Notices by Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online), page 2

@Suiseiseki Nah... If you want to make people start engaging with the material on an emotional level, the material should resonate emotionally. It should allow people to yell with the text on things the text finds yellable. It's not enbadification. It is enSHITification. SHIT is important. As is the "fuck off" in the Stallman - Jobs situation. As in the other instances I was trying to convey norepineuphoria and anger.

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Elon Musk is now infamous for showing a Nazi-Salute when Donald Trump became the president for the second time. Yet, this is the same Elon Musk, who's cars were disliked by the same people who have a hard on Trump. People who like to burn gasoline. For them an electric-car company is an epitome of wokeness. It was very fu...

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@alecmuffett Fediverse has less of this ageism.

@alecmuffett Well Tor survived through that. We need to brace ourselves on the fediverse. And we will also survive it. We need to ruin the reputation of Big Tech faster than Big Tech can ruin the reputation of the Fedi, and maybe people will wake up to ageism for the first time in 125 years.

@alecmuffett I don't think so. Maybe for the older generations. For the youth everything is now split into fan-bases and camps. To strategize for the future is to strategize taking that fan-base mentality seriously.

@FreeRangeKids @nytimes The Javascript in the page doesn't allow me to read the whole thing. Bummer.

@h4ckernews https://github.com/pickle-com/glass

License got fixed literally 5 minutes ago.

Did #PewDiePie just nail a pretty good case for #LibreSoftware without alienating people that we so desperately need to turn to our side?

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I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/clarifying_costs_of_running_the_fediverse_with_jerry_from_infosec.exchange

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I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/clarifying_costs_of_running_the_fediverse_with_jerry_from_infosec.exchange

#infosecExchange #fediverse #funding #donations #freesoftware #libre #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

@jerry It seems like a lot of people not seeing an option to do any of that just automatically assume that they don't want to donate and move on.

I wonder how many more will donate if such option will be obviously available.

The Free Software Foundation lists a lot of alternative options for such people and they also make sure the JS for transactions is libre: https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/

@jerry First, whatever chaos you caused is probably positive for Libre Projects in general ( like the fediverse ). Because a lot of people started brainstorming ways to solve the money problem.

Is it okay I will ask you questions in this thread, so I could link your answers directly in the followup article?

@jerry Can I ask you a few questions. I'm the author of that article that talked about the $5K figure you spend on the infrastructure.

I would like to write a second part of it, clarifying the situation and stuff. I would like to ask you a few question to clarify some aspects of running an instance.

@jerry Question three: I've noticed you list a few options to support your instance with money. But it seems like some people will be rather unwilling to do that kind of thing, for various reasons. For example a lot of people that are very libre-software focused check that even the javascript code in their browser is libre. Mastodon is fine for them. But something like the blob stripe uses for Librepay transactions is not. How could those people, if they wanted to, send you money?

@jerry Followup to that. I'm so sorry. I need to clarify. It seems like crypto just adds a layer on top of the existing problem. Yes you can send crypto with libre software only, but buying / withdrawing it requires the same non-libre js as with direct credit card use.

But there are ways to send money without the use of computers at all. Like cash, deposit checks, wire transfers, western union and its competitors. And other options that I may not be able to remember from the top of my head.

@mobiuscog Change engine!

@mobiuscog I feel it sometimes. I see some video about how some new feature in it is. But the program is proprietary so it is not an option. Godot is an option. I don't use Godot because I find UPBGE more convenient.

@troler Well that is no good. This is far from Freedom.

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Please Download and Play!!!

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