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00:14 schestowitz; After Hours Pet Our Elders
00:14 schestowitz; "
00:14 schestowitz; There are a number of old people we admire. People who are quite old, and very, very active: like Richard Matthew Stallman, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, and others (part of the activity is to identify such powerful people).
00:14 schestowitz; I would like to address each of them an open letter that states the following: we love you ; youre getting old ; who is going to replace you in your activity?
00:14 schestowitz; If I take the example of rms and the GNU project, I can see no vetted interest in transmitting to an organized group who can assume the strong role required to keep the free software movement alive. Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler are not fit to take over because they have sold themselves to Gaggle: in 2019, they made the FOSDEM keynote, FOSDEM 2019 - Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?,
00:14 schestowitz; concluding that, since nobody can live in full software freedom, hackers should keep working on free software in their free time. At the time, @natacha and I were very upset of this position because we were thinking, for a long time already, about how to fund free software so that it becomes part of the public digital infrastructure. We took Kuhn and Sandlers call to work on your free time as an insult. Especially because they both
00:14 schestowitz; came on Gaggles and Microsophs funds to host the first ever Copyleft Conf. This was a good part of what motivated us to start OFFDEM the next year.
00:14 schestowitz; This situation of having a powerful person holding on to power and keeping the hands on the megaphone as they age, without taking care of transmitting their knowledge to someone worth keeping up the fight is part of the problem of patriarchy and domination in general. In a world of freedom beyond democracy, we should ensure that the work of fantastic figures does not whither and fade out. This is the responsibility of such powerful, privileged
00:14 schestowitz; voices to find and nurture the next generation to ensure that their message be transmitted and kept revolutionary, rather than extinguished by the lack of power following their demise. Yet, we do not know who is able to take on rms leadership of the GNU project and the FSF after he dies otherwise, he would not have been called back to the board, would he?
00:14 schestowitz; And the same goes for the larger-than-life Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva. Yet, this is on them, since they unless they did it in the background and without our knowledge did not spend the effort to inform and bring to front a community to replace them in their critical action and keep the struggle strong. Why do such people never retire is a question that may be of interest, but our question is: why do you not ensure that your work against
00:14 schestowitz; injustice is carried on after you die, especially when you know that your legacy will likely be co-opted by the enemy? I want for proof the recent apology of Dr Martin Luther King by the FBI who harassed him and threatened his life.
00:14 schestowitz; Here we go. This activity would be an after hour commitment to identify strong figures of the resistance and draft open letters to them urging them to stop putting out work while they still can work on setting up legacy communities for radical struggle.
00:14 schestowitz; "
00:14 schestowitz; [Context] "Hi, mind if we republish "After Hours Pet Our Elders" in Techrights? With attribution of course... IN IRC"
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05:31 schestowitz; Richard Stallman wrote on 23/01/2023 04:25:
05:31 schestowitz; > > But there are some things I should reasonably expect to be included
05:31 schestowitz; > > in, like access to government, education, voting, food and basic
05:31 schestowitz; > > healthcare (although I realise that in the US, the latter is
05:31 schestowitz; > > controversial).
05:31 schestowitz; >
05:31 schestowitz; > I basically agree. One minor change I would make is that even for
05:31 schestowitz; > non-basic medical treatment, there are only certain legitimate reasons
05:31 schestowitz; > to exclude someone. To exclude someone arbitrarily is wrong.
05:31 schestowitz; >
05:31 schestowitz; > > It can range from non-interoperability with existing work-flows,
05:31 schestowitz; > > belongings and knowledge, to issues of trust and affiliation. People
05:31 schestowitz; > > with enhanced security needs, including prominent public figures,
05:31 schestowitz; > > victims or those on witness protection, or being a guardian of a
05:31 schestowitz; > > vulnerable person are the exceptions that highlight what should be a
05:31 schestowitz; > > general rule for all. It also includes straight-up political
05:31 schestowitz; > > choices. We are not forced to vote for a certain political party, so
05:31 schestowitz; > > why is being forced to directly support a criminal mega-corporation
05:32 schestowitz; > > any different?
05:32 schestowitz; >
05:32 schestowitz; > This list specifically does not include "requiring the user to submit
05:32 schestowitz; > to unjust methods of computing, which subjgate whoever submits to them.
05:32 schestowitz; >
05:32 schestowitz; > > My position is that, if we're going to have technology - much of which
05:32 schestowitz; > > makes life objectively worse - forced down our throats, then it may as
05:32 schestowitz; > > well be Free/Libre technology.
05:32 schestowitz; >
05:32 schestowitz; > I agree, but something stronger can be said.
05:32 schestowitz; >
05:32 schestowitz; > Must of the tendency to make life worse is a byprodict of being
05:32 schestowitz; > nonfree. Software is not malware by chance. The developer makes the
05:32 schestowitz; > program malware because perse has the power to do so, and perse has
05:32 schestowitz; > that power because the program is nonfree.
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05:50 schestowitz; Hi Roy,
05:50 schestowitz; I'll have a think whether I can pull a sufficiently different version
05:50 schestowitz; of the AI piece out of its first draft in a similar way that I did
05:50 schestowitz; with the last.
05:50 schestowitz; What helps is if I can get some _response_/coments etc so that
05:50 schestowitz; it creates discussion points I can spin the new piece around.
05:50 schestowitz; So please share and send me any IRC comments as you often do.
05:50 schestowitz; all very best,
05:50 schestowitz; xxxxx
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11:19 schestowitz; <li>
11:19 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/key-differences-steamos-and-arch-linux/">5 Key Differences Between SteamOS and Arch Linux</a></h5>
11:19 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.makeuseof.com | 5 Key Differences Between SteamOS and Arch Linux
11:19 schestowitz; <blockquote>
11:19 schestowitz; <p>You may have heard that the Steam Deck uses Arch Linux. This is technically true. Valve's SteamOS is based on Arch Linux.</p>
11:19 schestowitz; <p>But the experience on the Deck is very different from what you would encounter if you installed Arch Linux on a PC. Here are some ways SteamOS is different from its parent distribution.</p>
11:19 schestowitz; </blockquote>
11:19 schestowitz; </li>
11:20 schestowitz; <li>
11:20 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/01/22/understanding-trisquel/">Understanding Trisquel</a></h5>
11:20 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.josefsson.org | Understanding Trisquel Simon Josefsson's blog
11:20 schestowitz; <blockquote>
11:20 schestowitz; <p>Ever wondered how Trisquel and Ubuntu differs and whats behind the curtain from a developer perspective? I have. Sharing what Ive learnt will allow you to increase knowledge and trust in Trisquel too.</p>
11:20 schestowitz; </blockquote>
11:20 schestowitz; </li>
11:30 schestowitz; <li>
11:30 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.davidrevoy.com/article954/various-hardware-reviews-photodon-overlays-cintweak-keyboard-trays-real-bugs-and-intuos-pro">Various hardware reviews: Photodon overlays, Cintweak keyboard trays, real bugs, and Intuos Pro.</a></h5>
11:30 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.davidrevoy.com | Various hardware reviews: Photodon overlays, Cintweak keyboard trays, real bugs, and Intuos Pro. - David Revoy
11:30 schestowitz; <blockquote>
11:30 schestowitz; <p>I had many interesting question on the Youtube channel, and while answering to them, I thought it would be good to also copy/paste the questions here, as they were good additional information: [...]</p>
11:30 schestowitz; </blockquote>
11:30 schestowitz; </li>
11:37 schestowitz; http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14
11:37 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-IT news, careers, business technology, reviews | Computerworld
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20:15 schestowitz; https://www.fosslife.org/why-bitwarden-better-password-manager
20:15 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fosslife.org | Why Bitwarden is a Better Password Manager
20:15 schestowitz; "
20:15 schestowitz; We still need passwords, whether we like them or not. And, to protect and organize them, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recommends the Bitwarden password manager as a better, safer alternative to the likes of LastPass.
20:15 schestowitz; Open-source friendly Bitwarden is free to use both on a server or a client, he notes. And, as a client, you can run it on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iPhone, and iPad.
20:15 schestowitz; "
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