xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat @xianc78 People really do forget the FSF basically was birthed into existence purely by the eternal fact of printers being shitty and a frustrated nerd being pissed he couldn't fix the driver.

@xianc78 I love the free software movement and I have a lot of respect for Mr. Stallman and his valuable contribution to computer science, despite his eccentricities.

However I will never be able to justify the "everything must be FOSS or you're a stupid normie" mindset. Diehard FOSS advocates are some of the most toxic elitists and I don't think they understand that they're only hurting their cause. RMS knows this and tries his darn best to not blame individuals for being abused by bad software companies.

A normal person is not going to think "I should drop everything I rely on to do my work because this guy on the internet told me I'm a retard." They're going to think free software is lame and continue to delay the inevitable M$ bullshit by using old Windows and then eventually just accept the malpractice.

I think a lot of the evil of proprietary software is overblown too, yes it is inherently anti-user in some ways, but the whole point of concern is that it's *easier* to abuse, not that it's always worse or better. Not all proprietary software is malware. Part of education on Free Software should be helping people understand how FOSS is more trustworthy and make it a selling point, distinct from the faux-privacy-focused corporations that lie to people using black boxes. Telling someone they need to go schizo and change their computing habits overnight to become some copyleft protestor to their own detriment will do nothing.

When I found out about the FOSS movement I did not drop all of my proprietary software. Especially since I'm a gamer so that makes up 99.9% of what I do. But I did learn a valuable lesson about trust and was able to selectively choose some free software alternatives for my work so that I could control my computer a little more. Software freedom is all about making good choices for yourself.

I think Fucerberg is a shithead and he's just trying to be relevant again while he continues to siphon up data for intelligence agencies he is still fully in bed with.

But at the same time, Fosstodon staff is filled with fucking idiots. Pretty sure they still block me too.

full article: https://hub.fosstodon.org/our-position-on-threads

Alaska Bill Would Make Gold and Silver Legal Tender; End Sales Taxes

Under the proposed law “specie,” defined as “gold or silver valued primarily based on its metal content and in the form of coin or bullion,” would be recognized as legal tender. In effect, gold and silver would be considered a valid medium of exchange for the payment of debts in the state.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/01/alaska-bill-would-make-gold-and-silver-legal-tender-end-sales-taxes/

"No bugs" what? Seriously, everything has bugs. Almost every major distro does have all its basic crap working out of the box. The default window manager, tools and even USB drives should work on anything major, from Ubuntu to Alpine these days.

If you encounter some weird thing, well you just gotta look it up (and likely 20 other people have reported it or have workarounds). If not, you can report it yourself, or ask in IRC.

Feels like impossibly high standards. "I want to use something that was developed for free, but I expect it to work 100% out of the box without contributing back anything including tests and bug reports" 🙄

Beta 1.0.5 is live! This is a massive patch list so I'll be linking to them on other sites instead of posting them here.

Itch.io: https://after-midnight-games.itch.io/godsdisdain/devlog/868311/beta-105-patch-notes

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3057330/view/514072769031307991

Only two more months until release, by the way! I hope you're looking forward to it :)

#godsdisdain #rpgmaker #indiegames #itchio #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #steam

Apparently a bunch of americans are moving to a chinese app called red note which is basically a Chinese clone of tiktok because the government banned tiktok out of spite

I’m no “techno-optimist” because I know the details matter.
I’m no “techno-pessimist” because I can see how much potential is needlessly wasted.

I wholeheartedly believe the way forward is with equal parts courage and skepticism.
Without courage, you’ll never try to improve anything.
Without skepticism you’ll fall for every half-baked failure that comes along.

https://rumble.com/v698txg-car-freedom-solutionswatch.html

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Mozilla is the web browser version of Rage Against The Machine: all talk while being in the establishment

🤝
being weenies about the environment

"#Meta Is Blocking Links to #Decentralized #Instagram Competitor #Pixelfed"

https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

#Fediverse