Notices by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (larsmb@mastodon.online), page 3

@parismarx It is intentionally ironic that this is hosted on Google, right?

@jwildeboer ... then what? I just somehow don't follow?

@vaurora I host my email on mailbox.org, but for Calendaring/Docs, I have a Nextcloud instance.

Die Polizei setzt in Deutschland auch - zu oft - auf Methoden, die einer anderen Epoche unserer Geschichte stimmig scheinen.

Dass es für unberechtigte Hausdurchsuchungen nicht einmal eine Entschädigung und offizielle Entschuldigung von höchster Stelle gibt, ist absolut unwürdig.

Das die Schwelle für Durchsuchungen offensichtlich viel zu niedrig hängt ebenso.

Wir übergeben wirklich schlüsselfertig an blau, hm?

https://taz.de/Repression-gegen-die-linke-Szene/!6047574/

#PolizeiProblem #depol #Grundgesetz

@tante Hey @corbet, it's been awhile since we met! You've asked to not discuss this on the article itself.
So maybe this is a better forum?

"Someone's stance isn't relevant." I don't think we can afford that anymore (if we ever could); e.g., to pick different example, the influence of anti-democratic/billionaire-owned companies on FLOSS, ...

I don't think LWN does the community a service by blocking those discussions.

Will this create strive? No. It'll make it *visible*.

@lxo Copyleft does not give up copyright, and it very much restricts how software may be distributed or used (legally).
And yes, it'd be lovely if societies adopted human rights more instead of rolling them back. Especially those authoritarian regimes excel at that.
One can also argue that they wouldn't care anyway (as they so often don't with inconvenient laws), so refusing to associate with them is probably be the only move.
(Which includes not taking their patches.)

@lxo Is a "free for non-commercial use" license "colonizing" anyone?
If yes, all CC NC variants would be, or is code different from code in this dimension?
If no, why is "free for *some* commercial use"?

@lxo Do you have a specific problem with any example I brought up, or is your argument "if you're allowed to take a stand for human rights, someone else might use the same mechanism for something evil, thus nobody is allowed to have morals"?
Because if its the latter, I think that's a reduction ad absurdum.
And if it's the former, I didn't think our values are compatible enough to have a meaningful discussion.

@lxo They're not controlled, nor colonized. They can / could choose other software.

@ArneBab That is a position you can take. I don't agree with it.

@ArneBab Mass murder is not illegal when you call it war.
Saying we can't have rules against, say, religious discrimination because then some religion might have rules that discriminate is not convincing.
And likening rules for a software project for which there are always alternatives to those for public physical infrastructure also only goes so far.
I don't want to give my busses to those who make others sit in the back of the bus.

This week's musings: Free, Libre, Open - Ethical?

(Totally not prompted by anything happening the world.)

https://opensourcerer.eu/free-open-ethical/

#OpenSource #blog #FreeSoftware #EthicalSoftware

"It won't be so bad, chill" is a phrase mostly uttered by those who believe they'd not be affected even if it turns out to, indeed, be that bad.

@solarbird "Slavery, though not by name."

Ohhh but absolutely slavery!

This foreigner's mind (who was always told that the freeest of the free had fought a civil war and abolished slavery like the good folk they are) was blown when I learned about that little itsy conditional in y'all's 13th amendment.

"except as a punishment for crime"

The USA absolutely have slavery on the books. Still.

@tante 100%.

("Open Source" hasn't been cutting it as a "movement" for a long time, and we need to push back to everyone who wants to keep tech "free of politics". That's a dog whistle.)

@jwildeboer I'm a bit torn about what would happen if we *actually* made FLOSS "political".

Remember, we've got a significant percentage of folks who idolize Elon et al (still! the mind! it melts!), and statistically speaking, it's very unlikely there's no ... in the FLOSS communities either.

I absolutely think we should though; FLOSS events *should* be progressive beacons.

@sjvn Yes and no; I think it's conceding even more ground, and undermines those "Four Freedoms" that even the already "pragmatic" Open Source allowed for.

In the light of impact this might have on regulatory compliance and/or keeping strong evidence of, uh, contentious data sources hidden away, ... indeed, far more.

OSI falls short of their proclaimed goals here.

Sooo one posts a link on #Facebook, and on hovering over it, #Firefox shows that it goes to link + their weird "fbclid" appended. (Which is already annoying!)

But when you copy the actual link or click on it, in reality it goes through FB's redirectory service (for tracking, which is very annoying).

What I'm very very annoyed by though - how does FB get Firefox to show the wrong link target?

Or rather, make the link go somewhere else than the HREF?

Tech workers don't need unions.

We can, after all, just hop jobs if we want significant salary increases. We all love intermittent employments and hustle culture. We dislike forming stable attachments, becoming experts on projects, or seeing them to fruition.

9,4% p.a. - or a total of 38% for the next four years - is something every single one of y'all individually successfully negotiates, right?

https://www.dw.com/en/boeing-factory-workers-end-7-week-strike/a-70690180

#Unionize #WeDeserveTechUnions #CollectiveBargaining

@sjvn It's also an "official" definition we should insist gets a) actually defined, b) stronger.

I'm honestly a bit disappointed in OSI and have ... suspicions.

You're write-up is much better than mine, but I think "idealists" as a term already implies a judgment of the position. Given that the group includes a lead from *AWS*, I think that's a pretty grounded-in-the-industry take on it too.

https://opensourcerer.eu/osaid-v1-0-notes/