon @whatanerd @hakan_geijer
>I think there's clear evidence that online copies diminish sales

is this just your experience, or was there a study or something about it? (I trust your experience, but still I would like to read more about it and why it happens)

@rechelon @whatanerd @hakan_geijer

That's super interesting, thanks for this info. Trying to imagine to be in a publisher's shoes, I kinda see more of why they end up doing what they end up doing.

The following I consider obvious, but I will repeat it, because I am frustrated by it

Books should be free (well everything should be, but especially books)

Their digital version should also be made accessible online: this gives access to people living in different places than the publisher. Also e.g. to people with a visual impairment.
Furthemore, it makes it easy to remix the book or react to it, build on top of it.

Yes, artists (incl. writers) should have enough resources to lead a comfortable life. (So does everyone.) Today this means: they should be paid. People who (illegally) download books online aren't the reason why writers mostly don't have much money. Access to books should be decoupled from resources for writers.

#Books #a11y

Ok, i understand why some capitalist publishing houses sell their books. They want profit.

But what I cannot understand is when I can only get a book from Peter Kropotkin (or similar books) if I pay for it.

This book says we should do mutual aid, i. e. help each other voluntarily, without expecting anything in return. I love this idea. I will only give this book to people if they give me money.

- some people, apparently

@hakan_geijer are they all flatpaks by any chance? If so, then it might be permissions? If not, you can try the flatpak haha

I really have no idea, sorry. But it felt worth to propose something in case it helped.

@hakan_geijer
is it really all applications? Because maybe it's all QT applications or all GTK applications, and that would narrow it down to a toolkit.

Also: by pup-up you don't mean a notification? I had a problem when a program (e. g. Signal) tried to launch a notification and I didn't have a way to do it, so the app froze. I solved it by installing dunst.

@hakan_geijer oh I didn't know that [mv and touch don't change the file's metadata], thanks for pointing that out :)

On Linux, is there a simple command that removes all metadata from a file? (let's say I create a meme, but I don't want that meme to be tied to me, because I am afraid it's cringe)

Additionally, which operations add metadata to a file? (asking so that once I remove metadata, I don't accidentally contaminate it) For example, mv doesn't (I think), but touch does. And for example sending it through Signal probably does as well?

#question #metadata #privacy #Linux

damn, today I learned that ligatures are inappropriate in some contexts!

So ligatures are like if you write two letters, in some fonts they are merged. For example in "tt", there is just one big line crossing the ts, not two small ones for each t. But there are also ligatures for ff and other letter combinations,

As this package states (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/selnolig), it is awkward to do ligatures across morpheme boundaries. They give the example of "shelfful", which is shelf + full, so it kinda makes little sense to join the two fs in a ligature.

The more you know 💫

"Abandon all gender, ye who enter here"

@MediaActivist
I can recommend this text which compellingly lays down the arguments for why we should use fedi as anarchists:
https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/

Obviously, the IWW is not an anarchist org, but some wobblies may be anarchist(-leaning).

I myself am trying to establish a Mastodon account in our branch, but it's a lot of work to have a social media account at all.

am starting to thing that the fsf is harmful actually. I'm not sure though

@rose that's actually a good analysis of what's not good about them :)

I also had Richard Stallman in mind xd