Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
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Wait, those open source heroes in the Linux world who valiantly sell enterprise software and provide the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism are preemptively complying with fascism?
Why, say it ain’t so!
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •By using the term “fascism” for everything hing you don’t like you make the word entirely meaningless, as described by Orwell in 1944 already orwell.ru/library/articles/As_…
By not understanding the actual reasons for caching the age attribute in OS - these I have described in detail here agora.echelon.pl/objects/7cc32… - you actually defend much more intrusive commercial techniques
kravietz 🦇 (@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)
agora.echelon.plAral Balkan
in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •fog
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in reply to fog • • •@fog Not preemptively complying with fascism is always a good start.
Also, this is shocking I know, but I have more devices running Linux than I do macOS. Not even counting servers. Not that it’s a penis measuring contest or anything.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •And the reason I’m back to using a Mac – after daily driving Linux for five/six years and even contributing to a distribution as well as to its app ecosystem – is because I wasn’t prepared to sacrifice accessibility for the source being open.
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Aral Balkanfog
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in reply to fog • • •@fog No worries.
As I said, I wasn’t prepared to continue working on a platform where I couldn’t properly test the accessibility of my web apps. In both the ethical design manifesto and the small tech principles, free software is just one tenet among many. They all matter.
While everything I *make* adheres to every tenet, I will use whatever tools are available to me in an imperfect world while trying to build a bridge to better one.
small-tech.org/about/#small-te…
Small Technology Foundation: About
small-tech.orgKouki Matsumoto
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System76 against it strongly but have no clear information how they would