Antti Peltola ⁂Feb 8

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

Show threadFunamboloFeb 8
@anttipeltola exactly. It is also absurd how the public sector believes it is ok to pay hundreds of millions of euros to U.S. companies instead of probably spending a fraction of that money build their own solution based on existing open source code and open standard.
Show threadZ̈oéFeb 8
@funambolo @anttipeltola „it’s not that simple! if it was so simple then why would they charge so much money for it??“ 😒
Show threadAlexFeb 8
@uint8_t most of these services are overcharged for what you get and they are built on top of free labor. @funambolo @anttipeltola
Show threadAntti Peltola ⁂Feb 8

@Mellivora @uint8_t @funambolo

The age-old Silicon Valley trick of freeloading on others' free labour and making huge profits out of enshittification while calling themselves "innovators".

Show threadAlexFeb 8
@anttipeltola the world would crumble if all these oss devs went on strike and pushed out an update that broke their library or framework. @uint8_t @funambolo
Show threadAntti Peltola ⁂

@Mellivora @uint8_t @funambolo

Yes, this could be a reasonable anarchist solution for taking down the system without firing a shot.

Feb 8 at 7:21pmWeb