xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

thinking of starting a webcomic on #webtoon about shapes called #averageshapes
https://www.deviantart.com/marbleturtle2/art/Easter-by-Average-Shapes-957390792

Love capitalism,
Hate Corporatism.
Simple as.

@xianc78 @xianc78 One honorable mention: Framework. Their store allows for refurbished laptops and parts, along with the option to buy with one of those popular Linux distros installed. Additionally, consider if there's easily serviceable parts available for whatever you're buying. While it's nice to have multiple GNU+Linux PC options, it won't matter if it's physically broken beyond repair and you have to buy yet another computer instead.
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What is equality?

I will fight to the death for equal opportunity, but will fight to the death against equal outcomes

Sponsored: GEEKOM is selling their MINi IT11 #miniPC powered by a 5GHz @intel Core i7-11390H CPU with a $230 discount for #easter.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/04/09/easter-promotion-geekom-mini-it11-mini-pc-with-intel-core-i7-11390h-cpu-offered-for-549/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/cnxsoft/status/1645037396860502016

🥞​​ #一日一枚描く

Cirno what evil deeds are you planning?
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Seeing people post positively about Substack now that it's challenging Twitter.

Reminder: Substack is also centralised. Worse, the business model is basically to take what would once have been blogs and paywall them as premium 'newsletters'.

Substack is not a friend of the open web.

Discord is not only shitty as a program. The general community and culture around it are fucking awful. It's filled with zoomer smoothbrains and predators.

All software eventually becomes open source. If it doesn't, it either fades into obscurity or an open-source lookalike replaces it. Take web browsers, for example. Google develops Chromium (which also powers Brave, Opera, and now even Microsoft Edge) because they realize that this gives them influence over their competition. Because they understand that everything eventually becomes open source.

If a piece of software is a good enough idea, someone will eventually, in their spare time, create an open source version of it. It could be simply out of interest, to learn, or because they want to gain influence. Take Mastodon vs Twitter for example. Mastodon was created by a young man in his free time, and it's now in the ring with a $42bn company. It was able to do this specifically because it's open source, which stoked the enthusiasm of other technologists who self-hosted and made it happen. You will see how "Post News" and "Tribel" or whatever, have quickly burned up in the sun in the aftermath of Elon Musk's yesterday drama.

Everything eventually becomes open source because it can be. The reason people climb mountains is because they can. If you want to play the short game in an already flooded market, you are free to take your chances and build a secret project in a secret lair that nobody will ever find out about. Or you can start playing the long game from the very start and just build it open source. It would be a missed opportunity not to.

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Everyone on fedi knows/should know privacy here is fucked and posts might not be deleted

Also everyone on fedi: let's post my most deranged thoughts here for the world to read.