How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff and used it to create freedom for companies, not people
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html
> But markets discovered free software and turned it into "open source," figuring out how to create developer communities around software ("digital sharecropping") that lowered their costs and increased their quality. Then the companies used patents and DRM and restrictive terms of service to prevent users from having any freedom.
I very strongly believe the future of the web is people taking back control their space rather than relying on the convenience of using the services of corporate structures.
These places time and time again have proven they do not have our interest at heart and exploit our desire for convenience for their gain.
We gotta flip the script and stop expecting places who have never had our interests in mind to change.
We can do better. We don't need them.
a thousand years of global politics... Show more
YouTube Music has been released. Let me tell you just one thing:
Want the best YouTube Music experience on Android? Just download #NewPipe from a trusted source (e.g. @fdroidorg) and enjoy for free, Ad-less and protecting your privacy.
Friends don't let friends be spied on by #SurveillanceCapitalism
don't trust corporations
Information wants to be free.
But potable water, nutritious food, clean air, habitable shelter, elements-protective clothing, life saving and improving medicine, and time, precious, precious time want to be just as free.
The ghost of Karl Marx is laughing and saying "dude, I was saying this in like 1867 and you're just too ignorant to have read it".
tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.
rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.
hello everyone please look at my beautiful #cat #cats #mastocat
https://cybre.space/media/XBp4He5rSbzKWgCCE5o
That is, avoid creating global signals about multiple instances. Global signals will be used to cause disruption. They facilitate celebrity cults or the dogpiling of particular users. On Twitter we can see how this kind of thing works out.
In technology as in biology, loosely coupled systems are what tends to work. Global information tends to result in monoculture and allows a problem in one place to rapidly spread everywhere.
I love the hypocrisy of Microzon Facegoopple and their ilk regarding #GDPR and similar regulations.
Corp: Selling user data is ok and users are perfectly fine with it, because they get their personalized ads. Precious precious personalized ads.
EU: Ok, then show them this information clearly and ask them for consent explicitly.
Corp: OH NOES THAT WILL TURN USERS AWAY!!1!
EU: Wait, I thought users wanted it? You wouldn't be lying about that, would you, eh?
