Notices by Jens Finkhäuser (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de), page 5

@hazelnot Yeah... but permissive licenses are better, right? Right?

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@hazelnot I mean... setting aside the sarcasm for a moment.

Let's assume this is really where Silicon Valley is headed.

Let's further assume that the EU will continue its drive for digital sovereignty backed by FOSS.

That would mean that the future of "open source" may become a lot less based on US/capitalistic interpretations of freedom.

There is a chance here, actually.

@hazelnot Yeah, well. I can't blame you. But I also think it's not as homogeneous as doomscrolling would lead us to believe. At least I'm holding on to that a little.

@samweingamgee It isn't... but for the time being, a lot of foundations such as Linux foundation are also backed by companies. It can go bad rather quickly.

We'll have to see how this develops, I think.

@hazelnot

@RyunoKi @samweingamgee @hazelnot Haha! No... but it's a bit unclear at this point what specifically to do.

@samweingamgee @RyunoKi @hazelnot I'm also thinking that it's more important to speak of FOSS in terms of a commons, a public good.

Licenses matter in how you preserve this, but they're not goals in themselves. The goal has to be to maintain a commons.

"He said the Linux Foundation’s adoption of Open Tofu raised serious questions. 'What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home. That is tragic for open source innovation. I will tell you, if that were to happen, there'll be no more open source companies in Silicon Valley.' "

Uh, well, you're just making the argument for copyleft right there, dude.

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

@onepict What a vile piece of misinformation, and attempting to smear @edri in the process.

@strypey @clacke I'm aware of the psychological issues mask wearing can cause. But it's also something you can get through. This isn't supposed to minimize the effect, it's merely stating that it is treatable. Long COVID is not, not yet.

You cannot compare the two. In particular, because the exact same arguments you raise against masks can be raised for masking. Long COVID sufferers or other immunocompromised folk face the same pressure and exclusion if they wish to participate in life.

So...

@strypey @clacke The question of which masks to use is one of the size of particles you want to capture. Since COVID is airborne, you should absolutely go for the best filters available; some masks mostly capture droplets.

But that doesn't stop the masks from being effective. See e.g. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi9069 for a study that focuses on effect rather than mechanism. The likely conclusion, then, is that droplets contain more of the virus and are more infectious, but that's also a given really.

@clacke @strypey Research also goes in the direction that long COVID, MS, Crohn's and others are all caused by viruses, because they seem to share things. We may actually be closer to treating some because of COVID. Which is nice...

... but you know, it's also a class of illnesses causing disability, so it's a bit of a dick move to try and downplay it.

@clacke @strypey It's not a cold at all, it's a virus that, aside from producing cold-like symptoms, causes cardiovascular damage (primarily, as is normal for these things, in the smaller blood vessels like those powering your lungs and brain), and which leaves the immune system to deal with a persistent irritant, which produces a long term immunoresponse.

Please stop calling it flu-like. What looks flu-like are just the outward symptoms of our immune system going under extreme load.

@clacke @strypey You might be lucky and get through this faster than others. But you will have suffered damage. To the brain, to your lungs.

I mean, people also *smoke* and survive for a long time, but these days few people think that's a good idea.

@edendestroyer @clacke @Chloeg Have you read the comics?

We'll, they go for shock factor a lot more aggressively. Like, a lot.

And in their choice of *how* to shock, they're rather full of ugly stuff.

This is a rare instance of something where applying some polish to make it TV friendly also massively improved it.

@icing If your idea of travel is tourism, yeah, it's pretty messed up.

But what's IMHO more messed up is to treat travel and tourism as largely equivalent, as the author contests.

@csepp @clacke It's hardly new. But that wasn't the point. Never mind.

@clacke @csepp Why not MMIX?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX

@fraying I feel generally speaking, it becomes more obvious in recent years (maybe just to me), how liberalism and anarchism, while both being about personal choice and freedom, differ how one comes from a place of privilege, while the other comes from the opposite end of that spectrum.

EFF, and also the larger FOSS community, seem to have sprung up around liberal ideals, and are struggling to understand the non-privileged point of view.

Gonna hire a guy called Peer to read all my toots, so they become peer reviewed.

#science

@allenstenhaus @EverBeyondReach @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic The trick to lying is to role play a character in whose alternate reality it's the truth.

I shouldn't say this because it's like an evil superpower.

The other dimension to it is to stay internally consistent, and that's difficult. So lying is really only "safe" if you stay in character, or it's a random encounter with no chance of meeting the same people again.

It's that second dimension that I find too hard to bother with.