There needs to be more FOSS that isn't geared towards nerds. I want to be able to recommend apps to people and it JustWorks™ without having them even know.

This is why I love the Signal Foundation

99% of people just use their OS as a browser frontend. They don't care about freedom, privacy, security, etc. They will just use whatever OS comes pre-installed. Thats why Linux's greatest success on the desktop/laptop market as been ChromeOS. Not because it's any better than Pop_OS!, Debian, etc. It's literally just that ChromeOS comes preinstalled.

Ban books that show people wearing clothes with mixed fabrics! Its against mah religion!

Why do fundamentalist Christians choose homosexuality specifically as their hill to die on?

Leviticus 19:19

“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.”

Deuteronomy 22:11

“You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.”

No way they put PragerU propaganda videos convincing that Israel is not an apartheid state.

MAGA: Trump kindapping Maduro was justified because he was acting like a dictator and was a net negative to the people of Venezuela!

MAGA after another world leader Kindaps Trump for doing the same thing: 😮

suck my dick and balls

They've already lost my trust. GrapheneOS or LineageOS are the only safe bets now.

God, this post makes me so mad.

I understand that not everyone has the privilege to distribute knowledge for social good. I’m in a privileged position--my day job provides more than enough money for a dignified life, so my own code I release is almost always strong-copylefted and for genuine social good rather than survival.

Seeing so many posts thinking a proper "solution" to web scraping for AI training is closing off knowledge by default worries me. Gatekeeping code/art/knowledge shrinks the commons that made all of this possible. Nobody owes us attention, brand recognition, or monetization. Free Open Source Software exists to protect society’s freedom to study, modify, and share the tools it depends on for social good, not for monetization or attention.

I noticed OP used Micro$oft’s GitHub, notorious for mass AI crawling. You can’t rely on THE worst platform for scraping and then complain about it. Host using Forgejo or similar, and use solutions that don’t restrict user freedoms: bot filtering, rate limits, pay-per-crawl, etc.

I think the root problem is that in capitalism, markets often don’t sustainably fund public goods--but that’s a political problem--not something individual maintainers should solve by privatizing knowledge. Continue to vote for and spread leftist ideas of restructuring society to encourage funding of public goods like Free Open Source Software rather than giving up and abandoning your FOSS values.

What's the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?

Is this hosted somewhere? Maybe distributed? I would love a privacy respecting distributed LLM chatbot.

People having to work less is the whole point. UBI is not about increasing economic productivity. It's about distributing the fruits of the productivity more equitably.

I forget what the fallacy is called, but basically just because thing X is associated with Y and Y is bad doesn't make X bad. If a communist leader killed people, it doesn't necessarily mean communism is the reason he killed them.

In the same vain saying fascism is bad "because Hitler was a fascist" would also be a logical fallacy. Hitler also drank water but that doesn't mean water is bad.

Reporting for duty

Isn't this against the 10th amendment?

poor taiwan

c/StallmanWasRight

LadyBird cannot come soon enough...

How many killed, tortured, raped, colonized, displaced, etc. by the British and French? British and French during WW2 were arguably much worse than Germany. History just likes to put a lense on Hitler and not Churchill because Churchill oppressed black and brown people whereas Hitler oppressed white people, which is a big no-no in society.

Wish they'd move to the Fediverse instead of people uninstalling TikTok to install some other app that could potentially change its algorithm or funding at any time.

America bad so switch to EU. Oh no, EU bad now, so switch to something else?

Just use something decentralized, fucking hell. Stop having such blind loyalty to countries.