@baldur UBI would end up as libertarian in most cases, unless you nearly dismantle capitalism first. And if you do that, you don't really need UBI as such...
@forteller Ja gatene der jeg bor er jo oppkalt etter kongenavn (Sverres gates, Eiriks gate, Håkons gate etc), men uten noen spesifisering av hvilken konge, så de kan jo fint få nye navn. Det er riktignok en Gunhilds gate også, men ingen har faktisk adresse i den.
Ellers glimrende ide å kalle opp parker, det er jo masse småparker uten noe ordentlig navn.
@baldur Good post. This has been a flaw with FOSS for a long time. You can't build a sustainable model on pure voluntarism. FOSS is a great idea, but it either needs public funding or a model where the users pay for the development. There are a few companies that rely on FOSS and also contributes to it's development, (ie the user pays model), but way too many just treat it as free (as in beer) software. Public funding is probably a more reliable route. It could be a variant of user pay along with the "public money, public code"-principle, but (some) software should be treated as infrastructure that needs public investment.
Still hoping for some kind of #ActivityPub replacement for Facebook events. There seems to some old discussions about it, but no progress since '21. There's #Mobilizon, but it is a Meetup replacement mostly. The ability to promote your event is what's missing, and that is something Mobilizon says it won't do, so it's not an option for most of the events that are on Facebook. As Facebook sucks, the events feature is what keeps most people on the platform, and a working replacement could make the #Fediverse mainstream.
@cstross That actually goes for all social democratic parties in Europe at the moment. It's PASOKification 2.0, where the centre-left gains power only by being the "less-totally-fucked-up"-party, and trying to keep the fuckups under the lid (AKA stability) is the limits of their political program.
@forteller@thomasrost Så voksne kriminelle skal kjøpe cannabis på apoteket før de selger det videre til mindreårige...? Dette holder ikke helt. Nederland har jo legalt salg av cannabis, det hindrer ikke akkurat organisert kriminalitet eller salg til mindreårige. Jeg er for avkriminalisering, men jeg synes ikke dette argumentet om at man kan bekjempe "kriminelle gjenger" bare man legaliserer holder mål. Det er mye som hjelper mot kriminelle gjenger, men legalisering er ikke akkurat på topp ti-lista der.
X/Twitter is huge in Latin America, but now would be a good moment to push for large adoption of #Mastodon in Latin America. > “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities. Social peace is non-negotiable,” Jorge Messias wrote on X.
@anarchismhub Seems like there's lots of hidden stories of anarchism and socialism in the US, I've never heard of these collectives before, I wasn't even aware that such things existed in the early 1900s.
@buttondown instead of having trying to guess that something is a Mastodon post you probably need to create an "embed Mastodon post" thing and just assume whatever gets in it is a Mastodon post. @tchambers
In 2011 European activists and hackere helped set up telecommunications and internet access in Libya during the uprising. I don't remember the details, but is it possible to do something similar in #Gaza now?
"La barna leve" - "Let the children live" is the most helpless slogan I've ever chanted. Why is letting children live, in the very literal sense, a radical demand now? #CeaseFireNOW#Gaza#FreePalestine
@rasmusfleischer Finnes også på norsk, men jeg har oppfattet det som et gammeldags begrep brukt av kulturkonservative på 60-tallet. Mulig det er nyere, men jeg har hvertfall sett det brukt som eksempel på kulturelt forfall (alkohol, narkotika og rytmisk musikk i samme setning). Tror kanskje det var i en bok av Erich Fromm (som ikke var så konservativ ellers), men mulig jeg husker feil.
@forteller Det er jo helt absurd, men står ikke noe i saken om hva som har gått galt eller hvorfor dette er så komplisert? Høres jo ikke så vanskelig ut egentlig å finne ut hva en eiendom skal takseres til.
Are today's next to useless spam filters a result of #enshittification ? Outlook's spam filters are especially bad, despite Microsofts market dominance. False positives are the norm, while obvious spam gets through. It didn't use to be so bad. I get that spammers probably target Outlook more and are getting better at fooling the filters, but that shouldn't lead to more false positives. #email
If someone wants to challenge Microsofts dominance in the business market, now is the time. Outlook is adding new bullshit every day now, setting up a decent mail service with @thunderbird and a modern IMAP solution and sell it to businesses who are tired of Microsofts enshittification should work rather well. Spam will still be an issue, but it can't be much worse than Outlook now.
@veronica@forteller tror INP klarer seg litt bedre over tid. De har et faktisk partiprogram i bunn, en ide om å ha en faktisk partiorganisasjon, populære ideer . De kommer også til å være et shitshow uten like, slik Frp er, men tror de blir mer enn en døgnflue.
A random mix of my personal life and my thoughts on antifascism, open source tech, tech politics, other politics, more politics, libertarian communism and related ideas.TTRPG-stuff now moved to @audunmb