I think Japanese would benefit from adopting for Brazil the name that earlier, pre-colonial inhabitants of the country assigned to their land, that would fit perfectly in Japanese's phonetic profile:
it's probably not like we could attain a revolution without businesses on our side, though. I don't mean capitalist (our rather feudal) businesses. ISTM USians have been propagandized into believing that getting paid for things or for services means capitalism, even though these trade practices preexisted capitalism for millennia, and the businesses we think of as capitalist have been mainly feudal for over a century.
now, that free software was conceived of to be compatible even with capitalism doesn't mean it's compatible only with that; it's designed for compatibility with various economic systems, perhaps with the exception of feudalism. so we have a lot of room to explore directions to pursue for the revolution, if we (manage to) come to that, without having to break with the core notion that users should be entitled to control their own computing, to live their digital lives in freedom.
no doubt proprietary tech is leaving fewer and fewer escape hatches for freedom. back when computers were obedient, it was just a matter of writing good software. now it looks like we may have to make our own computers. it would be hard to not agree that this would be revolutionary, and in various places that pretend to be democratic, also against the law. when no path is left for peaceful and legal evolution, the only path left is revolution. our main challenge seems to be apathy. wake up, Neos and Trinities! 😉
lá pelas tantas ouvi um pai dizer pro filho alguma coisa sobre água parada. aí fiquei pensando que, em tradução literal pro inglês, dá still water, que é como se pede água sem gás. já pensou?: um falante de inglês aprendendo português entra num bar e pede água parada, depois reclama que a água está turva e malcheirosa 🙂
yeah, no, free software was designed to be welcoming to businesses, compatible even with capitalist business. but what I refer to as "complexity attacks on software freedom" seem to be an attempt to work around (as in deny) software freedoms while nominally respecting them. technically those are (still?) regarded as free programs though.
não tinha visto ontem. que barato e bizarro! é quase como aquelas situações inusitadas em que o time precisa perder pra se classificar... obrigado por compartilhar!
"You are not alone. You are needed. You are valued. There is vital work to be done. Join the tech resistance." [...] What we need is a Plan B for post "AI" reconstruction. Fired tech workers are our B-Team. If you've been fired from Tech, you're one of the lucky ones. The remaining jobs are going to get more abusive, morally injurious, confusing, stressful, until nothing but a pack of savage, hungry dogs remain, ripping strips off each other.
Congratulations! You're now one of the most valuable people in the world today, even if you don't know it. For goodness sake, don't crawl back to the capitalists who disrespect you. Don't bother refreshing your CV or learning some "AI skills" (no such things exist). Don't demean yourself looking for another 'lucrative' corporate tech job to waste your life making rubbish that nobody wants or needs.
Come and join the resistance. Be part of the Software Freedom movement.
Sobre por que a exigência da lei de controle sobre a instalação de programas pelo fornecedor do sistema operacional é parte da guerra contra os computadores de propósito geral e favorece os abusadores que promoveram a lei e acaba com os computadores e sistemas obedientes aos usuários.
nevermind how terrifying it must be to find such things invading one's neighborhood, such tech seems to remove one of the few deterrents to entering wars, namely, the public pressure against loss of one's own invading soldiers. that, compounded with the fact that it turns wars into a purely economic matter, as such gizmos clash with each other, doesn't give me good vibes about the future.
it reminds me of a (Star Trek?) episode in which two civilizations at war evolved their conflict to skip the bombings and the destruction, and went to just picking their own inhabitants that would have been killed and having them line up for painless termination
on the upside, it's somewhat relieving that they don't seem to be using autonomous killing machines