Notices by maxine 🇵🇸 (maxine@hachyderm.io)

@dalias i think this is a hachy side block fwiw? Or maybe i am blocked too

@dalias i guess mobile clients don’t surface this nicely, viewing on the wev

@dalias the one thing we will always have a growing supply of is people who contrary to all evidence think they’re funny

@dalias a problem doesn’t have to be interesting for someone to get enjoyment out of slapping first on it. Same as any would be Linnaeus who wants to document living communities.

@dalias it’s always the problem of people who enjoy the puzzle of implementing any random idea. If only they tried sudokus instead.

@dalias they’ll work around the clock to fix this one before dlss5 ships

@dalias also in the thread: flask boy jumping in to defend this crap!

@dalias I’m broadly anti anti-viral licensing and pro-corporate licensing, which is largely how I see the MIT/BSD style licensing side of things, personally, but I think that comes from a great disappointment at free software not actively styling itself as a pro-labour movement reclaiming tools from capital.

@dalias it’s like the arguments for why treating LLM code and its proponents as actively malicious are all coming from the LLM camps actions! Really hard to claim this was done with anything but active hate of free software as the motivator, since there’s no valid reason to want MIT over LGPL…

@dalias a neighbour offered a much better solution by asking the racist to meet them outside so they can explain

An implied threat might be just what was needed to get this person to at least stfu

@dalias While definitely not the sole reason, I think some part of the problem is crypto people and NFT shills didn’t get chased out with pitchforks as they maintained community positions while working for the next ponzi scheme, and while the overlap with opensource was smaller back then, it still showed that tech workers can act with complete impunity within their communities.

So honestly, especially the figureheads who relentlessly promote it, need shunning and rejection.

My biggest issue with "get a mac" is that it ignores the very significant group of people to whom buying a base macbook air with enough storage is probably equivalent to the cost of every single device they bought over the last 20 years.

Get a cheap Linux laptop should be the reasonable answer. 15 years ago, choosing a decent netbook was the solution for this (no, really!) - now it seems even chromebooks are getting expensive and overpriced.

I’m still irritated that as Twitter died all the public information oriented campaigns (transit, fire service, govt announcements) didn’t shift to providing easy to access open technology alternatives for getting that information to people.

And I’m not talking about Mastodon or any other Fediverse stuff. I want RSS. I want to subscribe to a BVG feed to learn about disruptions, I want an easy to access feed of events and protests in my city…

Prime day is a great time to remember that alternatives to most of Amazon's services not only exist, but in cases like audiobooks are actively superior to their offering!

E.g. libro.fm, where you get to both own your audiobooks and support local book shops. Seems better than giving Bezos more cash

https://libro.fm/